N. Korea 'to conduct nuclear test'

[MaNuMaNiAc]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/03/nkorea.nuclear/index.html


(CNN) -- North Korea, citing American belligerence and pressure, said Tuesday it will conduct a nuclear test.

The North Korean Foreign Ministry issued the comment in a statement published by the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA -- the communist country's official news agency.

"The field of scientific research of the DPRK will in the future conduct a nuclear test under the condition where safety is firmly guaranteed," the statement said.

DPRK is the acronym for North Korea's official name.

"The U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war and sanctions and pressure compel the DPRK to conduct a nuclear test, an essential process for bolstering nuclear deterrent, as a corresponding measure for defense." (Read: Text of North Korean statement (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/03/nkorea.nuclear.text.reut/index.html))

Six-party talks on the country's nuclear program have stalled, and North Korea test-fired missiles in July.

"The DPRK's nuclear weapons will serve as reliable war deterrent for protecting the supreme interests of the state and the security of the Korean nation from the U.S. threat of aggression and averting a new war and firmly safeguarding peace and stability on the Korean peninsula under any circumstances."

At the same time, North Korea said it would back "nuclear non-proliferation as a responsible nuclear weapons state" and do all it can "to realize the denuclearization of the peninsula and give impetus to the world-wide nuclear disarmament and the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons."

"The ultimate goal of the DPRK is not a 'denuclearization" to be followed by its unilateral disarmament but one aimed at settling the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. and removing the very source of all nuclear threats from the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity."

A date and time for the test was not issued.

The country said it "officially announced that it manufactured up-to-date nuclear weapons after going through transparent legitimate processes to cope with the U.S. escalated threat of a nuclear war and sanctions and pressure. The already declared possession of nuclear weapons presupposes the nuclear test."

The country said it would "never use nuclear weapons first but strictly prohibit any threat of nuclear weapons and nuclear transfer."

These fuckers are just itching for World War III, talk about stirring up trouble

[turambar85]

Damn these uppity little countries!! :madrun

Don't they know that only the U.S can have these weopons!!!

:spin

[Phenomanul]

"I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

--- Albert Einstein

[Nbadan]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/North_Korea_1996_CIA_map.jpg/482px-North_Korea_1996_CIA_map.jpg

Where's Lil Kim gonna go? He's China's problem not ours. Containment and assurred destruction.

[velik_m]

i think he plans to go south.

[Nbadan]

i think he plans to go south.

Where is he gonna get his resources for war with South Korea? China? Russia?

I don't think so.

[Marklar MM]

Just test a nuclular bomb on S. Korea.

[JoeChalupa]

I see Japan getting upset.

[johnsmith]

North Korea will certainly test the next White House administrations ability to deal with foreign policy in a non-violent manner.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

well, the US certainly can't cope with Iraq, Iran AND North Korea, so non-violence is going to have to work for one of those scenarios. That or someone else is going to have to bear the burden as well. England might be a good option, except... well except the english don't seem too eager to continue in this war, let alone a new one.

Had the US not invaded Iraq... now every little piece of shit country with aspirations for world power is coming out and proclaiming their "independence" from US control. Say hello to Cold War v. 2.0

The whole world can say what they want about US empirialism and shit, but wait until the US can't keep these fuckers at bay, what about then huh? Someone better step-the-fuck-up and help contain the leak brothers, 'cause make no mistake, this is a dam that is falling apart, and we're stuck right in the middle of the fucking valley, you know what I'm saying?

[RandomGuy]

I see Japan getting upset.

Last time Japan got upset wasn't pretty. j/k

This may push Japan into finally investing in a military. Not sure how they are going to do that with a shrinking population...

[PixelPusher]

Last time Japan got upset wasn't pretty. j/k

This may push Japan into finally investing in a military. Not sure how they are going to do that with a shrinking population...

Japanese Foreign Legion?

[BIG IRISH]

Maybe when the bomb goes off the winds will take the radation over China.

If it does say bye-bye to N Korea.

[velik_m]

Maybe when the bomb goes off the winds will take the radation over China.

If it does say bye-bye to N Korea.

doubtful, it will probably be underground test.

Japan has no power to do anything.

[Ocotillo]

the new prime minister of Japan has been making noises about changing the consititution of Japan so that they could militarize more in reaction to North Korea.

Man if lil' Kim does try anything with the south, try getting parts for that Kia.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/04/nkorea.nuclear.unresponse/index.html




Blunt U.S. warning to North Korea
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. envoy to stalled North Korea nuclear talks says the United States will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea and has warned Pyongyang not to test a nuclear weapon.

"We are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea," Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill told the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University Wednesday. "We are not going to accept it."

North Korea "can have a future or it can have these weapons. It cannot have both," Hill said.

South Korea, meanwhile, warned North Korea's stance could trigger a regional atomic arms race that could upend the balance of power in Northeast Asia.

Any display of Pyongyang's nuclear force could prompt Japan to go nuclear and trigger a regional arms race, South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.

