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Korea
Report: N. Korea to Display Nuclear Arms
2003-10-16
Kim Jong Il: Father of the Atom. Now it gets interesting.
North Korea said Thursday it would "physically display its nuclear deterrent force," South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. The remark by an unnamed spokesman of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry could be an indication that the communist regime intends to test a nuclear bomb.
...and the clock is ticking.
"When the time comes, the DPRK will take steps to physically display its nuclear deterrent force," the North Korean spokesman told Pyongyang’s state-run news agency KCNA, which was monitored by the South Korean agency.
When the time comes...
DPRK stands for North Korea’s official name, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
I thought it was Douchebag Pricks Residing in Korea?
For weeks, North Korea has said that it was building up its "nuclear deterrent force," a term the isolated, communist nation uses to refer to its nuclear weapons program. U.S. intelligence officials believe that North Korea already has one or two nuclear bombs and may be building more. On Thursday, KCNA quoted the North Korean spokesman as saying his country has "no other option but to continue to take steps to keep and increase its nuclear deterrent force as a self-defense measure" because of what it calls U.S. plans to invade. North Korea also accused the United States of stalling talks aimed at ending the year-old nuclear standoff.
Representatives from the United States, the two Koreas, China, Japan and Russia met in Beijing in August to discuss ways to end the crisis. The meeting ended without agreement on when to hold a next round talks, because of strident differences between Pyongyang and Washington. North Korea demands that the United States sign a nonaggression treaty, provide economic aid and open diplomatic ties before it can dismantle its nuclear facilities.
Here’s one: Dismantle it and we won’t have to dismantle it for you. Much less painful to you grass eating, White Slag addicted, baby eating Juche heads.
Washington demands that North Korea first abandon its nuclear weapons program before any improvement in ties.
We hear that the Norks lie. Just a rumor.
The nuclear dispute flared last October when U.S. officials said North Korea admitted running a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of international agreements.
Write your will yet, Kimmie?
Posted by:tu3031

#4  Bull Juche:

The Norks may have a couple of fission devices, but they'll never test one.... the Chineese would be all over their tiny little Mountain Home asses in a nanocycle.

BTW I got a Gator Ray in the garage...... Who wants to save Ron Zook? I am open to offers.
Posted by: Shipman   2003-10-16 8:00:01 PM  

#3  "Darn it, be careful with that thing, jostle it again like that and you might make it go--"

Pyongyang's Dear Leader Square disappeared in a flash of light.

Forty thousand feet up, and ten miles downrange, the pilot of the B-2 Spirit smiled grimly at the sight of the mushroom cloud and turned his aircraft toward home.
Posted by: Mike   2003-10-16 4:19:56 PM  

#2  someone should tell him

you can't hug your children with nuclear arms
Posted by: eyeyeye   2003-10-16 4:03:09 PM  

#1  How will this affect the Kobe coverage?
Posted by: Yosemite Sam   2003-10-16 3:54:58 PM  

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