Our country will soon have the capacity to rain missiles down upon most cities in the United States
Posted on 03/21/2003 8:22:24 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said it was postponing planned economic cooperation and maritime talks with South Korea because of Seoul's military alert posture during the Iraqi war, the South's Yonhap news agency said.
North Korea's chief delegate to the inter-Korean economic cooperation committee, Pak Chang-Ryon, said in a statement that the North had to postpone indefinitely the economic talks and maritime talks, Yonhap said, quoting Pyongyang radio.
The talks were to have taken place in Pyongyang next week.
"We have to admit that the talks... have to be postponed as a dialogue partner keeps sabre-rattling toward its counterpart," the statement said.
"The South must be held wholly responsible for this situation," it said.
Officials of the unification ministry in Seoul said the South had not yet been officially informed of the postponement.
The move came a day after Pyongyang accused Seoul of threatening behaviour that could destroy inter-Korea relations after Seoul backed the US war on Iraq and expressed worries about the North's nuclear weapons drive.
The North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, which handles relations with the South, said in a statement on Friday that South Korea had raised its military alert status to unprecedented levels and was staging joint military drills with the United States targeting the North.
"The South Korean authorities, under the manipulation of the US, kicked up an anti-North racket with the Iraqi war as a momentum at a time when the North-targeted war exercises are going on in full scale throughout South Korea," the committee said through the Korean Central News Agency.
"This goes to prove that the US scenario to provoke a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula has entered a reckless phase of implementation," it said.
"We can not but express deep concern about the irrevocable adverse impact such reckless sabre-rattling going on in South Korea will have on peace on the Korean peninsula and inter-Korean relations," it said.
South Korea's Unification Ministry insisted in response to the North Korean statement that Seoul had not raised its military vigilance. The ongoing joint military drills with the United States were routine annual exercises and North Korea had been briefed about them in advance, it said.
"In spite of all these facts, it is regrettable the North is making groundless allegations and raises suspicion about our will for reconciliation and cooperation," the ministry said in a statement on Friday.
"The government position is that the outbreak of the Iraq war must have no negative impact on inter-Korean ties."
Apparently not. Or, it could be that he's preoccupied with the huge puddle that has accumulated in his shoes.
Our country will soon have the capacity to rain missiles down upon most cities in the United States
Push commies into Manchuria
Not that we wouldn't help Japan, but your assertion seems to imply we have a debt.
Our "debt" to Japan...is the debt one owes to a friend..
Japan has proven her friendship and loyalty in more ways than the French can count..
Japan is our BEST friend in the Far East --- Bar NONE!
Japan is despised by North Korea - and has been threatened by the embicile in North Korea in many ways....
We need to destroy that little fart, and free the people of North Korea and remove the threat from the area....
At the moment -- France is not a threat.
France is just a nation that needs a "regime change"....and her ass kicked into reality...
If I were given the choice as to whom to favor with assistance - between Japan and France -- it would certainly be Japan..
Semper Fi
It isn't just NK that hates Japan. SK isn't too fond of her, either. I wonder if Japan would be willing to support more of a US presense in Japan...
Richard Lawless is in Seoul this week. There may be news of significance coming from SK shortly. Roh is going to find himself in trouble...I hope. We may end up letting him off the hook, but we oughtn't.
Lawless had a devastating remark yesterday..."It is our intent to provide SK public with a much less intrusive US presence." I paraphrase, but this mild sentence means, "Defend Yourselves, we're busy elsewhere." I dearly hope this ruthless posture will be maintained, as it is dangerous to have so many US troops on that border. The SKoreans are fully capable of running their own defence, and I don't choose to see our troops insulted by antiAmericanism.
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