North Korea making threats again

by Infidelesto on January 4, 2008 · View Comments

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so much for the peace experiment

SEOUL, Jan 4 (Reuters) – North Korea said on Friday it would boost its war deterrent, a day after the United States said it was sending its nuclear envoy back to Asia to discuss an atomic disarmament deal on which Pyongyang has missed a deadline.

North Korea failed to fully account for its nuclear weapons programme or answer U.S. suspicions that it has secretly tried to enrich uranium for weapons. It was supposed to have made the declaration by the end of 2007.

“(We) will further strengthen our war deterrent capabilities in response to U.S. attempts to initiate nuclear war,” the prickly state’s communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary.

The North, with one of the world’s largest standing armies, usually threatens to bolster its deterrent, often taken to be a reference to its nuclear arsenal, when it feels international powers are not treating it properly.

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  • Robert B.

    A pity the Bush Administration took the Jimmy Carter/Bill Clinton approach to NK: give them food for their army, money to pay the army, fuel to warm their army, and ask “pretty please, stop making nukes.” Better to have followed Ike’s precident and bomb them until they gety back on their side of the DMZ and stay there.

    All the USA, South Korea, and Japan had to do back about North Korea in the eighties was …. nothing. Don’t send them food, fuel, or money, since it went to the army anyway. Don’t let up on their sanctions and isolation. You can not negotiate with a lunatic regime.

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