The Official Kimchi-flavored Doom Thread

[Cogburn]

Swine flu was a bust.... now its NORTH KOREA!

[offsite=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aS17xp.yHokM&refer=home:1zer0zac]North Korea Threatens Armed Strike, End to Armistice (Update3)
By Heejin Koo

May 27 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea threatened a military response to South Korean participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction, and said it’s no longer bound by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.

“The Korean People’s Army will not be bound to the Armistice Agreement any longer,” the official Korean Central News Agency said in a statement today. Any attempt to inspect North Korean vessels will be countered with “prompt and strong military strikes.”[/offsite:1zer0zac]

[offsite=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522103,00.html:1zer0zac]N. Korea Warns of Strike Against S. Korea, U.S.
EOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned South Korea and the United States on Wednesday that Seoul's participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction is equal to a declaration of war.

South Korea announced its participation in the U.S.-led program on Tuesday, one day after North Korea defiantly conducted a nuclear test, drawing international criticism.

The North's military said in a statement that it will respond with "immediate, strong military measures" against any attempt to stop and search North Korean ships under the Proliferation Security Initiative.

The statement, carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency, also said the regime no longer considers itself bound by the armistice that ended the Korean War. It accused the U.S., a signatory of the armistice, of "dragging" the South into the program under its "hostile policy" against the North.

It also said it cannot guarantee safety for South Korean and U.S. navy ships sailing near the disputed western Korean sea border.[/offsite:1zer0zac]


[offsite=http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/05/27/200905270087.asp:1zer0zac]N. Korea bolsters combat drills: source

North Korea has recently stepped up its combined military exercises in regions close to South Korea and increased surveillance over their border, Yonhap News reported citing its source Wednesday.
Its leader Kim Jong-il inspected a special forces drill at an eastern coastal city in mid-April while naval and air forces have bolstered their joint training based on a war scenario off the west coast, the source said, demanding anonymity.

"North Korea is intensifying its military training despite its economic difficulties," the South Korean military source said, adding Kim visited the city of Wonsan on April 15 to observe an Army drill.

Kim, 67, who reportedly suffered a stroke last year, visited the city about 90 kilometers north of the inter-Korean border to inspect "industrial facilities," North Korean state media had said on April 27.

"Overnight special forces marches on mountains were stepped up in the area," the source said, adding North Korean naval and air forces have also increased "practical training" in the west.

"The Navy appears to be stepping up exercises off the island of Chodo with a hypothetical target in mind," he said. Chodo is the largest North Korean island along the country's southwestern coast.

"The Navy and the Air Force are training jointly based on a war plan," he said, noting the country routinely checks its war plans through joint exercises between the Army, the Air Force and the Navy.

"It appears that North Korea's combat readiness is at its peak," the source added.[/offsite:1zer0zac]

... and 33 minutes from the time of this posting ....
[offsite=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/26/nkorea.test/index.html:1zer0zac]Report: N. Korea fires another missile
SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea has fired another short-range missile, the South Korean Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday.


North Korean leader Kim Jong-II is suspected to have suffered a stroke last August.

The agency cited a government official who said that the missile had been fired into the Sea of Japan, the latest in a series of tests that began two days ago.

North Korea's actions have heightened tensions in the international community, though U.S. officials made it clear that other nations will not be intimidated by the "provocative and destabilizing" missile tests, particularly the nuclear test on Monday.

"If they want to continue to test and provoke the international community, they're going to find that they will pay a price, because the international community is very clear -- this is not acceptable, it won't be tolerated, and they won't be intimidated," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told CNN's "American Morning."[/offsite:1zer0zac]

Better than swine flu... it's people... and people are some craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy bitches.

If swine flu ended up a 2 on the 1 to 10 DOOM scale... I'd give this one a 4.5 at the moment.

[itma]

I wonder what the official Chinese response will be to these reports ?

Itma

[Cogburn]

LOL... not quite so... edgy.

