NORTH KOREA-- ARE THEY BLUFFING FOR A WAR?

MIISRAEL Bride · Wednesday, March 27th 2013 at 11:22AM · 639 views

YOUR WORLD NEWS
March 2013
27th Day
North Korea

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For several months North Korea has been continuing to engage in launching tests of nuclear war heads. Along with the tests the country has also been making threats to go to war with the U.S> and South Korea. Again, they have announced that they stand ready to go to war anytime. Military forces according to recent news media have soldiers in war-ready mode to strike with attacks along the U.S. Bases. North Korea claims their army is not just prepared for a drill, but to go to war. Recent U.N. sanctions has the country ruffled, but most war officials think they are not fully ready to take on starting or engaging in warfare. North and South Korea are technically still at war over a civil conflict from 1950-1953 because of armistice which North Korea said has been torn to shreds. U.S. Military leaders are stated be by in stand ready if North Korea is not bluffing.

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Cynthia Merrill Artis Wednesday, March 27th 2013 at 3:49PM

Way to go Miisrael with your blogs!!!
North Korea ain't no joke. These cats are into heavy weapontries of Mass Destruction!!! uranium, xenon, plutonium...
Submarines and Submarine missiles... If they attack!!! That's it!!

MIISRAEL Bride Wednesday, March 27th 2013 at 6:54PM

IR: If given a choice, I would like it just be and as remain threats! That way everyone can live with and keep surviving.

HONEY BEE: About my blogs.. Tanks! About North Korea... let them settle down. It's a no sweat. BTW "GURL YOU WEARING THAT DO LIKE A SPANKING NEW JAR OF HONEY! HA!

DAVID JOHNSON Wednesday, March 27th 2013 at 9:19PM

North Korea Is Playing A Dangerous Game the situation in NK is actually far more complex than this piece portrays. China has protected NK from meaningful sanctions until recently because NK bluster has been useful to them in distracting the US and made China essential in our minds to rein in the Kim regime. China is concerned about chaos on its borders and consequences of them having to move in to restore order (read: annex), further limiting their options. The possibility of a Chinese sponsored coup cannot be ruled out but the Kims have been careful to remove anyone in the leadership suspected of harboring pro-Chinese sentiments. It is only a question of time until this brutal regime falls but a lot of things could happen in the process which could be very dangerous for the US and the region, not to mention the long-suffering North Korean people, who are being starved to finance the regime's nuclear ambitions.

DAVID JOHNSON Wednesday, March 27th 2013 at 9:20PM

July 27 will mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended the fighting in the Korean War.

Unfortunately, that piece of paper never really ended the conflict on the Asian peninsula where nearly 34,000 U.S. military personnel died from 1950 to 1953.

We were reminded of that last week when the U.N. Security Council, for the fourth time, hammered communist North Korea with sanctions for refusing to abandon its nuclear program, leading that rogue country to overtly threaten a nuclear attack on the U.S.

North Korea ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1985; and in a 1992 agreement with South Korea pledged not to produce, test or use nuclear weapons. However, it withdrew from the treaty in 2003 and since 2006 has conducted three nuclear tests, the last one in February. In December, it launched what it called a �weather satellite� on top of a ballistic missile.

All that was in direct defiance of Security Council resolutions. Prior U.N. sanctions against North Korea were ineffective. The latest ones, which were adopted unanimously, are brutal, basically targeting anything that could be used to further the country�s nuclear and missile programs.

They also have the backing of China, which for years has been one of North Korea�s few friends, if not its No. 1 benefactor, but doesn�t need this nonsense from its pesky pal as it continues cleaning up its own act and transitioning to a market economy.

North Korea�s response was predictable. It�s threatened to cancel the 1953 armistice and other various agreements while telling its military to mobilize for �all-out war.� It also vowed to retaliate if another country steps a toe across its border, and it�s promised to engulf Washington in a �sea of (nuclear) fire.�

No one thinks it�s presently capable of following up on the last threat, although you tend to take notice when someone says he�s going to nuke you (and the U.S. made sure to point out its defensive capabilities against any attack).

It�s all a lot of bluster right now. Once the bluster dissipates and North Korea feels the pain of these latest sanctions and sees how united the world community is here, we hope it gets the message (maybe with a little ear-whispering from China) that its nuclear pretensions have to go.

MIISRAEL Bride Thursday, March 28th 2013 at 10:49AM

Thanks for your comments. I do take threats seriously, yet I always want to be a promoter of peace. I hope South Korea will dismiss the bluffing and make choices that will avoid any war or even rumors of war.