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| KCNA: "Sea of Fire" for Japan if... |
| 2004-09-24 |
| North Korea threatened on Thursday to turn Japan into a "nuclear sea of fire" if it comes under attack from the United States. "If the United States ignites a nuclear war, the US military bases in Japan would serve as a detonating fuse to turn Japan into a nuclear sea of fire," the North's ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a Korean-language article monitored by South Korea's Yonhap news agency. It was one of the most searing North Korean threats directed against Japan, Yonhap said. The Stalinist North has accused Tokyo of supporting what it sees as a US campaign to isolate it. In an English-language article published by Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency, Rodong accused the United States of converting Japan into "strategic vantage points" for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #9 I can envision a Japanese singer, singing, "I fell in to a burning ring of fire. I went down, down, down and the flames burned higer, and it burns, burns, burns, that NoKo ring of fire, the ring of fire...Johnny (Ching) Cash |
| Posted by: Capt American 2004-09-24 9:07:34 PM |
| #8 The Stalinist North has accused Tokyo of supporting what it sees as a US campaign to isolate it Since when did the Norks need any help being isolated? I thought that was the whole point of juche. |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-09-24 1:54:34 PM |
| #7 that pesky Sea of Starvation™ that's chewing up their shoreline Right underneath the Hills of Hunger. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2004-09-24 1:16:37 PM |
| #6 If I were North Korea, I'd be far more worried about that pesky Sea of Starvation™ that's chewing up their shoreline. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-24 10:30:01 AM |
| #5 Those subs don't have to go to the Atlantic, there's plenty of ChiCom shipping within refueling range. The Straits of Molluca are within easy range. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-24 7:43:42 AM |
| #4 There is a widespread assumption among the media that the Chicoms could grab Taiwan with little effort. Indeed, it is also assumed that the Norks, with their disciplined million man armytm could similarly overrun South Korea without massive or even nuclear intervention by the United States. Neither of these suppositions is anywhere near reality. South Korea has very strong forces of its own and, in fact, US forces are only a small part of the country's defense. The Nork's numerical advantage is not huge, but the RoK's qualitative advantage is. The Norks would be massacred if they tried to come south. The same is true of any attempt by the Chicoms to cross the Formosa Strait and invade Taiwan. Nationalist (Taiwan) naval and air units have first rate equipment and training, and they have planned for just such an assault for over 50 years. The Nationalist army has been digging in and refining its plans for the same period and also has good equipment. Taiwan has a dense and overlapping system of air, artillery, missile and naval units tailored precisely to meeting an amphibious assault. The Chinese are still a long way from having the kind of capability needed to force such a beachhead, if indeed anyone in the world has it. An invasion would become the million-man swim. Another widely discounted factor is the ability of the Nationalist forces to hit back at the mainland or, conceivably, at ChiCom interests in other parts of the world. It is not impossible, for example, that a Taiwanese submarine could be stationed in the Atlantic, to pick off Commie merchant ships within sight of European ports. Where would it refuel? For decades, the Taiwanese have cultivated various relationships in Latin America and, apparently in other little noticed parts of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa. They don't this without a reason. Media talk of Chinese and Nork invincibility is reminiscent of their now-forgotten mythology about Saddam's battle-hardened million man army in 1990, or the more recent legend of the ten- foot-tall Afghan mountain-man, Slayer of Empires. I remember one mediot declaring in 1990 that the US could not intervene with ground forces against Iraq, because "we [the US] would be completely outclassed." I wish I could remember who this asshat was, I would personally go to his home and laugh in his face, and keep it up for days on end. As for the mighty Pushtun Slayers of Empire, back in 2001 the media left's idiot-savant emeritus, Kennedy fossil John Kenneth Galbraith, declared that American soldiers "would be as befuddled [in Afghanistan] as they were in Vietnam." Obviously Galbraith was as befuddled in '01 as he was during the Vietnam war, when he was a leading instigator of the academic community's cowardly sellout to the media-axis anti-war movement and its heathen "Counterculture." Earlier, as JFK's ambassador to India, Galbraith was almost single-handedly responsible for Nehru's headlong leap into the arms of the Soviet Union. Today, 40 years later, Galbraith remains an object of scorn, and a near-iconic laughingstock, among Indian foreign relations specialists; for his arrogance, ignorance, and heedless condescension. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-24 6:58:40 AM |
| #3 Good to see Rodong back and in fine form. What would we do without a regular SEA OF FIRE rant. Puddle of coal just doesn't do it for me. Meanwhile, in other news, Aris and Murat both were online the other day. Usually they only pop up one at a time! |
| Posted by: Anon1 2004-09-24 4:22:34 AM |
| #2 Anyone have any garlic handy? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-24 2:18:37 AM |
| #1 NO surprise here - the NorKors know and understand that CHINA will never NK to become an independent regional or international power that will compete with China's own ambition for East Asian hegemony! Whether China is against NK or on the side of the USA, no one in US Intel seriously believes China will allow the USA to defeat or destroy NK OR COMMUNISM IN NK! Any US-China shooting war gives China the oppor to mil take care of TAIWAN, SOUTH KOREA, AND ESPEC JAPAN, AND WESTERN DEMOCRACY IN ASIA, IN ONE LT STRATEGIC SWEEP, BE IT ONE NATION-ONE LIMITED WAR, OR SEVERAL AT ONCE - IF CHINA'S ULTIMATE GEOPOL OBJECTIVE IS TO HELP THE CLINTONS DESTABILIZE AMERICA FOR SOCIALISM AND EVENTUAL COMMUNISM, THE SLOWER SHE TAKES IT THE BETTER FOR HER MILITARY OPTIONS, ESPEC IF A CLINTON OR PRO-CLINTON.ANTI-AMERICAN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT IS IN THE WH! No Global Nuclear War = long, drawn out [bloody]conventional war, or war not worse than REGIONAL LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR, is likely preferred, and with a supporting Commie armed invasion of CANUSA/ALCAN as a matter of course! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2004-09-24 1:35:23 AM |