Posted on 08/15/2010 5:15:41 PM PDT by traumer
SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea's military threatened Sunday to launch the "severest punishment" against South Korea for staging massive joint war games with the United States this week.
The North's army and people will "deal a merciless counterblow" to the allies "as it had already resolved and declared at home and abroad", a spokesman for the country's army General Staff said in a statement published by state media.
"The military counteraction of (North Korea) will be the severest punishment no one has ever met in the world," he said.
The warning came a day before US and South Korean troops begin the 10-day computerised war games called "Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG)".
About 30,000 US soldiers will take part in the exercise, a US military spokesman said, adding an unspecified number of American soldiers based in the United States would join in via computer networks.
Some 56,000 South Korean soldiers will be mobilised for the war games, a defence ministry spokesman said.
In a message posted on a US military website, General Walter Sharp, who heads some 28,500 US troops based in the South, described the exercise as "one of the largest joint staff directed theatre exercises in the world."
A separate security drill involving South Korean government officials and soldiers will be held during the period, Yonhap news agency said.
This week's exercise is one of a series planned by the South -- either alone or jointly with the United States -- in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.
The North has angrily denied responsibility for the sinking, which killed 46 sailors and sharply raised tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Last month South Korea and the United States held a massive joint naval and air drill in the Sea of Japan (East Sea)
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This wouldn’t happen under Reagan....
Hey North Korea, F88k off
Don’t worry, Zero will apologize and proactively surrender.
We too must retaliate with a strongly worded letter!
We must keep pressure on them and never give up!
Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? No!
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Spot on.
Indeed. The Tomahawks would be flying as I type this. President Cupcake, on the other hand, thinks a Tomahawk is a racist symbol used by racist Altanta Braves fans.
I am no military genious, but it would seem to me that when South Korea has all of their troops gathered and when the USA has it’s troops right off the coast, it would be the most stupid time in the world to start some sort of retribution.
Now I am not accusing N. Korea of being smart.
Huh? You did just forget the s/ tag, didn't you?
Okay, I just read your home page. Carry on.
Huh? You did just forget the s/ tag, didn't you?
To me, the quotation from National Lampoon's Animal House was kind of obvious, and pretty funny.
Under Reagan, the North Koreans attempted to assassinate the South Korean president in Burma, setting off a bomb that killed 17 South Koreans, including the presidential Chief of Staff, attempted to organize another attempt in Canada (broken up by Canadian police), set off a bomb at the Seoul airport, killing five, abducted the 12-man crew of a South Korean fishing boat, and blew up a Korean Air 707 in midair, killing 115 people.
Aye, Zero will send them a reprimanding E-mail. He may even use caps lock.......
Seriously, NK may do something. They are not afraid of Zero. The only people on earth that seem to be afraid of him are our republican pols.....
Unless they go nuke. A lot of stuff in one place may not be good, in that case. I don’t know what kind of delivery system they have for their nukes?
Sounds like Baghdad Bob.
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