Posted on 06/25/2009 9:13:24 AM PDT by FromLori
SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea warned that "dark clouds of nuclear war" are gathering over the peninsula and vowed to strengthen its atomic arsenal as it marked the anniversary of the 1950-1953 conflict.
Rodong Sinmun, newspaper of the ruling communist party, accused the United States and its ally South Korea of trying to provoke another war with their pledge of a US nuclear "umbrella" over the South. "A touch-and-go situation has been created on the Korean peninsula... with dark clouds of a nuclear war gathering as the hours tick by," it said in a lengthy commentary marking the anniversary, carried by the official news agency.
The paper said a new war could break out any time and the North would continue to strengthen its nuclear arsenal.
"As long as the US hostile policy continues, we will never give up our nuclear deterrent and even strengthen it," Rodong said. The conflict began with a North Korean invasion on June 25, 1950. It ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving the communist North and capitalist South still technically at war. Cross-border relations have soured since a conservative government took office in Seoul in February last year with a firmer policy towards the North.
And international tensions have grown since Pyongyang's long-range rocket launch in early April and its nuclear test in late May.
The North has also fired short-range missiles, renounced the truce in force on the peninsula and repeatedly warned of possible war.
At a US-South Korean summit in Washington last week, Washington reaffirmed its commitment to provide the South with a nuclear umbrella.
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Mr. President? your response?
::crickets::
Can we just cut to the chase and take out N. Korea now? I mean, c’mon. We all see where we’re going. Let’s just get it over with so we can all move on.
I’m with you NUKE EM NOW!
“Can’t I just finish my ice cream?”
Any FReepers currently in Japan?
I would like to know what the Japanese are saying, or thinking in general about this.
Do they see it as a real threat?
Thanks,
AR
0buma could care less.
Meltdown in Korea ping
It will never be done, as long as leftists continue to really control everything important politically throughout the U.S. Also, leftists are way too busy “fighting the enemy” here in the U.S., and their solutions include: cap and trade and other finite tax increases, amnesty for illegals, more activist judges at the highest judicial levels, more red tape, more and bigger government, the “Fairness Doctrine”,...
Ping to #6 for your response...
I wonder how many nukes the Japanese have built since last November ...
Time for another ice cream, Zero?
Perhaps it is time that North Korea and the rest of the world get a good reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are. Five or six dirty nuclear devices detonated on the Korean peninsula would decimate the population and ruin half of the aerable land for decades.
And most of the arable land, too.
Michelle has planned a WH ‘Luau’ on the 4th while NK threatens to bomb Hawaii on that day. That’s real classy, MO.
Duh...thanks for the correction.
Just look what happens when you put a weak knee, no experience community organizer in the presidents seat....Every f’ing tin pot dictator in the world lines up and kicks him in the ass!
What a damn discrace to America!
jong ill is just about dead. Lets let him die and then see what his son is like. If he is like daddy then I am with you. Enough is enough.
BO and his horse, Michelle, should have their luau in Honolulu so they can have front row seats.
In other wards, “Look at me! Over here! Pay attention to me!”
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