N. Korea launches blistering verbal assault

[PhilipLaos]

State TV broke into regular programming today to broadcast a furious diatribe against the south.

North Korea's military says it is planning to launch "special actions" meant to wipe out the administration of the South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak. The army statement carried by state media on Monday said the actions would last three to four minutes and be carried out "by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style".

North Korea regularly criticises Seoul and just last week renewed its promise to wage a "sacred war", saying President Lee had insulted the 15 April celebrations to mark the birth centenary of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung. But Monday's statement was unusual in promising something soon and describing a specific length of time.

North Korea's special actions would "reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, [or] in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style", according to the statement by the special operation action group of the Korean People's Army's Supreme Command.

Some South Korean analysts speculated that the statement was meant to unnerve Seoul; others that North Korea could be planning terrorist attacks.

From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...pecial-actions

[PhilipLaos]

The North Korean Foreign Ministry have just released this blistering verbal attack on the South Korean president Lee Myung Bak. They are particularly annoyed by the recent criticism of their lavish centenary celebrations, failed rocket launch and the subsequent suspension of food aid.

Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) Traitor Lee Myung Bak let loose a string of such malignant invectives that can be uttered only by a shark that the north might spend a ridiculous amount of money for the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung and that amount of fund would be enough to buy a large quantity of food. This was, indeed, a hideous provocative act of seriously hurting the noble feelings of the Korean people. The centenary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the benefactor of the national resurrection, the great sage of mankind and the eternal President of the DPRK, is the greatest holiday of the nation in history and the great jubilee in human history.

Lee is no more than human scum of the times as he so malignantly desecrated this significant holiday, far from congratulating the compatriots in the north on it. It is certain that he went through an ill-famed course before being reduced to human scum. Looking back on history, it was none other than Lee who drove the inter-Korean relations into the lowest ebb though they had developed thanks to the growing desire for reunification after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration and he was the arch criminal who escalated only the tensions on the peninsula and in the region.

The group of traitors was busy with the groundless false propaganda that "the north was stockpiling food for feasts on the Day of the Sun," not content with making desperate efforts to deter the international moves for food aid to the DPRK last year. At that time we had already branded him as an underwit. The service personnel and people of the DPRK are shaking with irrepressible resentment at the group which defamed the father of the nation whom they are holding in high esteem as the sun. They are now eagerly waiting for the issue of an order so that they may mercilessly punish the traitor. Loud shouts of slogan "Let us beat to death the group of rat-like Lee Myung Bak" are also heard even from the women of the country known as a country of courteous people in the East from olden times.

As the Lee group is making last-ditch efforts to seek a way out in escalated confrontation with fellow countrymen, the service personnel and people unanimously hold that this group should be eradicated as early as possible for being a cancer-like entity disturbing the peace and stability in the peninsula and the region. The situation on the peninsula is so tense that it may go beyond control due to the desperate frenzy of the traitor on the deathbed.

In view of the prevailing situation, the DPRK Foreign Ministry solemnly declares that in case something happens on the peninsula now, the responsibility will entirely rest with traitor Lee. If any country intends to interfere in the internal affairs of the Korean nation under the pretext of being an ally or partner, patronizing the above-said human scum which wantonly violates human ethics and morality, it will not be able to escape the strikes of the extremely infuriated service personnel and people of the DPRK.

From: http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm

[Half Pint John]

SOUNDS like they are unhappy.

[PhilipLaos]

Sounds like the different power blocks inside N. Korea are competing to sound the most patriotic and belligerent. First, the Army issue a harshly worded series of threats. Then, the Foreign Ministry issue a diplomatic diatribe against the South Korean leader.

What's next? Statements from the Boy Scouts and Nurses Union?

It looks like it could be about which block/s is/are going to gain the most favors and patronage of the new leader due to the overt display of their loyalty and elaborately-expressed hatred of the enemy.


Philip

[GCoyote]

It's like Kremlin watching in the 'old days'. Hard to tell 'who's on first' without a program.

[Destroyer25]

Oh dear me! A strongly worded letter! It's all over for the South!

There's simply no effective diplomatic or military countermeasure against a strongly worded letter!

[PhilipLaos]

Originally Posted by Destroyer25

Oh dear me! A strongly worded letter! It's all over for the South!

There's simply no effective diplomatic or military countermeasure against a strongly worded letter!

Bear in mind that North Korea has enough concealed artillery emplacements just north of the border to reduce the South Korean capital to a burning inferno in a matter of minutes should they decide to go down that, probably suicidal, route.


Philip

[PhilipLaos]

Sorry for posting this since it seems so silly, but it was reported today.

PYONGYANG, North Korea April 25, 2012 (AP)A senior North Korean army official says his country is armed with "powerful mobile weapons" capable of striking America. Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho emphasized the importance of defending the North against the U.S. and South Korea as Pyongyang marked the 80th anniversary of the nation's army Wednesday. He told officials at the April 25 House of Culture that the weapons could defeat the U.S. "at a single blow." North Korea made another unusual claim Monday, promising "special actions" that would reduce Seoul's government to ashes.

From: http://abcnews.go.com/International/...2#.T5eFV9lF3c1

[Snowygerry]

North Korean army official says..

The North Korean Foreign Ministry have just released..

State TV broke into regular programming today to broadcast..

Sure these aren't just for internal use?

You actually want to threaten war this is not the way to go about it, even the N Koreans would know that.

You want your population to think that war imminent and unprovoked however, provided the state media are exclusive, that would be it.

FWIW.

[Dibble201Bty]

Originally Posted by Destroyer25

Oh dear me! A strongly worded letter! It's all over for the South!

There's simply no effective diplomatic or military countermeasure against a strongly worded letter!

Oh but there is! Fold it into a dart and throw it out of a 5th floor window Contempt and contentment all in one action.

Paul

[PhilipLaos]

The US Secretary of Defense believes we are "within an inch of war with North Korea almost every day".

BLITZER: If they do an underground nuclear test, for example, what would you do?

PANETTA: That would be, again, another -- worsen our relationship. I'm not going to get into how we respond to that, but clearly we are prepared at the Defense Department for whatever.

BLITZER: Still 30,000 U.S. troops along that zone, between North and South Korea, a million North Korean troops, almost a million South Korean troops, nuclear arms. This is a very dangerous part of the world.

PANETTA: No question. You know, we're within an inch of war almost every day in that part of the world. We just have to be very careful about what we say and what we do.

BLITZER: Does that keep you up at night more than any other issue?

PANETTA: Unfortunately, these days there is a hell of a lot that keeps me up awake, but that's one of the ones at the top of the list.

More at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...itroom.01.html

[Half Pint John]

Originally Posted by Destroyer25

Oh dear me! A strongly worded letter! It's all over for the South!

There's simply no effective diplomatic or military countermeasure against a strongly worded letter!

[101combatvet]

[calger14]

Most of the things said by North Korea are seriously pathetic.

[copenhagen]

I empty my nasel passages in your general direction!!!