Posted on 03/10/2010 8:39:48 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
North Korea said on Tuesday it would boost its nuclear weapons capability because U.S. President Barack Obama was determined to ignore its calls for peace and bring it down by military force.
North Korea said this week that it had put its army on full combat alert as U.S. and South Korean forces began joint military drills involving nearly 40,000 troops, an annual event that draws anger from the North but typically results in no major incidents.
"The U.S. is leaving no means untried to bring down the DPRK (North Korea) including military threat, economic sanctions and ideological and cultural poisoning," the North's KCNA news agency quoted an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman as saying.
"(The North) will continue bolstering up its nuclear deterrent as long as the U.S. military threats and provocations go on," the spokesman said.
The North has come under pressure to return to six-party disarmament-for-aid nuclear talks because of U.N. sanctions imposed after a May 2009 nuclear test and prodding by its major ally and the host of the talks, China.
Sanctions have dealt a blow to its wobbly economy, and a botched currency move late last year has sparked inflation and rare civil unrest.
The two Koreas are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty.
The North said at the weekend that any talks on denuclearising the Korean peninsula would "naturally come to a standstill" because of the drills. North Korea conducted live fire exercises near sea borders with the South earlier this year.
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Yeah, obama is constantly talking about waging war against NK. That’s all he ever talks about these days. :sarc
Everyone is getting nukes and Barry the Kenyan is getting rid of all of ours. We’re in heap big trouble.
Perhaps the Obamster will get another Chesapeake Water Dog; consequently, the press will adoringly fawn over Obasm and his new pooch, only to run hour-long segments on what the First Family will name him and discuss his disposition.
(That ought to be a nice little diversion from the reality of the global tinderbox (Iran, NK, Middle East) coming apart at the seams.)
did george bush have a pet? I guess not because I never heard about one from the media.
He had two dogs. One died during GWB’s first term (the spaniel). He never tried to use them as props, nor did the media pay them any mind (except for the time Barney bit some press stooge on the South Lawn). Good Barney!
Yeah, the MSM did a fine job of dehumanizing GWB to the point of saying he wants to give guns and cigarettes to children and take pills away from the elderly.
Lest we forget, per the media, Michelle and Baraq Obama have, “restored grace and dignity” to The White House.
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