North Korea would use nukes in a 'merciless offensive'

[briann]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-would-use-nuclear-weapons-in-a-merciless-offensive-1700590.html

North Korea would use nuclear weapons in a 'merciless offensive'

Associated Press

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

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North Korea today said it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked — its latest bellicose rhetoric apparently aimed at deterring any international punishment for its recent atomic test blast.
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The tensions emanating from Pyongyang are beginning to hit nascent business ties with the South: a Seoul-based fur manufacturer became the first South Korean company to announce Monday it was pulling out of an industrial complex in the North's border town of Kaesong.

The complex, which opened in 2004, is a key symbol of rapprochement between the two Koreas but the goodwill is evaporating quickly in the wake of North Korea's nuclear test on May 25 and subsequent missile tests.

Pyongyang raised tensions a notch by reviving its rhetoric in a commentary in the state-run Minju Joson newspaper today.

"Our nuclear deterrent will be a strong defensive means...as well as a merciless offensive means to deal a just retaliatory strike to those who touch the country's dignity and sovereignty even a bit," said the commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

It appeared to be the first time that North Korea referred to its nuclear arsenal as "offensive" in nature. Pyongyang has long claimed that its nuclear weapons program is a deterrent and only for self-defense against what it calls US attempts to invade it.

The tough talk came as South Korea and the US lead an effort at the UN Security Council to have the North punished for its nuclear test with tough sanctions.

Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported today that South Korea had doubled the number of naval ships around the disputed sea border with the North amid concern the communist neighbor could provoke an armed clash there — the scene of skirmishes in 1999 and 2002.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff declined to confirm the report, but said the North has not shown any unusual military moves.

Relations between the two Koreas have significantly worsened since a pro-US, conservative government took office in Seoul last year, advocating a tougher policy on the North. Since then, reconciliation talks have been cut off and all key joint projects except the factory park in Kaesong have been suspended.

Some 40,000 North Koreans are employed at the zone, making everything from electronics and watches to shoes and utensils, providing a major source of revenue for the cash-strapped North. The park combines South Korean technology and management expertise with cheap North Korean labor.

A total of 106 South Korean companies operate in the park. That number will go down by the end of the month when Skinnet, the fur-maker, completes its pullout.

A Skinnet company official said the decision was primarily over "security concerns" for its employees, and also because of a decline in orders from clients concerned over possible disruptions to operations amid the soaring tensions.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with reporters.

The industrial park's fate has been in doubt since last month when North Korea threatened to scrap all contracts on running the joint complex and said it would write new rules of its own and the South must accept them or pull out of the zone.

The companies have also been concerned by the detention of a South Korean man working at the complex by North Korean authorities since late March for allegedly denouncing the regime's political system.

The two sides are to hold talks on the fate of the park Thursday.

Intensifying its confrontation with the US, North Korea handed down 12-year prison terms to two detained American journalists on Monday.

[syyuge]

North Korea would use nukes in a 'merciless offensive'

They must be suffering from some terminal disease. 

[Dr. Dan]

"......if provoked"   

Actually, Israel, the US, Russia, France, etc would use it as well mercilessly if provoked....That's without saying that N. Korea shouldn't have nukes to begin with since they are an evil nation that would sell it to terrorists.

[ProudAndZionist]

Who against do they want to use the nuclear weapons? 

[Sentinel For Truth]

The U.S. will likely get one or more of its largest cities hit by tactical nukes in the coming few years.  WMDs are already too prolific and easily carried across borders and are now in the hands of complete crazies.  N.K. wouldn't hesitate a second to sell one to a muslim nazi terrorist organization to get it into the U.S. through our thousands of miles of porous borders or through the Florida Keys via sailboat.  Even Warren Buffett, the greatest investor of our time and therefore the best predictor of human behavior, said this is inevitable.  Gerald Celente, a trends forecaster with a phenomenal success rate of correct predictions, is now talking about this as the next world war: WWWMDIII (world war of weapons of mass destruction III as opposed to large militaries confronting each other) to start in the next few years.  It might even be done as a covert black op inside job for the purpose of instigating war, just as was the Gulf of Tonkin lie that got us into Vietnam, or Hitler's burning of the Reichstag. 

Prepare for martial law followed by Obongo bringing in the U.N. to devastated American cities and a suspension of the Constitution.  Then the whole package will be complete:  we will have been destroyed intellectually, demographically, spiritually/morally, financially and finally, physically.  All the signs are there.  At one time, speculation of this sort might have been dismissed as delusional, but given the state of the world today, it seems downright plausible.

[syyuge]

Something and somewhat Three and Half years before 12.21.2012.

Times are really weird and going out of synchronization.

[syyuge]

Syrians too were hand in gloves with North Koreans.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/apr/25/nuclear.syria?picture=333750119