WORLD: SOUTH KOREA ON YELLOW ALERT. KLINGON ATTACK IMMINENT. KHITOMER ACCORD IS DEAD.REPENT!

[Le Goat]

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea said its army remained on alert Sunday, a day after North Korea threatened military action in response to Seoul's hard-line stance against its communist regime.
The latest harsh rhetoric from the isolated regime appeared aimed at heightening tensions on the divided peninsula and could be a test for Barack Obama days before he is sworn in as the new U.S. president.
The North's Korean People's Army called South Korean President Lee Myung-bak a "traitor" and accused him of preparing a military provocation, according to a statement carried Saturday by the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency.
Pyongyang said it was adopting "an all-out confrontational posture" and warned of a "strong military retaliatory step." South Korea immediately put its forces on alert.
Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday that the South has significantly beefed up forces along its heavily armed land border with the North and near their disputed western sea border. But the presidential office and the Defense Ministry denied the report.
A Defense Ministry official said Sunday that the South's military will remain on alert, though there were no unusual moves by the North's forces. The official spoke on condition of anonymity citing department policy.
The North has issued similar threats in the past in anger over the hard-line policies Lee has implemented since taking office last year. Lee ended previous administrations' unconditional aid to North Korea, but has also called for dialogue.
Saturday's threat from Pyongyang appeared more serious, however, because a uniformed military officer — flanked by military unit flags — read the statement instead of the usual television newsreader.
Analysts said the North's latest saber rattling appears to be a negotiating tactic aimed at Seoul and Washington ahead of Obama's inauguration Tuesday in the U.S.
"North Korean wants to draw Obama's attention," said Kim Yong-hyun, a professor at Seoul's Dongguk University.
Kim said Pyongyang is trying to use raised tensions to make a case for its long-standing demand for a peace treaty and establishment of diplomatic ties with Washington — the regime's top foreign policy goal.
South Korea, the U.S. and three other nations have sought to coax North Korea — which detonated an atomic device in 2006 — to give up its nuclear program by offering aid for disarmament. The pact has been deadlocked over how to verify North Korea's past nuclear activities.
Despite the impasse, Seoul's deputy nuclear negotiator has been visiting the North since Thursday. The trip — the highest-level visit to the North in a year — was seen as an indication Pyongyang has not abandoned the disarmament pact.
Nuclear envoy Hwang Joon-kook and his team visited the North's main nuclear complex at Yongbyon on Friday. They will hold talks through Monday before returning home, said presidential spokeswoman Kim Eun-hye.
The two Koreas have been separated one of the world's most heavily armed borders since a three-year war ended in a truce in 1953.
Ties warmed significantly following the first-ever summit of their leaders in 2000, but the reconciliation process came to a halt after Seoul's conservative, pro-U.S. leader Lee came to power last year.

[Morfin]

I blame Israel.



And Bush, too.

[Le Goat]

Clearly the asianniggers fault

[Le Goat]

pwnt the filter again

[Pax Britannia]

I hear the North Koreans have a bird of prey that can fire whilst cloaked.

[Le Goat]

So long as they don't have any subspace weapons I don't care

[Pax Britannia]

Originally Posted by Kim Jong Il

GIVE ME THE GENESIS DEVICE!!!

[Le Goat]

more like 'gi' meee deee gen'swis dewice'

[Pax Britannia]

I think we should send in the UN.

[Archangel]

Kim Jong Il is to the world what tater is to GMF. Insignificant, desperate, incompetent, yet rather annoying due to his constant need for attention.

[Le Goat]

