Posted on 02/12/2006 6:59:48 PM PST by voletti
SEOUL: Stalinist North Korea has warned South Korea against sparking “nuclear war” by joining a US-led international drill aimed at intercepting weapons of mass destruction, state media said. Rodong Sinmun, the official communist party mouthpiece said late Saturday Seoul’s participation in the drill would be “conspiring with the US in its moves for a war of aggression.” “It is also a dangerous act of bringing the disaster of a nuclear war to the Korean Peninsula,” Rodong said in a dispatch carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. South Korea said last month it would send a team to “observe” a US-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) drill off Australia in April and that it would get briefed regularly on the initiative. But Seoul says it has yet to join the politically sensitive initiative, which Pyongyang believes aims largely to blockade North Korea, at a time of burgeoning inter-Korean rapprochement. North Korea is locked in a standoff with the United States and its allies over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme. The PSI a US-led drive to improve global efforts to intercept nuclear, chemical and biological weapons shipments by rogue states and terrorist groups was launched in May 2003. It has since held joint manoeuvres involving ships and maritime patrol aircraft with over 60 nations signing up for the initiative. The key signatories include the United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and Singapore. China, a North Korean ally, and South Korea, which has sought closer ties with the North since a peace summit in 2000, have yet to join the initiative. afp
So North Korea is making an issue over South Korea participating in a drill to practice self defense?
Man, how many places should the south tell the north it should stick it?
Stalinist North Korea has warned South Korea against sparking “nuclear war” by joining a US-led international drill aimed at intercepting weapons of mass destruction
WARNING ?
Sounds more like a threat to the US and South Korea to me .
One can formulate a pretty good national defense policy by doing the opposite of whatever communists demand.
First Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of Iran,
Then to you
Little man Kim IL Sung¹
This is one of the reasons we keep ohio class subs in N.Korea/China range.
In range rather <typo master :(
Guess so.
I don't get when they are starving that the fearless leader says he wants no more free American food starvation relief.
Then now the South will participate in defensive measures regarding an attack from the North and the North is offended.
Crazy world over there.
Gee Chia Pet get to big for his bridges
B T T T !
Well, it's a little taste of the sort of blackmail Iran will merrily practice.
Thanks for the ping!
Saber rattling is always done to get attention. North Korea is unable to feed its population. It needs more American taxpayers' dollars. Where is Jimmy Carter when you need him?
Yeah you got a point it wouldn't be day on FR or the world that Chia Pet going off his meds LOL!
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