North Korea shells South Korea

[bashi]

It seemed first that the "PRIVATE" diplomatic initiative by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was just a cover up for US efforts without losing their face, if something went wrong. But now the truth comes out:

The US is not happy that Richardson`s trip has borne peaceful fruits:

No talks to NK and no debriefing of Richardson!

The game is very clear now...

http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/...html?cat=10373

[Rocky_Shorz]

Ron Paul for Pres with Richardson for VP in 2012!!!

[irishspirit]

Posted by Rocky_Shorz (here)
Ron Paul for Pres with Richardson for VP in 2012!!!

Sorry! But it is never going to happen. To many sheep, not enough common sense.

[Carmody]

Posted by irishspirit (here)
Sorry! But it is never going to happen. To many sheep, not enough common sense.

It's closer than you think. More people than you would think...are vacillating, these days. On the edge of it. Now, obviously, I hope...they likely follow what their gonads and their desires speak to them.

But... they are aware of the potential. In order for them to feel safe, they have to have a crowd to hide in and run with, when making this switch to a new happy state. happy as their anger finds release, happy as they are not alone, happy as everyone is with them.

Note that the psychological attacks and all that goes in the opposite direction... works on those points and almost exclusively on those points of psychology, in their entirety.

It is our job to keep sparking things to the break point.

[irishspirit]

Vowing to 'Punish Enemy,' S. Korea Launches Vast Drills

(Newser) – South Korea is continuing to thumb its nose at the North, today launching three days military drills close to the DMZ, as hundreds of troops, tanks, jets, and helicopters gather, the AP reports. It’s the 48th such training this year—only 47 had been planned—and the largest joint army-air force winter exercises ever staged by South Korea, it says. “We will completely punish the enemy if it provokes us again like the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island,” says an officer.

http://www.newser.com/story/108093/s...at-border.html

[Elandiel BernElve]

North Korea threatens 'sacred' nuclear war against the South

AP - North Korea's armed forces minister said his country is ready for a "sacred war" using nuclear weapons. Kim Yong-chun said live-fire exercises conducted by South Korea near the border were a preparation for war with the North.

North Korea threatened Thursday to launch a "sacred'' nuclear war against South Korea if it attacks, as Seoul staged military exercises that have raised already high tensions on the peninsula.

The remarks seemed aimed at revving patriotic spirit on the eve of the 19th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's appointment as the supreme military commander.

Defense chief Kim Yong Chun said North Korea is ''fully prepared to launch a sacred war'' and would use its nuclear capabilities if attacked and warned the South against intruding even the smallest amount on its territory, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

North Korea's anger has been piqued this week by South Korea's staging of live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong Island, which was shelled by the North's artillery on Nov. 23. Four South Koreans were killed.

North Korea has said it shelled the island because South Korea fired artillery into its territorial waters first. South Korea has countered that it fired artillery away from North Korea as part of routine drills.

Earlier Thursday, South Korea conducted its largest air-and-ground firing drills near the tense land border in a show of force against North Korea. The North's state media has called the drills ''provocative'' and ''offensive.''

The two Koreas are still technically at war because their 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

source: http://www.france24.com/en/20101223-...ed-nuclear-war

[jcocks]

There's so much sabre-rattling going on on the korean peninsula at the moment that you can't even hear yourself think!

On a serious note, I have a feeling that some sort of military exchange is almost inevitable between these two now.... I can't see these tensions being released any other way....

[irishspirit]

SEOUL — North Korea threatened a nuclear "sacred war" on Thursday and South Korea vowed a "merciless counterattack" if it was attacked again as both sides raised the rhetoric on a day of more military exercises in the South.

South Korea's land and sea exercises prompted North Korea, which has threatened to reduce the South to ashes on many occasions, to denounce its richer neighbor as a warmonger.

"To counter the enemy's intentional drive to push the situation to the brink of war, our revolutionary forces are making preparations to begin a sacred war at any moment necessary based on nuclear deterrent," North Korea's KCNA news agency quoted Minister of Armed Forces Kim Yong-chun as saying.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said "we need constructive actions, not heated rhetoric" from Pyongyang.

"The last thing the region needs from North Korea is more threatening rhetoric," he said in Washington.

North Korea has wielded its nuclear capability threat before but analysts say it has no way to launch a nuclear device.

Tension reached a peak last month when North Korea shelled a southern island, Yeonpyeong, killing four people, in response to a South Korean live-fire drill in what the North said were its waters.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news...S-KOREA-NORTH/