North Korea Threatens US

[eror]

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.

Off China's coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month.

The Kang Nam left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago with the USS John S. McCain close behind. The ship, accused of transporting banned goods in the past, is believed bound for Myanmar, according to South Korean and U.S. officials.

The new U.N. Security Council resolution requires member states to seek permission to inspect suspicious cargo. North Korea has said it would consider interception a declaration of war and on Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking to provoke another Korean War.

"If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," the official Korean Central News Agency said.

The warning came on the eve of the 59th anniversary of the start of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula in state of war.

The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect against an outbreak of hostilities.

Tensions have been high since North Korea launched a long-range rocket in April and then conducted its second underground atomic test on May 25.

Reacting to U.N. condemnation of that test, North Korea walked away from nuclear disarmament talks and warned it would fire a long-range missile.

North Korea has banned ships from the waters off its east coast starting Thursday through July 10 for military exercises, Japan's Coast Guard said.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday that the North may fire a Scud missile with a range of up to 310 miles (500 kilometers) or a short-range ground-to-ship missile with a range of 100 miles (160 kilometers) during the no-sail period.

A senior South Korean government official said the no-sail ban is believed connected to North Korean plans to fire short- or mid-range missiles. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

U.S. defense and counterproliferation officials in Washington said they also expected the North to launch short- to medium-range missiles. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

South Korea will expedite the introduction of high-tech unmanned aerial surveillance systems and "bunker-buster" bombs in response to North Korea's provocations, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing unidentified ruling party members.

Meanwhile, a flurry of diplomatic efforts were under way to try getting North Korea to return to disarmament talks.

Russia's top nuclear envoy, Alexei Borodavkin, said after meeting with his South Korean counterpart that Moscow is open to other formats for discussion since Pyongyang has pulled out of formal six-nation negotiations.

In Beijing, top U.S. and Chinese defense officials also discussed North Korea. U.S. Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy was heading next to Tokyo and Seoul for talks.

South Korea has proposed high-level "consultations" to discuss North Korea with the U.S., Russia, China and Japan.

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Associated Press writers Jae-soon Chang in Seoul; Pauline Jelinek, Pamela Hess and Lolita Baldor in Washington and Min Lee in Hong Kong contributed to this report.

Source:

 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_koreas_nuclear

Does this make anyone else worried?

[SHo]

USS John S. McCain

[pinto]

tl;dr

[[st]akira]

meh, korea can launch a nuke, and then get COMPLETELY fucked over once it gets intercepted.

[vctm]

Yep, NK will get absolutely destroyed if they try anything. Empty threats.

Not worried at all.

[SASQUATCH]

meh, korea can launch a nuke, and then get COMPLETELY fucked over once it gets intercepted.

Cos the US' missile interception system has been a raging success and all.

[afour]

North Korea is the pov smelly kid in school who warns you not to beat him up because he knows karate, but who's too insignificant for anyone to bother with anyway.

[afour]

[James]

Kim had a stroke, his lifes almost over and his crazier then Hitler, whose to say he isn't going to be like "Oh fuck it, I'm dying anyway nuke every where"

Thats what scares me the most but then again I dont think its worth worrying about, got enough stress as it is with other shit, may as well not let something thats out of your control frighten you.

[11411181]

Kim had a stroke, his lifes almost over and his crazier then Hitler, whose to say he isn't going to be like "Oh fuck it, I'm dying anyway nuke every where"

Thats what scares me the most but then again I dont think its worth worrying about, got enough stress as it is with other shit, may as well not let something thats out of your control frighten you.

Pretty much. It'll be something to keep an eye on though.

[bquick]

rofl was speaking to my mate about this about a week ago how Korea will soon make a threat on America to back off and stop raiding our ships or its a sign of War.

[jt_]

bl EG and coL

[CuT]

Ive been following NK for many years now, and this is textbook. Threat to attempt to get what they want. In this case, it finally seems as thought they are isolating themselves even more away from not only their closest allies, but also the rest of the world, at least is seems that way within the United Nations, although im not sure what credibility the UN have anymore.

I like to describe for the North as like a little child, throwing a temper whenever things don't go their way.

[D2therJdotCOM]

North korea is the uncool kid of the UN.

Africa is the poor kid and the US is the jock faggot who drives the jeep and plays quarter back.

[Longie[iw]]

something will break the tension between the US and NK, it will be the beginning of homefront

[SASQUATCH]

North Korea is the pov smelly kid in school who warns you not to beat him up because he knows karate, but who's too insignificant for anyone to bother with anyway.

I
I like to describe for the North as like a little child, throwing a temper whenever things don't go their way.

North korea is the uncool kid of the UN.

