North Korea exercise right to preemptive nuclear attack

[EviI Spaghetti]

North Korea exercise right to preemptive nuclear attack on U.S

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/07/uk-korea-north-attack-idUKBRE9260BP20130307

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North Korea has accused the United States of using military drills in South Korea as a launch pad for a nuclear war and has scrapped the armistice with Washington that ended hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War.

North Korea, which has one major ally, neighbouring China, threatens the United States and its "puppet", South Korea, on an almost daily basis.

"Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest," the North's foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

North Korea conducted a third nuclear test on February 12, in defiance of U.N. resolutions, and declared it had achieved progress in securing a functioning atomic arsenal. It is widely believed the North does not have the capacity to deliver a nuclear strike on the mainland United States.

The North's unnamed foreign ministry spokesman also said it would be entitled to take military action as of March 11 when U.S.-South Korea military drills move into a full-scale phase as it had declared the truce invalid.

It is the latest in an escalation of tough words from both sides of the armed Korean border this week as the U.N. Security Council deliberates a resolution to tighten financial sanctions and a naval blockade against the North.

North Korea, which held a mass military rally in Pyongyang on Thursday in support of its recent threats, has protested against the U.N. censures of its rocket launches. It says they are part of a peaceful space programme and that the criticism is an exercise of double standards by the United States.

But North Korea's shrill rhetoric rarely goes beyond just that. Its latest armed aggression against the South in 2010 came unannounced, bombing a South Korean island killing two civilians. It is widely accused of sinking a South Korean navy ship earlier in the year, killing 46 sailors.

North Korea was conducting a series of military drills and getting ready for state-wide war practice of an unusual scale, South Korea's defence ministry said earlier on Thursday.

South Korea and the United States, which are conducting annual military drills until the end of April, are watching the North's activities for signs they turn from an exercise to an actual attack, a South Korean official said.

"It hasn't been frequent that the North conducted military exercise at the state level," South Korea's defence ministry spokesman, Kim Min-seok, said. "The North is currently conducting various drills on land, at sea and aerially.

"We are watching the North's activities and stepping up readiness under the assumption that these drills can lead to provocation at any time."

Kim declined to confirm news reports that the North has imposed no-fly zones off its coasts in a possible move to fire missiles, but he said any flight ban limited to near the coast would not be for weapons with meaningful ranges.

A top North Korean general said on Tuesday said Pyongyang was scrapping the armistice. But the two sides remain technically at war as the civil war did not end with a treaty.

South Korea's military said in a rare warning on Wednesday that it would strike back at the North and target its leadership if Pyongyang launched an attack.

The proposed sanctions North Korea called an act of war (summarized from here ):

Ban on exporting luxury goods to North Korea (intended to target goods used by North Korea's elite)
Freeze on all North Korean money thought to be connected to missile programs
Ban on financial support for anything related to missile programs
Travel sanctions that would effectively force out all expats working for North Korean ventures
All North Korean cargo must be inspected
3 arms dealers and 2 international organizations have been specifically targeted and sanctioned



Furious over UN sanctions vote, North Korea vows to launch pre-emptive nuclear strike

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_UN_NORTH_KOREA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-07-04-25-12#.UThhtU7Y9yU

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea is vowing a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States. The harsh rhetoric Thursday comes hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.

An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for "pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the headquarters of the aggressors" because Washington is pushing to start a nuclear war against the North.

Such inflammatory rhetoric is common from North Korea. But it has been coming regularly in recent days. North Korea is angry over the possible sanctions and over upcoming U.S.-South Korean military drills.

[VirginianRanger]

rolleyes

[EviI Spaghetti]

South Korea Threatens North Korea with attack if "provoked"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/world/asia/seoul-says-north-korea-leadership-could-be-target.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

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SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean military warned on Wednesday that if provoked by North Korea, it would strike the North’s "command leadership," in a sharp escalation of a war of words that hinted at an attack on a North Korean headquarters.

The warning came a day after the North Korean People’s Army threatened to attack the United States and its South Korean ally with "lighter and smaller nukes" – an outburst provoked by the United Nations Security Council’s consideration of tough new sanctions on Pyongyang as punishment for its February nuclear blast.

North Korea’s typically strident rhetoric has grown bolder following its successful recent tests of a long-range rocket and nuclear device, especially in the past week as the United States and South Korea started their joint annual military exercises.

South Korea usually does not respond to North Korean tongue-lashing, dismissing it as propaganda. But amid fears among officials and analysts here that North Korea might provoke a deadly skirmish to shake the new government of President Park Geun-hye and destabilize the region, the South Korean military called a news conference on Wednesday to deliver one of its most categorical public warnings in recent months.

