North Korea Says U.S., South Korea Drill ‘Inviting Nuclear War’

[ZombieHorde]

Source: Bloomberg

Dec. 25 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea said the U.S. and South Korea are “inviting a nuclear war” by conducting military drills, even as a Seoul-based think tank predicted that Kim Jong Il’s regime may hold another atomic test next year.

South Korea’s Dec. 20 artillery drill on Yeonpyeong Island near the disputed sea border was an intentional provocation, and North Korea is closely watching “the reckless behavior of the warmongers inviting a nuclear war,” the communist country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said today, citing commentaries in the Rodong newspaper.

The comments follow a threat North Korea made yesterday to wage a “sacred war” using nuclear weapons if attacked. North Korea may conduct a third nuclear test next year as it needs to refine its plutonium bomb, South Korea’s state-run Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security said in a report posted on its website yesterday.

North Korea has repeatedly claimed that military maneuvers by South Korea and the U.S. are preparations for a full-scale invasion. The regime is “fully prepared to launch a sacred war of justice of Korean style based on the nuclear deterrent,” KCNA reported yesterday, citing Kim Yong Chun, the minister of its People’s Armed Forces.

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[spin]

1. All hat and no cattle. (n/t)

[nebenaube]

2. It must be Christmas...

what, no fireworks?

[L0oniX]

3. I just don't fucking care anymore. There's nothing I can do about it anyway.

:freak:

I mean who knows what the truth is anyway? I don't believe much of anything that comes from any government. It's all propaganda and I don't have any insider friends who I can trust for the truth. As far as I am concerned, this is nothing but another fear bomb in support of the MIC.

[ZombieHorde]

9. Valid points. nt

[Akoto]

4. Amusing that NK should accuse anyone of being reckless warmongers. n/t

[Posteritatis]

5. All North Korea needs to do to avert nuclear war is not start one. (nt)

[AlbertCat]

6. Why does China continue to put up with N Korea?

Jess askin'....

[PavePusher]

7. Distraction

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..."

[Prometheus Bound]

12. Because they don't want millions of N Koreans pouring across the border.

[taught_me_patience]

8. Ye doth protest too much...

Looks like NK has nothing.

[Prometheus Bound]

10. It's certainly arguable who's the most dangerous man in the Korean Peninsula

Kim Jung-il or SK President Lee Myung-bak

[zoechen]

11. Entertainment value

If nothing else Korean sword rattling is entertaining.

"fully prepared to launch a sacred war of justice of Korean style based on the nuclear deterrent"

:evilgrin: