Posted on 12/09/2001 2:38:11 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
North Korea Says Its Ready for War "They (Americans) are blowing us up for serving as a terrorist state with the purpose of making the Korean peninsula the second Afghanistan under the pretext of a war against terrorism," the North's state-run press said. The United States had pretended to improve relations with North Korea by proposing a dialogue during the early stage of the war in Afghanistan, said Rodong Sinmun, organ of the ruling Workers' Party. "The United States, however, changed its face abruptly after the war in Afghanistan developed in favor of the United States," the daily said. As part of efforts to raise tensions, Washington has blamed human rights and religious conditions in North Korea and urged the North to open its military facilities to international inspection, it said. "The U.S. designation of the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea as the target of the post-Afghanistan war operation compels the Korean people to be in full combat preparedness to lay down their lives for the country," said the daily carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency. "The DPRK is not Afghanistan. The DPRK is ready for defense and attack," the daily said, vowing to build up its military to counter "U.S. strong-arm policy" against the communist state. "We will deal a blow to the invaders to the extent which is beyond imagination to show what the fate of the head of terrorists will be like, if the Imperialist United States chooses to stage a war," Rodong Sinmun said. The warning came amid a new round of tension between the two countries as North Korea rejected U.S. calls for inspections to hunt for suspected weapons of mass destruction, including biological and chemical arms. North Korea said last week that it would not give up its missile development program, calling it a "sovereign right" to guard against military threats from the United States. The North has escalated its anti-U.S. rhetoric after Washington deployed more fighter jets to South Korea in November to fill in for a U.S. aircraft carrier that left the region to support the military campaign in Afghanistan. "The U.S. deployment of more task forces in South Korea on the plea of filling up 'vacuum of combat power' was designed to conduct an operation (against North Korea) in the wake of the war in Afghanistan," Rodong Sinmun said. The United States has 37,000 troops stationed in South Korea under a mutual defense treaty following the 1950-53 Korean War. The North has called for the withdrawal of the American troops in the South as a "precondition" to any arms reduction on the Korean peninsula.NewsMax Wires
SEOUL, South Korea -- UPI -- North Korea denounced the United States Sunday for planning to make the communist regime the second target for its war against terrorism after Afghanistan, warning "unimaginably telling blows" to U.S. troops.
Monday, Dec. 10, 2001
"The U.S. designation of the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea as the target of the post-Afghanistan war operation ..."Are they getting enough oxygen up there?
Bring it.
Thanks treasonous bastard Bill Clinton. Thanks Treasonous bitch Hillary Clinton. Thanks bastard Bernard Schwartz. And Very Much Thanks to the Delusional DNC.
It has and it does. About every six months or so North Korea darkly warns the world that war is hours away and NPRK are going to give the US and South Korea a vicious thrashing. North Korea has been cranking out the dire and dour threats like link sausages for years.
Let's see....'white flags'? Check....'green card applications'? Check.
Clinton didn't think the North Korean nuclear missile probram was a real problem, because he managed to postpone the crisis until after he left office. Never mind that it's a hundred times more serious than it was. Why would that bother him?
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