North Korea Threatens South Korea — With a Fax

Bellicose rhetoric is a usual feature of life between North Korea and South Korea. When more modern means of communications are unavailable, threats are sent the old-fashioned way: using a fax machine.

North Korea, ruled by the young dictator Kim Jong-un, sent a fax to South Korea on Thursday — the only military communications link between the two countries. It threatened to "strike mercilessly without notice" in response to anti-North Korea public protests in Seoul this week. North Korea’s National Defense Commission addressed the fax to the presidential office in South Korea.