


The words were based on John McCrae's poem " In Flanders Fields", which was written in 1915 after the loss of a friend during a First World War battle. The album opens with the sound of tolling bells before the beginning of "Poppy Day". For the critic Ronnie Gurr, "All lyrical options are left completely open". Some songs were also about families and nursing. The themes of the songs also included "child-like terror, attacks on social and spiritual conditioning, various kinds of death and torture, and loneliness". The album's references to poppies represented the idea of "loss, of flesh and blood and hopelessness". Miranda Sawyer stated that Join Hands took "the very un-rock'n'roll topic of World War I as its inspiration". The theme of war emerged through the songs: rather than a pro-military message, the lyrics were meant to capture the spirit of what things were like at the time. Siouxsie Sioux saw it as "a real time, everything in flux and uncertain but also festering underneath, and because this stuff from the past that was just left there rotting there and it needed to be acknowledged and then cleaned up, not just swept away still rotting". In England, the political situation was also unstable, with rubbish piling up in the streets of London. In 1979, the band watched news reports from Iran, including scenes of repression and curfews it was one of the first times they had seen images of people being shot and killed on television. KCNA remarked on Saturday that the drills are "extremely provocative and threatening.Join Hands was written over a period of six months. In the week that passed, South Korea, Japan and the US joined hands in military drills, carrying out more exercises Thursday involving a US Navy destroyer from the USS Ronald Reagan air craft carrier's strike group. On Friday, Washington imposed sanctions on entities and individuals in Asia accused of helping Pyongyang break through the UN sanctions. The South Korean military sent what it labeled as an “overwhelming” response with 30 aircraft that included F-15K fighter jets, but there were no specifications regarding their proximity and location to the North Korean formation. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that eight North Korean fighter jets and four bombers flew in formation north of the inter-Korean air border for about an hour, seemingly carrying out air-to-surface firing exercises, adding that some of the DPRK warplanes violated South Korea’s “special reconnaissance line", which purposes to the north of an agreed inter-Korean airspace buffer zone outlined in the 2018 inter-Korean military agreement on both sides of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) dividing the Koreas. Thursday afternoon witnessed a dozen DPRK jets conducting a firing drill after the DPRK’s launch of two short-range ballistic missiles earlier in the day, according to South Korea’s military source to NK News. Washington has approximately 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea, escalating the tension in the heated region.

On the other hand, the Korean agency pointed to the resolution as "a political provocation of the US and its vassal forces aimed to infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK." On Friday, the International Civil Aviation Organization condemned Pyongyang's missile tests, calling them a danger to civil aviation. On Tuesday, an intermediate-range ballistic missile flew over Japan.Īccording to Pyongyang's civil aviation agency to KCNA, "The missile test launch by the DPRK is a regular and planned self-defensive step for defending the country's security and the regional peace from the US direct military threats that have lasted for more than half a century." The agency did not specify which launch. Slicing through US sanctions, Pyongyang launched six rockets over the last two weeks or less, with the latest launch on Thursday consisting of two ballistic missiles. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) defended Saturday its latest missile tests as a legitimate counter to US military threats in the region.
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