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North Korean YouTube video shows Washington under attack
2013-03-20
[Egypt Independent] North Korea has produced another video showing the United States under attack, this time with the White House and the US Capitol literally in the crosshairs.

The four-minute video titled "Firestorms Will Rain on the Headquarters of War" was posted Monday on the YouTube channel of the North's official website Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda from state media.

The first two minutes used still photos of US fighter jets, B-52 bombers and aircraft carriers to portray the United States as a "bullying nuclear power intent on bending Pyongyang to its will."

"Second by second, the fuse of a nuclear war is burning," a female narrator warned.

It then showed a sniper's crosshairs superimposed over the White House, before switching to animated footage of the dome of the US Capitol building exploding in a fireball.

"There is no limit to the range of our strategic rockets," the narrator said.

Angered by UN sanctions imposed after its nuclear test last month, North Korea has threatened the United States with a pre-emptive nuclear strike, as military tensions on the Korean peninsula escalated to their highest level for years.

Although experts say the North is years from being able to fire a nuclear-tipped ballistic mile as far as the US mainland, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel responded Friday with plans to boost West Coast missile defenses.

It was the latest in a line of similarly-themed videos posted to the Uriminzokkiri channel.

An offering early last month showed New York in flames after an apparent missile attack, and another two weeks later depicted US soldiers and President Barack Obama burning in the flames of a nuclear blast.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Or Roland Emmerich
Posted by: Lowspark   2013-03-20 22:31  

#9  They could've just used clips from Michael Bay films. He loves to show U. S. landmarks being destroyed.
Posted by: Lowspark   2013-03-20 22:28  

#8  North Korea risks taking the blame for a possible WMD attack on the US conducted by a third party.

Why are they so unafraid and undeterred?

Maybe they've been provoked by the West's provocative weakness after 9/11.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2013-03-20 15:35  

#7  Why does North Korea still have internet access after over a decade of sanctions?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-03-20 15:09  

#6  "Any potential adversary should know that we will defend ourselves against the possibility of an attack by unconventional arms. And if such a strike does occur, as commander in chief I will respond with overwhelming and devastating force."
(dovish) candidate John Kerry in 2004

"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union."
President Kennedy in 1962

Perhaps now would be a good time to remind the North Koreans and others that the US has the capability and the intent to retaliate after a nuclear attack.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2013-03-20 14:10  

#5  P2K's comments set the context increasingly here at home, but I'm not so sure hte one-trick pony Norks know that. SO setting the new edge in their never-ending game of payola brinksmanship may actaully go too far and spark the South into an action that crescendo's into a major fracas.
When the Nork Generals sense that their game is threatened, either they do Pudgey in, or go for broke. While the Septegenarians in their ranks have a sense of the true limits of their military, young turks may actually buy their internal BS and think they can redo 50 since Champ really won't pull the trigger?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2013-03-20 13:06  

#4  North Korean YouTube video shows Washington under attack

The Norks don't understand that there is a significant and growing segment of the population who'd quip a mild acknowledgement "OK" and then go back to their coffee, while another group may say "hope they don't mess up the Smithsonian" before returning to their daily rituals.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-03-20 12:09  

#3  the video is just a collection of still images

not a very impressive display
Posted by: lord garth   2013-03-20 10:14  

#2  A DPRK ICBM is by definition a Chinese ICBM.

The Maha-Rushian questione' du jour pertains to the strategic or realistic consequences of debt-led "sequestration" on the USDOD's ability to intervene in NE Asia, + any potential role of Radical Islam + Hard Boyz in a such a conflict.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-20 02:21  

#1  The Russians aren't going to like Chinese-caused mushroom clouds oer Japan floating over their way per the Russian far east, etc. - IMO thats good news for JAPAN because it may mean that China = DPRK? will want to restrict its attacks agz Japan to either wholly Conventional, or at worse Limited [Tactical?]Nuclear.

China's focii will be on forcibly taking control of TAIWAN, and deterring or defeating any US Air, Sea intervening MilFors as far out O-T-H in WESTPAC [CENTPAC?] ASAP AFAP ALAP.

I believe that China intends for the DPRK to keep Japan + SDF + USFJ, USFK preoccupied while the PLA strikes from Taiwan all the way SOUTHWARD to the NORTHERN PHILIPPINES, SOUTH CHINA SEA, + POSSIBLY THE STRAITS OF MALACCAS. A PLA land campaign in the Himalayan States, + by extension SINO-INDIAN MIL CONFRONTATION [Indo-Pak], cannot be ruled out.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-20 02:16  

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