N. Korea Threatens Nuclear War over Arms Drills

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(AP) North Korea warned Monday that U.S.-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the region, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island.

The South's naval live-fire drills are scheduled to run Monday through Friday at 27 sites. The regularly scheduled exercises are getting special attention following a North Korean artillery attack on front-line Yeonpyeong Island that killed two South Korean marines and two civilians.

The Nov. 23 artillery barrage, the North's first assault to target a civilian area since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, began after the North said South Korea first fired artillery toward its territorial waters. South Korea says it fired shells southward, not toward North Korea, as part of routine exercises.

After the attack, South Korea staged joint military drills with the United States and also pushed ahead with more artillery exercises, despite the North's warning that they would aggravate tension.

A South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff officer tried to play down the significance of this week's drills, saying they are part of routine military exercises and would not occur near the disputed western Korean sea border where last month's attack took place. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of office policy, gave no further details.

North Korea, however, lashed out at Seoul, accusing South Korea of collaborating with the United States and Japan to ratchet up pressure on Pyongyang.

That cooperation "is nothing but treachery escalating the tension between the North and the South and bringing the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean peninsula," Pyongyang's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/13/world/main7145227.shtml

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Things keep getting hotter

[Ozymanithrax]

2. You need to call a bullies bluff...

and yes, things are deteriorating.

[mbperrin]

3. Meh. Who cares? We dropped the bomb on Japan, and now the Ford plant

in Arlington is gone, and we're building Toyota trucks in San Antonio.

Apparently being on the short end of a nuclear attack is good for your economy.

No sarcasm intended.

[denem]

4. North Korea announces it will atomize Tokyo and Seoul

then obliterate DC unless Disney signs the movie deal.

[denem]

7. Disney passes on movie deal

WWIII immanent .

[iandhr]

5. North Korea

threatens nuclear war on a daily basis. Dr. Strangelove must be getting tired from all his trips to the war room.

[denem]

6. Food fight!

[Javaman]

8. While I'm still suspect of NK's ability to properly deliver a nuclear payload even across the DMZ

I honestly don't believe that NK really wants a glowing neighbor to the south. And the same goes for the south regarding the north.

more bullshit and spittle.

on edit: and frankly, I don't want either of them to glow, because their fallout becomes our's and Canada's problem.

[defendandprotect]

9. Just what W wanted ... and continuing efforts now to get this going ....

[Iliyah]

10. Well hasn't

it been written that WW III will begin in the east....isn't this what the Right Wingers pray for??????

I'm praying it won't happen b/c North Korea usually rattles the cage and doesn't open the gate. If they do open that gate all hell will break out. China will have to choose a side. We already know about the US. Then you have Russia, UK and so forth.

[defendandprotect]

11. Agree with all you're saying .....

:)