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China-Japan-Koreas
US-South Korea drill is 'declaration of war': North
2011-08-19
[Straits Times] North Korea on Thursday slammed a joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea as a declaration of 'all-out war'.

The 10-day exercise is an 'unpardonable heinous provocation' against the communist state, the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) said.

'This is a declaration of an all-out war against the DPRK (North Korea),' the state body said in an English-language statement carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency.
Oh no, my dear Official Statement Writer. All-out war will begin with a formal statement of some sort, followed immediately by pin-point saturation bombing. You may get a telephone call suggesting you duck under your desk, after which the ceiling will fall down. It is our custom to be exceedingly unsubtle about such things.
The exercise, which began on Tuesday, involves more than 530,000 troops, including some 3,000 military personnel from the US and other bases around the Pacific region.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Kimmie + Boyz must have just discovered this from before last weekend ....

To wit,

* TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > KIM JONG-IL CAPTURE/CAPTIVE PLAN: SOUTH KOREA'S MILITARY DRILL SIMULATES NORTH KOREAN LEADER"S DETAINMENT, in case of imminent DPRK-ROK war wid high = realistic prob that Kimmie = DPRK intends to use its LRBMS, Nuke-WMDS arsenals in first strike.

Pragmatically, Kimmie = DPRK knows that overlord CHINA will never risk or allow any DPRK-controlled NucProg to become large enough or advanced enough, etc. to counter China's.

KIMMIE'S REAL THREAT FOR THE TIME BEING REMAINS...
> inducing vee "brinkmanship" a US-CHINA, etc. "great power" MilPol = Nuclear? confrontation on the Korean Peninsula + NE, East Asia.
> COVERT = UNDER-THE-TABLE/BLACK MARKET EXPORT FOR $$$ OF ADVANCED, DPRK-DEV MISSLE, NUCLEAR MILTECHS TO VARIOUS "ROGUE" NATIONS + MILTERR GROUPS, E.G. IRAN, + DESPITE ANY CHINESE OVERSIGHT + CONTROL.

IOW, North Korea will asymmetrically dev MOST OR ALL of the LRBMS + Nuclear Bombs, Warheads etc. techs so that IRAN, ETC. WILL USE IT.

As separate or exclusive of any ARAB-MUSLIM CIVILIAN NUCPROGS Radical Islam will formally take over vee "ARAB SPRING" UPRISINGS + POLITICAL-LEGAL JIHAD.


Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-08-19 21:01  

#7  Keep swigging that French Cognac, sonny. Your people are making soup out of tree bark in your socialist paradise.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus the Younger6438   2011-08-19 15:48  

#6  I'm fed up with this $41t. All these pissant countries/groups "declaring war" (see AQ, etc.)

My answer would be short & sweet:

"OK, we accept, prepare to duck"
Posted by: AlanC   2011-08-19 13:10  

#5  An ARMED TO THE TEETH joke, they either should shut up, or BE shut up.

Enough name calling, saber rattling, and Pig noises. PUT UP OR SHUT UP.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-08-19 11:39  

#4  Why am I not trembling in fear?

Oh yeah, the north is a joke.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-08-19 10:32  

#3  The US-South Korea drill should begin with dropping of bread and food into North Korea, near the military areas, creating chaos among their military. Might help determine loyalty to the little bugger and/or how strong discipline remains.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2011-08-19 10:22  

#2  Note well. There was no 'peace' treaty signed in the '50s. They signed a cease-fire agreement. The war is still technically on. It's call low intensity conflict, unless you are personally on the wrong side of the intensity then it seems just the same as high intensity.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-08-19 09:04  

#1  Dear North Korea -

Ahh, shaddap.

Love,
The United States of America and our BFF, the Republic of Korea



Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2011-08-19 07:23  

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