Posted on 10/17/2006 12:20:55 AM PDT by HAL9000
Pyongyang: the resolution of UNO is a "declaration of war"Seoul - the North Korea regards as a "declaration of war" the adopted resolution Saturday by the Security Council of UNO sanctioning its nuclear test of October 9. It again promised a response.
"It goes without saying that the Council Resolution of safety of UNO cannot be interpreted differently than like a declaration of war against the RPDC (democratic popular Republic of Korea)", a spokesman of the Foreign Affairs declared quoted by official agency KCNA.
Indeed, this resolution "was based on the scenario according to which the United States makes a point of destroying the socialist system with Korean centered on the popular masses", adds the spokesman not identified.
The spokesman informs moreover than the Stalinist mode will be "relentless" against any country which could violate its sovereignty within the framework of the issued sanctions Saturday by the Security Council of UNO.
"As we already declared, we will assume our responsibility in denuclearization for the Korean peninsula. However, we will inflict blows relentless, and without hesitating, with whoever would try to violate our sovereignty and our right to survive under the pretext of implement the Council Resolution of safety ", according to the spokesman.
The explosion of the first north-Korean atomic bomb, whose authenticity was confirmed Monday by the United States, formed part of "the exercise of sovereignty and of the legitimate right as a Sovereign state" of the popular democratic Republic of Korea, also the spokesman reaffirms.
China has on its side reinforced its customs controls at its border with the North Korea under the terms of the resolution adopted against Pyongyang, affirmed Tuesday of the local commercial sources.
"We received notification of the persons in charge for the customs which the inspections at the border will be more strict and which the sensitive material will not be able to pass", declared Wang Zhanguang of the trading company Dandong Yongxinghe, in Dandong, city Chinese of the North-East at the border with the North Korea, where the greatest part of the exchanges between the two countries forwards.
"As we export especially goods of daily use, we do not think that the sanctions to much will affect us", it added.
"As we already declared, we will assume our responsibility in denuclearization for the Korean peninsula. However, we will inflict blows relentless, and without hesitating, with whoever would try to violate our sovereignty and our right to survive under the pretext of implement the Council Resolution of safety ", according to the spokesman.
This is what happens when nuclear diplomacy is conducted
via Babblefish.
Funny but sadly horrifying.
I'm really 'skert now. I'm a shakin' in these here boots.
Pajama boy better take his best shot cuz he will only get one.
Someone better tell ol' Kim that there aren't too many MREs that come with caviar and lobster. Perhaps we might allow him a few minutes with Saddam in his cell, that it might open Dear Leader's eyes to the nature of the course on which he seems determined.
If you're at war, Kimmy, then why don't you attack us?
He just might. I am expecting something on the DMZ if so. If he is preparing for another test why wouldn't he really test it?
Agreed. It was with much alarm that I noted the year before that North Korea was building a superhighway to the DMZ. Considering the lousy state of the NK economy, it's a sure bet that highway isn't for commercial vehicles, but tanks.
I don't know if "alarmed" is the proper word here. If they ever tried to use it for warfare, there'd be nothing left on it but hamburger and scrap metal.
The terrain on the Korean peninsula, for anyone that's not been, is an endless number of rolling hills, cliffs, and valleys. They get steeper the further north you go. Korean drivers, who are infamously aggressive, maneuver tenaciously on narrow roads that hug the sides of mountains. Rollovers of armored vehicles are common. I saw a deuce and a half flip over on a narrow road there, after the muddy bottom gave way. Tanks are considerably heavier.
Putting tanks on a highway heading South is like stuffing cash into an industrial paper shredder. There are so few roads capable of supporting tanks, that we know exactly where to look for them. Fixed wing, rotor wing, artillery, anti-tank traps and anti-tank weapons of all kinds are ready for them.
Considering our lack of action in their buildup of their nuclear arsenal and our abject fealty to China, I do not share your assessment of our national will to fight in the Korean peninsula.
Technically, we're not. We never were in a state of declared war with North Korea. We snuck in a U.N. security council resolution authorizing military action in 1950, while the Soviet ambassador was out of the room. He had earlier left in protest over a planned UNSC resolution condemning the invastion, but returned to find that we pulled a diplomatic fast one on him, and authorized a 'police action'.
True, but the "police action" was never resolved. The Korean war ended with a cease-fire. I don't think there was ever an official peace treaty.
The South Koreans don't need our help defeating an invasion from the North. They've got twice the population of the DPRK, and several times the industrial / economic base. Their military is not as large, but it's far better. More importantly, they've got the logistical depth to fight for more than a week.
The North would land some massive blows in the first week, and casualties would be astronomical, but they'd run out of steam fast. Then, the South would tear them apart.
I'm not impressed by lame and prissy arguments based on lack of "national will." Among a host of problems, such Keyboard Kommando-isms miss out on the fact that it is the South Koreans, not us, who would need to decide to actually launch an attack on NK. And it is the South Koreans, not us, who would have to bury a few hundred thousand of their countrymen.
And I am not impressed by Pollyannic claims of military reprisals when none have occurred prior to North Korea becoming a nuclear menace.
Which simply shows your utter lack of understanding of my comment. It was not a statement about "reprisal," but rather a straightforward military assessment of a "superhighway" as cause for alarm.
The problem with building a superhighway to convey all of your armor to the South Korean border, is that it concentrates all of your armor and logistical support into a nice, straight, easily targeted line.
I'm sure you recall the highway of death from the first Gulf War:
I also recall that it was a 100-day buildup to a 100-hour "war."
I also recall that we left Saddam in power.
So, in effect, a lot of people died and a lot of money was spent for zero net change...leaving a situation we had to go finish (in a pretty half-assed way) a dozen years later.
Funny...I don't see that as "winning."
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