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From what i have heard there has been no troop movements in the north
and there missile sites are not active,
so its just loud talk,
unless some thing has happened today which i have not seen yet,
and there missile sites are not active,
so its just loud talk,
unless some thing has happened today which i have not seen yet,
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arapaho: From what i have heard there has been no troop movements in the north
and there missile sites are not active,
so its just loud talk,
unless some thing has happened today which i have not seen yet,
and there missile sites are not active,
so its just loud talk,
unless some thing has happened today which i have not seen yet,
Yes what you say is true.
But S Korean troops along the border have been told to react immediately to any aggression without the necessity to refer to Seoul first, which they previously had to do.
The situation is very delicate and one mistake could ignite the whole situation.
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It's just a war of nerves, which can increase in a month, when south K. and U.S.A. will make military maneuvers.
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you could defeat them with a Magnet!
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It was all NKorean bluster and no real fire, Tom.
here is the way I see this. You have young man (Kim Un) become Premier of NKorea. He needs to consolidate power with in the government and the military. That to get him thru the next several decades without a coup attempt to remove him.
How does he do that?
Well he comes as close to war with the South and US as possible. He watches via his secret service ....the NKorean communist party leaders and senior military leaders that are giving him 100% support in the war mongering. Any that don't shake their fist high enough or rise their voice loud enough....well are on his early retirement list. Those that meet the grade, he can trust and give more power and authority to run the government and military to his liking.
Just my take on it.
You also have the change in power in China mixed into this. By rising his fist at the South and the United States he is making buddies within the new China regime that are anti west.
Lastly it was our Easter season. They plan these little fandangos for our holidays. They know it gets more press when it is on a holiday. Just go back 15 years.....and check the news at Christmas and Easter. if a crisis is not happening someplace in the world, it is the strange holiday season.
here is the way I see this. You have young man (Kim Un) become Premier of NKorea. He needs to consolidate power with in the government and the military. That to get him thru the next several decades without a coup attempt to remove him.
How does he do that?
Well he comes as close to war with the South and US as possible. He watches via his secret service ....the NKorean communist party leaders and senior military leaders that are giving him 100% support in the war mongering. Any that don't shake their fist high enough or rise their voice loud enough....well are on his early retirement list. Those that meet the grade, he can trust and give more power and authority to run the government and military to his liking.
Just my take on it.
You also have the change in power in China mixed into this. By rising his fist at the South and the United States he is making buddies within the new China regime that are anti west.
Lastly it was our Easter season. They plan these little fandangos for our holidays. They know it gets more press when it is on a holiday. Just go back 15 years.....and check the news at Christmas and Easter. if a crisis is not happening someplace in the world, it is the strange holiday season.
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How smart is it to tick off a country that can have stealth jets with nuclear and conventional smart bombs flying over your capital while you sleep? In my book of dumb plays.....that rates really high on the list.
My dad was talking to a fighter bomber jock one time. He asked him how accurate the smart bombs we had were. The fighter jet jock said....95% of them hit within 4 feet of the target. The remaining 5% hit within 10 feet of the target.
Oh Premier Kim Un.....were do you sleep tonight? President Obama sleeps very well in the White House. Toastie as a bug in a rug.
Sadam Hussien changed his position every two hours. I suspect Premier Kim Un is doing the same......here a Un....there a Un.....everywhere a Un Un.......this is so much fun, I am not sure I can handle it anymore.
My dad was talking to a fighter bomber jock one time. He asked him how accurate the smart bombs we had were. The fighter jet jock said....95% of them hit within 4 feet of the target. The remaining 5% hit within 10 feet of the target.
Oh Premier Kim Un.....were do you sleep tonight? President Obama sleeps very well in the White House. Toastie as a bug in a rug.
Sadam Hussien changed his position every two hours. I suspect Premier Kim Un is doing the same......here a Un....there a Un.....everywhere a Un Un.......this is so much fun, I am not sure I can handle it anymore.
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It will never happen. Its all in the game.
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By Ju-min Park and Ben Blanchard
SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - Movement around an atomic test site in North Korea indicates the reclusive state may stage another nuclear test, a South Korean minister said on Monday, an act that would further drive up tensions on the Korean peninsula.
The comments, made in response to a newspaper report, followed unusually harsh rebukes of North Korea at the weekend by China, Pyongyang's sole diplomatic and financial ally.
Speculation had been building that North Korea might carry out a missile test in the near future.
North Korea's February 12 nuclear test, the country's third, prompted tougher U.N. sanctions that have angered Pyongyang. It has since warned of war with the South and the United States.
