N.Korea Says Clash 'Only a Matter of Time'
North Korea on Thursday warned a physical clash with the South is "now only a matter of time."
The North's official Korean Central News Agency said "Inter-Korean political and military tension has reached the extreme. A physical clash remains only a matter of time." It claimed South Korean and U.S. troops are "concentrating their energy on reinforcing their combat capabilities and preparing for a war against the North."
The news agency enumerated South Korean military exercises and said the "warmongers' confrontational action" had brought relations to a point "where it is difficult to save the situation or to straighten things out."
Radio Pyongyang, which broadcasts propaganda for the South, said relations "have reached the worst crisis. In regions including the West Sea where the two sides face off against each other, a dangerous situation is being created where nobody knows when a military clash will occur." The station put the blame for tensions squarely on South Korea, which it said "is heightening tension by misjudging us and taking a more provocative attitude toward us."
A government official said the saber rattling was apparently aimed at attracting U.S. attention, coinciding as it does with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's arrival in Seoul on Thursday.
The Chosun Shinbo, a Pyongyang mouthpiece published in Japan, on Feb. 14 reported on Clinton's tour of South Korea, China and Japan. It said North Korea "will watch whether her first Asian diplomatic tour will be successful or not, using a criterion between dialogue and confrontation."
But other analysts say all this is part of a routine North Korean tactic to heighten military tension as South Korea's annual joint military exercises with the U.S. approach. They are scheduled for March 9-20.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200902/200902200006.html
N.Korea's Food Supply Woefully Short of Demand
North Korea's food supply will fall 1.17 million tons short of its 5.48-million-ton demand this year, the Unification Ministry said in a report submitted to the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee.
In December last year, the World Food Programme estimated that the North's food shortage would reach 836,000 tons this year. "The trade volume between the North and China amounted to US$2.78 billion last year, up 41.2 percent from a year earlier," added the ministry.
Meanwhile, last year's inter-Korean trade reached $1.82 billion, up only 1.2 percent from 2007.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200902/200902200011.html
And we're stuck with the worst moron in history as our potus.
Hillary's trying to tell NK to shutup...tough talk froma SoS.
Next, she'll kick KJI in the shins.
HH
Originally Posted By HoustonHusker:
And we're stuck with the worst moron in history as our potus.
HH
NKorea will be one of
many reminders of that.
BTW, I like your title - OBAMA=One Big Ass Mistake, America. Very fitting.
BTW, I like your title - OBAMA=One Big Ass Mistake, America. Very fitting.
I like that too.
There has been sporadic gunfire along the DMZ for years over there. Still, it is a sad state to know that they are within reach of launching an attack that could potentially hit the west coast of the US. Just makes the current state of affairs even more interesting.
