North Korea: Standoff with US at "brink of nuclear war"

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Friday April 9, 21:24 PM


North Korea says standoff with US at "brink of nuclear war"

North Korea said Friday the standoff over its atomic ambitions was on the brink of nuclear war as US Vice President Dick Cheney headed to the region for talks with key Asian allies.

The Stalinist state's official news agency accused Washington of "driving the military situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war" with plans for a pre-emptive strike on North Korea.

Cheney is expected in Tokyo on Saturday on the first leg of an Asian tour that also takes him to China and South Korea.

North Korea described six-party talks held in Beijing in February as "fruitless," their harshest assessment so far of the meeting that brought together the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States.

"The US demand that the DPRK (North Korea) scrap its nuclear programme first is the main obstacle in the way of solving the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the US," the Korean Central News Agency said in a commentary.

"It is a well-known fact that the second round of the six-way talks held in Beijing last February proved fruitless due to the US demand that the DPRK dismantle its nuclear program first."

Washington is demanding the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantling of North Korea's nuclear prorgammes, both plutonium and enriched uranium schemes, before it will offer concessions to the impoverished state.

Pyongyang denies having a uranium programme and has said it will freeze its plutonium weapons programme in return for simultaneous rewards from Washington.

A new round of six-party talks is expected before the end of June while working parties are supposed to be set up to resolve address contentious issues.

South Korea's foreign ministry said all participating countries were ready for working level talks apart from North korea, which has yet to give the go ahead.

In the commentary the North Korean news agency said Pyongyang had no choice but to boost its nuclear weapons drive in the face of US intransigence and its "moves to put the strategy of pre-emptive nuclear attack into practice."

Cheney's trip to Asia has been overshadowed by the deteriorating security situation in Iraq where insurgents are threatening to kill three Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pulls out troops from the war-torn region.

Seven South Koreans were released earlier Friday after also falling into the hands of insurgents.

 

[dmcowen674]

Push the God damn buttons and get it over with, sheesh

 

[Ryan]

If need be, we will squash them like a bug. They are not a threat, just a nuisance.

 

[gsaldivar]

Hey... you stole Dave's avatar..

 

[Zephyr106]

BREAKING NEWS: In a never-before-seen-tactic N. Korea uses boisterous rhetoric about an "imminent threat" errr "crisis".

Zephyr

 

[TheBDB]

These guys crack me up with their jokes.

 

[onelove]

it can't be comfortable being one end of a bi-pole of evil.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: gsaldivar
Hey... you stole Dave's avatar..

Well they don't have a Tin Foil Hat Avatar.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: gsaldivar
Hey... you stole Dave's avatar..

Well they don't have a Tin Foil Hat Avatar.

I am as far from a conspiracy theorist, alien believing, Elvis is living, UFO sighting, Art Bell listening freak as you will ever find.

I just like to change avatars from time to time.

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: gsaldivar
Hey... you stole Dave's avatar..

Well they don't have a Tin Foil Hat Avatar.

LOL

 

[replicator]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
If need be, we will squash them like a bug. They are not a threat, just a nuisance.

If they were just a nuisance, they would have been taken care of along time ago.
If there is war with North Korea, the casualties would be enormous. First of all, say good bye to Japan and South Korea, and all the thousands of US troops deployed there.

Also serious chance that they would launch missles(Taepo Dong 2) that the CIA says could hit western US.


N.Korea is a serious threat, unlike the regime that Saddam presented. I don't think military action is the right solution, but at the same time, we can't allow them to continue their weapons programe.

 

[DoubleL]

Standoff with US at "brink of nuclear war"

LOL they are not that dumb,

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: replicator

Originally posted by: rbloedow
If need be, we will squash them like a bug. They are not a threat, just a nuisance.

If they were just a nuisance, they would have been taken care of along time ago.
If there is war with North Korea, the casualties would be enormous. First of all, say good bye to Japan and South Korea, and all the thousands of US troops deployed there.

Also serious chance that they would launch missles(Taepo Dong 2) that the CIA says could hit western US.


