N.Korea army threatens pre-emptive attack

[kpete]

N.Korea army threatens pre-emptive attack
Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:07 AM GMT


By Jon Herskovitz

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has the right to launch a pre-emptive attack against U.S.-backed South Korean forces because the two Koreas are technically still at war, the communist state's official media said on Tuesday.

The comments came as North Korea shows its displeasure with annual joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises, which Pyongyang has said are a preparation for an invasion of its territory.

A spokesman for the North's Korea People's Army (KPA) said distrust is high between the United States and North Korea, and Pyongyang "will never remain a passive onlooker to the U.S. pre-emptive attack on the DPRK," its official news agency reported.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-14T110716Z_01_SEO311002_RTRUKOC_0_UK-KOREA-NORTH-MILITARY.xml

and this...

Bush to Restate Terror Strategy
2002 Doctrine of Preemptive War To Be Reaffirmed

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 16, 2006; Page A01

President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq.

The long-overdue document, an articulation of U.S. strategic priorities that is required by law, lays out a robust view of America's power and an assertive view of its responsibility to bring change around the world. On topics including genocide, human trafficking and AIDS, the strategy describes itself as "idealistic about goals and realistic about means."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

THE NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
National Security Strategy Overview (From The White House)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006 /
National Security Strategy of the United States 2006 (pdf File)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/nss2006.pdf

[Vincardog]

1. Do you think cngress could pass a resolution to let the Resident know

He is not GOD?

[MadMaddie]

3. That would take Dems to stand up and we know that they

won't even back Feingold....

The repugs won't do it....

[fooj]

4. If only.........

Peace.

[MadMaddie]

2. Bad precedent to start......and now countries like N Korea will

use it....

[havocmom]

6. All a matter of perspective. They are probably popping corks

in Board Rooms at places like GE & Halliburton.

[ugarte]

8. Yes, NK is obviously under the impression that more than 1 can play

this game, although George Bush has made it perfectly clear that only the US gets to hit first. Different rules for everybody else.

[Deja Q]

5. Well, it's no longer a pre-emptive attack if the US bombs them.

:hi: to North Korea. :dunce:

Or vice-versa; the mouthing off on both sides is only egging on something like that to happen for real.

Besides, why would N Korea bomb the S Korea?! Or play tin soldiers? It will likely come back to haunt them. and what will they do with their booty; a charbroiled plot of land containing dead, smelly fly-ridden bodies?

Never mind their neighbors will eventually get some fallout too.

Korea II - The Wrath of a Much Bigger Idiot.

[MadMaddie]

7. First they are going to bomb Iran....

The rhetoric from Cheney, *, Condi, Rummy, Bolton all pushing the Iranians into a corner....

This is all going to end badly for the US.....

[slide to the left]

9. my bro is stationed in NK

[KharmaTrain]

10. A Big Difference When There Are Guns And Missiles On Your Border

How this regime has screwed up the Korean and entire Asian political situation is one of the worst failures of this regime.

We all but had Kim Jong Il ready to get rid of his nukes for a lifetime supply of porn videos and rotgut brandy. Instead, junior starts instigating this situation and has done more to embolden this regime than bring it down. Good work booooshie.

The ones who should be real nervous are the Japanese...seems like everyone in the "hood" has a nuke and they know what one landing on one or two of their cities can do. If there's an exchange of tactical nukes, Japan's gonna be right in the middle of this mess...and IMHO the parlay card North Korea continues to play in keeping both the U.S. and China at bey.

Years ago there was a discussion about the "imminent nuclear threat" that a China or Korea could present. Unless there's been some major upgrades in either country's technology, neither has a missile system really capable of inflicting massive damage upon the Continental U.S. Also that prowling off their shores at all times are several U.S. submarines loaded with MIRV warheads that can deliver a massive retalitory strike from right off shore in minutes of a Chinese or Korean launch. Yes, any North Korean nuke action would be an act of virtual suicide.

This regime's cavaillere and hypocritical attitudes are inviting countries like Iran, North Korea and any other that has a bitch with us (and the list is growing) to bash the U.S. and this regime for internal consumption. There's a growing number of people who feel the Iranian nuke program is justified due to the rogue nature of this regime. We are entering into some very dangerous waters.