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North Korea ww3? US attacks North Korea 'sacred war' threats
Topic Started: Dec 24 2010, 01:09 AM (214 Views)
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US attacks North Korea 'sacred war' threats
South Korean helicopter, 23/12/10 in Pocheon The South has held one of the biggest military drills in its history this week
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Inside North Korea

* Volunteers bolster S Korean army
* Why border hot-spot is war relic
* Rare peek into China-N Korea ties
* Alliance under strain

The US has denounced North Korea for threatening a "sacred war" against the South, whose military has been holding live-fire drills near the border.

The state department's Philip Crowley told the BBC there was no justification for Pyongyang's "belligerent words".

In a day of rising tension, Seoul and Pyongyang traded strong rhetoric, with the South warning of a "powerful response" to any attack from the North.

A month ago, the North fired on a Southern island, killing four people.

Thursday's speech by Armed Forces Minister Kim Yong-chun marks the strongest statement from Pyongyang since the attack on Yeonpyeong island.

Analysts believe the hard-line stance might be timed to coincide with the 19th anniversary of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il taking control of the armed forces, which will be marked on Friday.
'Nuclear' threat

"We've heard this language before," said Mr Crowley in an interview with BBC's Newshour.

"Unfortunately sometimes that kind of language is followed by irresponsible actions, whether it's a missile test, a nuclear test or the shelling of South Korea, as occurred last month."

He added that the North would get no reward for its "provocative actions".

China, the North's only major ally, also issued a statement asking both parties on the peninsula to remain calm.

Pyongyang is frequently accused of sabre-rattling in order to strengthen its hand in negotiations with other countries over its nuclear ambitions.

But the North insists that it is the victim, and repeatedly accuses the South of preparing for war by holding military drills on the border.

Kim Yong-chun, quoted by state news agency KCNA, said the North was "getting fully prepared to launch a sacred war of justice", and also threatened to use a "nuclear deterrent".

Despite possessing enough plutonium to create a bomb, the North is not thought to have succeeded in building a nuclear weapon.

International talks over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions halted in April 2009, when the North walked out and expelled UN nuclear inspectors.

The US has refused to resume the talks until North Korea recommits to its past promises to give up its nuclear-weapons programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12072334

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Does South Korea need to do these drills?

This could get nasty, with more deaths as the tension between the two Koreas continues.
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The Media and Governments and the military eh!!!
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The south has only two options, they can follow our governments example and try to appease the enemy (islam) or do what our government should be doing stand strong against their enemy. The North only recognises strength, this year they have got away with at least two attacks on the South killing both sailors and civilians. Any further attacks must be met with force.
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This a tough one.

The North should never have existed and im sure No one in the country (except a rich few) wants to reside there.

Hate the way there fighting a pointless civil war, when ever the korean peoples dont want it, its simply the Norths power hungary regime that does.
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tobias malachi
Dec 24 2010, 02:53 AM
The south has only two options, they can follow our governments example and try to appease the enemy (islam) or do what our government should be doing stand strong against their enemy. The North only recognises strength, this year they have got away with at least two attacks on the South killing both sailors and civilians. Any further attacks must be met with force.
Against a country with a million man army and nuclear weapons? The last conflict in Korea was a bloody affair,in fact the last real war the British fought in.If it happens again we will get sucked in and the casualties will make Afghanistan look like a picnic.

I agree with the above poster,the south needs to tone things down a bit as that exercise was rather pointless and just aggravates an unstable neighbour.
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I used to live in Aldersot and remember as a lad the fathers of friends going to fight in Korea, not only Korea but all the other theators of war that our country has been involved in and have known the sadness of friends not coming home, so I do not take war lightly. Some countries we can negotiate with but sadly others like N. Korea only see negotiation as a weekness. I would compare them to islamism and islamists at some point the world has got to take a stand. Why should we wait and allow them to grow stronger
I no longer live in Aldershot but still have friends there
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Dec 24 2010, 02:58 PM
I used to live in Aldersot and remember as a lad the fathers of friends going to fight in Korea, not only Korea but all the other theators of war that our country has been involved in and have known the sadness of friends not coming home, so I do not take war lightly. Some countries we can negotiate with but sadly others like N. Korea only see negotiation as a weekness. I would compare them to islamism and islamists at some point the world has got to take a stand. Why should we wait and allow them to grow stronger
I no longer live in Aldershot but still have friends there
A friend lost his uncle at Imjin River.He was in the Glosters.

One thing people are forgetting is that North Korea will not have the suport of China as it did in the fifties.A lot of this is posturing from North Korea.If they did carry out a nuclear attack against the south then America would blow them off the face of the earth and no one would be that upset about it.This present posturing seems to have a lot to do with an internal power struggle rather than a desire to actually start a war with the south.

In all honesty its a bit too late to do anything.Once a regime has got nuclear weapons its very hard to threaten it with military action unless you are prepared to accept hundreds of thousands of casualties.But the big nuclear stick is there and NK knows there is a line it cannot cross.Its the reason they need to wake up and do something about Iran before it manages to produce a bomb.
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