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NKorea accuses US of threatening war after anti-missile test
2006-09-03
North Korea has accused the United States of threatening war by carrying out a test of its missile defense system and conducting joint military exercises with the South.

The North's semi-official Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland also attacked South Korea for taking part in the annual war games and said it would only drive Pyongyang to build up its self-defence capability. "The US staged not only a large-scale north-targeted naval and air combined maneuver in the waters around the Korean Peninsula with troops of its allies involved but carried out a missile test-fire to strike the DPRK and intercept its missiles," the committee said in a statement carried by state media.

It called the "Ulchi Focus Lens" military drills, which ended on Friday, "little short of a declaration of war against the DPRK (North Korea)", saying the exercises had been "of a more provocative nature" than previous war games.
Posted by:Fred

#8  We can sit back, watch Kimmie and keep working to collapse his country on his head.

I respectfully disagree. If Kim is flying transshipments of missile components or nuclear technology through Russia, then we must consider aerial interdiction.

Iran could could quite possibly have all of its juvenile warhead component waterfowl aligned save for want of fissile material. It's enrichment and purification is 90 yards out of the nuclear touchdown. We do not need Kim to help Iran circumvent this last burdensome and time-consuming step in a snit of anti-Western pique.

If North Korea did not have this cozy relationship with the mullahs, my response might be different. They do, and it's not. This is why it's so important to put all of these rogue regimes on open notice that one attack upon us results in an attack upon all of them. The thieves are just too thick for any more of this irksome winnowing.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-03 21:26  

#7  We don't want a war, we want North Korea to implode. That's just where it's heading right now.

No one wants a war, but I don't want an unhinged regime with the means of delivering nukes inasmuch as they may not have them.

I don't wanna fiind out two years down the road that maybe we should have at least degraded their cvpabilities to deliver CBR weapons
Posted by: Sneagum Theremp9559   2006-09-03 14:02  

#6  So?
Posted by: SR-71   2006-09-03 13:44  

#5  You little NKor pissants don't need to have any concern about Uncle Sam. You poor f**kwits better pay some very considerable attention to Uncle Abe. He's going to clean your clock. See the train coming down the track ?
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-09-03 13:37  

#4  The recent successful ballistic missile defense tests suggest that air strikes aren't needed. We can sit back, watch Kimmie and keep working to collapse his country on his head. Continued economic sanctions, shut down the banking and counterfeiting, stop the drug running, etc. Keep ignoring him every time he bangs his spoon on the high chair.

We don't want a war, we want North Korea to implode. That's just where it's heading right now.
Posted by: Steve White   2006-09-03 11:19  

#3  NKOR is threatening nuclear war every month now.
Posted by: Unitch Creretle6211   2006-09-03 10:24  

#2  Air strikes.

Now.
Posted by: Sneagum Theremp9559   2006-09-03 10:21  

#1  FREEREPUBLIC.com > YONHAP NEWS > North Korean missle vehicle movements have been detected. Possible new Norkie missle tests may be in the offing for the world circa [mid]September.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-09-03 02:44  

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