North Korea warns 'moment of explosion' nears

North Korea stirred up fresh unease in Northeast Asia early Thursday, threatening attacks by a "smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear force and warning, "The moment of explosion is approaching fast."

The new threat came after the North Koreans locked South Korean workers out of a joint factory complex and announced plans to restart a nuclear reactor it shut down five years ago. Meanwhile, the United States announced it was sending ballistic missile defenses to Guam, a Pacific territory that's home to U.S. naval and air bases.

"The moment of explosion is approaching fast. No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow," North Korea's state news agency KCNA declared in its latest broadside. "The responsibility for this grave situation entirely rests with the U.S. administration and military warmongers keen to encroach upon the DPRK's sovereignty and bring down its dignified social system with brigandish logic."

DPRK is short for Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the official name for North Korea.

Most observers say the North is still years away from having the technology to deliver a nuclear warhead on a missile. U.S. officials have said they see no unusual military movements across the Demilitarized Zone that splits the Korean Peninsula, despite weeks of bombastic rhetoric from Pyongyang, and many analysts say the increasingly belligerent talk is aimed at cementing the authority of the country's young leader, Kim Jong Un.

But the North does have plenty of conventional military firepower, including medium-range ballistic missiles that can carry high explosives for hundreds of miles. And U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that the North Korean threats to Guam, Hawaii and the U.S. mainland have to be taken seriously.

"It only takes being wrong once, and I don't want to be the secretary of defense who was wrong once," Hagel told an audience at Washington's National Defense University.

But Hagel also said there was still a "responsible" path for the North to take.

"I hope the North will ratchet this very dangerous rhetoric down," Hagel said. "There is a pathway that is responsible for the North to get on a path to peace working with their neighbors. There are many, many benefits to their people that could come. But they have got to be a responsible member of the world community, and you don't achieve that responsibility and peace and prosperity by making nuclear threats and taking very provocative actions."

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/03/world/asia/koreas-tensions/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

Hope China keep that country on a leash.

 

China is agree con NK . Whithout China NK cannot fight against USA

 

I seriously think this man has slipped into some sort of mental psychosis. That, or the top military honchos are directing him.

The U.S just dispatched some Stealth Bombers to Guam today.
With a WH warning that basically stated, 'don't fuck with us because we will come down on you and you won't know what hit you"

 

I watch to much damn porn, I read the thread title expecting to see pictures of women drenched in cum.

 

That's Bukkake, foo. :?

 

And THAT is why you don't give nuclear weapons to your children.

(Guns tho..guns iz kewl)

 

Eeeew that's way toooo much cum for me.

 

I have a feeling kim jung il is going to end up overthrown. I mean, it's gotta be hard for all those middle aged military guys to continually bow down to such a baby-faced punk.

 

THis^^^^.
The North Korean government IMO is VERY unstable right now. Il isn't 30 years old and the only reason he's the ruler is because daddy gave him the job.

All this crazy talk and threatening to attack the U.S. out the clear blue is supposed to make him look tough in front of his military leaders, otherwise they could put a bullet in his head at any time and take the country over for themselves.


If we didn't have an ally in SOuth Korea we felt sworn to protect, we'd be smacking North Korea in the mouth right no with bombing strikes.

If NK threatened Russia or China with the same BS, that country would be burning.

 

This is the only reason I don't see them moving forward because the US funds the lion share of China's consumer bought goods which is why their economy is doing so well. Disrupting our already fragile economy with a needless war could leave them in the cold till the bombs start dropping then shit is gonna get hot

 

True. China also wants to maintain that buffer zone between u.s. power and the chinese border, a zone which could end up under u.s. boots if north korea ever lost their mind and attacked.

I don't think anything is going to happen other than kim jung il losing face, having talked himself into a corner. He's just gonna end up that much closer to being overthrown, maybe even with undercover help from china.