South Korea Warns On North Korea Threat: War Armistice

[webfact]

South Korea warns on North Korea threat

SEOUL: -- South Korea's military has warned it will respond to any provocation from North Korea, after Pyongyang's threat to scrap the Korean War armistice.

Army Gen Kim Yong-hyun promised "resolute retaliations" if South Korean lives were threatened.

North Korea said in a statement on Tuesday said it would end the truce on 11 March due to UN sanctions and military exercises in South Korea.

The Koreas remain technically at war, as they have not signed a peace treaty.

"If North Korea carries out provocations that threaten the lives and safety of South Koreans, our military will carry out strong and resolute retaliations," South Korea's Gen Kim Yong-hyun told reporters.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21681522


-- BBC 2013-03-07

[Mosha]

China need's to muzzle their pet dog

[comserve]

Might be a good thing. Clearly the Armistice Agreement is not worth the paper it is written on.

By cancelling it, North Korea now would have one less thing to threaten the south with.

[jamhar]

This is a true powder keg. All it needs is a spark.

The NK's are totally unpredictable and therefore, incredibly dangerous.

"China need's to muzzle their pet dog" is absolutely correct.

[Payboy]

After meeting Rodman, their motto is "bad as I wanna be", I guess.

[JeffreyWitty]

The armistice is a joke anyway - considering North Korea has already fired artillery shells on South Korea's Yi-Pi-Do island, killing a couple civilians and marines.

The north will continue to try to bully the south until they get free money, food, etc. They are thugs.

[Fozfromoz]

The armistice is a joke anyway - considering North Korea has already fired artillery shells on South Korea's Yi-Pi-Do island, killing a couple civilians and marines.

The north will continue to try to bully the south until they get free money, food, etc. They are thugs.

The world needs to turn off the money and food tap. Then they can suffer their great communism.

[Smee]

Its all very well to slam North Koreans as "thugs", but the fact is that most North Koreans have very little idea that life might be so different outside North Korea having been isolated for so long. Their leaders are thugs, and much worse, yes. But average North Korean citizens are simply human beings trapped in a terrible system who have no option but to obey or die. I guess most of them believe that is also the way it is for South Koreans and everyone else in the world. Sanctions don't harm the elite, they simply serve to entrench them and prohibit the citizens from any hpoe of betterment, material, social, political or spiritual.

China is, and always hase been, the key to resloving the Korean crisis, but so far it has shown little interest in helping he West shove the doors open.

[TPI]

Perhaps it might pay to give both back to Japan, then they would have a common enemy again. It would, at least get them talking to each other in a rational way?

Or, there is always the option of letting them beat the bejesus out of each other and settle the problem for the next 100 years!

[khaowong1]

After meeting Rodman, their motto is "bad as I wanna be", I guess.

That's right... the midget in North Korea told Dennis, all I want is a phone call from Obama.. a nice little chat, mano y mano..

He told Dennis that him and Obama have a lot in common.. including basketball. So here's my idea, a one on one game of pony.. winner takes all.

Here's my thinking with China.. with the whole world watching North Korea, it's take the worlds eyes off them..

[midas]

North Korea threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike against US

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/07/north-korea-threatens-nuclear-strike-us

[Payboy]

After meeting Rodman, their motto is "bad as I wanna be", I guess.

That's right... the midget in North Korea told Dennis, all I want is a phone call from Obama.. a nice little chat, mano y mano..

He told Dennis that him and Obama have a lot in common.. including basketball. So here's my idea, a one on one game of pony.. winner takes all.

Here's my thinking with China.. with the whole world watching North Korea, it's take the worlds eyes off them..

With KIJU setting the rules, the hoop will be 1 meter above the ground.

[webfact]

N. Korea voids non-aggression pacts with South

PYONGYANG: -- North Korea announced Friday it was voiding non-aggression pacts with South Korea and severing a hotline with Seoul, hours after the UN Security Council adopted tough new sanctions on Pyongyang.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/624376-north-korea-voids-non-aggression-pacts-with-south/

[Jingthing]

So much for the theory that Baby Dictator is going to be better just because he went to a boarding school in Switzerland.

[Payboy]

So much for the theory that Baby Dictator is going to be better just because he went to a boarding school in Switzerland.

All he learnt there was how to use the Army Knife.

Edited March 8, 2013 by Payboy

[RickBradford]

After meeting Rodman, their motto is "bad as I wanna be", I guess.

That's right... the midget in North Korea told Dennis, all I want is a phone call from Obama.. a nice little chat, mano y mano..

He told Dennis that him and Obama have a lot in common.. including basketball. So here's my idea, a one on one game of pony.. winner takes all.

