Seoul – North Korea Warns U.S. Forces Of Destruction Ahead Of War Drills

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    South Korean Army's Multiple rocket launcher fires live rounds during an exercise at Fire Training Field in Cheorwon, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Sang-hack, Yonhap) Seoul – North Korea on Sunday warned the top U.S. military commander stationed in South Korea that his forces would “meet a miserable destruction” if they go ahead with scheduled military drills with South Korean troops, North Korean state media said.

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    Pak Rim-su, chief delegate of the North Korean military mission to the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom, gave the message by phone to Gen. James Thurman, the commander of the U.S. Forces Korea, KCNA news agency said.

    It came amid escalating tension on the divided Korean peninsula after the North’s third nuclear test earlier this month, in defiance of U.N. resolutions, drew harsh international condemnation.

    A direct message from the North’s Panmunjom mission to the U.S. commander is rare.

    North and South Korea are technically still at war after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

    The U.S.-South Korean Combined Forces Command is holding an annual computer-based simulation war drill, Key Resolve, from March 11 to 25, involving 10,000 South Korean and 3,500 U.S. troops.

    The command also plans to hold Foal Eagle joint military exercises involving land, sea and air manoeuvres. About 200,000 Korean troops and 10,000 U.S. forces are expected to be mobilized for the two month-long exercise which starts on March 1.

    “If your side ignites a war of aggression by staging the reckless joint military exercises…at this dangerous time, from that moment your fate will be hung by a thread with every hour,” Pak was quoted as saying.

    “You had better bear in mind that those igniting a war are destined to meet a miserable destruction.”

    Washington and Seoul regularly hold military exercises which they say are purely defensive. North Korea, which has stepped up its bellicose threats towards the United States and South Korea in recent months, sees them as rehearsals for invasion.

    North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the U.N. Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday.


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    Conscience
    Conscience
    11 years ago

    Well with obama at the helms , enemies of like him like bho north korea finds itself only a partner , and sadly who put this thing in power , wasnt it the usual cohorts who placed hitler in power. .?..

    Of course us yidden , just because falling for the idolatry of monitary promises ,which always is selling our essence for monitary gains , so all it is in sync with nature somehow magically in her attempt yet again , us to awaken to higher a conscience and return to our original purpose and mission of creation
    But its just me echoing in the wilderness

    11 years ago

    actung! ‘NK’ warned us …