Posted on 03/07/2013 3:39:02 AM PST by tobyhill
North Korea threatened the United States on Thursday with a preemptive nuclear strike, raising the level of rhetoric while the U.N. Security Council considers new sanctions against the reclusive country.
North Korea has accused the United States of using military drills in South Korea as a launch pad for a nuclear war and has scrapped the armistice with Washington that ended hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War.
North Korea, which has one major ally, neighboring China, threatens the United States and its "puppet", South Korea, on an almost daily basis.
"Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest," the North's foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
North Korea conducted a third nuclear test on February 12, in defiance of U.N. resolutions, and declared it had achieved progress in securing a functioning atomic arsenal. It is widely believed the North does not have the capacity to deliver a nuclear strike on the mainland United States.
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Add to the the fact that Obozo has most/all of our carriers docked in Norfolk, waiting for Pearl Harbor II. Scary.
Don’t worry, folks. Obama has just warned North Korea of “costly consequences” if they don’t behave, saying that new sanctions will “bite”.
I’m sure they’re terrified over there.
/sarc
Modify number four a little. The Nork FM , by the quote, said they would attack the “headquarters of the aggressor—”. That would be somewhere up the Potomac and they don’t need a missile to get there. Any dumbass looking cruise boat, or a fake fuel barge, with their version of Fat Man could get there without trying real hard. Hope the Coasties are on their toes.
We have enough nukes to vaporise NK many times over. Surely even the Norks aren’t that stupid. They know and we know that if we had a real President, we would destroy them in minutes with no more remorse than swatting a fly, and then sent out for pizza.
I tend to think they mean the headquarters in Yongsan.
North Korea has scrapped the armistice with Washington that ended hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War.
This has ramifications.
Serious business.
Their long history of behavior works strongly against them, here; “Sea of fire, banish u 2 the flames of nuclear hell, blah, blah, blah...”
Sorry, but for the DPRK this rhetoric is EXACTLY as casual as one stroller bidding another Good Morning on the street.
I swear they could have the missile crackling the Greiger and rumbling on the launch pad, and I’d be filing my nails, yawning.
Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdxPCeWw75k
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