Posted on 12/20/2013 4:22:02 AM PST by IbJensen
North Korea has sent a fax to South Korea threatening to attack “without notice” in response to anti-Pyongyang rallies held on the second anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death earlier this week, South Korea’s largest news agency reported Friday.
According to Yonhap news agency, the North's powerful National Defense Commission sent the message to South Korea's National Security Council through on Thursday.
The youngest son of Kim Jong Il succeeded his late father in 2011, becoming the third member of his family to rule the unpredictable and reclusive communist state.
NBC News was unable to independently verify the report.
The North Korean military apparently condemned the rallies by several conservative groups and defectors from the isolated communist state on Tuesday, saying they insulted North Korea's "highest dignity," referring to its young leader Kim Jong Un.
Meanwhile, top Pentagon officials warned on Thursday that the execution of his uncle last week is an example of the worrisome unpredictability of that regime and could be a prelude to some kind of provocation by Pyongyang.
The execution of Jang Song Thaek was the biggest upheaval in years in North Korea, which has conducted three nuclear tests and this year raised the possibility of nuclear war with South Korea and the United States.
"These kind of internal actions by dictators are often a precursor to provocation to distract attention from what they're doing inside of that country," General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon news conference.
North Korea's KCNA news agency said last week Jang had been executed for trying to seize power and for driving the economy "into an uncontrollable catastrophe."
But North Korean politics are virtually impenetrable from outside. Analysts have speculated, for instance, that Jang could have been purged over a falling out with Kim or other personal reasons.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that uncertainty about North Korea's motives is "concerning to everyone."
Hopefully the Obama vacation paradise where he and his gang are ensconced for the 'holiday season' won't be nuked.
Next time they'll use carrier pigeon..Oh wait, the NORKS ate them all.
The worlds’ terrorists now know that clowns and
terroristophiles run DC and the Pentagon,
and that it may not last long.
Isn’t this about the 4 millionth threat by the north.
Story can’t be true because where would they get a fax machine from?
Little Dough Boy is a sick and dangerous dude. He won’t care how many of his own people get killed if he does attack S. Korea or the US. He just has an itchy finger and a bloated ego, a deadly combination. His daddy was a lot of bluster, but I don’t think this guy has much self-restraint.
Sounds a lot like the scrawny Marxist idiot who is destroying America, but now basks in the Hawaiian sunshine.
‘Made in China’ in 1959.
So that's what it said. They obviously had the wrong phone number because I received in on my machine.........
“FAX???”
They’re pitchin underhand.Reminds me of the old Nuns I had in HS. They telegraphed their punches. They hated it when you ducked.
Was it hand written or typed?
Response from South Korea: "Please resend, we had a paper jam...."
We can also boast the well meaning and brilliant teammates: CIA Chief Brennan and the ever-gropping VP Biden. They can dance circle arount those evil FAXing NOKOs.
Fax machines are easy to come by. Electricity that’s been scarce.
That’s not just a fax...that’s a glorious Juche socialist revolutionary fax!
LOL! I was on the same wavelength in that they should have returned the thing with a telecom official cover letter stating that number had been disconnected. Any bets on how long they would have taken to figure that one out?
“without notice”
Ummm, wasn’t that notice?
The upside to this could be Dennis Rodman getting caught in the crossfire.
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