"If North Korea attempts a provocation that threatens the lives and security of our people, our military will forcefully and decisively strike not only the origin of provocation and its supporting forces but also its command leadership," said Maj. Gen. Kim Yong-hyun, chief operations officer at the military’s Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We make it clear that we are all prepared."

The two Koreas’ front-line units exchanges artillery fire in 2010 after North Korea launched a barrage against a South Korean border island. That same year, 46 South Korean sailors were killed when their navy corvette sank in an explosion that the South blamed on a North Korean torpedo attack. South Korea has since vowed to strike back with a deadlier force if North Korea provokes again.

Despite such warnings, however, officials feared that the young Mr. Kim, or a new crop of ambitious North Korean generals under him, might be emboldened by their nuclear weapons to believe that they could get way with new provocations with impunity.

"We read their confidence in nuclear weapons behind their aggressive, more provocative rhetoric and actions recently," said Chang Yong-seok, an analyst at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University. "There is a higher possibility of North Korea attempting a provocation, something that would involve limited causalities but have all the impact that one expects from an armed provocation."

Threats to attack the United States and South Korea are almost a daily fare in North Korea, where its governing "military-first" ideology is based on a belief that the isolated country was on the verge of invasion and must sacrifice to build a strong military to assure independence and prosperity. Still, unlike his late father, Kim Jong-il, who had seldom spoken in public, Mr. Kim has often been quoted in recent North Korean media reports with militant rhetorical blasts.

The verbal sparring came as the United Nations Security Council moved closer to expanding sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear and ballistic missile activities. The United States and China introduced a resolution that would target North Korean bankers and overseas cash couriers, tighten inspections of suspect ship and air cargo, and subject the country’s diplomats to invasive scrutiny and increased risk of expulsion.

Passage of the measure, drafted in response to the third North Korean underground nuclear test three weeks ago, seemed all but assured, in part because China — North Korea’s major benefactor — participated in drafting the language. It would be the fourth Security Council sanctions resolution on North Korea, which has defied the previous measures with increasing belligerence. A vote was expected on Thursday.

Susan E. Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, who introduced the resolution in a closed session of the 15-member Security Council, told reporters afterward that it “builds upon, strengthens and significantly expands the scope of the strong U.N. sanctions already in place.”

For the first time, she said, the resolution would target “the illicit activities of North Korean diplomatic personnel, North Korean banking relationships, illicit transfers of bulk cash and new travel restrictions.” In the past, North Korea has been accused of running extensive counterfeiting and illegal drug enterprises, to raise much-needed hard currency.

Ms. Rice declined to predict whether the North would respond with another nuclear test or other retaliation. “All I can tell you is that the international community is united and very firm in its opposition to North Korea’s illicit nuclear and missile programs,” she said. “And the more provocations that occur, the more isolated and impoverished, sadly, North Korea will become.”

The Americans did not publicly release the resolution text. But a Security Council diplomat familiar with the measure, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the language may still be subject to revision, said it broke new ground with restrictions and prohibitions on North Korean banking transactions, new travel restrictions and increased monitoring of North Korean ship and air cargo.

The diplomat also said that the resolution added a special lubricant and valve, needed for uranium enrichment, to items that North Korea cannot import.

The resolution would also place greater scrutiny on North Korean diplomatic personnel who are suspected of carrying proscribed goods and cash under the guise of official business, exposing them to possible deportation. “We know there are diplomats out there cooking up deals and moving funds around,” the Security Council diplomat said.

Among the other provisions, the diplomat said the resolution also included new language aimed at enforcement that had been absent from the earlier resolutions. It requires, for example, that if a North Korean cargo vessel crew refuses a host country’s request for inspection, the host is under a legal obligation to deny the vessel port access.

If a cargo plane is suspected of carrying prohibited goods to or from North Korea, the resolution would urge, but not require, that it be denied permission to fly over any other country — a new provision that could affect China, which routinely permits North Korean flights over its territory.

[EviI Spaghetti]

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2013/201303/news06/2013030-13ee.html

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S. Korean Warmongers' Unabated Provocative Saber-rattling under Fire
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- A touch-and-go situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces' madcap drills for a nuclear war against the DPRK.

Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, Ulji Freedom Guardian, Hoguk and other joint military exercises staged by the south Korean puppet group in league with the U.S. every year, creating constant danger of war on the Korean Peninsula, were aimed at invading the DPRK. Their purpose was to put OPLAN-5027, OPLAN-5029 and other war scenarios into practice.

