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Posted on 04/12/2013 7:36:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
NORTH KOREA has warned Japan that Tokyo would be the first target in the event of a war on the Korean Peninsula, as it increased threats of an attack.
In a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communist country lashed out at Tokyo's standing orders to destroy any missile heading toward Japan, threatening such actions will result in a nuclear attack against the island nation.
If Japan executes its threat to shoot down any North Korean missile, such a “provocative” intervention would see Tokyo — an enormous conurbation of 30 million people — “consumed in nuclear flames”, KCNA warned.
“Japan is always in the cross-hairs of our revolutionary army and if Japan makes a slightest move, the spark of war will touch Japan first,” the report added.
An official at Japan’s defence ministry said that the country “will take every possible measure to respond to any scenario”, while the US Secretary of State John Kerry warned that a North Korean missile launch would be a “huge mistake”.
“The rhetoric that we are hearing from North Korea is simply unacceptable by any standards,” he told a news conference in Seoul alongside South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se.
“The United States, South Korea and the entire international community… are all united in the fact that North Korea will not be accepted as a nuclear power,” Kerry added.
However, the North has declared it is "confident of final victory" against its enemies.
"The enemies should know that it is the era of the great Marshal Kim Jong Un, leader of the most powerful country and invincible great Paektusan nation," KCNA stated.
"The DPRK has won victories in confrontation with the U.S. in spirit and is waging an all-out action with it, with confidence in final victory."
The torrent of war cries is seen outside Pyongyang as an effort to raise fears and pressure Seoul and Washington into changing their North Korea policies, and to show the North Korean people that their young leader is strong enough to stand up to powerful foes.
South Korea fears Pyongyang could launch now launch multiple missiles after weeks of threats, according to local reports.
Observers believe a launch is most likely in the build-up to Monday’s anniversary of the birth of late founder Kim Il-Sung, for which celebrations are already well under way in Pyongyang.
The Korean Peninsula has "been reduced to the biggest nuclear hotspot in the world", the North said in more fiery rhetoric today, "making the outbreak of a nuclear war on this land unavoidable."
The reclusive state is dedicated to "defending the sovereignty and dignity of the country with its own strike mode and means," it said.
"No force on earth can block the just cause of the army and people of the DPRK," the chilling message concluded.
Threatening nuclear war against the only nation ever to experience nuclear attack is bound to push some hot buttons in Tokyo.
My Hello Kitty can beat Your hello Kitty...
“Threatening nuclear war against the only nation ever to experience nuclear attack is bound to push some hot buttons in Tokyo.”
First I have heard of that point of view. “Nuke Us??!! Son of a bitch!!! Again??!!”
Very good question...
Japan’s GDP is 5th in the world, at about $4.5 trillion. Of which they currently spend about 1%, about $45 billion on defense each year.
With the US more than willing to provide Japan with the technology it needs to create nuclear weapons, including the very high grade nuclear fuel *and* the uniquely high quality nuclear klystron tubes that very precisely set off the explosives that thrust the nuclear matter together creating a much greater yield, yeah, Friday is about right.
That is, unless we have a few of our own we are willing to let Japan use. Which we probably are.
Comparatively, North Korea’s nuclear and missile technology is first going on second generation, and is even questionable if it can work. Which it might, but getting it to target through a gauntlet of more advanced anti-missile missiles, is well, say, problematic.
After 68 years, the Japanese probably have a lot of tension built up that they would be more than happy to take out on a belligerent pain in the rear end, like North Korea.
Going by liberal logic, North Korea would not have nukes if there was a law passed banning them from having nukes.
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“The rhetoric that we are hearing from North Korea is simply unacceptable by any standards,” he told a news conference in Seoul alongside South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se
A sternly worded reprimand if there ever was one! Way to go! What are you going to DO about it????
Your video made my day! Cleaning keyboard of nasal ejection of caffinated beverage!
Gee. Dennis Rodham Rodman must have made Kim Jong mad or something.
I would like to make a statement to the worlds political leaders...
It is a bad idea to force Japan to go nuclear.
I wonder, do these political leaders, like democRATs/liberals/progressives/marxist (sorry for the redundancy), think that when they wake up in the morning, world history begins?
5.56mm
Lil Kim will rattle his nukes, oh, yes, it's “leaked” that he has them. Our fearless leader and Lil Kim will come to an agreement and agree to further disarmament, and the beat goes on, yes the beat goes on... while the sheeple dance to the beat.
You make a good point. Question: Why did North Korea go the way they did and Vietnam went the way it did today? Is it because of the Chinese influence on North Korea
As Ann Coulter once remarked, “To a liberal, history began at breakfast this morning.”......................
Many have suspected that Japan has had nuclear weapons for decades, as has Israel. All they have to do is have an excuse to bring them out of their caves...........
Send them a really mean e-mail written in ALL CAPS. That’ll get their attention!......
Ho Chi Minh was not a stupid 20 something with a big ego........
best definition yet
“The United States, South Korea and the entire international community… are all united in the fact that North Korea will not be accepted as a nuclear power,” Kerry added.
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I’ve got news for F’in Kerry.
North Korea is a Nuclear power, how can you not accpet it?
Are you in denial or are you just that stupid.
Could you imagine being the only nation to have your cities nuked three times?
Man... unluckiest nation status award.
Mrs. Clinton retired and, like, on DAY ONE all of this started getting reported. LOL
The Republicans need to start whispering about what a failure she was - now. But they won’t.
I don’t think it was due to the Chinese influence on N Korea verses N Vietnam. Both states have traditionally been different with China. China viewed NORK as a buffer state and the NORKS were happy with that. They have a common foe but China does not want NORK as part of its country so while they cooperate, it is limited. They did pour in a ton of troops in support of the NORKS in 1950 but that was to keep the US off its border, not to take over the North. Meanwhile, Vietnam has not been in a state of happiness with China, they are traditional enemies albeit commies. Vietnam has made overtures with the US to return, the NORKS want us out of S Korea. This is a simplistic view but shows while we cannot be black and white in how we look at all these individual countries in SE Asia. China is not the same as it was after they chased out Chiang and Vietnam is not the same as it was in 75 though NORK is still the same after ww2, a crap hole.
Japan is a hereditary enemy to the Koreans. From the late 19th Century until 1945, they ruled Korea, and the fact that the US used Japan as a base to fight the Korean War furthered that impression.
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