Shit just got real yo

BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea says it has "weaponized" enough plutonium for four to five nuclear weapons, a U.S. expert said on Saturday after talks in Pyongyang.
North Korea has made a series of demands as well as offers of cooperation over its nuclear program as U.S. President-elect Barack Obama prepares to enter the White House.
The North's leader Kim Jong-il appears to have given up handling many day-to-day tasks after suffering a stroke and this may explain the North's hardening stance, Selig Harrison, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a policy institute in Washington D.C., said.
Harrison said senior North Korean officials had told him this week that 30.8 kg (68 pounds) of plutonium their government had listed as part of a preliminary disarmament agreement had been "weaponized" -- incorporated into warheards or other arms.
He said all the four senior Pyongyang officials he met, including Li Gun, the Foreign Ministry official in charge of dealings with Washington, said plutonium was now out of bounds of inspections intended to advance the now-stalled six-party disarmament talks.
"All of those I met said that North Korea has already weaponized the 30.8 kg of plutonium listed in its formal declaration and that the weapons cannot be inspected," Harrison told a news conference in the Chinese capital after returning from five days in Pyongyang, his eleventh visit to the isolated North since 1972.
"That means North Korea has four or five nuclear weapons, depending on the grade of plutonium, the specific weapons design and desired explosive yield."
The North Korean claims could not be verified, Harrison said, but they underscored a hardening of the state's position even as it made offers of cooperation to Obama.
The Pyongyang officials were vague about what weaponization meant, but it appeared most likely the plutonium would be fitted in missile warheads, Harrison said.
North Korea has delayed implementing a nuclear disarmament agreement struck at the six-party talks in Beijing, unwilling to accept verification rules demanded by the other countries in the talks and saying they have not abided by their energy aid vows.
"The prospects for the six-party talks, on the basis of my assessment, are very gloomy," said Harrison.
The talks bring together North and South Korea, China, the United States, Japan and Russia. They intensified after the North held its first nuclear test explosion in October 2006.
"INTIMATE FRIENDS"
"My view is that change in the leadership situation has strengthened the hardliners in the National Defense Commission, who are now in control of the nuclear disarmament negotiations more directly," Harrison said.
But he said he was told North Korea wanted friendly relations with the United States.
He cited North Korea's Foreign Minister Pak Ui-son as saying: "If the Obama administration takes its first steps correctly and makes a political decision to change its DPRK policy, the DPRK and the United States can become intimate friends."
North Korea is formally called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Harrison said North Korea wanted construction of two unfinished light-water nuclear energy reactors in return for dismantling its Yongbyon nuclear plant.
It also says verification of its nuclear activities hinges on the United States and South Korea agreeing to open any nuclear weapons activities in the South to similar probing.
Harrison said the North's Li Gun told him: "We are not in a position to say when we will abandon nuclear weapons. That depends on when we believe there is no U.S. nuclear threat."
Besides Li and Pak, the officials he met were Vice President of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-tae, spokesman of the National Defense Commission Ri Chan-bok.
North Korea's state media also said earlier on Saturday Pyongyang would not give up its nuclear ambitions as long as a U.S. nuclear threat persisted.
North Korea's army said on Saturday it would assume an "all-out confrontational posture" against the South and wipe out the conservative government in Seoul for refusing to cooperate.
U.S. President George W. Bush's top Asia adviser had predicted earlier this week that North Korea might try to raise the stakes in order to increase its leverage after Obama takes office on Tuesday.
Last-ditch efforts by the Bush administration to win North Korea's agreement on a system to verify its nuclear history and disarmament progress ended in stalemate at the end of 2008.
Harrison said some of North Korea's demands may be bluster but it would be much harder for Pyongyang to step back from the claim that its plutonium is now housed in weapons.
"So they've raised the bar and said 'We are a nuclear weapons state now. Deal with us on that basis'," Harrison said.

[wonderllama]

Didn't Kim Jong Il get sick recently?
Why can they enlist someone to go all Polonium on his ass?

[taters]

This threads title is a big FAIL.


Perhaps if our Idealogue right wing president and his bootlicking supporters ha worked the diplomacy end earlier with SK, we might not be in this situation.

That whole situation will have to be settled, but it wont be the US that deals with it. Itll probably have to be china and japan.

[Le Goat]

Originally Posted by taters

This threads title is a big FAIL.


Perhaps if our Idealogue right wing president and his bootlicking supporters ha worked the diplomacy end earlier with SK, we might not be in this situation.

That whole situation will have to be settled, but it wont be the US that deals with it. Itll probably have to be china and japan.

way to fail with your history their dipshit. Clinton could've ended this long ago.

[taters]

Originally Posted by Le Goat

way to fail with your history their dipshit. Clinton could've ended this long ago.

Sayeth the Resident Bushist.

YOu cant 'end' something like this, only patch it up and put it up and continuously guide both sides toward peace. Clinton started the process, only to have it reversed and destroyed by Bush (just as Bush did with the middle east...the UN...Russia...half of Europe and latin america).

Bushs 'its the way me and my supporters want or nothing' idealogue diplomacy not only fanned the flames, but crushed any political capitol we once had to step in and assist with negotiations.

[Le Goat]

Originally Posted by taters

This threads title is a big FAIL.


Perhaps if our Idealogue right wing president and his bootlicking supporters ha worked the diplomacy end earlier with SK, we might not be in this situation.

That whole situation will have to be settled, but it wont be the US that deals with it. Itll probably have to be china and japan.

Originally Posted by taters

Sayeth the Resident Bushist.

YOu cant 'end' something like this, only patch it up and put it up and continuously guide both sides toward peace. Clinton started the process, only to have it reversed and destroyed by Bush (just as Bush did with the middle east...the UN...Russia...half of Europe and latin america).

Bushs 'its the way me and my supporters want or nothing' idealogue diplomacy not only fanned the flames, but crushed any political capitol we once had to step in and assist with negotiations.

Which is it ****?

[Le Goat]

also, i'm going to assume only 'obama' or a 'democrat' can fix this, yes?

[Pax Britannia]

Ahhh this takes me back to the summer of 1861.

[Le Goat]

Originally Posted by Pax Britannia

Ahhh this takes me back to the summer of 1861.

SHUT UP BRUCE

[Pax Britannia]

Originally Posted by Le Goat

SHUT UP BRUCE

Originally Posted by Abraham Lincoln

One war at a time

[Morfin]

Three words: Pre-emptive nuclear strike.

[Morfin]

Originally Posted by Pax Britannia

Ahhh this takes me back to the summer of 1861.

I thought I was the only one old enough to remember that. Or, I mean, to be alive then, 'cuz I sure don't remember it anymore.

[Le Goat]

(pax)

Всякая война враньё

[Pax Britannia]

Thats comforting.

[taters]

Originally Posted by taters

Perhaps if our Idealogue right wing president and his bootlicking supporters ha worked the diplomacy end earlier with SK, we might not be in this situation.

Originally Posted by taters

Bushs 'its the way me and my supporters want or nothing' idealogue diplomacy not only fanned the flames, but crushed any political capitol we once had to step in and assist with negotiations.

My way or nothing diplomacy = Not real diplomacy. These arent big words, bigot.