Nuclear War At Any Moment - N. Korea

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[RCW2001]

14:00 - 20 February 2003

Relations between North and South Korea are now so grave that military commanders have warned a nuclear war could break out at any moment.

This follows an incident in which a North Korean fighter jet briefly crossed into South Korea but retreated after being confronted by two southern jets.

Anti-aircraft missile units have been put into battle position in the South Korean capital of Seoul

Only a few days ago the North threatened to abandon the armistice keeping peace along the countries' tense border.

The incursion, the first by a North Korean military jet since 1983, increased jitters on the peninsula, where the North is locked in a dispute over nuclear weapons development.

KCNA, the North's state news agency and a mouthpiece of the regime, said the situation on the peninsula was now "so alarming that a nuclear war may break out at any moment."

Tension has crept up since October, when US officials said North Korea had admitted having a covert nuclear weapons programme.

Washington and its allies suspended fuel shipments, and the North retaliated by expelling UN monitors, taking steps to restart frozen nuclear facilities and withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

[Mamzelle]

Hooray for them...time to get our guys away from the bullseye in Seoul.

[Poohbah]

"Uh...oops, sir..."

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I think China has a loose cannon on their hands with North Korea. Not that China diapproves of their antics, but the timing is all wrong. China probably realizes that dead Americans can't buy their cheap crap. Their wallet is king now.

[Quix]

ASTUTE OBSERVATIONS IMHO.

Thanks.

[Steel Wolf]

China benefits from the Korean peninsula being divided. They will not benefit from a united, pro-US Korea or a radioactive wasteland on their borders.

It would be in their best interest to keep North Korea quiet and intact, a menace that never quite materializes, and one that draws the attention away from them.

Sadly, North Korea doesn't give a hoot about China's geopolitical aspirations. They care about their own survival. Only the United States can give them what they need. China and Russia don't have the money or political will to help North Korea, and are only useful in procuring weapons anymore.

[Jim Noble]

>>I'm convinced that DPRK is in cahoots with Saddam<<

You bet they are, the big question is-was the PRC the matchmaker?

[Quix]

TOO MUCH SOBERING TRUTH in your observations for comfort IMHO.

They've always been rabid loose canons loosely managed by Beijing etc.

Now, with their backs against the wall . . . little to lose . . . few options . . . and a handy tool of the globalists and leftists to probe, provoke and play games with us through . . .

One might imagine almost anything going crazy in a number of directions. . . maybe fast.

[Zack Nguyen]

I believe, given North Korea's state of near-total starvation for years now, that the "million-man army" might exist on paper only. It would not surprise me if NK has an army of one million very weak and poorly fed and ill-equipped troops.

That is not to say that an invasion over the border would not be catastrophic for our troops stationed there.

[mhking]

the big question is-was the PRC the matchmaker?

Mansoor Ijaz was on FNC last week and asked a similar question. His surprising response is that the matchmaker is Pakistan.

[Quix]

Interesting proposal.

Personally, I think Yong Yi Cho's church of 1,000,000,000+ and other churches praying diligently . . .

may well be about all that's keeping us and the world from hideous traumas and catastrophe's aplenty these days.

The North would love to be a blazing ember in kicking the USA and the west even at their own destruction. They are not overly rational. In any case, China or Russia either one would be quite comfortable using the expendable NK's to do whatever strategic manipulating they wanted vis a vis the US. IMHO.

[Quix]

They'll try to go as far as China's leash will let them . . .

not realizing that God's leash is the more deciding factor.

[Jim Noble]

Pakistan?

Didn't we give that land back to India?

Oh, not yet-I forgot.

[Quix]

An idiot play chicken?

I was thinking . . .

maybe more like

a bumper car stage with half a dozen very crazy chickens drunk out of their trees raging at each other like fighting cocks or banty roosters . . .

with a few rattle snakes loose on the stage as well.

And onto this stage a cubic yard or 3 of marbles is dropped.

[Quix]

I have mixed feelings about feeding our enemy.

I'm mostly of similar sympathies.

However, God says otherwise. And generally, particularly in a hazardous world, I'd prefer to keep HIM HAPPY.

If push comes to shove with NK and the rest of this increasingly psychotic globe, I want GOD FIRMLY on my side in every way for every reason.

[holdmuhbeer]

Nope, the Carl Vinson I believe is there now. Kitty Hawk is in the Gulf now.

[Quix]

Very glad to read this.

In a sad sort of way.

Glad things are that solidly in place to take decisive action vs hem haw around about it while Soeul sp? is overran or obliterated.

[Quix]

He IS that sick, alright.

[Quix]

Some real hazards there, alright.

But winking at nukes or whatever from NK is NOT an option. The choices are becoming worse and worse.

[Exeter]

"Like the mouse that roared."

Mamzelle, I had the same thought when he started ranting. I think Kim finally found a Korean copy of Leonard Wibberly's book and now figures if he declares war on Monday by Wednesday NK will have surrendered and be receiving massive amounts of foreign aid. What this bad-hair-day clod apparently doesn't understand is that there's a big difference between threatening another country with bowmen and threatening with nuclear weapons. Maybe we should just send him a copy of the sequel, The Mouse on the Moon. Then he could content himself with trying to get to the moon to claim it for NK...

[Quix]

Quite so. I have a number of dearly loved expat friends & Christian Brothers & Sisters in Korea and a lot of other countries besides Taiwan and China.

Interestingly, a growing number of them have moved and are moving to Shanghai.