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NKor calls for ''holy war''
North Korea called for a ``holy war against the United States'' Saturday and declared it was ready to resume missile tests and may start reprocessing spent fuel rods from its nuclear reactor to make atomic bombs. Nope. I'd say that crisis isn't defused yet... Meanwhile, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said in Santa Fe that North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Han Song Ryol, told him that ``North Korea has no intentions of building nuclear weapons.'' Then why'd they say they do? Richardson said he briefed Secretary of State Colin Powell on the nine hours of talks that stretched over three days but insisted he's not an agent of the Bush administration. Powell couldn't make any sense of the NKor position, either... One day after the communist North announced it was quitting an anti-nuclear pact, government leaders staged a rally in Pyongyang to declare they would seek ``revenge with blood'' toward any country that violates their sovereignty. Is Rantissi in Pyongyang this week? That sounds awful familiar... A crowd of 1 million people - neatly packed into the capital's main plaza, adorned with anti-American banners and huge portraits of President Kim Jong Il - erupted in chants and pumped fists toward the winter sky, shouting in unison, ``We wholeheartedly support it!'' "Hello? Joe's Psycho Gear?... Yeah. We'd like to order a million of those coats with the real long sleeves, please... Uhuh. And a million doses of sedative..." Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-11 |
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