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N.Korea’s Kim Says Air Force Ready to Beat ’Enemy’
Kimmie mouths off - edited for length and the scary partsSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visited an air base just hours after Iraq's leadership crumbled and told pilots he was confident they could "beat back the enemy," the North's media reported on Friday. Kimmie came out of his hole! Wait⊠something about that just sounds off⊠Pyongyang says it will be Washington's next target once the war in Iraq is over, something the United States denies. A top Russian official said Moscow would reconsider its long-standing policy of opposing international sanctions against North Korea if Pyongyang developed nuclear arms. Russia would oppose sanctions as long as North Korea maintained common sense, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov told the Interfax news agency. *Gasp* Losyukov actually thinks North Korea is capable of common sense?! In the United States, North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Nations gave the North's first reaction to Saddam's fall. "The result of the Iraq war gives the DPRK a kind of determination and the will to take assured measures to defend its territory against possible U.S. attacks," Radio Free Asia quoted Han Song-ryul as saying on Thursday at a seminar in Cambridge, Massachusetts. âYour victory scared the pee out of us, and we are embarrassed, so we feel the need to be stern and unreasonable!â The radio station, which is funded by the U.S. Congress but not government-run, said Han had also told the seminar that, if Washington accepted its call for bilateral talks on its suspected nuclear weapons program, it could expect "many positive steps." Back in North Korea, it was unclear what kind of planes were at the unit Kim visited. The choice of base was no coincidence. The Iraqi air force has played no role in the war in Iraq. "Seeing the pilots fully ready to cope with the moves of the enemy for aggression, he noted with great satisfaction that they are always maintaining a high degree of revolutionary vigilance and fully prepared to courageously beat back the enemy any time if he comes in attack," the official KCNA news agency said. I think âjucheâ is Korean for run-on sentance⊠North Korea's Radio Pyongyang, aimed at a domestic audience, unlike Han's comments, kept up its rhetoric against the United States, saying it "would not hesitate to push the entire Korean peninsula to nuclear disaster," Yonhap news agency reported. Holy shnikeys â is Kimmie really nuts enough to push things that far?! I need a JDAM with his name on it⊠Posted by: Tadderly 2003-04-11 |
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