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After another round of nuclear weapons tests and an outright threat to bring “final destruction” to South Korea at a disarmament conference, the government of North Korea promised to cancel the cease-fire that effectively ended the Korean War if the U.S and South Korea did not cease military exercises.
North Korea vowed Tuesday to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, citing a U.S.-led push for punishing U.N. sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing U.S.-South Korean joint military drills.
North Korea’s Korean People’s Army Supreme Command warned of stronger additional countermeasures in a statement that came amid reports that Washington and North Korean ally Beijing have approved a draft of punishing sanctions for a U.N. Security Council resolution responding to North Korea’s Feb. 12 nuclear test.
It is hard to dismiss this all as mere posturing though the North Korean government is notorious for being unpredictable. But as things escalate and threats and deadlines are made the mystery could give way to an untenable reality – war.
The United States and others worry that North Korea’s third nuclear test pushes it a step closer toward its goal of having nuclear-armed missiles that can reach America, and condemn its rocket launches and nuclear tests as a dangerous threat to regional security…
North Korea warned it will cancel the Korean War cease-fire agreement on March 11, citing U.S.-South Korean military drills that began March 1.
I guess we will see what happens in 6 days.
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I hope this doesn’t have anything to do with Dennis Rodman.
Why does anyone care what DPRK does.
China doesn’t want a flood of refugees, so DPRK is impt to that country. But DPRK would seem to be of no consequence to other countries.
Heh!
I suspect it has more to do with North Korea wanting some more food and other goodies from South Korea. The NKs do this whenever times are particularly tough, or when there’s a recent power transfer or command shuffle and they want to show that the transfer shouldn’t be mistaken as a pretext to invade the North.
They threaten to nuke Japan every so often, and they can actually do it. But it’s more useful as a threat and a way to get South Korea to send them more food aid.
I guess the idea of unifying is off the table then (or further off the table).
The Japanese have demonstrated that they are capable of nuking themselves.
They want Samsung.. who doesn’t these days?
General Electric already nuked Japan. Just sayin.
It is time for Barack to step forward and challenge Un to a one-on-one basketball game. Double-or-nothing on their respective stockpiles of nukes.
Maybe instead the Barackstar should challenge Dennis Rodman to a one-on-one b’ball game?? Or something…
I don’t have a tv, but I was in a hotel the other night. I saw a clip from someone (maybe Stephanopolis??) “interviewing” Rodman. WTF?? I think Rodman “visiting” DPRK would enough to make them wanna nuke someone or something… sheesh.
Fukushima is why Japan’s suddenly gotten serious about renewables. Particularly when it was found that most of the few Japanese wind farms that were up and running at the time managed to stay in operation during the quake and subsequent tsunami — and the ones that went offline were taken offline mainly because of damage to the parts of the grid to which they were hooked.
It’s difficult to know how much control the ‘dear leader’ has over the military. At various times westerners have spoken with their leader and received assurances they don’t want war. Then the next day there are these apocalyptic promises we don’t want.
In any event, I hope our gov’t takes this seriously and discusses it with the S. Koreans and Japanese and Chinese and Russians. Any kind of crazy military activity in the area should receive a response which is as unified and organized as possible. Having several separate responses could be a real confusion fest.
Ideally we would simply destroy any force they put forward, be it soldiers on the ground or rockets in the air. But, realistically can that be done? This isn’t something anyone even wants to discuss after so many years of peace. But, if we’re forced to deal with it we should be fully ready.
I suppose it’s ironic that this is so similar to the Iran – Israel situation. They say Iran is ready with the bomb and they have to destroy it. We say, not yet. Now N.K. says they have the capability and we’re not sure, but we have to be ready if they do. It’s horrible.
Only in Rodman’s unnaturally ego-inflated mind.