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Korea Conquers Japan

A trailer for the upcoming computer game “Homefront” presents a scenario in which North Korea conquers South Korea, Japan and much of Asia:

The game plot seems to be a reversal of what happened 70-100 years ago. This time, instead of America fighting against Japanese/Korean forces under Japanese imperial rule, America will be fighting against Korean/Japanese forces under Korean imperial rule. And, as the name of the game suggests, the North Korean imperialists will be invading America!

[hat tip to the Marmot's Hole]

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28 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - June 14, 2010 at 12:41 pm

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Infinite

*double facepalm*
http://www.tejiendoelmundo.com Joel

What can I say.. Interesting argument!!!
Bran

Being made by THQ, apparently, who developed the Company of Heroes and WarHammer Dawn of War games so a significant studio.

No word yet on whether its a joint production with the US Department of Defense but given the ridiculously jingoistic nature of the above it wouldn’t be surprising.

Then again I suppose games developers are as dependent as your typical imperial hegemon, on a convenient bogeyman to generate fear and aggression.

http://billowykimono.blogspot.com/ Senor Science

“No word yet on whether its a joint production with the US Department of Defense but given the ridiculously jingoistic nature of the above it wouldn’t be surprising.”

John Milius of Red Dawn fame wrote the game’s script. Maybe a little research would be good before making completely asinine accusations?

“Then again I suppose games developers are as dependent as your typical imperial hegemon, on a convenient bogeyman to generate fear and aggression.”

Yes, all game development studios are all part of a US government lead conspiracy to demonize the enemies of the United States. /sarcasm

I for one can’t wait for Homefront to be released, hopefully it will tide me over until (hopefully; what with all the crap IW is going through right now) CoD:MOW3 comes out.

Bran

Perhaps before you try to employ sarcasm you should learn to recognize it in others?

To make a littler simpler for the learning impaired:

“The video is a ludicrously over the top exaggeration of the North Korean military.”

Was that a short enough sentence for you? Or maybe the Pentagon really is focusing its energies on influencing the views of those lynchpins of American political system…the FPS gamer. Oops…I know, have to be careful with that sarcasm again.

Explanation of my own comments aside, you then go and drop John Milius’ name as though that’s some form of argument against military involvement without apparently realizing that he frequently works with the Pentagon to develop wargames. Bravo! Attack an argument that wasn’t being made and shoot yourself in the foot while doing it. *golf clap*

http://billowykimono.blogspot.com/ Senor Science

I’d respond to your points but I’m too busy playing my Pentagon approved murder simulators.
Bran

And no doubt camping like crazy and getting cheap kills with Marty and claymores ;p

Bran

Missed opportunity though, if they’ve decided to embrace OTT fantasy they could have at least opted to have the North Koreans wielding eldritch magic or riding fire-breathing dragons.
me

Go Korea! Conquer the yanks!

Kreator

I would agree if it’s the South.

nagoriyuki

Here’s Kim Jong Il’s last will and testament.

“Do not abbreviate Unified Korea as UNKO!”
Delta

Interesting…

BTW, what happened to the ‘Japan News from around the Web’ feature? That is what I surf to Japan Probe for, so I miss it very much.

http://www.japanprobe.com James

It’s in the upper section of the right sidebar, on the front page only.

Mac

This has got to be the dumbest game ever.

yom

u must not play many games then?

japanese citizen

haha look at his name ( mac ) not pc

k

Guess you haven’t played Shaqfu on sega genesis.

Buster

I like alternate reality (well, even though this technically is a future scenario), and the trailer is cute, but the reference to the very real sinking of the S. Korean vessel in it is really really bad taste IMO.

salt

The whole game is in fairly bad taste IMO, given the overall situation in north Asia.

skye

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 2: Electric Boogaloo?
tokyojesusfist

I have had several people argue to me in exhausting detail (because of this game) that North Korea essentially taking over the world within the next few decades is not just plausible, but scarily plausible. Their premise is based on either North Korea having superweapons that we don’t know about (apparently we almost literally don’t know anything about what’s going on the northern side of the DMZ), or North Korea gathering enough wealth and resources to build a great army (with superweapons, such as an orbital weapons platform that can disable an entire country through an EMP attack. What the fu–). Needless to say, these people know nothing at all about North Korea, South Korea, Japan, the United States or how real life works.

I imagine that the game’s writer is pretty much the same way.

helical

Amateur with Google Earth > North Korea

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?162240-Bluffer-s-Guide-North-Korea-strikes!-%282009%29

helical

I’m just curious how they would incorporate China’s role in this what-if scenario.
I doubt folks in Beijing twiddling their thumbs for a decade or two while its former annoying-sidekick-turned-ambitious-empire conquers nations surrounding China would qualify for even the translucently thin level of reality in this game

Buster

I guess they just hope that the average gamer doesn’t know where China is located, or even forgets about its existence.

404error

It will be an ego shooter!!!!
Delta

Thank you James, the feature now shows up again in Firefox .

Now if only someone would tell us how to comment on a comment…

Noir The Sable

See that little link on the bottom right of this comment, as well as all the other comments, that says “Reply to this comment”?

Et voila.

Eduardo Gonzalez

From 6 billion to zero, in one N. Korean Knockout, shortly after the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico returned to Spanish Rule by king Fernando of Seville

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