N.Korea is a serious threat, unlike the regime that Saddam presented. I don't think military action is the right solution, but at the same time, we can't allow them to continue their weapons programe.

luckily they have lousy guidence systems. Nothing as precise as satellite tracking systems, so they could land just about anywhere

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: replicator

Originally posted by: rbloedow
If need be, we will squash them like a bug. They are not a threat, just a nuisance.

If they were just a nuisance, they would have been taken care of along time ago.
If there is war with North Korea, the casualties would be enormous. First of all, say good bye to Japan and South Korea, and all the thousands of US troops deployed there.

Also serious chance that they would launch missles(Taepo Dong 2) that the CIA says could hit western US.


N.Korea is a serious threat, unlike the regime that Saddam presented. I don't think military action is the right solution, but at the same time, we can't allow them to continue their weapons programe.

luckily they have lousy guidence systems. Nothing as precise as satellite tracking systems, so they could land just about anywhere

It is a nuclear missle a few feet or miles of target doesn't much matter.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: replicator

Originally posted by: rbloedow
If need be, we will squash them like a bug. They are not a threat, just a nuisance.

If they were just a nuisance, they would have been taken care of along time ago.
If there is war with North Korea, the casualties would be enormous. First of all, say good bye to Japan and South Korea, and all the thousands of US troops deployed there.

Also serious chance that they would launch missles(Taepo Dong 2) that the CIA says could hit western US.


N.Korea is a serious threat, unlike the regime that Saddam presented. I don't think military action is the right solution, but at the same time, we can't allow them to continue their weapons programe.

luckily they have lousy guidence systems. Nothing as precise as satellite tracking systems, so they could land just about anywhere

This is true. My understanding is they aren't accurate to more than 300 to 500 meters.

 

[AnImuS]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Push the God damn buttons and get it over with, sheesh

Ditto. I wish i could push the buttons

 

[CWRMadcat]

Originally posted by: AnImuS

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Push the God damn buttons and get it over with, sheesh

Ditto. I wish i could push the buttons

Let's hope foriegners don't think the same way you do.

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Push the God damn buttons and get it over with, sheesh

geez...they say this so often, I'm willing to tell them the same thing. A nice big nuclear war...maybe that'll shut them up... nothing else seems to...

 

[Ferocious]

N. Korea knows they are safe from attack as they have no major oil supply.

 

[DaFinn]

I just changed my mind, I now officially think US is the most dangerous country in the world...
I cannot beleive there are people who tkae nuclear weapons so light. "Push the goddam button already!"...
chees

 

[maluckey]

Do your reasearch before spouting off. N. Korea has no possibility, without Russia and China cooperating, of ever surviving a nuclear war. They may not even be able to deliver their ordinance if they tried. The United States, or any other country would immediately receive enormous international support if N. Korea would be stupid enough to launch a first strike. N. Korea would be a memory if Russia, China and the U.S. decided to make it so. Most people know that, so they say such things as "press the button already". They are calling the bluf for what it is....extortion.

N. Korea itself is a Nuisance, but the selling of it's technologies to certain other countries is far more chilling. They may yet get their wish if they seel to the wrong countries. Some people aren't so picky as to whom they use their newfound nukes on. Could bite them in the ass. Most people would shed too many tears if N. Korea got pounded for it's own stupidity.

 

[alchemize]

You gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?

 

[HappyPuppy]

Kim must be basing his foreign policy on The Mouse That Roared. I wonder what the little rat would do if the U.S. suddenly surrendered unconditionally to North Korea. :Q

 

[MAW1082]

All they want is for the U.S. trade embargo to be lifted, right?

In today's industrial community it's almost impossible for a country to thrive while in complete isolation. What is the point of this? Let the Koreans be a part of the rest of the world already. Is the U.S. really this scared of the spreaed of the red shirts?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: MAW1082
All they want is for the U.S. trade embargo to be lifted, right?

In today's industrial community it's almost impossible for a country to thrive while in complete isolation. What is the point of this? Let the Koreans be a part of the rest of the world already. Is the U.S. really this scared of the spreaed of the red shirts?

kim jong il is afraid of letting his country be part of the rest of the world. if his country is thriving he can't maintain power. it's only through complete control that he can do so.