North Korea threatens to abandon the 1953 Korean War armistice

Associated Press ^

[RCW2001]

SEOUL (AP) - North Korea threatened Tuesday to abandon the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, accusing the United States of plotting an attack on the Communist state.

A spokesman of the North's Korean People's Army said that the United States was building up reinforcements around the Korean peninsula in preparations to attack the North, said the official news agency KCNA. "The situation is, therefore, getting more serious as the days go by as it is putting its plan for pre-emptive attacks on the (North) into practice with increased zeal," KCNA quoted the unidentified spokesman as saying.

The spokesman said the "grave situation created by the undisguised war acts committed by the U.S. in breach of the armistice agreement compels the Korean People's Army side, its warring party, to immediately take all steps to cope with it."

"If the U.S. side continues violating and misusing the armistice agreement as it pleases, there will be no need for the (North) to remain bound to the armistice agreement uncomfortably," the spokesman said.

The North Korean statement was issued by the spokesman of the the North Korean military's mission to Panmunjom, a truce village where the U.S.-led United Nations Command and the North Korean military meet to oversee the armistice.

The 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not with a peace treaty. The peninsula is technically still at a state of war. The border between the two Koreas is the world's most heavily armed.

North Korea had previously threatened to pull out of the armistice in an attempt to increase tension with the United States and force Washington to start negotiations with Pyongyang.

Tension has been rising in Korea over the North's recent decision to restart its nuclear programs in violations of international treaties.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[DeFault User]

The article in the Onion earlier read much like this. What has North Korea got to do to get noticed? Threats, broken agreements, insults?

They'll just have to wait their turn.

[tazman3]

Bring on the B-52s.

Loaded with McDonald's Happy Meals, of course. That should soften them up. LOL

[Happy2BMe]

"Tension has been rising in Korea over the North's recent decision to restart its nuclear programs in violations of international treaties."

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—Responding to mounting pressure and increasingly confrontational rhetoric from the outside world, North Korean president Kim Jong Il unfolded into a 70-foot-tall, 62-ton giant robot Monday.

"The DPRK's nuclear program is very much its own business, as is its right to determine its own path of security," said Kim, his torso splitting along ventral seams as clusters of Taepo-Dong ICBMs rose from his shoulders. "Any attempt by Washington to decide our fate will surely result in a sea of fire being unleashed upon them."

Above:A South Korean border soldier eyes Kim Jong Il in the Demilitarized Zone.

During a visit Monday to the Demilitarized Zone dividing the Korean peninsula, Kim stressed that his transformation was not an act of aggression, but rather an attempt to defend his nation's autonomy.

"The DPRK must not be subject to the whims of an international coalition with no regard for the welfare of the Korean people," said Kim before stomping the ground with his foot, unleashing a devastating ring of energy that vaporized nearby reporters and military vehicles. "Catastrophic Valiant Kim-Chee Earthquake Stomp-Kick!"

[Marines981]

[piasa]

With the missile launch over Japan, the invasion of Japanese waters with a gunboat, the kidnapping of Japanese citizens right from their own beaches and even from Europe, the North Korean's nearly routine landing of minisubs with commandoes and spies on South Korean shores, the naval battles the north has against the south periodically, the axe-murder of US personnel on the DMZ, the bombing assassinations on South Korean politicians, etc...

Just when have the North Koreans abided by the "armistice?"

[Polybius]

Let's see. They have threatened to break the Armistice. They have threatened to attack both Japan and the U.S. with a sea of nuclear fire.

Seems like there is only one way to deal with them.....a pre-emptive nuclear strike.

[Democratshavenobrains]

Is there any chance that the anti-war nutjobs who protest against us would make a peep if North Korea invaded South Korea?

[Nexus]

BUMP

[The Toad]

North Korea threatens to abandon the 1953 Korean War armistice

Yawn. They must be upset over all of the press that Saddam is getting, lol. Bad luck for them that they've been sidelined in the news lately.

[A CA Guy]

A North Korea is still starving to death and wants attention BUMP!

[scott7278]

I think that's the hardest I've laughed since finding FR!

[Happy2BMe]

"A North Korea is still starving to death and wants attention BUMP!"

BTW: THIS WAS NOT A JOKE:

Conditions inside North Korea are now so desparate, the poor, starving and desparate people are now resorting to defecting to Communist China!

Defection

PHOTO SEQUENCE OF N KOREANS DEFECTING IN BEIJING 3-19-02

Here are sequence photos of the mass defection last week by freedom-seeking North Koreans in Beijing at the Spanish Embassy. They stormed the gates and entered. A standoff pursued. China's intention was to return the defectors to their ally, Communist North Korea which would be tantamount to certain torture and execution. The hunkered-down defectors' unified reply from within the Spanish Embassy: "Better Dead Than Red!" (They threatened suicide if they could not be granted onward passage to South Korea and freedom.) China has since expelled the group to The Philippines, and finally they arrived in South Korea yesterday as very 'happy campers' indeed!

Note the reaction of the Chinese military guards [posted in front of every foreign embassy in Beijing] to prevent these 'dashes for freedom' to Western Embassies by people fleeing Kim Jong-il's rotten red swamp.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ Korea South Korean Protesters Demand Withdrawal of U.S. Troops - Posted @ Islam Online

"CAMP CASEY, South Korea, November 21 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A second U.S. soldier stood trial Thursday, November 21, over the deaths of two South Korean school girls crushed by a military vehicle as anti-American activists and politicians expressed outrage over a U.S. acquittal of the first soldier.

“We demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops, who are murderers!”, the protesters shouted."

Protesters hold an anti-U.S. demonstration in Seoul on November 27.

A protester holds a sign condemning the United States Forces Korea (USFK)

[Steel Wolf]

"If the U.S. side continues violating and misusing the armistice agreement as it pleases, there will be no need for the (North) to remain bound to the armistice agreement uncomfortably," the spokesman said.

If you think an armistice is uncomfortable, Kimmy, just wait until you see war. The minute you get one whiff of the kind of crushing defeat you face, you'll wish you had stayed home playing 'Splinter Cell' on your X-Box, downloading porn, and drinking imported booze. It's really all you're cut out for, anyway.

[meema]

Not a chance in the world. It's apparently far more fun to protest our President and/or our country.
At this point I don't give a #$*# what they say, and NK can keep on having temper tantrums. What we do with a 2 year old who acts like NK is turn our back and ignore him/her. Incidently, Is that the armistice that they have broken time and again over these past decades? Do we really want another piece of paper signed by these fools?

Let SK take care of this little problem. I hear we aren't much liked there anymore, and I've had with these ungrateful countries.

We have borders of our own to protect.

[maro]

They didn't have anything to say when South Vietnam finally fell.

[A CA Guy]

I know that what I wrote is the truth. It is the fall of a communist nation happening before our very eyes and up to this point Bush is doing the right thing. (Ignore them as they starve to death)

They can learn to eat their bullets or do what Bush wants. The North Korean people will either die in bulk or die a bit less taking back control over their own government.

If North Korea attacks, they will be hit quite hard and there would be a regime change there as well.

This seems to be one of several unavoidable situations the USA has to deal with in the future.

As bad as our economy seems to our citizens at times lately, it is often not realized that we are doing the best compared to the rest of the world.