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2009-07-07 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea Threatens Domestic Nuclear Annihilation

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Posted by Steve White 2009-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 perfect, they can nuke themselves.

Posted by 746 2009-07-07 01:12|| 2009-07-07 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Uhm, I believe someone misunderstood this. North Korea always talks about Korea as one nation. What seems to be taken as a use of nuclear weapons against counter-revolutionary domestic forces appears to me aimed at South Korea.

There is no other method or means to achieve the historic feat of connecting the divided Fatherland and it is the clear and firm position of our Party and revolutionary forces that we cannot hand down a divided fatherland to our future generations."

That is clearly a reference to the South/North division. What they are saying is that nuclear weapons are their means to achieving unification of the Koreas. They are talking about nuking South Korea, not themselves. But in an odd sort of way, to them, nuking South Korea IS nuking themselves because the rhetoric is of one nation.

"Our nuclear weapons are a precious sword which can shatter the suffocating, disintegrating, anti-Communist aggressive schemes of the imperial ideologues and are the revolutionary shield which can punish these forces."

Again, I read that as a reference to nuking South Korea who are governed, in their view, by "disintegrating, anti-Communist aggressive schemes of the imperial ideologues"

They didn't threaten to nuke themselves, they directly threatened to nuke South Korea and someone is trying to spin this off in a different direction to keep us from getting upset about that.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-07-07 01:39|| 2009-07-07 01:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Umm, no, Cross, I don't read it that way. They're making very, very clear to the military that they'll use a nuke to stop any internal rebellion. That keeps a general in a backwater province from getting ambitions.

Posted by Steve White 2009-07-07 07:53|| 2009-07-07 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 IIUC the prospect of nukes being used domestically during a coup was raised theoretically during the late cold war - Never used during cult rev, but China had few nukes and they were carefully controlled. Not sure what was the case during the 1991 USSR coup.

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-07-07 11:55|| 2009-07-07 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting that they're even thinking about the possibility of this happening in the People's Paradise.

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-07 11:56|| 2009-07-07 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 last I hear, they'd had two fizzles out of two tries, big deal.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-07-07 13:27|| 2009-07-07 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Let me reiterate ... in North Korean rhetoric an attack on South Korea IS domestic use of nuclear weapons. They view South Korea as a rebel region of one overall country.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-07-07 13:39|| 2009-07-07 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Reminds me of the Mel Brooks movie where the guy puts a gun to his own head. Stupid is...

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-07-07 14:32|| 2009-07-07 14:32|| Front Page Top

#9 They're gonna nuke themselves?

Well, that would solve the problem...

Posted by mojo 2009-07-07 15:39|| 2009-07-07 15:39|| Front Page Top

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