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Kim Jong Il Calls His Navy ’Human Bombs’
As the United States considers beefing up its military around the Korean peninsula, North Korea's leader visited a naval base and praised the unit's sailors as "human bombs" defending socialism, the North's state media reported Tuesday. And he means it as a compliment! Kim Jong Il inspected a naval unit at an undisclosed location on Monday and was satisfied with the unit's combat readiness, the KCNA news agency said. Kim commended the unit's sailors, who he said have been trained as "invincible fighters" armed with "the spirit of becoming human bombs and the spirit of blowing oneself up as their invariable faith," said the agency's report, monitored by South Korea's Yonhap news agency. And this is good for morale? On Tuesday, meanwhile North Korea accused the United States of beefing up its military presence around the Korean Peninsula to "crush" the North. The North's communist regime was reacting after U.S. officials in Washington said Monday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is considering sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off the Korean Peninsula and adding bombers in Guam. The move is intended as a signal to Pyongyang that the United States remains capable of blunting an attack in Korea despite its focus on possible war in Iraq, the officials said. The United States has 37,000 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War. "In an attempt to crush us to death, the U.S. military is scheming to beef up forces in Japan and South Korea," said North Korea's Central Radio, which is monitored by South Korea's Yonhap news agency. In a report by its state-run KCNA news agency, North Korea also said its people are ready to sacrifice for their leader and socialism "no matter how the world may change." "At least until we run out of grass to eat" Posted by: Steve 2003-02-04 |
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