Posted on 06/09/2009 9:49:00 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
North Korea today said it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked — its latest bellicose rhetoric apparently aimed at deterring any international punishment for its recent atomic test blast.
The tensions emanating from Pyongyang are beginning to hit nascent business ties with the South: a Seoul-based fur manufacturer became the first South Korean company to announce Monday it was pulling out of an industrial complex in the North's border town of Kaesong.
The complex, which opened in 2004, is a key symbol of rapprochement between the two Koreas but the goodwill is evaporating quickly in the wake of North Korea's nuclear test on May 25 and subsequent missile tests.
Pyongyang raised tensions a notch by reviving its rhetoric in a commentary in the state-run Minju Joson newspaper today.
"Our nuclear deterrent will be a strong defensive means...as well as a merciless offensive means to deal a just retaliatory strike to those who touch the country's dignity and sovereignty even a bit," said the commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
It appeared to be the first time that North Korea referred to its nuclear arsenal as "offensive" in nature. Pyongyang has long claimed that its nuclear weapons program is a deterrent and only for self-defense against what it calls US attempts to invade it.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Pay attention to MEEEEEEE!!!!
EVERYBODY!!! OVER HERE!
PAAAAYYYYY AAAAATTENNTION TOOOOO MEEEEEEE!!!!!!
(Is this thing on?)
The UN will be on top of this instantaneously.
Right?
Ping.
The text does not match the story (word for word) at source. I erroneously pulled the text from another AP source.
Sorry
Time for a preemptive strike or ten.
Quick! Someone draw up another resolution!
Thank God, Zero’s at the wheel.
Yeah, they’ll be in it like Jim Neighbours on a nubile cheerleader.
South Korea needs a huge parking lot; North Korea will do.
“Pyongyang has long claimed that its nuclear weapons program is a deterrent and only for self-defense against what it calls US attempts to invade it.”
Yea like we would want any of their ****ty country.
Just like the NKs to show up for a nuclear war with two failed underground tests.
What does the world expect?
Brack said last week that “every county in the world deserves to have nuclear weapons if it wants to.”
My prediction: before Brack leaves office, there will be a nuclear bomb attack on some country. And maybe this country. Thanks a lot, liberals!
The glorious future didn't turn out quite as planned.
Now you will suffer ‘merciless’ nuclear offensive from the mods.
One that glows in the dark, for more convenient parking during the night time hours.
Never let your alligator mouth write a check your hummingbird ass can’t cash!
or Alaska
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