Posted on 03/13/2005 3:03:34 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
SEOUL - North Korea warned on Sunday that annual US-South Korean military exercises due to start this week and designed to deter any military threat from the Stalinist country could turn into “an actual war”.
The North’s cabinet newspaper, Minju Joson, said the week-long military maneuvers beginning on March 19 in South Korea should be called off.
“There is no guarantee that the large-scale joint military exercises will not go over to an actual war,” Minju Joson said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
“The US and the South Korean authorities should immediately cancel their plan for the provocative joint military exercises against (North Korea).”
The commentary said North Koreans would “wipe out all the aggressors” in the event of war.
Officials in Seoul and Washington have said the military drills are “purely defensive” and intended to check on the state of the US-South Korean military alliance.
The exercises come amid new diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back into six-nation talks aimed at persuading it give up its nuclear weapons program.
They involve some of the US troops based here, thousands of US soldiers from abroad and South Korean military contingents.
The drills include mock battles aimed at evaluating command capabilities with troops mobilized for anti-commando operations and computer war games.
The USS Kitty Hawk, a US aircraft carrier based in Japan, will arrive in South Korea’s southern port of Busan Monday for the exercises, the US military newspaper Stars and Stripes said Sunday.
Some 32,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea to help deter possible aggression from communist North Korea.
About 650,000 South Korean troops have been stationed against North Korea’s 1.1-million-strong army on the Korean peninsula since the 1950-1953 Korean War.
If they would call off the exercise, I could sleep in later...
Oh well.
LOL
"North Korea warns"....screw you!
Ping
This 'I AM Ill' is a certifed nut, he lives in this never-never land.
geez the n. koreans seem overly anxious to start something.. this could be serious (spare 'hugh/series' jokes'. that threat seems like it will materialize as the i doubt they will call off the exercises.. this week should be interesting...
-skeggs
I doubt it - the nKoreans always talk like this...have for at least 20 years.
Sooner or later, when it becomes annoying, one may make a decision.
they';ve been talking tough for a while, and have threatened with their supposed 'seas of fire' but from the sounds of it they mean business..
world events are boiling. just sheet,.
-skeggs
He must have been raised in Hollywood. LOL.
Great, guess the war industry trinket makers best get the dies warmed up for a Kim J'ill bobblhead. Kim Jill.. lol.
agreed it should by all means make them nervous. but say yer living in your house, and you see a bunch of swat teams 'practicing' action on you, wouldnt you want to take some evasive action? i mean the only thing not making this an actual attack is the practice premise of it all.
this should be taken seriously,
btw AD nice seein' ya here ;)
-s.
"Don't make me angry. You wouldn't rike me when I'm angry."
"could turn into an ACTUAL war".
As opposed to what?...a FAKE war?
agreed it should by all means make them nervous. but say yer living in your house, and you see a bunch of swat teams 'practicing' action on you, wouldnt you want to take some evasive action? i mean the only thing not making this an actual attack is the practice premise of it all.
Well, okay, but let's extend that metaphor a bit further.
North Korea isn't some nice, well-kept split-level house in a decent neighborhood. North Korea is the crack house of Asia: a dilapidated, run-down, eyesore of a country that has been selling all sorts of nasty stuff to the local kids. They've got two or three starving pit bulls on chains in the front yard, just waiting for an inattentive census man or unwary meter reader. The kids that live in the house always break into cars and houses around them and steal stuff.
I used to live in a neighborhood plagued with two of these houses. We WELCOMED the police when they drove by; it kept the noise down.
Now I live in a neighborhood that is well within range of NK's Taepodong missiles, which may or may not have working nuclear warheads, depending on whether or not the springs from Glorious Alarm Clock And Bedspring Collective #112 are up to snuff. Japan and the US and South Korea are teaming up to patrol the vicinity, and I for one couldn't be happier. I WANT Fearless Hairpiece to toss and turn all night in his bed. It means I can sleep more soundly in mine.
As for what North Korea wants, well, picture me giving a s--t.
they said that in 1981, too..
In fact, they keep saying it every year...
Yep. Kimmy is a broken record.
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