North Korean leader Kim Jong Il matched President Bush’s State of the Union tough talk with some of his own, threatening war in a pep talk to soldiers. "No force on earth can overpower our great forces who are determined not to allow any aggressors to dare invade the inviolable territory," Kim said in a visit to an unidentified army unit, according to a report by the state-operated Korean Central News Agency. Any attack on the North would come "at the risk of [the perpetrators’] lives," he said, adding "we will wipe them out to the last one."
No doubt they will. The North Koreans were a formidable force in the Korean War, but if I remember correctly, the McArthur stomped them flat and were at the Yalu River when China entered the war and tipped the balance back to stalemate. It's not a war I'd like to see, but it's not a war we would lose. |