Recently, they worked out a scenario for "stabilization operation" which calls for "occupying and ruling" the DPRK and made reckless provocations, crying out for "mounting a preemptive attack on Pyongyang."

At the outset of the year the puppet forces escalated confrontation with the DPRK, malignantly taking issue with its satellite launch for peaceful purposes. In the meantime, they staged ceaseless war exercises targeted against the DPRK.

On Jan. 2 all units under the 3rd field army fired bullets and shells from the area along the Military Demarcation Line. From Jan. 14 to 18 huge forces of 25th, 26th and 30th divisions of the puppet army staged large-scale mobile exercises and field tactical and mobile exercises in Kyonggi Province and Cholwon of south Korean Kangwon Province.

From Jan. 15 to 17 the artillery force of the 2nd division of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces in south Korea and the 7th artillery brigade of the puppet army conducted a live shell firing drill in Ryonchon County, Kyonggi Province.

The 8th and 21st divisions of the puppet army staged military exercises for increasing the capability for mounting a preemptive attack on the DPRK by mobilizing tanks, armored cars and other war hardware in Cholwon of south Korean Kangwon Province and Phochon of Kyonggi Province from Jan. 21 to 25.

The U.S. 7th Air Force and the air force operation command of the puppet army conducted a drill for making preparations for war-time operations from Feb. 12. The puppet navy staged a large-scale maritime mobile drill with dozens of warships involved in the waters of the East and West seas of Korea from Feb. 13. The 2nd artillery brigade of the puppet ground force was busy staging a firepower strike drill in the artillery firing range situated in the central sector of the front in south Korean Kangwon Province from Feb. 15.

The 20th and 55th divisions of the puppet ground force conducted South Han River-crossing drill in Ryoju and Yangphyong areas of Kyonggi Province from Feb. 18 to 22 with huge forces, tanks, artillery pieces and other combat equipment involved while the U.S. imperialist aggression forces and the naval forces of the puppet army staged a large-scale anti-submarine exercise in the waters of the East Sea of Korea from Feb. 19 to 24.

The above-said madcap military exercises fully reveal the bellicose nature of those who seek to deliberately strain the situation over the DPRK's legitimate and just satellite launch and nuclear test and provoke a war of aggression against it in league with the U.S.

[EviI Spaghetti]

"If necessary we'll scrap the Armistice Agreement!" "We're not Libya - We're ready!"

[EviI Spaghetti]

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2013/201303/news06/2013030-10ee.html

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KCNA Commentary Slams U.S. for Systematically Increasing Nuclear Threats to DPRK
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The U.S. nuclear threats to the DPRK have steadily increased for decades with south Korea as a base.

Already back in 1950 the then U.S. President Truman openly talked about the use of A-bomb on Korean fronts. According to it, an instruction was issued to the U.S. strategic flying corps to "be on standby to be able to send bombers to the Far East for the immediate delivery of A-bombs."

The then commander of the U.S. forces in the Far East MacArthur blustered that they would form radioactivity corridor in the northern part of Korea linking the east sea and the west sea i, adding that no living thing will be able to come back to life in the zone in 60 or 120 years.

In 1953 the U.S. strategic air force command worked out OPLAN 8-53 calling for dropping huge A-bombs from the air on the DPRK and China. In 1954 a strategic meeting was held with the attendance of high-ranking officials of the U.S. State Department, Defense Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA and the three services of its armed forces in which they drafted an operational plan envisaging an attack by A-bomb in case of "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula.

The U.S. brought its armored division to south Korea from Japan in 1957 and combined it with the U.S. 24th Division into an "atomic division" and in the year that followed it made public the deployment of Honest John and 280 mm atomic artillery pieces in south Korea.

It built new nuclear arsenals or expanded them in different parts of south Korea all the while systematically introducing nuclear weapons there. They put on a high alert even those units in charge of storing nuclear bombs and supplying equipment to get them gird for a nuclear war anytime.

The U.S. deployed at least 1 720 tactical nuclear weapons with diverse missions in south Korea till 1991. Their deployment in south Korea was four times as dense as those weapons deployed in NATO areas at the time of 1990.

In 1992 the U.S. stated to the public that it "withdrew all tactical nuclear weapons" from south Korea but the U.S. policy for making south Korea its nuclear base has not changed even a bit.

In 1997 the U.S. openly transferred uranium shells to south Korea from the U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan.

At the 41st U.S.-south Korea annual security consultative meeting in 2009 the U.S. specified the U.S. provision of a "nuclear umbrella" to south Korea, which "had just been declared," as an "extended deterrence" that envisaged attacking the rival in the same way as when the U.S. mainland came under a nuclear attack. This paved a way for bringing huge more nuclear weapons to south Korea any moment.