[offsite=http://www.cctv.com/program/newshour/20090527/105649.shtml:2stvzory]Pyongyang celebrates nuclear test
2009-05-27 14:03 BJT

South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reports the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has now test launched five missiles since its claim of a second nuclear test on Monday.
The DPRK celebrated the underground test at Pyongyang's Indoor Gymnasium, a venue often used to stage meetings in support of state policy, as well as musical and athletic performances.
Senior officials at the event included parliamentary chief Kim Yong Nam.
The DPRK says the nuclear test and missile launches were carried out in self-defense.
Pak Tok Hun, Deputy DPRK Ambassador to UN, said, "What is important is to put an end to hostile comments, hostile policy, in particular that of the United States and Japan. We have no any other intention than to defend ourselves."
Yonhap also reports the DPRK appears to have re-started its nuclear processing facility at Yongbyon.
The DPRK has been disabling the facility as part of an aid-for-denuclearization deal in 2007.
Pyongyang said in April that it would restart the facility to protest a UN Security Council Statement condemning its long-range rocket launch earlier that month.[/offsite:2stvzory]

[offsite=http://www.cctv.com/program/newshour/20090527/105651.shtml:2stvzory]Key nations discuss DPRK nuclear test
2009-05-27 14:03 BJT

Several key nations have met to discuss a UN Security Council resolution against the DPRK for its latest nuclear test. Some say the resolution could include new sanctions against the DPRK.
Ambassadors from the five permanent Security Council members held closed-door talks on DPRK's nuclear test at the UN headquarters.
South Korea and Japan also took part.
Following the meeting, the US ambassador says they agree on the goals of a resolution.
Susan Rice, US Ambassador to UN, said, "We share a common set of objectives which are to convey very clearly and unequivocally that the actions by North Korea run counter to the interests of regional peace and security, violate international law and need to be dealt with directly and seriously."
Japan says previous resolutions are not sufficient.
Yukio Takasu, Japan's Ambassador to UN, said, "The Council needs this strong message. Nobody is saying what we have done so far, what has been agreed upon is enough."
The Security Council has condemned the DPRK's large underground explosion as a violation of the resolution it adopted after Pyongyang's first nuclear blast in October, 2006.
The resolution banned future tests, imposed sanctions and called for Pyongyang to return to the six-party talks aimed at eliminating its nuclear program.[/offsite:2stvzory]

Does that mean it's bad?
:lol:

[theeindiee]

oy.... nonsense is all it is.

[Alessandra]

what if its a dirty nuke with swine/manbearpig flu? OMG ITS THE END

[Foxtrot Oscar]

I give KJI a 7.6 for sabre rattling. He could push for a 9 if he threatened someone proper like "I'ma gunna make Hiroshima look like a birthday sparkler!"

3.6 for the platform shoes and fuck all for the bad hair!

Fox

[Lexion]

This was too funny to pass on...

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa20/Lexion07/ikcgsaed.jpg

Regards,
Lex

[Cogburn]

[offsite=http://matzav.com/world-war-iii-has-started/:quxajljz]World War III Has Started
Wednesday May 27, 2009 2:22 PM

By Eitan Haber
One needs to be deaf, blind, and an idiot at this time in order not to understand that the nuclear bomb tested in North Korea two days ago also exploded in the Prime Minister’s Office in Yerushalayim. The North Koreans blatantly disregarded the Americans and publically presented them as a meaningless power, yet officials in Jerusalem are still reciting the “Road Map” and making note of the evacuation of some minor West Bank outpost. The world is changing before our eyes, yet here we see Knesset members earnestly explaining that the Americans will agree that we stay in Judea and Samaria if we only evacuate some tin shacks.Two days ago, in North Korea, World War III officially got underway - the war that would pit “crazy” states such as North Korea and Iran, for example, against states we shall characterize as “moderate,” including Egypt, Gulf states, and Saudi Arabia, which at this time leads the Arab initiative for peace with Israel.

Ever since Sunday, the world has gone crazy, and this crazy world is monitoring with horror the struggle between the “moderate” and “crazy” states. The problem is that some of those crazy states - Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea - already have, or will have, a nuclear button to push, while the moderates, headed by the United States, are not eager to rush into battle.

Why? Because America is already entangled in wars, and there was someone who recently won the presidential elections there, among other reasons because he pledged to remove US troops from the Iraqi and Afghani quagmire. That same president promised that we shall live in a world free of nuclear weapons. Remember that?

This is the same North Korea that spat in America’s face three years ago, and this week it did it again. Based on the reactions in Washington (unless they are part of a deception campaign,) it doesn’t appear that the great America will respond. Now all we need is for Iran to blatantly disregard America and Israel in order to prompt us to slide into real emergency turmoil (as opposed to the drill planned for the coming days.)

Iran is here already. There is a direct and intimate link between the Korean bomb and the planned Iranian bomb; between Iran’s and North Korea’s spit in America’s face, Washington’s desire and ability to lead the fight against the crazy world, and the Israeli government’s conduct.

