NKorea vows nuclear response to US-SKorea drills

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.argus-press.com/news/international/article_53df3124-9799-50a2-8fa7-0da825382905.html

Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2010 10:34 am

By KWANG-TAE KIM | 0 comments

North Korea vowed Saturday to respond with "powerful nuclear deterrence" to joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend, saying the drills amount to a provocation that would prompt "retaliatory sacred war."

North Korea routinely threatens war when South Korea and the U.S. hold joint military drills, which Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for an attack on the communist North. The latest threat comes amid increased tensions on the divided peninsula over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship that Seoul and Washington blame on Pyongyang.

The allies' defense chiefs announced earlier in the week they would stage the drills to send a clear message to North Korea to stop its "aggressive" behavior. Forty-six South Korean sailors were killed in the March sinking of the Cheonan, considered the worst military attack on the South since the 1950-53 Korean War.

[MikeNY]

1. They routinely threaten a sacred nuclear war? This is news to me.

And if they're not bluffing? That doesn't give us much security advantage. Why are we doing this again? The Korean War was over 60 years ago.

[stray cat]

2. The Korean war never officially ended did it? Nor do we have any say about what N. Korea does

[MikeNY]

3. Are you implying we should have a say?

Why don't we just sign a peace treaty and move on? Many countries have nukes now, and isolating them hasn't worked... nor in Cuba. What are we trying to achieve, if not a perpetual enemy?

If people have access to western goods and services, wouldn't they be less likely to worship an unintelligible madman?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. " If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

Napoleon Bonaparte