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China-Japan-Koreas
US military exercise 'violates' North Korea's sovereignty: official
2006-07-12
North Korea accused the United States of running a "massive" military exercise off the Korean Peninsula, which Pyongyang's vice foreign minister said was a "serious violation of the principles of sovereignty".

But Kim Hyong Jun repeated in Pretoria, where he is on an official visit to South Africa, that North Korea would return to six-party disarmament talks if Washington agreed to drop economic sanctions against the secretive state. "At the moment the US is conducting massive military excercises in the waters off the Korean peninsula... with South Korea and Japan," Kim said after talks with his South African counterpart, Aziz Pahad. "These exercises are a serious violation of the principles of sovereignty, equality, reciprocity and non-interference," Kim said.

His comments came amid another flurry Tuesday of shuttle diplomacy to address the crisis in the wake of last week's seven missile launches. Separate talks between North and South Korea, and China and the United States were held, a day after a vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution on possible sanctions against Pyongyang was postponed. The North Korean official defended the missile launches, saying his country "has to defend its rights".

"The latest missile launches are part of routine military exercises to increase our capability for self-defence," Kim said. "Our military is involved in these missile launches as part of an exercise to contain aggressive threats from the outside and increase the nation's military capability."
Posted by:Fred

#11  "These exercises are a serious violation of the principles of sovereignty, equality, reciprocity and non-interference," Kim said.

FOTSG's rant sums it up nicely. However, I find it a SUPREME example of projection for a "secretive" State like NKor to "demand" equality and reciprocity. Do they REALLY want reciprocity? If so, let's "test" some missiles their way, eh?
Posted by: BA   2006-07-12 15:37  

#10  fuck their soveireinty, they didn't mind firing those missiles toward hawaii though did they?
Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163   2006-07-12 13:45  

#9  the Israelis tested their nuke in the Kalahari

Didn't happen. That test site was never used. Altho the Vela incident in the South Atlantic may have been a joint SA/IDF test.
Posted by: 6   2006-07-12 11:43  

#8  Back in the day when the Boers ran South Africa, the Israelis tested their nuke in the Kalahari. Do you suppose that the Norks are discussing testing one of theirs with the current management? Perhaps trying to set up a marketing conduit to sell nukes to anyone with the necessary cash? If so, they should remember that President Bush is in office until January 2009.
Posted by: RWV   2006-07-12 09:19  

#7  Btw, Aziz Pahad, typical south-african name, most probably a true-blooded boer....
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-07-12 09:02  

#6  Of course it violates their God given sovereign rights. Is there any other option when you are looking to prop up your lame negotiating hand? Yada yada yada. But the US and the world isn't going to fall for it again, right?
Posted by: gorb   2006-07-12 05:20  

#5  FNC the other day had pundits analyzing reports that NK may indeed have 4-13 nuke devices - the Norks + China have gotta know any nuclear detonation agz Japan invites immediate unilater Japanese rearmament, so these alleged 4-13 NK nukes, or most of them, in all probability may end up being detonated on Norkie soil proper, which suits the Chicoms just fine.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-07-12 03:08  

#4  "sovereignty, equality, reciprocity, and non-interference" - you know, Commie unilateralism and West-only concession, unconditional submission, and appeasement, etc.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-07-12 03:03  

#3  Hey, bozo!

A) You are NOT the moral, economic, military, or territorial equal of the United States of America.

B) You are not the diplomatic equal of the United States of America.

C) You are not the reciprocal, parochial, or scientific/technological equal of the United States of America.

D) You are not the social equal of the United States of America.

What your failed state and your vaunted dictator truly are is a flyspeck feasting upon the vulgar leavings of the citizens of the United States of America through the auspices of your Chinese masters whom with we trade to the tune of billions of dollars, some of which inevitably and regrettably flows to your sorry 20-lbs of sh*t in a 10-lb bag country.

You are a fly feasting upon our droppings.

You are nothing.

We can erase your entire country without hardly blinking an eye and do it in under thirty minutes, tops. Your "sea of fire" rants to the contrary there's not a damned thing you could do to stop us from doing it either.

You guys better get a grip and rein in your out of control dictator or one of these days you're going to cross a line you (and everyone else in the world) should be afraid of crossing - because then you're going to see us when we're seriously pissed off.

Oh, and,

E) You're pushing that line really, really hard.

Don't make us angry. You wouldn't even friggin' recognize us when we're angry.



Posted by: FOTSGreg   2006-07-12 02:53  

#2  But Kim Hyong Jun repeated in Pretoria, where he is on an official visit to South Africa,


Should have been a sympathetic crowd, at least among former communist gummit officials.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-07-12 00:20  

#1  Our glorious leftwing thinks like this:

You are violating someone else's rights if you defend yourself...

however,

If they conduct offensive military action with possible nukes, well they are merely defending themselves.

Air strikes

Now...
Posted by: badanov   2006-07-12 00:05  

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