Here's my thinking with China.. with the whole world watching North Korea, it's take the worlds eyes off them..

Except that the Kim family are exceptional sportsmen -- Kim Jong Il, in his first round of golf, shot a 38, (equating to 34 under par), including 11 holes in one.

The loss to the golf world when he died was widely, er, mourned: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-20/golf-world-mourns-kim-jong-il/3739452

[Beetlejuice]

Some reports have said that the major powers are not taking this funny looking tin pot leader too seriously, but as history recalls, the same was also said about the little man with the funny moustache, Adolf Hitler, during the early 1930s.

Korea is over 2000 miles in distance from Thailand, but is still within the South East Asian region. If war breaks us, would it affect us here? What about the economic disruption and chaos this would create, could Thailand be brought into the conflict and what could be the consequences for Thailand in the event of this war, which is looking imminent?

Could World War 3 be on the horizon?

Edited March 8, 2013 by Beetlejuice

[transam]

Very sad but the real people of the north are exactly the same as folk in the south. Just want to live a normal life and get bye. Unfortunately a few want to brain wash the populous into..... eeeeeeeer...... hmmmm, I really don't know what. The USA and others could flatten the scrote rulers in an instant but the innocent will suffer. We are at a time where just a couple of nations ''rulers'' are living their world and not their peoples. Yep, very sad.

[geriatrickid]

If the positions were reversed and it was China or Russia being threatened, what do you think the reaction would be? China sends its navy to intimidate Vietnam and the Phillippines now during a dispute over some coastal areas. Why is it south Korea, Japan and the USA are expected to remain so quiet and take the threats and attacks? North Korea has already attacked the South with the South turning the other cheek.

The assumption made is that the USA will suffer in the event of a war. A cursory look at the region will show that if a war started, all pacific shipping in the region would halt. Boom goes the Chinese export economy. Boom goes the South Korean economy and kaboom goes the teetering Japanese economy. These are 3 of the world's biggest and a war would plunge the world into an economic crisis that would make the depression of the dirty 30's llook like a mild recession. Most transpacific flights would have to be suspended. Yes, the Chinese would most likely intervene in the event of a NK fiasco, but that would mean another land grab and a refugee crisis that China doesn't want or can afford with its precarious economic conditions. North Korea is the land of zombies and sadly, no amount of compassion can help. Anyone over the age of 10 will most likely have been brainwashed into sacrificing for the regime. The last time this happened was in WWII when the allies realized that an invasion of Japan would result in hundreds of thousands of allied casualties and deaths. We know what happened there.

[jackr]

They should just be ignored; it's all hot air.

[Dancealot]

I observe a tendency of US involvement

North Vietnam/Russia against south Vietnam. 1964

North Korea/Russia/China against south Korea.

[geriatrickid]

I observe a tendency of US involvement

North Vietnam/Russia against south Vietnam. 1964

North Korea/Russia/China against south Korea.

Count your blessings the USA is willing to subsidize a presence in South Korea. It is not as if the EU or the great leaders of the "non aligned" bloc are willing to do anything now. It has always been in some countries economic interests to keep South Korea occupied with the North. Just consider if the South could have invested some of its defense spending in its industrial and social services sector. India and China would not be having a field day in some export sectors. The EU wouldn't need to fear South Korea's ship building prowess or heavy industrial equipment output. South Koreans are a country with a right to a chip on its shoulder as they suffered a far worse colonial past than any African or South American country, and it suffered through a brutal barbaric war initiated by the expansionist Chinese communists. And yet, the South Koreans don't come blaming anyone for their woes. An unsmiling nation, grouchy at the best of times, but a country with legitimate grievances that most of the world has conveniently ignored.

And as an aside, a nation that turns out the boy bands that are the envy of all of the other asian countries.

[kurnell]

North Korea is like that boring, boastful <deleted> at the pub, that everyone ignores.

[Jingthing]

North Korea is like that boring, boastful <deleted> at the pub, that everyone ignores.

Yeah but you start to notice him when he's wearing a suicide bomb vest ...

[kurnell]

North Korea is like that boring, boastful <deleted> at the pub, that everyone ignores.

Yeah but you start to notice him when he's wearing a suicide bomb vest ...

Not many suicide bombers at my pub...nor North Korea as far as I know

[Mosha]

Imagine if the pub is south of the border, and the suicide bomber is strapped to a missile.

[Loptr]

Not much to worry about for those in Thailand. The nuclear fallout will be blown out over the Pacific by the trade winds.

[transam]

Imagine if the pub is south of the border, and the suicide bomber is strapped to a missile.

Not much to worry about for those in Thailand. The nuclear fallout will be blown out over the Pacific by the trade winds.

I have a secret photo, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

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