One does not need to be a supporter or rival of the settlement enterprise in the territories to understand this Gordian knot - and the question is whether we want the American sword to undo it for us.

If the answer is positive, we need to be familiar with the Americans to realize that three tin huts removed from the Maoz Ester outpost are not good enough.[/offsite:quxajljz]

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

Great, now the Zionists are going to use the events in North Korea as a pretext to start more shit in the MI.

[Cogburn]

CNN Situation Room is reporting live at this time that U.S. military sources are saying that the DPRK is prepping another nuclear detonation.

No link and hasn't made the website yet.

Not... not good.

[Lexion]

Cog,

Between you and me ?

I'm fucking worried.

Kim is probably near death
and wants to go in a glorious
bang.

Scares the fuck outta me.

Skeered,
Lex

[Cogburn]

Kim is dead, I believe. There have been no reported public appearances since he went to hospital last year and photographs of him released since that time have been obvious fakes.

I don't have the links handy but I'll see if I can dig them up.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

[offsite:1gwx7uaz]Inside America’s (Mock) Attack on North Korea

Even the hawks say there’s not much America can do, in response to North Korea’s nuclear test. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. military isn’t prepping for a war with the Kim Jong-Il regime, just in case.

In March, American and South Korean forces teamed up for the “Key Resolve/Foal Eagle” war game. 13,100 troops from outside Korea — and tens of thousands more, already stationed in the country — participated in the massive exercise, which focused on “deploying troops and equipment to Korea in the event of an attack,” according to a military press release.

...

The Americans and their allies kicked all kinds of butt in the exercise, of course. Other war games, testing out the North Korean scenario, didn’t end quite as cleanly. One ran by The Atlantic in 2005 forecast 100,000 or more dead civilians in the first few days. And that was if the U.S. could assemble the half-million to million troops needed for such an assault; none of the participants thought such a staggering number of troops could be gathered together, given all of America’s military commitments around the world.

Two years earlier, the Pentagon put together a very different kind of war plan for North Korea — one that didn’t involve ground troops at all. Instead, U.S. forces would lob bombs and missiles and electronic attacks in an instant “global strike.” Even nuclear weapons were considered, as part of the plan.

...

In 2003, retired Colonel John Collins ran through the possible moves and countermoves in a military standoff on the Korean peninsula — from blockades to full-out nuclear strikes. His conclusion: “Any of the U.S. options described above could trigger uncontrollable escalation that would create appalling casualties on both sides of the DMZ and promise a Pyrrhic victory at best. Unilateral actions by the United States without unqualified ROK [Republic of Korea] agreement and willing participation every step of the way would be immoral as well as ill- advised. Inaction while Kim Jong Il develops a robust nuclear arsenal and perhaps supplies nuclear weapons to U.S. enemies, unfortunately, would worsen any future confrontation.”

Wired.com | Inside America’s (Mock) Attack on North Korea (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/inside-americas-mock-attack-north-korea/)[/offsite:1gwx7uaz]

More -

[offsite:1gwx7uaz]Nuke Test Only the Beginning for North Korea, U.S. Spooks Say

As if test-blasting a nuke wasn’t provocative enough. North Korea may be getting ready for even more destabilizing measures, U.S. intelligence analysts believe.

A cl0se reading of the North Korean government’s recent pronouncements suggests to the Director of National Intelligence’s Open Source Center that Kim Jong-Il “regime is poised to take additional escalatory steps in the near future, despite any additional international isolation that might result.”

In an analysis provided to the Federation of American Scientists, unnamed Korea-watchers at the Open Source Center say that Pyongyang is “fram[ing] the test as part of an ongoing drive to strengthen its nuclear deterrent and not as a one-time event meant to press for diplomatic exchange, as has sometimes been the case for past escalatory measures. The move builds on the North’s authoritative announcement last month of its decision to carry out a nuclear test, which included pledges to conduct ICBM tests and openly pursue a uranium enrichment capability.”

Pyongyang’s official announcement of the test was similar to the communique it issued after its 2006 attempt to detonate a nuke.But there were important differences. The test was billed as just “one part” of an ongoing process to “further increasing the power of [North Korea's] nuclear weapons.” And it was linked to a “150-day” economic production drive that many believe is meant to highlight the credentials of Kim Jong-Il’s third son and possible successor.

NightWatch adds that “the linkage of the nuclear test to the 150-day campaign exposes the leadership’s enduring expectation of economic benefits from going nuclear. Apparently Kim and his men and women think if they do it big enough, they will get rewarded.”

