Posted on 04/08/2006 7:52:30 PM PDT by voletti
SEOUL: North Korea’s defence minister warned Saturday that a pre-emptive strike is not the monopoly of the United States, in comments carried by the North’s official news agency.
“We will never sit with arms folded and watch until the US attacks us,” said Kim Il Chol, vice marshal of the North’s Korean People’s Army, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. “A pre-emptive strike is not the monopoly of the US,” he said.
The warning, which is not new, came as North Korea’s top nuclear envoy was in Japan for a security conference that also is drawing his counterparts from the US and other participants in six-nation talks on the North’s nuclear programme.
The privately sponsored forum, set for next week, comes as the North continues to boycott the talks over US financial restrictions imposed for its alleged currency counterfeiting and other illicit activities. “Now, the US talks about six-party talks, but in reality, it has no interest in the talks and ... is seeking a chance to attack while putting us on its pre-emptive strike list,” the North’s defence minister said.
In recent months, the communist state has issued the same warning several times, condemning joint military exercises between South Korea and the US that were held last month. ap
Hopefilly, the NK are not that irrational to understand they will be a parking lot soon after any attack.
Well sadly, after a couple of months of grieving for our dead..the left would take sides with the north koreans and say we got what we deserved and that it was completely our fault..and as long as President Bush was in charge, he is doing everything wrong and should cut and run from punishing north korea..
All the little tinpot dictatorships around the world are mouthing off these days. All talk, no action. Come on, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, hit us with your best shot!
he's taking them out 1 by 1...
I would hope that the folks in Pyongyang would realize that if they pulled a stunt like that, within an hour or two they would be existing only as carbon particles in the stratosphere.
And think of the backlash against Koreans in the US...
North Korean Suicide not US Monopoly, say's North Korea
You mean against Koreans living here in the US? I don't think so. I think (hope) at least that American know they don't favor Kim Jong II.
You are wrong.
We all know many good Americans of Korean ancestry. They are all hard-working assets to our great nation. Nobody would touch them. They also don't like crazy little Kim.
Oh, don't get me wrong....I KNOW that there are MANY good, solid, hard-working Americans of Korean ancestry. I have great respect for them, and they are productive and concientious members of society.
What I fear is that SOMETIMES rage after a particularly horrid incident might make some people blind to that.
I remember the Sikh gentleman down in Texas (I think) who was gunned down outside his gas station after 9/11 by a crazed kook who wanted revenge and mistook him for a Muslim. Even though we know of the good Korean-Americans out there, those who are a little "off-kilter" might do something tragic in the wake of a NK nuke attack on the US.
Just thinking out loud.
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