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Alowishus
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/07/north-korea-threatens-nuclear-strike-us
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North Korea has vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours before a vote by UN security council on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.
An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's foreign ministry said the North will exercise its right for "pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the headquarters of the aggressors" because Washington is pushing to start a nuclear war against it.
Although North Korea boasts of nuclear bombs and pre-emptive strikes, it is not thought to have mastered the ability to produce a warhead small enough to put on a missile capable of reaching the US. It is believed to have enough nuclear fuel, however, for a handful of cruder devices.
Such inflammatory rhetoric is common from North Korea, but it has been coming regularly in recent days. The Pyongyang regime is angry over the possible sanctions and over upcoming US-South Korean military drills.
The UN security council is set to impose a fourth round of sanctions against North Korea in a fresh attempt to rein in its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
Russia's UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, the current security council president, said the council will vote on the draft sanctions resolution on Thursday morning.
The resolution was drafted by the US and China, North Korea's closest ally. The council's agreement to put the resolution to a vote just 48 hours later signalled that it would almost certainly have the support of all 15 council members.
The statement by North Korea's foreign ministry spokesman was carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.
It accused the US of leading efforts to slap sanctions on North Korea. The statement said the new sanctions would only advance the timing for North Korea to fulfil previous vows of taking "powerful second and third countermeasures" against its enemies. Those measures haven't been specifically elaborated on.
"We gravely warn that at a time when we cannot avoid a second Korean war, the UN security council, which served as the US puppet in 1950 and made Korean people harbour eternal grudges against it, must not commit the same crime again," it said.
North Korea in the statement demanded the security council immediately dismantle the American-led UN command that is based in Seoul and move to end the state of war that exists on the Korean peninsula, which continues six decades after fighting stopped because an armistice, not a peace treaty, ended the war. |
You know without making anyone too buttmad, the USA sort of had this coming or at least it was to be expected. It is North Korea after all. Some countries may quietly grumble over USA presence or meddling in their affairs but like North Korea operate on a no shit taken policy.
Considering that N.K's nukes are so shit anyway the expectation of an actual attack is probably a pipe dream.
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Lady_Satine
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LeshLush
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I know that pretty much everyone here has no real memories of the Cold War, but one country threatening nuclear war against another isn't anything to joke. I know that North Korea in all likelihood doesn't have the warheads necessary to pull this off, but please, let's treat this topic with the gravity it deserves.
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Beach Bum
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If it comes to it they aren't going to even attempt to nuke the U.S. they'll target South Korea instead. Even as insane as N. Korea's leadership is I doubt they'll do it unless provoked, because even they know that it means guaranteed and swift destruction of their country by the U.S. and the U.N.
I don't doubt that this increased aggression is due to their nuclear capability and some increased confidence that no one would dare attack them just in case they really were crazy enough to nuke something though. Eventually they are going to push S. Korea into a war and that's when we really need to start worrying. S. Korea has a modern army and the North's is completely obsolete, and they know it. I fully expect if it comes to a war between the North and South that they will go nuclear because at that point they are going to be wiped out anyway they have no reason not to.
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Cattivo
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There's no need to overreact to frequent sabre-rattling by the PRNK , or to the US honoring its mutual defense treaties.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
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Guys, settle down. Dennis Rodman says it's cool.
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Cattivo
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 I'm still waiting to hear what Barry Bonds thinks about Iran.
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Bob Dylan`s Blues
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I love how Rodman is like the new North Korean ambassador and intermediary for this.
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
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Send a nuclear weapon on a small/midsize boat into an American port. That is probably the only way North Korea could successfully pull off a nuclear attack on the US.
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Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
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"We will drown Washington in a sea of flames!"
No...nooooo you won't. You literally can't. You couldn't even hit Goddamn Hawaii if you wanted to.
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JohnnyBenz
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News like this makes me so glad I'm no longer in the Army. We still have soldiers in Iraq and if anything happens they might have to come home just to prepare for yet another deployment...
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Preng
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I wonder if North Korea will wake up and chill out in our lifetime.
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Beach Bum
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| Preng wrote: |
| I wonder if North Korea will wake up and chill out in our lifetime. |
I doubt it. At least not without being forced to wake up by a war or something where Korea is reunited into one country.
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Ky-Guy
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North Korea is so full of crap. It's like that one kid on the block who is easy to beat up, but tries to act all tough around the big kids.
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Blackout
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| JoshWoodzy wrote: |
| Guys, settle down. Dennis Rodman says it's cool. |
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Vaenamoenen
Joined: Mar 18 2010
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I doubt NK will do anything, as its only semi-ally China has stated that they don't approve their tests. China is the only thing that makes the fragile social experiment known as North Korea possible. At least, for the time being. Eventually, the country will be occupied... erhm, liberated, by Japan, South Korea and/or their allies.
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Ice2SeeYou
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My guess is that someone in the US acquired a picture of baby Kim with his shirt off, and is threatening to put it on facebook.
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