[demlosers]

Koffi Anan of the UN, and the I.A.E.A. chief told them just hours ago not to try and pull this stunt

Coffee being tough?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

But, but, Bill Clinton had an agreement with them.

[hellinahandcart]

Somebody's VERY desperate for us to not go into Iraq, aren't they...

[KQQL]

Breaking hard.

How hard? ...hard as a ROCK or hard as Cement ?

[demlosers]

I think we should lay waste to that place.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Emergency! Emergency! Yimmy Karter report to command central at UN for propaganda dissimination orders.

[Mo1]

Koffi Anan of the UN, and the I.A.E.A. chief told them just hours ago not to try and pull this stunt.

Or what Koffee .. you proved that you have no spine where Iraq is concerned .. Do you really think North Korea is going to pay attention to you??

[VaBthang4]

Ah the last sweet moments of dialogue before Judgement fell...
____________________


Dad: Now Billy it is bed time. Head on upstairs and hit the sack little man.

Billy: No way Pops. I'm gonna walk in there [Kitchen] and steal me some cookies.

Dad: No you wont. Turn right around and march yourself up them steps.

Billy: I dont think so old man. I'm going into that kitchen.

Dad: I'd advise you not to do that Billy.

Billy: Ha! Whatever...

[Semper Paratus]

Jimmy's going to volunteer his services to clear this little problem up.

[Ranger]

The League of Nations had not teeth. The UN has no spine. Short of the US or S. Koreans (unlikely) bombing the place, the N. Koreans will do what they want, when they want to.

[Peach]

President Bush is going to have his hands full. What a mess. Thanks Clinton.

[tomahawk]

Time for a preemptive strike.

[Imal]

How obliging of Kim Jong-Il to do this. The potential cost of any necessary future PR campaign against him is depreciating fast. If the markets offered "North Korea futures", this sure wouldn't be driving the price up.

I suppose Kim will top this feat by climbing some battlements near the DMZ and shouting "Your mother was a hampster, and your father smelled of elderberries!" toward Seoul.

Keep up the good work, Kim! All the world loves a blustery tin-pot dictator to pick on.

[Cold Heat]

This pressure tactic by NK will backfire eventually.

They are trying to take advantage of the fact that we appear to be fully engaged in other matters.

I see China's hand in this! I also see a wait and watch approach from the administration in the fact of criticism by the anti war crowd. They are already making noises about our perceived lack of attention toward NK.

LOL!

[Squantos]

Am I wrong to "assume" that North Korea doesn't even toss out their bath water without the specific directions and approval from their ChiCom Puppet Masters ? Theres a whole lot more than this saber rattling going on IMO.

Stay Safe !

[FreeTheHostages]

"Time for Security Council meeting."

I don't mind if they meet, but we got to do what we got to do. North Korea probably thinks we're too extended and that this is a good time for them to make this move. This is serious.

Thanks for the breaking news post. Good post, bad news.

[aculeus]

Perhaps this has something to do with it ... (via BBC)

Saturday, 14 December, 2002, 15:54 GMT

North Korea takes aim at Bond

James Bond's latest "enemy" is fighting back.

Fictional North Korean agents torture the British spy in his new film, and now Pyongyang is angry for real.

Official statement

North Korea has called on the United States to stop showing Die Another Day saying it is "insulting the Korean nation".

The film - starring Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry - "clearly proves" the US is "the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation" and is "an empire of evil", according to the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.

In his 20th adventure, Bond tries to stop an illegal arms deal between a South African diamond smuggler and evil North Korean officer, Colonel Moon, feared to be planning an invasion of South Korea and then Japan.

He takes a hovercraft across the heavily fortified border but is caught and tortured in North Korea before being released in a prisoner exchange.

'Inciting confrontation'

Bond's Korea shows a farmer tilling a field with a cow, which critics say makes the country appear backward. 007 also finds time for sex in a Buddhist temple.


The secretariat's statement said the film is a "dirty and cursed burlesque aimed to slander [North Korea] and insult the Korean nation".

It says the film describes North Korea "as part of an 'axis of evil', inciting inter-Korean confrontation, groundlessly despising and insulting the Korean nation and malignantly desecrating even religion".

The US is "the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siecle corrupt sex culture", the statement said.

Widespread upset

The temple sex scene has also caused upset in South Korea where some opponents are trying to organise a boycott of the film before it opens.

Relations between the US and both Koreas have been going through difficult periods.

US President George W Bush called North Korea part of an "axis of evil" along with Iran and Iraq and there are new fears about Pyongyang's suspected nuclear weapons programme.

In South Korea, anti-American sentiment has swelled after the acquittals of two US soldiers whose armoured vehicle killed two Korean girls in June.

[MonroeDNA]

I guess cutting off their oil in winter, like we did, is taking effect already.

Good. Let them threaten and bluster, while thier people freeze. They will implode, like all communist countries do when they are on thier own.

[rs79bm]

I think North Korea needs to be kicked into shape a little bit. (....calling President Bush...)

[ApesForEvolution]

Nuke Iraq and North Korea and the war on terror will be over. Iran will fall into line and the whole thing will die down for a long time. This will spare us a Red communist Chinese invasion of Taiwan to defend with a spread-thin military as well.