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| S. Korea leader vows to strike back at North |
| 2013-04-02 |
| South Korea’s new president on Monday promised a strong military response to any North Korean provocation after Pyongyang announced that the two countries were now in a state of war. At a meeting with senior military officials and Defence Minister Kim Kwan-Jin, President Park Geun-Hye said she took the near-daily stream of bellicose threats emanating from the North over the past month “very seriously”. “I believe that we should make a strong and immediate retaliation without any other political considerations if (the North) stages any provocation against our people,” she said. Her defence minister made it clear that the South would carry out pre-emptive strikes against the North’s nuclear and missile facilities in the event of hostilities breaking out. “We will... establish a so-called ‘active deterrence’ aimed at neutralising the North’s nuclear and missile threats quickly,” Kim said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Compare wid ASAHI SHIMBUN AJW > ANALYSIS: EXPERTS DOUBT THAT NORTH KOREA'S THREATS WILL TURN INTO ACTION. Again, IMO its actually Rising = "Mahanist", "post-US", "World 31" wannabe, "strategic access" happy China that covertly is the real threat here due to seemingly stalled PRC-Taiwan Reunification + its latent failure to secure overseas Milbases for the PLA into WESTPAC, SOPAC vee the "First Island Chain". versus * TOPIX > [USA Today] NORTH KOREA COULD INFLICT SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE IN [initial] ATTACK, agz South Korea. * FREEREPUBLIC > IFF NORTH KOREA STARTS A WAR THE UNITED STATES WILL LOSE, as due to the possible consequences of DPRK-caused or induced destruction of ROK, Japan-based companies + industries important to the US. * SAME > [ABS-CBN News] "US WON'T GO TOO FAR BACKING PH [Philippines], JAPAN IN SEA DISPUTES". RUAN ZONGZHE - Senior Chinese Scholar, Vice-President OF CIIS Institute, WHOM CLAIMS THAT "US ASSURANCES TO ITS ASIAN ALLIES HAS ITS LIMITS" GIVEN THE SOLIDITY/SOLIDNESS OF THE US-CHINA RELATIONSHIP. And so it begins. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-02 23:54 |