The U.S. put the DPRK in the list of preemptive nuclear attacks in the "nuclear posture review" and even worked out a war document which called for the use of nuclear weapons against the DPRK in case of "contingency".

The U.S. staged Freedom Bolt, Team Spirit, Key Resolve, Foal Eagle, Ulji Freedom Guardian and other mad-cap nuclear war rehearsals to invade the DPRK for the last several decades.

All facts prove that the U.S. nuclear threats and blackmail against the DPRK that date back to the1950s still continue.

It is the legitimate exercise of the right to self-defence for the DPRK to continue bolstering nuclear capabilities as long as the U.S. policy of nuclear blackmail continues.

The DPRK's nuclear deterrence will become further modernized and expanded unless the U.S. drops its policy of nuclear blackmail against the DPRK.

[EviI Spaghetti]

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Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The joint military exercises being staged by the U.S. and the south Korean authorities are a serious provocation against the DPRK and an unpardonable criminal act to bring the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war.

Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a bylined article.

The U.S. and its allies have embarked upon the road of escalating their military pressure under the pretext of the DPRK's satellite launch, a legitimate exercise of its sovereignty, and its underground nuclear test for self-defense to protect it.

Never has there been such tense situation on the Korean Peninsula where a war is imminent. Taboo is the saber-rattling getting on the nerves of the rival on the peninsula where a single spark may lead to an all-out war.

This time, too, the U.S. is playing sleight of hand in a bid to cover up the aggressive nature and danger of Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint war maneuvers, describing them as "defensive" and "annual" ones.

What should not be overlooked is that the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces and huge troops of the south Korean puppet army and even forces of different countries under the name of "UN forces" are involved in the on-going war drills.

For what these provocative drills are required by the U.S. imperialists if they had no intention to ignite the second Korean war against the DPRK by abusing the UN?

Key Resolve and Foal Eagle are typical exercises for mounting a surprise preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK and a test nuclear war against it, to all intents and purposes.

This saber-rattling is of more reckless nature as it was kicked off despite the DPRK's repeated protest and warnings.

If the hostile forces ignite a war on the peninsula to the last, they will not be able to escape merciless deadly blows,

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2013/201303/news06/2013030-07ee.html



Peace is on our Bayonets!
Only language Aggressors speak is Force

[Hypnospace]

Calm yo titties korea

[Maiden of Monstrosities]

Why the ******** people can't just talk instead of posturing and comparing proverbial d**k sizes is beyond me. Nobody should be stupid enough to want nuclear war.

[Lucem Pristinam]

It hit me this morning as I was listening to the news this morning; at what point do folks say "Enough" and move in just to shut up the DPRK? I've heard spattered reports that China is getting a bit annoyed at them, and that the South and Japan are damn near fed up too.

Frankly though, our regime here in the U.S. doesn't seem to give a damn, seeing as we're too busy pumping money into the middle east again. I thought we were done over there. Oh yeah, isn't it a bad idea to pump money over there durring a budget battle? We just had this sequester thing ya know? They sky was supposed to fall and people would starve. Funny how life still goes on as usual. (Off topic rant, sorry).

And here the U.N. is going into round 4 of what essentially amounts to a slap on the wrist because these sanctions haven't done a damn thing so far.

[logan the god of candy]

do they all want to die? do they have any ******** clue the s**t storm any nuclear assault from them would entail? first, they'd fail, then we'd respond with lots of bombs of our own.

[Lazarus Project]

The leader just supposedly said he doesn't want war. The hard-liners controlling him need to step back. The DPRK has a right to defend itself, but launching a nuclear attack (when they don't even have any nuclear missiles anyway) is dumb. Have they never heard of Mutually-Assured Destruction?

Geez, why can't we just talk things through peacefully instead of carrying out military provocations? And that goes for both sides.

[EviI Spaghetti]

Mass Rally in Pyongyang, North Korea against new UN Sanctions and Military exercises in South Korea

[That Scruffy Mule]

North Korea is determined to be on everyone's s**t list.
They're even pissing China off.
They keep trying to start fights, sooner or later they're gonna' get one. And then they'll be all "Bawwww why is evrywun so meen to ussssss!"

[Pessimist]

That Scruffy Mule

North Korea is determined to be on everyone's s**t list.
They're even pissing China off.
They keep trying to start fights, sooner or later they're gonna' get one. And then they'll be all "Bawwww why is evrywun so meen to ussssss!"

That, or they're going to end up a very large crater.