Shrugging off widespread international condemnation of its pursuit of nuclear weapons, North Korea declared on Saturday it was ready to deal "bitter defeat and death" to a threatening United States. North Korea raised the stakes on Thursday in a nuclear row with the United States and its allies when it said it would restart a nuclear reactor idled under a 1994 agreement that averted a nuclear crisis on the peninsula. The North's declaration fueled concern over a secret uranium enrichment program which Washington said in October Pyongyang had admitted to operating in violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework. "The DPRK remains unfazed as it has made full preparations to cope with the confrontation and clash with the Yankees," a commentary in the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said. "The army and people of the DPRK with burning hatred for the Yankees are in full readiness to fight a death-defying battle," said the commentary, carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
We'll eventually get around to that. For now, let them eat nukes. They're a tiresome lot, so I can't even manage to gin up a burning hatred toward them in return. |