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[Junior]

Have you heard of anyone running away from the situation here yet?

So far my coworkers and others haven't budged.. nobody's too bothered by the bomb.

Wouldn't surprise me if a few waygooks have done runners though

[Smurfette]

Honestly.....I might have a California fitness membership up for a quick sell in the near future if things don't start going in a different direction.....

[Lostone7]

Registered with the US consulate today���..lol��just in case ����.but no plans to leave.

[Junior]

Its bizarre. We're standing over a precipice.We have NK threatining to nuke the US, threatening Japan, testing a nuclear bomb. Rattling every sabre to hand.

And nobody is leaving!!! This is crazy.

Including myself. I have to admit I am reassured by south Koreans calm indifference. Is this a mistake though?

S. Koreans Seem Unfazed by Threat

By Park Chung-a
Staff Reporter

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200610/kt2006101217395653460.htm

"the South Korean public has shown little panic.
Although the stock market saw a sharp fall on the first day, it stabilized over the following three days. This attitude is dramatically different from that during the nuclear crisis in 1994, when people indulged in panic buying."

" South Koreans have become more objective and balanced in their views on North Korea's military situation and the security of the Korean Peninsula,'' Lee said. ``The change is largely due to the South Korean government's consistent engagement policy toward the North.''

``If the government had been pursuing a hostile policy toward the North, there would have been a large exodus of foreign capital and a great level of panic selling since Monday,'' Lee said.

Others said that North Korea's repetitious nuclear threats have caused South Koreans to not take them seriously, almost becoming insensitive to them.

Michael Breen
"The post-war generation, reacting against the propaganda it grew up with, does not really feel that North Korea is nasty,'' . ``Until now, no one has really demonstrated how North Korean nuclear weapons affect what's important to South Koreans _ their economic well-being,'' he said. ``Add this all up, and the result is that Koreans don't feel substantial concern. This is a profound mistake, and it is one that, given the nature of this society, should be laid at the doorstep of political leaders who have failed to communicate the real, strategic meaning of the North acquiring WMDs.''

"They think that it is simply a problem between the United States, Japan and the world, not South Korea's problem,'' he said."

Meanwhile, South Korean civic relief organizations continue their humanitarian aid to the North.

[JongnoGuru]

I'm surprised more aren't planning to leave. Some are taking Diazepam it's worrying them so much.

I wonder if 3-D labourers are planning to flee.

It's nothing like 1994. Embassies haven't started advising staff to send home their dependents.

If any Dave's members planning to flee are reading this, I hope they'll admit it and post about their decision here. Because those of us who remain could use that last opportunity to snicker and swagger.

[Imbroglio]

Whrn the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

[Junior]

Well..they've begun preparations for the unthinkable..



Military Reviews Nuclear War Plan

By Jung Sung-ki
Staff Reporter


The military has stepped up preparations for a possible nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula since North Korea's proclaimed nuclear weapons test Monday.
According to sources at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the military is reviewing plans to revise the current theater war plan, drawn up by the South Korean and U.S. militaries, in case of war on the peninsula to make it include detailed measures for a nuclear war.

``Things have changed completely,'' a JCS official said on condition of anonymity. ``We can't help reviewing the joint contingency plan with the U.S. military to counter an allegedly nuclear-armed Pyongyang.''

The move comes at a time when public concerns are growing over North Korea's nuclear threat. Military analysts say if the North detonates a 10-kiloton atomic bomb in the air, about 10 percent of South Korean frontline Army divisions would be neutralized. The reclusive state is believed to have up to seven nuclear weapons of about 20 kilotons.

Washington is committed to dispatching some 690,000 troops with 1,600 aircraft and 160 ships to the peninsula within 90 days after a war breaks out, under the plan.

The plan, however, was mainly designed to deter North Korean forces armed with conventional weapons, lacking specific action plans to cope with a nuclear war.

[SuperFly]

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find........

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine, doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
``Guess it's time for the Judgement day''

In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say ``I'm pleased where man has been''
Or tear it down and start again

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing...

Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday...

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.......

[JongnoGuru]

No it is not, Imbroglio. In '94, I knew quite a few people who sent their "nonessentials" home. (wives & babies) And then brought them back after a month or two when things seemed to settle down, then 'Holy shit !!!!" sent them out again. Real yo-yo families. I said goodbye to a few of them at the Departures Gate. Why didn't I leave? Was it my nerves of steel? Nah. More crust than nerve, I'd say.

[Smurfette]

i'm seriously thinking about it......I love my job....i love my life here.....but I didn't sign up for this.....

[Junior]

If anyone leaves or knows someone who has...do tell.

Bear in mind though that Nk would have to be nuts to attack. They would be signing their death warrants by doing so. Any attack on seoul and I assume Pyongyang would be blackened glass in minutes.

At least I think.. the US would nuke NK.

[bosintang]

Why panic already? Even if I seriously thought the North was going to attack, I'm not near the DMZ. That being said, I think it's a good idea to keep some
foreign currency on hand and some emergency rations, just in case.

I suspect the *real* factor that will determine whether people stay or go will be the won. When the currency takes a serious hit, that will be the deciding moment (whether it's in a panic or not).

[bosintang]

[Bibbitybop]

Wow. I can't believe more people are calling many of posters cowards. thinking of leaving? You think this is bad? Look at history. You are privileged not to have been confronted by another, by mandatory military service or by an overly oppressive authority. This situation is not nearly out of hand. It is better to be here teaching now than to be a poor man in the United States. I mean POOR, not lower middle class.

[djsmnc]