The Open Source Center also notes recent North Korean media reports of Kim Jong Il himself visiting “revolutionary memorials… near the reported location of North’s nuclear test site. Because Kim did not visit the vicinity in 2006, at least not publicly, the decision to announce his appearance this time suggests the regime is trying to portray Kim as having observed test preparations or watched the test itself. In either case, the regime is drawer a closer public connection between Kim and the program than previously existed.”

Wired.com | Nuke Test Only the Beginning for North Korea, U.S. Spooks Say (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/us-intel-nuke-test-only-the-beginning-for-north-korea/)[/offsite:1gwx7uaz]

If they are indeed prepping another test, that would fit the scenario above.

[Cogburn]

[offsite=http://www.watoday.com.au/world/north-korea-serious-20090528-bo51.html:2glp24ll]North Korea 'serious'
John Garnaut Herald Correspondent in Beijing
May 27, 2009

NORTH KOREA has promised "unimaginable, merciless punishment" against those who have provoked it, after the world condemned its testing of a nuclear bomb.

Analysts in Seoul say the dramatic escalation could lead to "skirmishes" along the 38th parallel in coming weeks.

The North is particularly upset that South Korea, under the conservative President Lee Myung-bak, responded to Monday's underground blast by joining a US-led nuclear non-proliferation security initiative to intercept vessels suspected of carrying banned materials.

Pyongyang said it would abandon the truce that ended the devastating Korean War in 1953. "Those who have provoked us will face unimaginable, merciless punishment," the official Korean Central News Agency said.

"Any tiny hostile acts against our republic, including the stopping and searching of our peaceful vessels … will face an immediate and strong military strike in response."

Most North Korea-watchers say the recent belligerency reflects a domestic political transition, with the military in the ascendancy and ailing dictator Kim Jong-il positioning to ensure one of his sons succeeds him.

Analysts in Seoul, who are well within range of the short-range missiles tested by the North each day this week, said the rhetoric should not be dismissed.

"They're damn serious," Choi Jong Kun, professor of political science at Yonsei University in Seoul, said. He said the North had long warned that if South Korea joined the non-proliferation initiative, they would take it as a declaration of war.

But Professor Choi said an exchange of fire across the border would not lead to war.

"War is inconceivable because we know and they know that we will win, albeit with a lot of damage," he said.

The world is at a loss with how to respond to North Korea. Even its traditional ally China is divided, with some analysts venting frustration at years of moderate diplomacy.

Sun Zhe, the director of the Sino-US Relations Institute of Tsinghua University, told the Global Times newspaper that the Chinese Government should teach the North Korea a lesson.

"There is no need for China to maintain its past policy toward its trouble-making neighbour any longer," he said.

So far, Chinese officials have appeared to favour coaxing North Korea back to the six-party talks rather than supporting strong actions that might push its renegade ally to the brink of collapse.[/offsite:2glp24ll]

[Alessandra]

Great, now the Zionists are going to use the events in North Korea as a pretext to start more shit in the MI.

I wouldnt think they'd need another 'pretext'...

[Eyeforalie]

If Kimmy is alive he must be an angry drunk.

[Alessandra]

If Kimmy is alive he must be an angry drunk.

Kinda like Apeci....

[guinnessford]

Whos this Allesandra chick??

[Alessandra]

LOL

[guinnessford]

The Avvie looks farmiliar.

[Alessandra]

are you serious? lol

[Lexion]

Whos this Allesandra chick??

Mine.

:)

Lex

[Alessandra]

*facepalm*

[guinnessford]

He he!

Its ok, I have TraLaLa

[Snow Crash]

Great, now the Zionists are going to use the events in North Korea as a pretext to start more shit in the MI.

Bingo...

[Lexion]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/28/north.korea.alert/index.html

CNN today.

Regards,
Lex

[Lexion]

The Avvie looks farmiliar.

WTF are you thinking about, GF ????


Need a link or three ?


Regards,
Lex

[Eyeforalie]

Need a link or three ?

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[Lexion]

Need a link or three ?

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Cuz noodles are always better with a lil' horsey sauce!

Smited.

Lex

[Bitchkoma]

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Clarifies Its Stand on UNSC's Increasing Threat (http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200905/news29/20090529-15ee.html)

[offsite:2x8j3e9e]Pyongyang, May 29 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Friday as regards the UNSC's threat to put additional sanctions against the DPRK, terming its successful nuclear test a violation of the UNSC Resolution 1718.