"I can only say there are such signs," South Korea's Unification Minister, Ryoo Kihi-jae, told a parliamentary committee. He declined to give details on grounds that the matter was "intelligence related".
The JoongAng Ilbo daily, quoting a senior South Korean government official, had earlier reported that movement of manpower and vehicles at the Punggye-ri test site was similar to that observed before the February blast.
North Korean authorities told embassies in Pyongyang they could not guarantee their safety from Wednesday - after saying conflict was inevitable amid joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises due to last until the end of the month. No diplomats appear to have left the North Korean capital.
A South Korean government official, quoted by Yonhap news agency, said a North Korean general had told diplomats at the weekend that the situation remained "grave". But he made no mention of Pyongyang's appeal to consider leaving by Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Seoul later this week and the North holds celebrations and possibly military demonstrations next Monday to mark the birth date of its founder, Kim Il-Sung - grandfather of the current leader, 30-year-old Kim Jong-un.
South Korea's Defence Ministry was unruffled by the notion of a new test, saying it had been long prepared for one.
"That has not changed at this point. Vehicles and people can come and go because there are several facilities around the nuclear test site," spokesman Kim Min-seok told a briefing.
Pyongyang has moved what appeared to be a mid-range Musudan missile to its east coast, according to media reports last week.
TURMOIL HITS MARKETS
The turmoil has hit South Korean financial markets, long used to upsets over the North. Shares in Seoul dipped to near a four-month low as the rhetoric prompted selling by foreigners after substantial losses on Friday.
Moody's credit rating agency said in a report on Monday that the rise in North Korean rhetoric and the re-starting of a nuclear plant to make fissile material had made the current situation "more dangerous" and negative for South Korean assets.
A prominent symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, the Kaesong industrial park inside the North Korean border, is also in doubt after Pyongyang prevented southerners from entering last week. Several hundred South Koreans inside have since returned home.
North Korea's KCNA news agency said a senior member of the ruling Workers' Party had visited Kaesong and singled out South Korean actions for putting the facility under threat.
SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - Movement around an atomic test site in North Korea indicates the reclusive state may stage another nuclear test, a South Korean minister said on Monday, an act that would further drive up tensions on the Korean peninsula.
The comments, made in response to a newspaper report, followed unusually harsh rebukes of North Korea at the weekend by China, Pyongyang's sole diplomatic and financial ally.
Speculation had been building that North Korea might carry out a missile test in the near future.
North Korea's February 12 nuclear test, the country's third, prompted tougher U.N. sanctions that have angered Pyongyang. It has since warned of war with the South and the United States.
"I can only say there are such signs," South Korea's Unification Minister, Ryoo Kihi-jae, told a parliamentary committee. He declined to give details on grounds that the matter was "intelligence related".
The JoongAng Ilbo daily, quoting a senior South Korean government official, had earlier reported that movement of manpower and vehicles at the Punggye-ri test site was similar to that observed before the February blast.
North Korean authorities told embassies in Pyongyang they could not guarantee their safety from Wednesday - after saying conflict was inevitable amid joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises due to last until the end of the month. No diplomats appear to have left the North Korean capital.
A South Korean government official, quoted by Yonhap news agency, said a North Korean general had told diplomats at the weekend that the situation remained "grave". But he made no mention of Pyongyang's appeal to consider leaving by Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Seoul later this week and the North holds celebrations and possibly military demonstrations next Monday to mark the birth date of its founder, Kim Il-Sung - grandfather of the current leader, 30-year-old Kim Jong-un.
South Korea's Defence Ministry was unruffled by the notion of a new test, saying it had been long prepared for one.
"That has not changed at this point. Vehicles and people can come and go because there are several facilities around the nuclear test site," spokesman Kim Min-seok told a briefing.
Pyongyang has moved what appeared to be a mid-range Musudan missile to its east coast, according to media reports last week.
TURMOIL HITS MARKETS
The turmoil has hit South Korean financial markets, long used to upsets over the North. Shares in Seoul dipped to near a four-month low as the rhetoric prompted selling by foreigners after substantial losses on Friday.
Moody's credit rating agency said in a report on Monday that the rise in North Korean rhetoric and the re-starting of a nuclear plant to make fissile material had made the current situation "more dangerous" and negative for South Korean assets.
A prominent symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, the Kaesong industrial park inside the North Korean border, is also in doubt after Pyongyang prevented southerners from entering last week. Several hundred South Koreans inside have since returned home.
North Korea's KCNA news agency said a senior member of the ruling Workers' Party had visited Kaesong and singled out South Korean actions for putting the facility under threat.
