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| N. Korea blasts S. Korea-U.S. joint military drill | |
| 2009-08-16 | |
| SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday denounced an upcoming South Korea-U.S. military exercise as a "maneuver for a nuclear war" and warned it will react with "merciless retaliation." South Korea and the United States are scheduled to stage the Ulji Freedom Guardian exercise from Monday through Aug. 27. North Korea has typically blasted such joint drills as war preparation, while the allies say they are purely defensive. "The maneuvers for a nuclear war projected by the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung-bak group of traitors are by no means a demonstration of military muscle of a defensive nature," a spokesman for the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army said in a statement. Only "naive children who have just started learning the four rules of arithmetic" would believe the South Korean-U.S. logic, the unidentified spokesman said. "Through these nuclear war exercises the American master and his servant seek to openly call for escalating their 'sanctions' and 'pressure' upon the DPRK (North Korea)," he said. "Should the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung-bak group threaten the DPRK with nukes, it will retaliate against them with nukes," the spokesman warned. "If they tighten 'sanctions' and push 'confrontation' to an extreme phase, the DPRK will react with a merciless retaliation of its own style and an all-out war of justice."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 NOKOR is threatening MUTUAL NUCLEAR RETALIATION in this new threat, i.e. iff "attacked" by US-SOKOR wid Nukes it will respond militarily wid agz same wid its own Nukes. * ION WORLD NEWS > BALLISTIC MISSLE DEFENSE IN THE PACIFIC AND AGZ IRAN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-08-16 21:03 |
| #5 Dear Leader, why did you cancel Arirang? The new choreographer is not working out. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-08-16 12:44 |
| #4 "Through these nuclear war exercises the American master and his servant seek to openly call for escalating their 'sanctions' and 'pressure' upon the DPRK (North Korea)," he said. Huh??? The usual bluster fizzled and lost me. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-08-16 11:47 |
| #3 threaten the DPRK with nukes Nukes, hell. I suspect you could subvert the entire DPRK with a few planeloads of the aforementioned MREs and the promise of more. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-08-16 01:41 |
| #2 Ooooo. Maneuvers like full battle rattle and setting a secure TOC to eat MRES in. Be afraid Norks, be very afraid. |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2009-08-16 01:21 |
| #1 Maneuvers for nuclear war? What maneuvers? The only kind of maneuvers I could imagine would be those making a beeline straight away from Pyongyang. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-08-16 01:02 |