North Korean Threatens To Wipe The U.S. Off The Map
North Korean Threatens To Wipe The U.S. Off The Map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days. Is war the answer?
Off China’s coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar (used to be Burma), in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month.
(pic) North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, as seen at Wonsan University of Agriculture in an undated photo release.
The Kang Nam left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago with the USS John S. McCain close behind. The ship, accused of transporting banned goods in the past, is believed bound for Myanmar, according to reports from South Korean and U.S. officials.
The new U.N. Security Council resolution requires member states to seek permission to inspect suspicious cargo. North Korea has said it would consider interception a declaration of war and on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009, accused the U.S. of seeking to provoke another Korean War.
“If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will … wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all,” the official Korean Central News Agency stated.
It is odd that the warning came on the eve of the 59th anniversary of the start of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula in state of war.
At this time, the U.S. has 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea to protect against an outbreak of North Korean hostilities.
Tensions have been high since North Korea launched a long-range rocket in April of 2009, and then conducted its second underground atomic test on May 25th, 2009. The whole world was not happy with that act and the UN stepped up talks.
Reacting to U.N. condemnation of that test, North Korea turned away and walked away from nuclear disarmament talks and North Korea warned it would fire a long-range missile.
North Korea has banned ships from the waters off its east coast starting Thursday, Jume 25th, 2009 through July 10th, 2009, for military exercises, Japan’s Coast Guard stated.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, June 24th, 2009, that North Korea may fire a Scud missile with a range of up to 310 miles (500 kilometers) or a short range ground to -ship missile with a range of 100 miles (160 kilometers) during the no sail period.
A Senior South Korean government official anonymity stated that “the no-sail ban is believed connected to North Korean plans to fire short- or mid-range missiles.”
U.S. defense and counterproliferation officials also spoke of anonymity in Washington stating that “they also expected the North Korea to launch short to medium range missiles.”
South Korea will expedite the introduction of high tech unmanned aerial surveillance systems and “bunker-buster” bombs in response to North Korea’s provocations, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper stated, citing ruling party members, who are unidentified, at this time of possible war.
Meanwhile, a flurry of diplomatic efforts were under way to try getting North Korea to return to disarmament talks.
Russia’s top nuclear envoy, Alexei Borodavkin, stated after meeting with his South Korean counterpart that Moscow is open to other formats for discussion since Pyongyang has pulled out of formal six nation negotiations.
In Beijing, top U.S. and Chinese defense officials also discussed North Korea. U.S. Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy was heading next to Tokyo and Seoul for talks.
South Korea has proposed high-level “consultations” to discuss North Korea with the U.S., Russia, China and Japan.
In other words…we could be getting into another war. North Korea had turned it’s back to peace talks and upholds it’s rights to do nucular testings and has threatened “if the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will … wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all”…
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This man has had a serious stroke he doesn’t know what he is saying that is if he can even speak at all. Who knows who is really speaking we will never know.
My father had a stroke and I know what I am saying because I lived that nightmare for ten (10) years and he was Austrian and he was horrible even though he couldn’t speak but he got his point across very well by slaping kicking a various other ways.
Who knows what is really going on there?