Reuters: North Korea threatens attack due to war drills

[Eugene]

North Korea threatens attack due to war drills

Reuters
Tuesday, August 22, 2006; 12:53 AM

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said it was considering a pre-emptive attack
to counter a U.S.-South Korean joint military training drill that Pyongyang
sees as a "war action," its official media reported on Tuesday.

In its official media, North Korea said the drills were "an undisguised
military threat and blackmail against the DPRK (North Korea) and a war action."

The drills were a violation of the truce that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War,
it said.

"The Korean Peoples' Army side, therefore, reserves the right to undertake a
pre-emptive action for self-defense against the enemy at a crucial time it deems
necessary to defend itself," the North's KCNA news agency cited an army
spokesman as saying.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082200051.html

[don954]

1. everyone is fscking nutz thesedays

they wanta get nuked into a glowing glass crater or something?

[MsKandice01]

2. Wow...

Just...wow.

[Alacrat]

3. Attention whore

who can't stand being out of the news. Hez/Hams vs Israel, supposed terra plot avoided, Lamont vs Lieberman, and a freak who claims he killed J. Ramsey. If bush wanted a war with NK, all he would have to do is cut Kims cable off.

[951-Riverside]

4. If this Short Dong Il guy attacks us we'll attack Iran!!

...Yeah that'll show him!

We really showed Osama who's boss when we attacked Iraq.

[knowbody0]

5. AMERICA! FUCK YAH!

[EnviroBat]

14. I love that movie...

America...
America...
America, FUCK YEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah,
America, FUCK YEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, FUCK YEAH!
So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
America, FUCK YEAH!
What you going to do when we come for you now,
it’s the dream that we all share; it’s the hope for tomorrow

FUCK YEAH!

[acmavm]

6. Kim doesn't realize that he's dealing with a bunch of sick bastards who

are so desperate to nuke somebody that he'd better not give them an excuse. In fact, it would almost be reasonable to nuke NK with this guy threatening like he is.

It's the people who would suffer, or course. But under this guy, they already are.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. "Kim DOES realize that he's dealing with a bunch of sick bastards"!!!!!

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Think about it

[acmavm]

8. So he's suicidal? bush8* (& Co.) are crazier than Nixon ever

was, and Nixon scared the shit out of the Russians. They never knew what he would do from one minute to the next.

[Toots]

9. USA,. USA,. USA,..... We Don't Care,. We Don't Care,. We Don't Care

A Military guy said this...:shrug:

[chenGOD]

10. They do this every year.

Every year, there are joint readiness exercises here in South Korea called FOAL/Eagle or some such nonsense. And every year, the Norh Korean PR machine cranks out the same complaints.
Nothing to see here, they're just trying to keep in the spotlight a little longer to get some more economic aid from the South.

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. Maybe, but maybe not - one year it could be for real

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Lawdy knows the PNACers got a hard-on to attack North Korea

That's what my wee Canuck brain sees . .

[chenGOD]

13. If North Korea were to attack...when do you think they would have?

When they weren't going through the grip of a ravaging famine, had the full support of China and the Soviet Bloc and weren't reliant on any foreign aid?

or

When they have a million man starving army, a few warheads that can maybe hit Alaska and no international support?
Everyone knows that they have a shitload of artillery pointed here at Seoul, and a whole bunch more pointed at Tokyo. But that's their last card. That's the one they play if anyone attacks them.

Also, please note that the Korean War has not officially ended. It's in a long-ass ceasefire.


the PNAC/hard-liners in the South Korean military on the other hand...what a bunch of whack-jobs!!

[jpak]

12. But...but...but I thought preemptive war was a good thing

You know - fight them over there so we won't have to fight them over here.

and all that happy PNAC horseshit...