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North Korea Threatens War
The North Korean army is on standby, and the nation issued a statement Sunday that, if anyone attempts to block a satellite launch scheduled for Monday, the communist nation will declare war on them. Many fear North Korea's launch will be disguised as a missile test. The launch is timed to coincide with the United States' annual war games with South Korea which North Korean officials suspect are rehearsals for an invasion. North Korea's state-controlled Korean Central News Agency announced today, "Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war." Speaking in the voice of the North's military, the statement said, "Our revolutionary armed forces will launch without hesitation a just retaliatory strike operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but against the strongholds" of the US, Japan, and South Korea. The US's special envoy to Pyongyang has a series of meetings scheduled with Korean leaders to deal with the threat, and is attempting to convince North Korea to cancel the launch.
Dave1959
A poll was conducted a few years ago about America's involvement in the Vietnam war. People were asked how much they could remember about the war. More than a third could not say which side America had supported and some believed that North Vietnam had been Americas's allies. This reminded me of what I had read previously .. Veterans of that conflict are asked, which side did you fight on ?
The similarities between the two conflicts are obvious. The main difference being that the US military did not cut and run from Korea. This current administration would do well to take cognizance of this fact before appeasing P'yongyang !!
Martyz42
Please, enough of this "I am going to war" junk from North Korea. Please tell them to stick it where the sun does not shine, they are not going to war, they know it, we know it so stop this nonsense. Do we think that China will sit back & watch there largest trading partners go to war with North Korea rather than buy stuff form them, PLEASE China would blow them up themselves rather than let them mess with the money flow coming into China. NO ONE, NOT ONE Country would stand side by side with that sawed off nut case if he even thought about war so lets call his stupid bluff & if he twitches then blow the hell out of his whole ruling parties palace's etc.
DWIGHTBAKER
Look back if you will at the large cost we have paid as a nation in our communed resources and our men and women's lives to fight then defend against NORTH KOREA. Could it not be more sane and sound to go to the core of the ill-logic that has been done thus far then change our position on strategy to bring world pressure against them if not they stop waving the battle flag in our faces.
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North Korea is more dangerous than Iran or al-Queda!
SlaveRevolt
"Perhaps we can get the Chinese to pay us to take out the North Koreans."
Are you serious? The U.S. doesn't have enough military power left uncommitted to be able to "take out" the Dominican Republic. North Korea has about eleven thousand artillery tubes within range of the South Korean capital and could turn it into a sea of fire in under a half hour. Aside from the obvious fact that North Korea has no resources the U.S. wants, unlike Iraq it is plain that North Korea can defend itself so that can explain why American presidents have refrained from trying to bully it. The U.S. doesn't mess with countries that they think can actually fight back. If it's a country the U.S. feels confident it can step on without taking hardly any casualties (and if it has something the U.S. wants, and if the U.S. still has military assets available) then it is at risk of an American "liberation" but if it can defend itself then what do we see? Angry rhetoric but no action. America is the world's super-bully. And just as with any bully, from a schoolyard to the international stage, it is a giant coward.
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