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China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea says on full combat readiness
2009-03-10
YEONPYEONG, South Korea - North Korea on Monday said it had put its armed forces on full combat readiness in response to the start of annual military exercises by U.S. and South Korean troops, raising tension on the divided peninsula. In a statement read on state television, a fierce-voiced military official also warned that any attempt to shoot down the long-range missile the reclusive state plans to launch soon would be seen as an act of war.

Pyongyang routinely accuses the United States and South Korea of aggressive intentions with the exercises, but the rhetoric this time has been more strident.
They're trying to push Bambi to see just how far backwards he'll bend.
It called the drills a provocation that would only occur "on the eve of a war," and threatened to cut off its hotline with the South's military--the one telephone link between the two armies who are massed either side of the border that has divided them for more than half a century.

U.S. Marines will conduct live-fire drills north of Seoul and within an hour's drive from the border. A U.S. aircraft carrier will take part in the exercises, the U.S. military said.
Posted by:Steve White

#16  ION " EVE OF WAR" > PAKISTANI DEFENSE FORUMS > MUSHARAFF WARNS OF WAR IFF INDIA CONDUCTS SURGICAL STRIKES AGZ PAKISTAN.

Also on PDF > TEHRIK-E-TALIBAN PAKISTAN THREATENS TO DESTROY SCHOOLS; + SWAT DEAL: USA [covertly]WANT MORE FIGHTING, NOT PEACE IN PAKISTAN?; + TALIBAN ATTACKS SPREADING INTO PAKISTAN HEARTLAND [southern PUNJAB - US + brits believe MilTERRS are NOT ready AT THIS TIME? to take over major PK Metros]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-03-10 19:04  

#15  CHINA has also placed milfors on alert, ostens as per TIBET 50th anniversary. KIMMIE = NOKOR is prob also worried about the LT consequences for China + ASIA vee UIGHUR, etc. INTERNAL ETHNIC UNREST/SEPARATISM [read, NO CHINA TO SAVE NOKOR ANYMORE].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-03-10 18:33  

#14  Wishful thinking on their part. They're hoping they can score some free MREs.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2009-03-10 13:59  

#13  The worst thing they could do to us is surrender to us.
Posted by: Darrell   2009-03-10 12:22  

#12  Gird your loins!!
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2009-03-10 10:56  

#11  They use their iron rice-bowls, of course.
Posted by: mojo   2009-03-10 10:29  

#10  how does a 100,00 man ARMY fight the US Airforce and Navy?
Posted by: Sheba Clomoger5915   2009-03-10 09:56  

#9  From the horse's mouth. Nothing they haven't said before about once a week...

The U.S. and Puppet Warmongers' DPRK-Targeted War Exercises Assailed

Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- Should the U.S. and the south Korean warmongers perpetrate even a slight provocation in the sky, the land and seas, they will not escape resolute and merciless retaliatory blows, warns Minju Joson Monday in a signed commentary blasting them for kicking off the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises throughout south Korea today.

The entire land of south Korea has turned into a huge ground for war exercises and the danger of a military conflict is further increasing than ever before on the Korean Peninsula because of the saber rattling which involves armed forces huge enough to fight a war, the commentary notes, and goes on:

The prevailing situation clearly indicates who is the arch criminal bringing the danger of a new war, a nuclear war, to the Korean Peninsula.

The commentary cites facts to prove that the claim of the U.S. and the puppet warmongers that the above-mentioned military exercises are "annual ones and ones for defense" is nothing but sophism intended to mislead the public opinion.

The on-going war maneuvers are aimed at invading the DPRK from A to Z, it holds, and goes on:

Now that there are no legal and institutional mechanisms for deterring any accidental case from developing into a war on the Korean Peninsula, even a slight accident that may occur in the course of the above-said war maneuvers may trigger off a new war, a nuclear war.

It is as clear as a pikestaff that in that case the war is bound to spill over into the neighboring countries. However, the U.S. and the puppet warmongers started the nuclear war exercises targeted against the DPRK. This is an undisguised challenge to the Korean nation and the world peace-loving people. It is a serious provocation intended to seize the DPRK by force of arms and a deliberate criminal act of straining the situation in Northeast Asia.

The U.S. and the puppets seek to pressurize and browbeat the servicepersons and people of the DPRK by force of arms by demonstrating "alliance" and "strength" through the above-said saber rattling and find a way out of the daily deepening internal and external crises. This is, however, a foolish daydream. It is the spirit of the servicepersons and people of the DPRK to react to aggressors' provocation with a thousand-fold retaliation.

The U.S. and the Lee group had better bear this in mind and stop the war maneuvers, though belatedly, urges the commentary.
Posted by: tu3031   2009-03-10 09:40  

#8  This is what happens when you have a Command In Chief that is perceived as weak

Every enemy from Iran to Russia is testing his weakness at the moment!
Posted by: Paul2   2009-03-10 08:02  

#7  alec baldwin - check
Posted by: Lonzo Glesh1593   2009-03-10 07:36  

#6  Nukes loaded onto Congreve rockets? Check
Ex-Kwantung Army artillery in marching order? Check
Tracks oiled on T-34s and all 3 shells issued?
Check
3 hour Hollywood produced propaganda epic shown to troops? Check
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2009-03-10 07:26  

#5  Grass packs full?
Check
MiG-15s fueled with the last of the cooking oil? Check
Bullets scrounged from wartime mass graves issued? Check
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2009-03-10 07:21  

#4  to see just how far backwards he'll bendover.

fixed
Posted by: Gluting Fillmore6653   2009-03-10 07:16  

#3  The Skeleton Crew is at the ready! They are headed to South Korea and they will eat everything in their path!
Posted by: crosspatch   2009-03-10 01:56  

#2  Sure their cranking up the rhetoric this time. They sense Obama is a chicken and they can back him down if they are bellicose enough about it.

This is what happens when you have a Command In Chief that is perceived as weak.
Posted by: Ebbusoter Tojo7688   2009-03-10 00:58  

#1  White courtsy phone for Joe Biden. Vice President Biden, white courtesy phone.
Posted by: Seafarious   2009-03-10 00:52  

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