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I guess the North Koreans are feelin' a little froggy. Heard a clip on the radio yesterday where some Pentagon or Govt type saying we could handle war with Iraq and N. Korea at the same time - guess he was feelin' a little froggy, too.
I guess the North Koreans are feelin' a little froggy. Heard a clip on the radio yesterday where some Pentagon or Govt type saying we could handle war with Iraq and N. Korea at the same time - guess he was feelin' a little froggy, too.
Tue Dec 24, 3:49 AM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites)'s military will deal "merciless punishment" to the United States in the event of nuclear war, Pyongyang's Defense Minister Kim Il-chol said on Tuesday.
Ratcheting up North Korea's often belligerent rhetoric amid tensions over the communist state's nuclear weapons program, Kim said his army will "fight to the end against the imperialists and class enemies under the present serious situation.
"The U.S. hawks are arrogant enough to groundlessly claim that the DPRK (North Korea) has pushed ahead with a "nuclear program," bringing its hostile policy toward the DPRK to an extremely dangerous phase," the state-run Korean Central News Agency quoted Kim as saying.
"If they, ignorant of their rival, dare provoke a nuclear war, the army and people of the DPRK led by Kim Jong-il, the invincible commander, will rise up to mete out determined and merciless punishment to the U.S. imperialist aggressors with the might of single-hearted unity more powerful than A-bomb," he said.
North Korea, denounced by President Bush (news - web sites) as a member of an "axis of evil" with Iraq and Iran, has set alarm bells ringing by removing U.N. monitoring equipment at a nuclear reactor capable of yielding weapons-grade plutonium.