Over the past several decades, the DPRK has made every possible effort for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, but the U.S., instead of seeking a substantial removal of nuclear threats, has steadily increased the level of pressure upon the DPRK and it has eventually brought even the six-party talks to collapse in wanton violation of the principles of respect for the sovereignty and sovereign equality, the underlying spirits of the September 19 Joint Statement, over the DPRK's launch of satellite, the universally recognized right of each state, the statement noted, and said:

At present, some countries were shocked at the news of the DPRK's second nuclear test. But an exceptional act has its exceptional reason.

The recent nuclear test conducted by the DPRK is the 2054th one on the earth.

The five permanent members of the UNSC have conducted 99.99 percent of all the nuclear tests.

Those countries have posed the biggest nuclear threats to the world. But they took issue with our first nuclear test, which was conducted in October 2006 as a self-defensive measure to cope with increased nuclear threats by the U.S., terming it a "threat to the international peace" and adopted the sanctions resolution against the DPRK. This is exactly the UNSC Resolution 1718.

This resolution fabricated by the hypocrites has immediately invited a total rejection by the DPRK and we still do not recognize such resolution.

The UNSC with such a record produced the "presidential statement" on April 14 putting in question only the satellite launched by the DPRK for the peaceful purpose and put into force the sanctions under its Resolution 1718 on April 24 only to cause an unbearable insult to the dignity of our people and gravely infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK.

The DPRK is neither a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty nor to the Missile Technology Control Regime or MTCR. Such being the case, it has a right to conduct as many nuclear tests or missile launches as it wants in the event that the supreme interests of the state are infringed upon. Such self-defensive measures do not run counter to any other international law.

The UNSC has committed such unprecedented crime as the wanton infringement upon the right of a sovereign state to explore outer space for peaceful purposes and, instead of repenting of it, it is proactive in its outcry to cover up its crime. Under these circumstances, the DPRK, at this point, would like to draw a clear line of confrontation which will help clearly state who is to blame for the future unpredictable development of the situation.

First, the UNSC is involved in its high-handed act which will never be tolerated and it is the part of the self-defensive measures of the DPRK to respond to this with its own nuclear test which we had already made public to the world. There is a limit to our patience.

It is none other than the U.S. and other forces courting the U.S. favor who should be held entirely responsible for driving the situation to such a pass as they took the DPRK's peaceful satellite launch to the UN to launch a condemnation campaign.

It is what they said to the DPRK that a satellite launch belongs to an independent right of a sovereign state. But, after our actual satellite launch, they took sides with the U.S. in its move to condemn the DPRK.

Those countries remained silent when the large scale nuclear war exercises such as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises took place in the depth of the Korean peninsula. But, When the DPRK was compelled to conduct a nuclear test as a self-defensive measure, they are united in their voice, condemning it as "a threat to the regional peace and stability".

It means that they do not like the DPRK to possess what they had already put in place. In the final analysis, they mean small countries should obey big countries. The DPRK, though small in its territory and population, has self-confidence and grit that it is a politically and militarily strong country.

Second, we solemnly demanded that the UNSC make an apology for its crime of having seriously encroached upon the sovereignty of a sovereign state in gross violation of the Space Treaty and that it withdraw all its previously-crafted, unfair resolutions and decisions. Such a demand still remains in force.

As long as the Permanent Five alone invested with veto power and nuclear weapons have the mandate to identify what constitutes a "threat to international peace and security", the UNSC is not supposed to bring their own acts of intimidation into question indefinitely.

As long as the UNSC fails to respond to the DPRK's just demand, the DPRK will not recognize any resolution and decision of the UNSC in the future, too.

Third, if the UNSC will make further provocative actions, this will inevitably lead to the DPRK's approach towards adopting stronger self-defensive counter-measures.

The end of the Cold War worldwide works only between big powers, but a Cold War still persists on the Korean Peninsula.

The UNSC-crafted UN Command itself is a signatory to the Korean Armistice Agreement.

Any hostile act by the UNSC immediately means the abrogation of the Armistice Agreement.

The world will soon find out how the army and people of the DPRK will stand up against the high-handed and get-it-alone approach of the UNSC in defending its dignity and sovereignty.

The U.S. is keen on using a catchphrase "Carrot and stick."

It would be better for the "Donkey" of the U.S. Democratic Party to lick the carrot.[/offsite:2x8j3e9e]


TL;DR = North Korea is telling the U.S. to "go suck dick."