Speaking to lawmakers, Yu said such a North Korean nuclear test "could provide a pretext for Japan's nuclear armament."

"This will prompt countermoves by China or Russia and lead to a change in the balance of power in Northeast Asia," AP reports Yu saying.

Hill said that on Tuesday the United States passed a message "of deep concern" about a possible test to Pyongyang through the North Korean mission to the United Nations, which serves as a contact between the two governments, but did not receive an answer.

"We will do all we can to dissuade the DPRK [North Korea] from this test," Hill said.

He declined to say exactly what the United States would do if North Korea undertakes such a test, but said, "we would have no choice but to act resolutely to make sure that the DPRK understood -- and to make sure that any other country understands -- that this (nuclear test) is a very bad mistake."

If North Korea does conduct a test, it "will realize that they had a bad day when they made that choice," he said.

After his appearance, Hill told reporters, "if they think that firing off a weapon will somehow make them a part of some sort of nuclear club, they should think again."

"If they think that by exploding a weapon, that somehow we will come to terms with it, we won't," he said.

Citing U.S. belligerence and pressure, North Korea said Tuesday that a nuclear test was in the works. (Pyongyang's statement (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/03/nkorea.nuclear.text.reut/index.html/))

North Korea's announcement on Tuesday came in the form of a Foreign Ministry statement published by the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA -- the communist country's official news agency.

A flurry of diplomatic activity has taken place since the North Korean announcement. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has reached out to her counterparts in Asia, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has been meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council about a possible statement urging North Korea not to take any provocative action by testing a nuclear weapon.

Japan on Wednesday pressed a divided U.N. Security Council to adopt a statement urging North Korea to cancel its planned test and return immediately to six-party talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to scrap its nuclear weapons program.

China calls for talks

Japan's U.N. Ambassador Kenzo Oshima, the current council president, circulated a draft text warning North Korea that a nuclear test would bring international condemnation, "jeopardize peace, stability and security in the region and beyond," and lead to further unspecified council action, AP reports.

"I think it is important for the international community, through the council, (to) let North Korea understand that noncompliance would involve some consequences," Oshima said.

Pyongyang's closest ally, China, called on all parties to return to the six-party talks and implement the agreement reached in September 2005 in which the North pledged to give up its nuclear program in exchange for aid and security guarantees.

In order to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said China and many other countries believed the key was progress in U.S.-North Korean relations.

"If there could be less mistrust between the two, certainly I think it will lead to good results," he said, according to AP.

"If North Korea adopts a more constructive approach, this will enable us to make progress, and also if the United States could be more creative in their thinking it will certainly help."

Tuesday is the first time North Korea has made an official announcement that it is going to conduct nuclear tests. Previously, it has said it had the right to conduct such tests.

Six-party talks on the country's nuclear program have been stalled for months. In addition to the United States and North Korea, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea are taking part.

North Korea wants bilateral talks with the United States before the six-party talks resume and it wants Washington to ease up on economic pressures.

Hill repeated that the United States was willing to meet with North Korean officials, but only within the context of six-party talks.



now thats what I'm talking about! :tu

[Ocotillo]

To quote Rudy at the Repug convention, "Thank God we have George Bush as our president today" :rolleyes

Please hurry up '08, we need an adult in charge.

[Nbadan]

That Kim is loco...


By Kim Myong Chol ("Unofficial" spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea.)


The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea announced on October 3 that the DPRK planned to conduct a nuclear test. The Foreign Ministry stated that the planned nuclear test was in response to the grave situation created by the US, where "the supreme national security interests of the DPRK are at stake with the Korean nation standing at the crossroads of life and death".

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Unlike all the previous wars Korea fought, a next war will be better called the American War or the DPRK-US War because the main theater will be the continental US, with major cities transformed into towering infernos. The DPRK is now the fourth-most powerful nuclear weapons state just after the US, Russia, and China.

The DPRK has all types of nuclear bombs and warheads, atomic, hydrogen and neutron, and the means of delivery, short-range, medium-range and long-range, putting the whole of the continental US within effective range. The Korean People's Army also is capable of knocking hostile satellites out of action.

All the past Korean heroes let the Land of Morning Calm be reduced to smoking ruins as the wars were fought on its soil, even though they repelled the invaders. One of the two major aspirations of the Korean people has been the buildup of military capability enough to turn enemy land into the war theater. Kim has splendidly achieved this aspiration.

ATIMES (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HJ06Dg01.html)

Kim has nuclear weapons and North Korea is one of the biggest missile and nuclear gear proliferators in the world, but Iran, who is still at least a decade from possessing one nuclear weapon is seen as the bigger threat to the WH.

Now you know why we are in Iraq and not Pakistan.

[Ozzman]

Personally, I would like to see an alliance with China, Japan, and SOuth Korea, along with the U.S.

The only problem is, I don't think Dubya is good enough of a negotiator to accomplish it. Because, if we have China, and Japan, we have Technology and People both with us.