N. Korea threatens 'sacred' nuclear war if attacked

NKorea threatens 'sacred' nuclear war if attacked

Published December 22, 2010

| Associated Press

POCHEON, South Korea – North and South Korea beat the drums of war Thursday, with each threatening the other with immediate retaliation if attacked.

Seoul has staged days of military drills in a show of force meant to deter North Korea, including live-fire exercises earlier this week on a front-line island shelled by the North last month. Angered by the exercises, North Korea threatened Thursday it would launch a "sacred" nuclear war if Seoul hit it and warned that even the smallest intrusion on its territory would bring a devastating response.

The two sides are still technically at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce not a peace treaty, and a U.S. governor who recently made an unofficial diplomatic mission to the North has said the situation on the peninsula is a "tinderbox" and the worst he had ever seen it.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/22/skorea-holds-massive-new-drills-north-attack/#ixzz18wfOwPEK

Yet you sit on another thread kvetching because the head of intelligence is paying more attention to this than to what the Brits are up to.....

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"Sacred war" by a non-religious country. Can they do that?

Sounds like the chest-pounding warning about the "mother of all wars" from Iraq... and the Iraqi press officer holding a news conference to declare Saddam Hussein was still in power at the same time coalition troops were already in the capital, pulling down his statue.

I have no doubt N. Korea has some nuclear weapons. I do have a doubt that they would actually pollute their own peninsula with nuclear fallout by striking S. Korea. They'd be left with a nuclear wasteland to their south. Nature doesn't recognize the DMZ.

I also have no doubt our response to a single nuclear incident from N. Korea would be swift and decisive.

CKM8:

You must really be the IDIOT of the corridor instead of VL. The head of Intelligence should be able to keep on top of ALL intelligence, not just the posturing of N. Korea. What a stupid defense!!!!!!!!!

Yes I noticed your attempt at throwing Yiddish into the mix, but am not impressed.

Before you respond I want to present a novel concept to you and the rest of the Liberals here. How about considering that the Intelligence Community have some Intelligence!!!

Oh, yeah, How about having a cabinet of Honest people who actually pay their taxes like the rest of us?

What is right about having Czars who don't have to answer to anyone except the President?

What the heck is Right about anything Obama has tackled?? Oh, yeah, it is that fell good crap that you people are so proud of.

How about creating jobs?? Oh NO, the more people on Food Stamps, the better it is for our economy!! ( Nancy Pelosi )

So paying attention, you think, to N. Korea, makes up for not knowing what was going on in the rest of the world????

A picture of the current DMZ from the Christian Science Monitor:

The main attraction of the peak, however, is a 100-ft.-tall tower trimmed with hundreds of lights, topped by a crucifix.

It’s a toss-up as to which is more infuriating to the North Koreans – the Christmas tree, which had not been lit for the past six holiday seasons in deference to North Korean protests, or the war games about 20 miles southeast of here. North Koreans, assuming they are lurking somewhere in the hills rolling into the distance, can see the tree as it twinkles through the night while the exercises are well out of sight and sound of North Korean forces.

North Korea has denounced both the tree and the war games as “provocations” for which the South will be “punished,” but those words are relatively mild. The North Korean propaganda machine again slipped into high gear Thursday with a threat of a “holy war of justice” – complete with “nuclear deterrent.”

Those words, attributed by Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency to Defense Minister Kim Young-chun, came with the qualifier that the war would begin only when needed “to cope with the enemies' actions deliberately pushing the situation to the brink of a war."

In other words, there’s no reason to fear a North Korean blitzkrieg in the near future, despite the prospect of incidents such as that on Nov. 23, when North Korean artillery killed two Marines and two civilians on Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pac ... nse-border

The current DMZ, BTW is the same DMZ that I walked every inch of, yes there is now a Xmas Tree, as you stated but it is not on the DMZ itself, just in view.

Are you a friend of Tom Cruz? I know he reads this paper, wasn't sure many others did, though they do have interesting perspectives on some things.

I feel so much better now that they tell me not to worry. BTW, when we meet I will tell you about the meeting last Friday evening with Korean experts. I might even let you read their book, The New Korea.

I'm not trying to impress you Nymysys- just point out your habitual whining.

Nmysys wrote: Are you a friend of Tom Cruz? I know he reads this paper, wasn't sure many others did, though they do have interesting perspectives on some things.

You're confusing Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard) with Christian Science (Mary Baker Eddy).

The Christian Science Monitor is a well-respected newspaper for world affairs. I'm surprised you've never heard of it.

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SeasonsGreetings wrote:

Nmysys wrote: Are you a friend of Tom Cruz? I know he reads this paper, wasn't sure many others did, though they do have interesting perspectives on some things.

You're confusing Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard) with Christian Science (Mary Baker Eddy).

The Christian Science Monitor is a well-respected newspaper for world affairs. I'm surprised you've never heard of it.

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