Following weeks of tit-for-tat ratcheting up of rhetoric, North Korea said earlier that they believe war is “probably only hours away,” and followed that by saying that a state of war exists with the US and South Korea, adding that their military commanders are holding “emergency” meetings to prepare for a conflict with the US.
North Korean officials issued a statement saying that the “provocations” of US nuclear bomber overflights were no longer tolerable, and that there was no point in pretending that a state of “neither war nor peace” could be maintained on the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea’s military has threatened attacks on the American mainland, with a photo released in the state newspaper conspicuously including a chart labeling “plan to hit the mainland of the US.” They aren’t believed to even have the capability of doing that.
US officials are shrugging this all off as “bluster,” and they insist the blame for spiraling tensions is entirely on the side of North Korea. They insist the simulated nuclear weapons bombing runs are just “defensive” in nature.
Both sides seem contented to issue new statements daily, if not hourly, insisting that something or other has forced them to raise the level of alert of their forces. North Korea, which already claimed the “highest” level of readiness weeks ago, claimed to have found an even higher level yet yesterday to ratchet things up to.
Now they’ve reached the point of saying a state of war exists, which it technically has for decades since there was never a deal to end the last Korean War. So far neither side seems to be doing any actual fighting, but with the rhetoric seemingly hitting its limit, the risk is going to continue to grow dramatically until some sort of understanding is reached.
People: you are looking at the WWIII cessation.., the Syrian war is just a beginning.., the sad part of it is that Korean War not going to be the end either. Now is there any law anywhere that can redeems the noble peace prize.., or bring George W. Bush and his gang of mafia to justice.., prosecuting them for war crimes, act against humanity so we the people can live our life in peace…?
Very funny and backward your thinking is. You forgot Putin and his gang for murdering and massacring the Chechen popilation. Two wars and 330.000 Chechen dead or one third of the population. the second third pushed out of Chechnya and now living in Europe. Now we add Iran which massacred the Sunnis in Iran and Iraq and now in Syria. Mojo. I said to you you are a parrot which repeats what it hears. I don't trust the liberal antiwar writers. Most of them are Jews who's loyalties stand for Israel.
What the hell the North Korea situation got to do with Chechen and other matters that you talking about.., where the hell is your evidence when it comes to Iranian killing sunny Muslims and Putin killing of Chechen.., what the hell these two matters got anything to do with present and past North Korean situation.., explain.., can you…?
Look: USA is after, planed for, orchestrated wars since second world war, Korean, Vietnam, Balkan war and now Syrian war to conquer the entire Middle East and Central Asia…, that is to say if you would have a slides idea where middle east and central asia is.., and if they could entire southern part of Russia and china.., since the time all the wars conducted is based on that idea.., look at the history and read something.., beside "washing" your brain by tv stations looking as if they are the source of facts.
The majority of the Iranian population are sheia Muslims.., when and where this killing of Sunni Muslims took place..? Two: where and when the killing of Chechen took place, who were these Chechens and why…?
I was born and raised in Jordan dikhead. I am also Chechen born in Jordan. I am also US citizen dumbass. I know the world better than you stupid. I have been all around the world and lived in many countries. I have been the subject of persecution by the US government and spend 5 years in federal prison. Tell me you fukhead which countries you visited. You want evidence from me for what the Russian and Iranian did. Evidently you are ignorant dikhead. You either still a teenie bopper or total ignorant about world events. You are another sheeple who gets his information from his master. You need to open your other eyes stupid. US, Russia, Iran, Israel, China and Europe are working together to annihilate the Sunni population.
Why do you get mad? What's the problem with asking evidence about one's arguments? Isn't this the necessary, normal thing to do? Your post is full of insults. It shows your cosmopolitanism!
S, Russia, Iran, Israel, China and Europe are working together to annihilate the Sunni population.
YOU ARE THE DUMB ONE. GET HISTORY 101 FIRST AND THEN TALK.
You all dumbasses. You all liberals and communists. I am really begining to realize the truth. You all none Muslims hate Muslims. There's no benefit of reading the junk blogs or visiting this website.
North korea is just as stupid as the US on this. Communism is dead. We go to war with North korea north korea is reduced to rubble. Russia and china wont do anything stupid.
I agree with you 100%. You are the only one with common sense at this blog. The rest are parrots repeating what the liberal writers tell them. North Korea is a boogy man put by the US to scare off Japan and South korea to keep their bases in S. Korea and Japan. Every time the north makes threat the south and the Japs stick to the Americans. US could easily wipe out the north from the face of the map. The same with Iran. It's a boogy man put by the US to scare the gulf regimes to stick to US. Israel, Iran and the US cooperate with each other to control the region.
There's no place where communism isn't busting out…you're an idiot.
I am sure you are the idiot. You are using liberal porno name with no picture while I am using my photo. Let me see how brave you are dikhead. You are underestimating how powerful the US military machine. Pls go and watch more porn movies because this is all you can reach with your intelligence.
And what do the South Koreans say about all of this? They are the ones who are going to suffer from a war with the North and suffer greatly. All of this pushing N. Korea around is going to have a devastating effect on S. Korea, regardless of who wins in the end.
S. Korea should pay a visit to N. Korea and resolve their conflict together, without the interference and ratcheting nonsense from the US. This is a Korean problem and only Koreans will solve it.
The problem is that Nth Korea is so Paranoid and its leadership so Sociopathic they could explode a Nuke on thir own Territory just so that the fallout irradiates the south and the Sth Korean capital!
Yes, that´s what we´ve been told about those evil doers in the North of the Korean peninsula all of these years. It just so happens that those who talk about the evils of N. Korea also tell lies about everyone and anyone and are running around committing crimes against humanity all over the world, so who are we to believe? Maybe, just maybe, N. Korea isn´t as fanatical as we are lead to believe. Personally, I stopped believing everything the US Government says, absolutely everything – it´s never too late to negotiate for peace, especially talks between the two Koreas and without the interference of America and its stupid bombers.
You mean the way the North American government (and other nuclear-capable countries) has been doing for decades in their own territory affecting the lives of millions of their own citizens and citizens all over the world? The 2000 Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation to the General Assembly states that:
“The main man-made contribution to the exposure of the world's population [to radiation] has come from the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, from 1945 to 1980. Each nuclear test resulted in unrestrained release into the environment of substantial quantities of radioactive materials, which were widely dispersed in the atmosphere and deposited everywhere on the Earth’s surface.”
The Korean War of the 1950s never ended – there is just an armistice.
And to think, just moments before Bush opened his big mouth and included North Korea in his 'Axis of Evil' speech — needed a non-Muslim country to include — the two Koreas were in discussion about reunification. North Korea had voluntarily signed the NPT in 1985, but following threats by America, formally withdrew it's signature in Jan 2003 and restarted its nuclear weapons program stating the need for self-defense.
Someone didn't seem to want the Koreas to get back together and instead wanted the North to become a pariah state so we could pump more taxpayers' money into the military-industrial complex.
WHAT ? North Korea has knocked "eye-ran" off the fear page ???
Why haven’t you posted my comments?
[moderator’s note: Because I have a life that extends beyond sitting at my computer waiting for you to comment so that I can instantly approve it. Sometimes you’re just going to have to wait a bit – TLK]