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North Korea steps up warnings against South
reuteurs ^ | 1/19/09 | By Jonathan Thatcher

Posted on 01/20/2009 3:41:36 PM PST by Flavius

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea, which analysts suspect is trying hard to grab the attention of incoming U.S. president Barack Obama, Tuesday accused the South of driving the divided peninsula back into war.

It is the latest verbal onslaught against South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who Monday put the architect of the policy that has so angered the North in charge of relations between the two Koreas.

"It goes without saying that Lee Myung-bak is the one who has driven the bellicosity high," the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in an editorial carried on North Korea's KCNA news agency.

South Korea at the weekend placed its military -- backed by some 28,000 U.S. troops in the South -- on high alert and warned of possible conflicts off the west coast of the peninsula which has been the scene of deadly naval disputes in the past, after Pyongyang said it would wipe out its neighbor.

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KEYWORDS: northkorea

1 posted on 01/20/2009 3:41:36 PM PST by Flavius
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To: Flavius

Kim must have come out of his latest coma for a few minutes.


2 posted on 01/20/2009 3:43:02 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Flavius

Biden said, MARK MY WORD, IN THE FIRST 6 MONTHS WE WILL HAVE A CRISIS.


3 posted on 01/20/2009 3:43:46 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: Flavius

Time for a little dear-leader to dear-leader chat.


4 posted on 01/20/2009 3:44:00 PM PST by scottinoc ("Katie, you're not the center of everyone's universe."-Gov Palin)
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To: Jeff Head

Obama enters the stage amid all the Hollywood festivities and glitz and glamour.... So what will Obama do now that he has to make decisions....FOR REAL...

Its Obama’s Fault.


5 posted on 01/20/2009 3:45:55 PM PST by tomnbeverly ("In the hour of darkness and peril and need, the people will waken to listen and hear.....)
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To: Flavius
Here it comes. Pull the troops out of South Korea. Retreat from the South China Sea. Pull out of the Middle East.
Goodbye South Korea, Taiwan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Give it 2 years?
6 posted on 01/20/2009 3:46:16 PM PST by madball
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To: Jeff Head

The nascent obama regime is about to come face to face with its very first international crisis. Where is Bill Richardson to patch things up with Kim?

Back in New Mexico, trying to face down a corruption crisis of his own.


7 posted on 01/20/2009 3:48:33 PM PST by alloysteel (The nascent obama regime - the dawn of a new error, compounding all the previous ones.)
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To: madball

Pull out?

We might be run out. There can be no war. Turntail will be the way of the one.


8 posted on 01/20/2009 3:49:55 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The original point of America was not to be Europe)
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To: tomnbeverly
So what will Obama do now that he has to make decisions

Considering he has never had so much as to cut his own meat, he will probably wet his pants.

9 posted on 01/20/2009 3:53:44 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Flavius

Don’t worry O is gonna save us... he might have to let the north take over the south through invasion but no Americans will be dead because they will be ordered stay in their barracks and become prisoners.


10 posted on 01/20/2009 3:56:51 PM PST by GeronL (DAY 1, YEAR 0 - The first day of the Oministration. The nightmare begins.)
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To: bert

If we have no time to remove our troops O will make a deal to keep them in their barracks ‘for the duration’ thereby giving 28,000 US prisoners to mad Kim.

Well, he will say, at least they ain’t dead yet.


11 posted on 01/20/2009 3:58:49 PM PST by GeronL (DAY 1, YEAR 0 - The first day of the Oministration. The nightmare begins.)
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To: Flavius

Obama’s weakness is going to draw us into war with the Madman.


12 posted on 01/20/2009 4:27:23 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Flavius

I wonder if the Obamamania will continue to overshadow all of the international news developments. I appreciate seeing things like this on FR as we have our oldest boy (if age 23 is still a boy), working as an English teacher in Seoul through at least August of this year yet.


13 posted on 01/20/2009 4:28:55 PM PST by ride the whirlwind
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To: Flavius

From what I have read, North Korea quit believing they could beat the South about 20 years ago.


14 posted on 01/20/2009 4:29:02 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

Hillary have a word for that commie terrorist state just like you did with the narco state.


15 posted on 01/20/2009 4:54:19 PM PST by yorkie01
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To: Flavius
you can prolly hear NK bellies growling wi hunger in Seoul...
16 posted on 01/20/2009 6:17:07 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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To: Flavius

Starting to look like Joe Biden was right.


17 posted on 01/20/2009 6:23:39 PM PST by mlo
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To: mlo
Starting to look like Joe Biden was right.

Biden=Broken Clock

18 posted on 01/20/2009 6:24:28 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: dfwgator

Biden=Broken Clock dropped off a ledge.


19 posted on 01/20/2009 6:46:15 PM PST by mlo
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