Posted on 12/08/2001 2:30:59 AM PST by JohnHuang2
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec 08, 2001 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of trying to start a war against the communist state, and said it will respond to war with war.The North's Stalinist regime regularly issues strident, hardline statements against the United States.
Saturday's diatribe came after U.S. President George W. Bush issued a fresh warning last week to Iraq and North Korea that there would be consequences if they produce weapons of mass destruction. Bush demanded that the North allow U.N. experts to inspect its suspected nuclear weapons program.
Such a demand reflected an "attempt to provoke a new war of aggression against the (North)," Minju Joson, a state-run North Korean newspaper, said in a commentary.
"The Korean people and the People's Army do not want war but are not afraid of it," it said. "Now that the U.S. makes desperate efforts to unleash a war of aggression against the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea, it is fully ready to react to the war with a war of justice."
The commentary was carried by the North's official foreign news outlet, KCNA, which was monitored in Seoul.
North Korea has escalated its anti-U.S. rhetoric after Washington deployed more fighter jets to South Korea last month to fill in for a U.S. air craft carrier that left the region to support American military campaign in Afghanistan.
It also is not responding to Bush's offer in June to open dialogue aimed at curbing North Korea's missile and nuclear programs and its massive deployment of troops near the border with South Korea.
The Korean peninsula was divided into the communist North and pro-Western South in 1945. The 1950-53 Korean War ended without a peace treaty.
Copyright 2001 Associated Press, All rights reserved
Oh, I assure you will have an attitude adjustment, once our B-52s pay your Stalinist hell-hole a little visit.
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Greeeeeeeat. More puffed-chest bluster for tin-pot dictators. It seems like the entire world is anxiously lining up for a very big and violent clash. Not a good sign... but not one we can back down from, either. =^/
It's better than death by starvation.
<expletive deleted>, I wish we still had the armed forces we did when the first Bush took office; then we wouldn't have to have the North Koreans take a number.
Hey, Kim boy, you are a magui bahbo(=evil fool). You are so funny with your empty threats. Go ahead, wage war against U.S. (through South Korea), ROK soldiers are waiting.......for........you.......
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