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North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike

Posted by timothy on from the pirate-bay-is-next dept.

jppiiroinen writes "North Korea threatened the United States on Thursday with a preemptive nuclear strike, raising the level of rhetoric while the U.N. Security Council considers new sanctions against the reclusive country."

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  1. Well That Escalated Quickly by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Informative
    I didn't see any quotes from DPRK in the article so ... They're trying to influence a UN vote that happens today on the new set of sanctions (harshest yet) that the US has proposed and will most certainly be ushered in days after they were proposed. North Korea's statement:

    The statement said North Korea "strongly warns the U.N. Security Council not to make another big blunder like the one in the past when it earned the inveterate grudge of the Korean nation by acting as a war servant for the U.S. in 1950."

    It's their standard MO and I hope it doesn't affect the UN's resolution. Another quote from North Korea:

    "Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to a preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest," said the statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

    More details from reuters on what the new sanctions mean as well as South Korea's push back.

    And I'm pretty much done with any Slashdot discussion on this since the apologists and "MAD is good" folks have been mighty thick on these past few news stories. We have entered into the era of "Hey everybody, we have nuclear weapons now do what we say or we will nuke you!" Like a teenage gang member who found his first handgun ...

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  2. Re:Nope by m.ducharme · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, they are at war. There's a cease-fire in place, there's no fighting to speak of, but the Korean war hasn't actually ended.

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  3. Re:First strike! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm pretty sure that the last time Korea's togetherness issues really came to the surface, the shooting between US and Chinese troops was hardly accidental...

  4. Re:Nope by godefroi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also, your assertions regarding the French language are not supported by the evidence. As a fluent French speaker, trust me, you can be just as ambiguous in French as in English.

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  5. New UN Sanctions Were Unanimously Approved by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Informative
    Six minutes ago it was announced the new sanctions are approved. To those of you still following or interested in this, Reuters even updated one of the links in my original comment that you can now find here to read:

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, a move that sparked a furious Pyongyang to threaten a nuclear strike against the United States.

    The vote Thursday by the U.N.'s most powerful body on a resolution drafted by North Korea's closest ally, China, and the United States sends a powerful message to North Korea that the international community condemns its ballistic missile and nuclear tests — and its repeated violation of Security Council resolutions.

    The new sanctions are aimed at making it more difficult for North Korea to finance and obtain material for its weapons programs.

    I apologize for making it sound like the United States was the sole proposer of the new resolution -- I actually got that vibe from the DPRK press releases. I didn't know until I read this that China (at least is reported to have) co-authored them with the US.

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