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Breaking: North Korea Now Warns Of Nuclear Response To U.S. Military Exercise



Jul 23, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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Bloomberg:

North Korea said it would counter U.S. and South Korean joint naval exercises with “nuclear deterrence” after the Obama administration said the government in Pyongyang shouldn’t take any provocative steps.

North Korea will “legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises to be staged by the U.S. and the South Korean puppet forces,” the National Defense Commission said, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

The maneuvers, which involve 20 vessels and 200 aircraft from the U.S. and South Korea, pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty and security, Ri Tong Il, an official with North Korea’s delegation to the Asean Security Forum, told reporters in Hanoi yesterday.

Ri’s comments came after North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun sat in the same room with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Hanoi for a security meeting of Asia’s largest powers. Clinton condemned North Korea for being “on a campaign of provocative, dangerous behavior,” urging Kim Jong Il’s regime to change.

Still, the “door remains open for North Korea,” Clinton later told reporters. “We are willing to meet with them, willing to negotiate, to move toward normal relations” if North Korea commits itself to giving up its nuclear weapons program, she said.

U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said in Washington yesterday that North Korea “would be better served by reflecting on the current situation, not taking any further aggressive actions or provocative steps.”

USS George Washington

The U.S. said this week it will intensify sanctions against North Korea and conduct military exercises with South Korea in waters surrounding the peninsula. The USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered carrier, and three destroyers called into South Korean ports this week in a show of force.

“North Korea may very well go ahead with missile launches or even a third nuclear test to show it won’t bend to U.S. pressure,” said Yang Moo Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. “North Korea must have sensed that the U.S. and South Korea are after its regime’s collapse.”

Ri said the George Washington’s presence threatened security on the peninsula, which has been divided for more than half a century. Pak maintained the need for a peace treaty to replace a cease-fire, signed in 1953, to guarantee the peninsula’s security, Ri said.

“It’s no longer the 19th century with gunboat diplomacy,” Ri said. “It is a new century and the Asian countries are in need of peace and development.”

Cheonan Sinking

An international panel concluded that the March 26 sinking of the corvette Cheonan was caused by a torpedo fired from a North Korean mini-submarine. The United Nations Security Council condemned the attack, which killed 46 sailors, without naming a culprit.

The investigation’s results have been “fabricated,” Ri said, adding that North Korea wouldn’t apologize for the incident as demanded by South Korea.

“If anyone should apologize, it should be South Korea, responsible for driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of an explosion,” Ri said. “We won’t tolerate any attempt to put the blame on us.”

North Korea’s economy has been battered by UN sanctions limiting cross-border financial transactions, imposed after its nuclear tests in 2006 and last year. North Korea is willing to return to the so-called six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program “on an equal footing,” Ri said, repeating demands that the sanctions be removed.

Japan Role

The disarmament talks, also involving China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the U.S., haven’t convened since December 2008. All members of that forum attended this week’s security meeting in Vietnam.

Japan will send four naval officers to the drills, the government’s top spokesman said today.

Four officers of Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force will board a U.S. ship as observers for the joint military exercise from tomorrow to July 28 in the sea between South Korea and Japan, said Yoo Sengoku, chief cabinet secretary.

“It’s important to promote coordination among Japan, U.S. and South Korea,” Sengoku told reporters in Tokyo.


  • political.fish

    With a skinney Bitch coward in the White House, and a fat Bitch coward in the DMZ and a policy of retreat, surrender, bend-over and suck enemy dick, this does not surprise me at all. It is the logical end to a complete failure of the skinney bitch’s foreign policy. His domestic policy is an equal failure. And this is no small tragedy. But a greater tragedy is that those who are sworn to protect this once great nation are sitting on their asses and allowing it to die a death of a thousand cuts. What a disgrace.

  • Sentinel at the Gate

    It is unknown whether the Evil Elvis of the East can get one of his missiles to mainland USA, but he could deliver a very lethal strike on US allies (or at least they were before Mr. Ben Dover became president) thus taking them out of the fight. Korea would then be free to pursue further gains along their peninsula as well as other locations.

    North Korea has always been a buffer for China and China will do nothing to stop their aggression. In fact, China will support their aggressive attitudes due to the REAL weakness in US foreign policy and a president too CHICKEN SHIT to back anything up.

    All we can do is hope their missiles have the same success they previously had and drop their nuclear payloads on their own soil. If Ill Kim has any success at all, they will launch them without provocation all the while conducting a ground invasion on South Korea.

    And once again, US Forces in Korea will be pushed back and possibly into the sea this time. Not good at all. But that’s the product of liberalism; serf to every one and friend of no one.

    • political.fish

      A low output tactical nuke on the exercise participants.

  • MinneSoCold
    • political.fish

      Ha Ha Hangs Brix, the sharks are hungry!!

  • CPLViper

    Nuke us? Ahhhh, nuke you!

  • http://HBCIndy.com Dr. Jerry

    I say: Tell ole Kim Jong Mentally-Ill to let ‘er fly and it will be the last time he ever does. Even panty-waist Obama and Biden could not ignore a nuclear attack on US forces or our allies.

    I can still here that puppet singing – “I’m so ronery, so very ronery…”

    Fuzzy headed moron! Even he is not that stupid. The USS George Washington is setting at port in South Korea. Along with her carrier group and escort task force…She possesses enough firepower Herself to bast North Korea into the stone age [and that would not take very much to do so] it would behoove the old maniac to plug that hole under his nose and ride this one out.

  • AFITgrad86

    Having a piece of shit baby nuke that fizzles instead of booms is no nuclear deterrence… as usual Kim uses his mouth to talk smack that he can’t back up. Even if the Paki and Iranian scientists helped him fix his pathetic little warhead … delivering it to a target on a IRBM is yet another challenge these clowns have yet to master.

    OK … let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and say they have a system capable of delivering a warhead to S Korea or Japan. Doing so would be signing their own death warrant as 1.) the missile would likely be intercepted and destroyed and 2.) Armageddon would follow.

    So as Will Shakespeare would say .. “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury — signifying nothing!

  • billy_bonney

    This is a bunch of stupid shit coming from the Punkass bitch in the WH trying to look tough. Lets spend 200 million to aggitate the NORKS with some sort of wargame exercise. Stupid waste of money when said resources should be applied to Ghanny.

    Billy