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Defiant North Korea Hints At Nuclear Ttests To Boost Force 'To The Maximum'
Reuters/Yahoo News ^ | 5-1-2017 | Soyoung Kim

Posted on 05/01/2017 5:57:07 AM PDT by blam

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea suggested on Monday it will continue its nuclear weapons tests, saying it will bolster its nuclear force "to the maximum" in a "consecutive and successive way at any moment" in the face of what it calls U.S. aggression and hysteria.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said a "major, major conflict" with North Korea is possible over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, while China said last week the situation on the Korean peninsula could escalate or slip out of control.

In a show of force, the United States has sent the nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to waters off the Korean peninsula to join drills with South Korea to counter a series of threats of destruction from North Korea, formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

"Now that the U.S. is kicking up the overall racket for sanctions and pressure against the DPRK, pursuant to its new DPRK policy called 'maximum pressure and engagement', the DPRK will speed up at the maximum pace the measure for bolstering its nuclear deterrence," a spokesman for North Korea's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by its official KCNA news agency.

North Korea's "measures for bolstering the nuclear force to the maximum will be taken in a consecutive and successive way at any moment and any place decided by its supreme leadership," the spokesman said.

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(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; korea; nuclear; trump; war

1 posted on 05/01/2017 5:57:07 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Go ahead, Fatty. Make my day.


2 posted on 05/01/2017 6:02:48 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: blam

They like to talk a lot, don’t they?


3 posted on 05/01/2017 6:02:59 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: blam

Its time that tyrannical torturous Nork cult to be disassembled and done away with for good. Just make sure we hit them hard, fast and thoroughly.


4 posted on 05/01/2017 6:13:38 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: tflabo

Anything we do there would negatively effect China - and that the Chinese do not want so it is important on numerous fronts to push the Chinese to take action and take Fatty out. The Russians might also help.

NOKO is a Chinese creation and the entire problem and solution needs to be theirs.

We (the US, Japan & SOKO) need to be not seen as pushing any first strike.


5 posted on 05/01/2017 6:39:04 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: blam

The problem with having one supreme leader style dictator who has been careful to remove any alternatives is that you now have a target on your back, fat boy. This is time for assasination, not large scale war.


6 posted on 05/01/2017 7:16:50 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: blam

ell, we did train the NORKs to believe they could do anything they wanted and get rewarded better when they were more vociferous. Gonna be a rude awakening when Li’l Kim’s generals come for him to keep their country from becoming a mass graveyard...


7 posted on 05/01/2017 7:32:07 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: blam; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; Grampa Dave; ...
Let's see how much they can get out of their stock of lithium-6. It would be interesting if they set off a bomb whose explosion is too powerful to be contained underground, leading to radioactive fallout over wide area including border region of China and Russia.
8 posted on 05/01/2017 7:47:44 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: Hotlanta Mike; All
They like to talk a lot, don’t they?

So did Hussein. Talk and no action.

President Trump has to first eliminate the NK dumba$$ and his threats of missiles that don't work, and NUKS that aren't deliverable to anywhere except NK test sites.

Then President Trump has to join Israel and eliminate the nuts in Iran. It's not that Hussein didn't do anything to stop the Muslims nutjobs there, Hussein did every thing he could to build up the Iranian nuc and missile programs. Now we have to destroy them.

NEXT, President Trump will have to identify Islam as a terrorist cult. Many innocent Americans will have to be killed by the religion of peace before the President can lead the effort to remove ALL Muslims from the US. Only some of them will shoot you but ALL are sworn to enslave you in a Muslim he$$ that will last until nuclear war eliminates manking. Because the Muslim nutjobs after overthrowing the infidels governments will then start wars with each other. Islam has to fight and kill someone, and it will be other Muslims if the world falls under the cult dreamed up by the pedophile Mohamed.

9 posted on 05/01/2017 8:19:47 AM PDT by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama did)
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To: trebb

Gonna be a rude awakening when Li’l Kim’s generals come for him to keep their country from becoming a mass graveyard...
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I don’t think they ever will come for Kim. His generals are living a lifestyle of fat lazy parasites, and they will hang on to that gig to the bitter end. No one will kill Kim unless HE (the general) is assured that HE will take over as Dear Leader, not be a vassal of China. Chinese control would mean that the military elite will lose their cushy jobs, as they would also if the US flattened the place. The US will not occupy NK because China will never allow it without a world war, and that place isn’t worth it.

So if Kim goes, China will control NK, and the generals don’t want that, so they will hang on to Kim as long as is at all possible.


10 posted on 05/01/2017 8:20:10 AM PDT by Gideon300
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To: Gideon300

You may be correct - but self preservation after his demise may also play a role. No telling until something actually happens so I feel like a weatherman - can be 85% wrong and still claim some “success’ with my predictions....


11 posted on 05/01/2017 8:26:20 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
They like to talk a lot, don’t they?

We have been doing nothing but talk since Truman fired MacArthur.

12 posted on 05/01/2017 10:47:51 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: itsahoot

So DJT MOABS Pyongyang, then "The Boyz" (Don Jr and Eric) help with the rebuilding
13 posted on 05/01/2017 12:33:12 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Tiger..was talking with an International Businessman this mourning at length regarding N.Korea it thought I’d share with you..

He says .... We have no choice but to deal with N.Korea because they can already hit Hawaii.....that we will be taking out their nuclear capabilites and Ki and his crew will be gone.......Further that he believes, as you mentioned, that China will be going in and establish a puppet government thus getting what they want which is control of N.Korea.

When I mentioned how the people would adapt to this change, and the gulags he said that those issues are simply a sideline which China will handle, and this with assistance from the International Communities...but that N.Korea will have to remain a Communist Style country as the people will have less difficulty adapting in the initial stages of what will be taking place.

He also agreed that food issues will be well taken care of because the farms are already there....bringing in proper equipment is key so that they can increase their productivity and that will be a huge difference in their food supply. ....additionally the rural areas where there is little food the UN has already planned for delivery to these areas.

He mentioned also that yes the US will not be seen in a favorable light still by the N.Koreans and even some other nations, but that stopping the threats to this coundtry and the world is the price we’re willing to take to be seen in a bad light by some.


14 posted on 05/01/2017 1:34:42 PM PDT by caww
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To: itsahoot

This has already moved beyond talk itsahoot........we’re going to take out their capabilites.....all we’ve seen is the build up required to do the mission and meanwhile China and other nations are gearing their people up to meet the most pressing needs of the people. China will be the moving party going in after we’ve taken out the facilities..(Note: we won’t be alone in doing that)

So sit tight and let this thing be stalled long enough for everything and everyone to move when the time comes......


15 posted on 05/01/2017 1:39:30 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
N. Korea did cross the ultimate redline, one which can no longer be moved further away.

N. Korea is now facing a threat they never did before: enemies moving in from two fronts.

16 posted on 05/01/2017 5:17:02 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: blam

Ain’t nothing going to happen.

NK can do too much damage to SK and it isn’t worth it.


17 posted on 05/01/2017 5:17:28 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: blam

“to the maximum” is the new “mother of all battles”. if you want to know how that threat turned out for the guy that made it, you’re gonna hafta dig him up.


18 posted on 05/02/2017 1:41:17 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: PIF

China can just send their premier with a military entourage, and during “secret talks” whisk him away, perhaps replace him with a sane double. “Smart cookies” often crumble.


19 posted on 05/02/2017 11:12:36 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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