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| North Korea to treat U.S. detainees under 'wartime law' |
| 2016-07-11 |
| North Korea said on Monday it has told the United States it will sever the only channel of communication between them, at the United Nations in New York, after Washington blacklisted leader Kim Jong Un last week for human rights abuses. All matters related to the United States, including the handling of American citizens detained by Pyongyang, will be conducted under its "wartime law," the North's official KCNA news agency said. The move is the latest escalation of tension with the isolated country, which earlier on Monday threatened a "physical response" after the United States and South Korea said they would deploy the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea. "As the United States will not accept our demand for the immediate withdrawal of the sanctions measure, we will be taking corresponding actions in steps," KCNA said. "As the first step, we have notified that the New York contact channel that has been the only existing channel of contact will be completely severed," it said. "The Republic will handle all matters arising between us and the United States from now on under our wartime laws, and the matters of Americans detained are no exception to this." It was not clear how "wartime laws" would affect the handling of the two Americans detained. But North Korea has indicated in the past that wartime laws would mean that detainees will not be released on humanitarian grounds. The North and the United States remain technically at war because the 1950-53 Korean War, in which Washington sided with the South, ended only with a truce. The two Americans known to be detained in North Korea include Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in March for trying to steal an item with a propaganda slogan, according to North Korean state media. The other, Korean-American Kim Dong Chul, is serving a 10 year sentence for espionage, state media said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #8 What happened to the guy that stepped on a toe-popper IED in NYC Central Park? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-07-11 23:19 |
| #7 BLM = NORTH KOREA MATTERS??? SOrry, but the acronyms don't match. My $$$ is still on a Sino-Nippon limited war for strategic access + sphere of influence between [US-style/par] OWG Global Co-Superpower China + wannabe Japan between now + middle of the first term of Obama's successor - IMO CHINA'S NOT GONNA WAIT AROUND UNTIL 2030 OR 2050. The USDOD or USAF must think so as well because extra or big heavies have been flying into Andersen AFB of late, + I don't think its due to RIMPAC??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-07-11 21:57 |
| #6 And how many leftards will visit to help smooth the waters and bring peace, love, unicorn droppings for the PudgeOne |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2016-07-11 14:37 |
| #5 I wonder if DOS will warn "gulag tourists" or just let them go out of, uh, solidarity... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-07-11 12:54 |
| #4 And planting IEDs in white neighborhoods. (and to call the police when you see them planting them would be racist....) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-07-11 12:09 |
| #3 Setting the precedent for BLM to begin taking hostages. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-07-11 11:33 |
| #2 I think it's about time to make a sequel to The Interview movie . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-07-11 11:29 |
| #1 "We want money." |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-07-11 10:25 |