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N. Korea denounces military exercises in message to U.S. commander
2013-02-25
Yes, well they would do.
SEOUL, Feb. 23 -- North Korea said Saturday it sent the usual threats and blabber a message to the top American military commander in South Korea, warning that upcoming joint military exercises between South Korea and the U.S. would amount to "igniting a war" on the divided Korean Peninsula.

Pak Rim-su, the North Korean military's representative at the truce village of Panmunjom, sent the telephone message to Gen. James Thurman, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea, saying the peninsula is facing "a grave situation where a war may break out any moment," according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency.

"If your side ignites a war of aggression by staging the reckless joint military exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle again under the cover of 'defensive and annual ones' at this dangerous time, from that moment your fate will be hung by a thread with every hour," said the message in English.

"You had better bear in mind that those igniting a war are destined to meet a miserable destruction while a great victory is in store for the guardians of justice," it said, according to the KCNA.

Pak also accused "the U.S. and its allied forces" of attempting to "isolate and stifle" the North, "taking issue with its just satellite launch and underground nuclear test for protecting its sovereignty," according to the KCNA.

North Korea has issued such harsh rhetoric ahead of military exercises in South Korea, denouncing them as a rehearsal for an invasion of the communist nation. Seoul and Washington have repeatedly said the drills are purely defensive in nature.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Announce under false statements that they are testing a nuke and fry thief asses alresdy
Posted by: chris   2013-02-25 18:58  

#3  Taunting us , Again.

Can't they have a "Convenient Accident", preferably deadly.

And very poisonous, say a hundred square miles poisoned, or more. (No, I don't like them, they're rude and assholey)

Get on it CIA.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-02-25 06:09  

#2  Perhaps more realistically ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [SCMP.com]JAPAN PM ABE FAILS TO WIN OBAMA SUPPORT ON DIAOYUS ROW.

RELATED KYODO NEWS > ABE SNUBBED BY OBAMA ON SENKAKUS ISSUE: CHINESE MEDIAS.

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > ABE FAILS TO GET FULL US BACKING ON ISLANDS.

As seemingly affected by ...

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > WHITE HOUSE SPOKEPERSON JAY CARNEY CLAIMS TO NOT KNOW OF FORMER SECRETARY OF STTAE HILLARY CLINTON'S COMMENTS SUPPORTING JAPAN AGZ CHINA OVER DIAOYUS/SENKAKUS DISPUTE.

NOW its a "Yuh-oh".

* KYODO NEWS > US COULD BE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN JAPAN-CHINA MILITARY CONFLICT.

* SAME > NORTH KOREA CLAIMS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION AS A NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATE WID THIRD NUCLEAR TEST.

SSSSSHHHHH ditto soon IRAN???

* SAME > NORTH KOREA TO MODERNIZE, EXPAND NUCLEAR ARSENAL TO "UNIMAGINABLE" EXTENT [vee USA]: KCNA.

* SAME > CHINESE VESSEL ENTERS JAPAN'S TERRITORIAL WATERS: COAST GUARD, near the Senkakus.

Yokay, I'll say it - A-G-A-I-N???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-02-25 01:35  

#1  See also WAFF > [The Atlantic Wire] NORTH KOREA PHONED AND DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY.

and

* RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > NORTH KOREA ISSUES THREAT TO US MILITARY.

* TOPIX, FREEREPUBLIC > NORTH KOREA MAY ACTUALLY BELIEVE A WAR IS COMING.

CVN USS "GEORGE WASHINGTON" I'm alookin' at you.

Wehell, gee whizzz, whats CHINA gonna do - desire unchallenged or unopposed strategic access into WESTPAC via the Okinawa-Taiwan Straits???

Or something.

*
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-02-25 01:19  

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