Africa is the poor kid and the US is the jock faggot who drives the jeep and plays quarter back.

got any more?

[baz86]

One would think the US is too broke ATM to get itself involved in another war.

[SCEL]

rofl. wtf.

[tasker]

Cos the US' missile interception system has been a raging success and all.

Spot on..

If this turns out to be legit which i haven't read the paper today.

This could be very very bad news for asia, let alone the world.

[sooc]

tldr more Aussie troops will die and we are close to NK

[CoFfeX]

The US will be fine. It's the South and Japan I'd be worried about.

I can see Seoul being kicked swiftly in the nuts pretty hard should the North go bonkers.

[Supr3m3?!]

LOL!

[(>-.-)>]

One would think the US is too broke ATM to get itself involved in another war.

America makes money of war, that's why they love it.

tl;dr

If NK are threatening US, that's just completely bad luck.

US are the super power, and just test them see what happens.

This clip is so true its scary, that America just don't care watch from about 1:20;

[RS2000]

im sure the us drones will have a field day on nk if anything happens.

its alot easier for them considering nk actually has infrastructure compared to the Taliban.

but really how do you deal with this situation. it would seem that nk dont comply to anybody, but it would also seem that they are not willing to strike out first, they only threaten it if provocated.

so leave them or to rort? or clean up the mess?

[baz86]

America makes money of war, that's why they love it.

Fairly sure that the US have accumulated a huge debt from the "war on terrorism". From sources I can find the US was in 5.7 trillion dollars of debt when GB took office. These figures have doubled to 10.1 trillion as of 2/10/08, I couldn’t find more current stats. Yes the statement is normally true about a nation at war generates wealth but it ain’t the US government in this case. I think the only real profiteers on this war will be the weapon manufactures alike as they have been given the budget to spend millions – billions on RND.

Happy to see another point of view.

[macr0]

Fairly sure that the US have accumulated a huge debt from the "war on terrorism". From sources I can find the US was in 5.7 trillion dollars of debt when GB took office. These figures have doubled to 10.1 trillion as of 2/10/08, I couldn’t find more current stats. Yes the statement is normally true about a nation at war generates wealth but it ain’t the US government in this case. I think the only real profiteers on this war will be the weapon manufactures alike as they have been given the budget to spend millions – billions on RND.

Happy to see another point of view.

qft. banks make money not the US.

[hixxy]

imo, someone needs to do a pre-emptive strike and take out everything military related in that part of the country.

[DaNgeR]

If videogames have taught me anything; a US Navy SEALs team will be dispatched to NK and defuse the volatile situation mere seconds before Missle launch, saving the day.

[CoFfeX]

imo, someone needs to do a pre-emptive strike and take out everything military related in that part of the country.

Korean People's Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good luck with that.

[xcentriq]

Does this make anyone else worried?

No it kind of pisses me off.

NK don't listen to shit said by anyone. NK is the little kid with a 25mil SteamID saying I'm leet to a ~4k SteamID.

I sense the coming end of the Iraq war and the coming of the North Korea war.
Seriously, the day when wars stop, is the day when mankind no longer exists.
The only wars that should be fought is in games. CS Anyone?

"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk." - Eleanor Roosevelt

[hixxy]

Just send in James Bond.

[braydEN[k]]

US vs NK in a 1.6comp to settle this.

[LthL]

imo, someone needs to do a pre-emptive strike and take out everything military related in that part of the country.

Yeah cause that worked so well last time.

[jruz]

WORLD WAR 3 HERE WE COME!

[tekzn.]

WORLD WAR 3 HERE WE COME!

haha, NK was get smashed if they try to do anything to the US

[jruz]

Not really US isn't as strong as you think....

[SHo]

1.2 million active, with the ability to throw another 9 million into the mix with Conscription, without including the Worker-Peasant Red Guard, which is around 3.5 million.

All of who, are reportedly armed.

GG US.

[James]

the u.s. made Libya, North Korea, and Iran a nuclear threat, they supplied them many years ago, so in other words if the u.s. supplied them how much of a nuclear threat do you think the u.s. actually is? a very, very, very fucking big one.

i also think the u.n. are completely underrated, when it comes down to it i think they would really show the world their capabilities, nothing has been a big enough threat for the u.n. to actually worry about and take action against, they will if they need to and when they do i think they'll surprise us.

[jruz]

But then again US has allys and of course we will have to get invovled and save the US's sorry ass again...

[Grove]

Well eventually the US & allies will win if war broke out (China will not do anything to destroy its current reputation) but I don't think your considering the amount of collateral damage that will happen. NK is readily armed and can pack a punch and either way you look at it, there will be a lot of people dead if it came to that (both allies & NKs).