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sophiasummer: It will never happen. Its all in the game.
What happens is the US goes around and bullies every country it doesn't like or want its resources. This doesn't get reported in the media. When that country moves, the media screams.
Did the media report that the Syrian situation started when CIA, MI-6 and Mossad secret agents indiscriminately fired into the peacefully demonstrating crowd and threw bombs among them? I doubt.
Arab spring? Not at all. It is all done by secret agents on Western payroll. This is the reason Russia is cracking down on non-governmental organisations that receive payments from the US. Of course, Western media cries foul what a dictator Putin is. They forget that Obama would do exactly the same thing in their place, even worse.
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revealer24: What happens is the US goes around and bullies every country it doesn't like or want its resources. This doesn't get reported in the media. When that country moves, the media screams.
Did the media report that the Syrian situation started when CIA, MI-6 and Mossad secret agents indiscriminately fired into the peacefully demonstrating crowd and threw bombs among them? I doubt.
Arab spring? Not at all. It is all done by secret agents on Western payroll. This is the reason Russia is cracking down on non-governmental organisations that receive payments from the US. Of course, Western media cries foul what a dictator Putin is. They forget that Obama would do exactly the same thing in their place, even worse.
Did the media report that the Syrian situation started when CIA, MI-6 and Mossad secret agents indiscriminately fired into the peacefully demonstrating crowd and threw bombs among them? I doubt.
Arab spring? Not at all. It is all done by secret agents on Western payroll. This is the reason Russia is cracking down on non-governmental organisations that receive payments from the US. Of course, Western media cries foul what a dictator Putin is. They forget that Obama would do exactly the same thing in their place, even worse.
More input from another tool. ...lol...
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tomcatwarne:
North Korea stepped up its rhetoric in early March, when U.S. and South Korean forces began annual military drills that involved the flights of U.S. B-2 stealth bombers in a practice run, prompting the North to puts its missile units on standby to fire at U.S. military bases in the South and in the Pacific.
North Korea stepped up its rhetoric in early March, when U.S. and South Korean forces began annual military drills that involved the flights of U.S. B-2 stealth bombers in a practice run, prompting the North to puts its missile units on standby to fire at U.S. military bases in the South and in the Pacific.
US provocation, what else? "Annual", oh. But this time with stealth bombers.
Let me ask: What would the US do if Russia was to have a military exercise like that near its borders?
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will strike back if the North stages any attack on its territory, the new president warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of radar-evading fighters.
North Korea says the region is the brink of a nuclear war in the wake of United Nations sanctions imposed for its February nuclear test and a series of joint U.S. and South Korean military drills that have included a rare U.S. show of aerial power.
North Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in response to what it termed the "hostile" military drills being staged in the South.
But there have been no signs of unusual activity in the North's military to suggest an imminent aggression, a South Korean defence ministry official said last week.
"If there is any provocation against South Korea and its people, there should be a strong response in initial combat without any political considerations," President Park Geun-hye told the minister of defence and senior officials at a meeting on Monday.
The South has changed its rules of engagement to allow local units to respond immediately to attacks, rather than waiting for permission from Seoul.
Stung by criticism that its response to the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010 was too slow, Seoul has threatened to target North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and to destroy statues of the ruling Kim dynasty in the event of any new attack, a plan that has outraged Pyongyang.
Seoul and its ally the United States played down Saturday's statement from the official KCNA news agency as the latest in a stream of tough talk from Pyongyang.
North Korea stepped up its rhetoric in early March, when U.S. and South Korean forces began annual military drills that involved the flights of U.S. B-2 stealth bombers in a practice run, prompting the North to puts its missile units on standby to fire at U.S. military bases in the South and in the Pacific.
The United States also deployed F-22 stealth fighter jets on Sunday to take part in the drills. The F-22s were deployed in South Korea before, in 2010.
On its part, North Korea has cancelled an armistice agreement with the United States that ended the Korean War and cut all hotlines with U.S. forces, the United Nations and South Korea.
CALLS FOR RESTRAINT
White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said North Korea's announcement that it was in a state of war followed a "familiar pattern" of rhetoric.
Russia, which has often balanced criticism of North Korea, a Soviet-era client state, with calls on the United States and South Korea to refrain from belligerent actions, said a recurrence of war was unacceptable.
"We hope that all parties will exercise maximum responsibility and restraint and no one will cross the point of no return," Grigory Logvinov, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official, told Interfax news agency.
France said it was deeply worried about the situation on the Korean peninsula while NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said the alliance hoped "that this is more posturing than a prelude to any armed hostilities."
Even the new pope has joined in the calls for peace.
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