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N Korea charges US rushing towards confrontation
Reuters
Posted on 12/26/2002 11:42:47 PM PST by BlackJack
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites)'s state news agency said Friday that the United States was rushing toward conflict with the communist state by demanding that it scrap its nuclear program before dialogue could begin.
The official Korean Central News Agency said remarks by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials showed Washington was keen "topple" North Korea rather than hold discussions to defuse the nuclear row.
"(The United States) is rushing headlong into extremely dangerous confrontation with the DPRK (North Korea), saying that it would neither have dialogue with the DPRK nor rule out a war against it," KCNA said.
"The U.S. much publicized assertion that North Korea should scrap its nuclear program first is nothing but a pipe-dream as it calls for disarming the DPRK under the absurd pretext of its 'nuclear program' and then launching a surprise attack on it to overthrow its political system," it said.
Rumsfeld said earlier this week that the United States, which is focusing on ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, could fight two wars at once and win and North Korea would be mistaken to assume Washington was distracted by the standoff with Baghdad.
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To: AmericanInTokyo
To: Mo1
The NK army, navy and airforce is about 1% of the military capability of the Imperial Japanese Thugs in WWII.
Uncle Soddomite, the murdering mullahs of Iran and the killers of Syria have less than 1% of the military capability of the Nazis.
Nor did our military have the killing capability with the communication capability in WWII that we have now.
To: BlackJack
N Kor has been asserting such things since 1952. It reached a fever pitch in '94, and here we go again.
To: Sabertooth
"Halfbright on the Magical Misery Tour".
To: BlackJack; Theodore R.; belmont_mark; Scholastic; Sawdring; Enemy Of The State
N Korea is really making a lot of noise lately. Whatssup?
They know that Bush won't do anything about their nuclear blackmail threats because he's too busy with his personal vendetta against Saddam who has no nukes. These North Korean nuke war threats must be really frustrating for Bush because they enable people to recognize how much bigger a threat North Korea is to the US with its nuclear ICBM's than relative non-threat, non-nuclear Iraq
To: Sabertooth
To: Mo1
Ditto.
To: Sabertooth
You are rapidly becoming my favorite.....KUDOS !!
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