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)
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
That's just crazy talk!
Oh, I’m sure ZERO will find the right words to let NK know we mean business!! < /sarcasm >
Will Ming The Merciless play are part in this?
Would an EMP be considered a nuclear attack?
That would surely make an impact on hi-tech S. Korea....
HUH?
LOL
Animal House:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x403sf_was-it-over-when-the-germans-bombed_fun
sent him the link for the speech.
LOL
It’s 5 minutes long
NK is certainly not to be trusted or underestimated, IMHO, Many of them have a religious loyalty to their leadership, and the country has been starving itself for decades to build weapons, from what I’ve been told. Kim may decide to go out in the worlds biggest bang. He may decide to inflict as much damage on South Korea as he can before he dies. He doesn’t care about the consequences on his people, he’s already proven he doesn’t care about them.
Dear NORKS, if you could of you would of. Its getting old, with your empty threats.
A well known line from the movie Animal House delivered by John Belushi's character was, "Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?". You must either be very young or not a movie fan not to know this.
They would have to be suicidal to go Nuke.
They haven’t near the amount of Nukes we have, they couldget away with the first shot, but then they would be cooked.
They would have to be suicidal to go Nuke.
They haven’t near the amount of Nukes we have, they could get away with the first shot, but then they would be cooked.
What's next week to be, “strictest penalties”... or no dessert after supper?
Well, I am a movie fan and I remember Pres. Roosevelt speaking on the radio on Dec. 8, 1941, announcing that he would be asking Congress the following day for a declaration of war against the Empire of Japan. So I guess you are 0 for 2. Regards
Go to Bed! /s
Oh, no, I am the winner, you are the one who is 0 for whatever. I knew what the line meant, you are the one who didn’t know it was from a movie. I was born 25 days after Pearl Harbor and don’t recall ever hearing FDR speaking on the Radio live and I thank God for it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.