North Korea warns of 'horrifying' nuclear disasters

abc ^ | March 2, 2003

[Jhoffa_]

LOL!

This from the guy who threatened to "blow up the world"

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Whatever.

I know it's not going to happen, but in a comic book world, it would be great to just flat call his bluff.

Dubya could go on TV and simply state: "Well, Kim Jong is either suicidal, or a coward.. We're just waiting to see which."

[Jhoffa_]

You know, I can't help but respond further to this..

I am simply floored that Kim Jong would break the deal, build nukes in the basement, get mad when we catch him & threaten us, threaten the world, threaten to test a three stage missle that would leave the entire western half of the continent open to attack AND THEN whine about "..an attack would trigger horrifying nuclear disasters"

Well, what did you expect Kim? The welcome wagon?

This whole situation has simply reached a point where it's no longer worthy of a thoughtful response.

Just nuke them. Or get Japan to attack him for us (as they have threatened) and then run to us for cover..

[Moonmad27]

Good point. However, there are critics in articles conplaining we're "rushing to war" for no reason, at the same time others (or even the first critics, contradicting themselves) say the war preparations are taking too long. Fast or slow, there's criticism either way, but soon the war will really start and all this will be forgotten.

[American in Israel]

The newspaper said its armed forces were ready to "mercilessly wipe out" a war of aggression.

"If the US imperialists ignite a war on the Korean peninsula, the war will turn into a nuclear war," it said.

Ok, so now he says he has nukes and is going to use them on us. Shall we play quick draw? Say drop a grid pattern of tactical nukes on the entire northern part of Korea?

Why wait till he fires? If it is going nuke, so be it. The first with the best wins, I have no desire to wait till a million Americans die before we nuke his ugly arse. He has threatened America with nuclear weapons, the only thing left is to pull the trigger.

[Doe Eyes]

Besides if we lost, oh, say San Francisco in the exchange, I think we come out way ahead.

Just curious. Were you happy or saddened by the destrucion of the World Trade Centers.

[Beck_isright]

Extremely depressed. Unlike a lot of the communist residents of San Francisco who were out cheering our enemies in the streets about three weeks ago.

[Steel Wolf]

Not only that, he's might have a couple of crude fission devices. We have hydrogen warhead city killers that have been refined and improved for half a century. If Kim Jong Il wants to take a knife to a gunfight, that's fine with me.

Not only that, but he might have a couple of crude ballistic missiles. Our ICBMs are so accurate that it's silly, wheras he would be lucky to get even on across the pacific and onto the west coast, to say nothing of actually hitting the city he was aiming at. That's a real dumb risk when you consider that the response will blow your country off the map and into the history books.

[Amelia]

Jimmy Carter did a wonderful job there.

Jimmy Carter was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition, I believe last Tuesday, and said, among other things, that we needed to negotiate with North Korea as he did back in 93.

I was screaming at the radio for Bob Edwards to ask President Carter what good more negotiations would do, since the North Koreans broke the agreement Carter had negotiated with them, but of course he didn't ask that question.....

[Gal.5:1]

"Besides if we lost, oh, say San Francisco in the exchange, I think we come out way ahead."

Hello and FReeper greetings from sunny 10 minutes from San Francisco! My 3 small children greet you also.

[marshmallow]

How many times can you use wild-eyed rhetoric like "merciless" "pre-emptive strike" "horrifying nuclear disasters" and all the other hyperbole that is coming out of Pyongyang, before the whole thing becomes farcical and really stale.

There comes a point where you have to either walk the walk or shut up. North Korea is doing their level best to provoke an incident but we're not biting. This is exactly the right course of action. They want to draw us into a confrontation but are getting angry because we are not responding to their provocations and it is driving them nuts. There is only so far they can go with this trash talk.

Time is on our side, not theirs. They have no food, money or resources and are getting really desperate. Let them dangle in the breeze for a little longer and enjoy their communist utopia.

[Paul_B]

> warned that an attack would trigger "horrifying nuclear disasters".

His stage act is wearing quite thin. His time is short, and he knows it. He's next in line after Saddam.

[POGIFFMOO]

Don't forget if we NUKE North Korea we won't be able to trade with them anymore and get all those great North Korean imports......just what exactly do we want North Korea for anyway, other than to keep them from becoming refugees from a failed political regime!!!???

[Gal.5:1]

The government may be nuts, evil, communist etc, but there are lots of innocent people sitting in prisons in N. Korea suffering torture and slave labor and who knows what because they just happened to be born there and they do not agree with the government or they dare to believe in Jesus Christ and live for Him. They are suffering because they do not have FReedom like we have here in America.

I do not believe in "Kill them all, let God sort them out." Killing innocent people on purpose and dealing with/fighting against evil are two different things.

[Bulldogs22]

We have over 2,000.


Over 10,000.

[Labyrinthos]

The deal collapsed amid a new crisis sparked last October when Washington said North Korea had admitted running a separate nuclear programme based on enriched uranium.

"When Washington said that North Korea had admitted..." The North Koreans admitted it then and have reaffirmed it over and over again since then. By attributing the report to "Washington," ABC News suggests that the Korean nuke threat is nothing more than an inside the beltway rumor or perhaps a Bush orchestated disinformation campaign. No liberal bias there. None, I tell you. None.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Unlike a lot of the communist residents of San Francisco who were out cheering our enemies in the streets about three weeks ago.

To advocate the destruction of an entire city because it contains a small population of nut cases is as illogical and stupid as suggesting that an entire country should be nuked because the leadership is despotic and lunatic.

[Starrgaizr]

Wait -- From "sea of fire" to "utter devastation" to "diasters." Sounds like things are moving in a positive direction after all.

[irish_lad]

Folks, we're not discussing some tiny incursion,we are discussing the possibility of NK using nuclear weapons to destroy possibly South Korea, or Japan, or some city in the western US.

What do you think the economic and human ramifications would be if such an event happended? The Dow? Cut it by at least 75%. The world insurance industry? Goodbye. The deaths of possibly 500,000 people? This is not stuff where arm chair quarterbacks sit on their ass and flippantly say "nuke them."

NK is an important lesson for the US that we should attack Iraq so nuclear blackmail cannot happen in the future. But, we need to calmly fix this problem before Kim and his loony friends make war. Remember, if a nuclear war happens, Kim and henchmen will be dead. They may be the lucky ones.