Joseph-1 Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 This is getting too close to home.The North's state-run Central Radio said the world was watching the Pyongyang-Washington standoff "with sweating hands," and vowed that the Stalinist state would maintain its "mighty army-first policy." "The victory in the nuclear conflict is ours, and the red flag of the army-first policy will flutter ever more vigorously," said the broadcast, monitored by South Korea's Yonhap news agency. Washington and its allies are pressuring North Korea to abandon its suspected nuclear weapon programs. The North has insisted on direct talks first with the United States, from which it wants a nonaggression treaty. The bluster from the North came as South Korea's outgoing president warned that Pyongyang's production of atomic weapons could force his country and Japan to built nuclear bombs as well."If North Korea has nuclear weapons, South Korea could possess such weapons ... and Japan could arm with nuclear weapons. This is what a lot of people worry about. This cannot be tolerated," Kim Dae-jung (news - web sites) told tourism officials. Kim, whose term ends Feb. 25, did not clarify whether he thought North Korea already has such a weapon. Prime Minister Kim Suk-soo has said he believed Pyongyang does not have nuclear weapons. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has said that North Korea has one or two nuclear weapons and could extract enough plutonium within months to make six to eight more. North Korea had never admitted or denied having nuclear weapons, but has said it has the right to develop nuclear weapons. Pyongyang's declaration of ultimate victory in the nuclear standoff came a day after it hosted national celebrations for reclusive leader Kim Jong Il's 61st birthday on Sunday. Kim rules the communist country as supreme commander of the nation's 1.1 million-member armed forces, and state-run media marked his birthday with anti-U.S. diatribe and hyperbolic praise of his pro-military policy. In his comments to tourism officials, Kim Dae-jung who has championed a policy of engagement with North Korea said he believes there is "no possibility" of U.S. military action against Pyongyang, and called for talks."North Korea-U.S. talks are important because the problem can only be solved there," he said. The U.S. military said Monday it will conduct two joint military exercises with South Korea next month, but said the annual maneuvers are not related to the North Korean nuclear dispute. There are 37,000 American troops in South Korea. The joint drills are "defense-oriented" and designed to improve the joint U.S.-South Korea forces' ability to defend South Korea against "external aggression," the U.S. military command in Seoul said in a statement. North Korea had no immediate response to the upcoming exercises, but the communist country has routinely denounced past joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises as preparations for an invasion. Last week, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency referred the issue to the U.N. Security Council. The council could consider economic sanctions against North Korea. The North has said it would consider any sanctions a declaration of war. The crisis began in October when U.S. officials said North Korea admitted having a covert nuclear program. Washington and its allies suspended fuel shipments, and the North retaliated by expelling U.N. monitors, taking steps to restart frozen nuclear facilities and withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Thanks Joseph... I read that this morning too.This is not an excuse for GZ to yet postpone more visas is it ? Link to comment
Guest bbridges51 Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Oh, THANKS guys!!!!! My plane home from Nanjing STOPS in Soeul today. Boy, do the North Koreans have an inferriority complex. Brian Link to comment
Joseph-1 Posted February 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Thanks Joseph... I read that this morning too.This is not an excuse for GZ to yet postpone more visas is it ? I hope not,but the thought did occur to me that it could become an excuse. Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Thanks Joseph... I read that this morning too.This is not an excuse for GZ to yet postpone more visas is it ? I hope not,but the thought did occur to me that it could become an excuse.you're paranoid..LOL ahemm... though did occur to me too.. But that would be a real lame excuse this time.. Link to comment
Joseph-1 Posted February 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Thanks Joseph... I read that this morning too.This is not an excuse for GZ to yet postpone more visas is it ? I hope not,but the thought did occur to me that it could become an excuse.you're paranoid..LOL ahemm... though did occur to me too.. B) But that would be a real lame excuse this time..Yes Im paranoid. Link to comment
tonado Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Lets hope that we get our loveones here before any wars. In the Sunday Parade magazine section, it lists Kim as the worst dictator. Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Lets hope that we get our loveones here before any wars. In the Sunday Parade magazine section, it lists Kim as the worst dictator.you don't have to read the sunday parade mag to know that. Just go to the official DPRK news agency... and read the stuff. Unbelievable....the rambling and the rest.. Educating indeed :-)DPRK News Agency Rambling Link to comment
tonado Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Lets hope that we get our loveones here before any wars. In the Sunday Parade magazine section, it lists Kim as the worst dictator.you don't have to read the sunday parade mag to know that. Just go to the official DPRK news agency... and read the stuff. Unbelievable....the rambling and the rest.. Educating indeed :-)DPRK News Agency RamblingThey did a Top Ten dictator list. Link to comment
Lurker Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Lets hope that we get our loveones here before any wars. In the Sunday Parade magazine section, it lists Kim as the worst dictator.you don't have to read the sunday parade mag to know that. Just go to the official DPRK news agency... and read the stuff. Unbelievable....the rambling and the rest.. Educating indeed :-)DPRK News Agency Rambling"February 16, the birthday of Kim Jong Il, was significantly celebrated in Korea and in different countries of the world as a common holiday of humankind. In the morning the Korean people visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung with beautiful and fragrant flowers in their hands." Mercy. Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Lets hope that we get our loveones here before any wars. In the Sunday Parade magazine section, it lists Kim as the worst dictator.you don't have to read the sunday parade mag to know that. Just go to the official DPRK news agency... and read the stuff. Unbelievable....the rambling and the rest.. Educating indeed :-)DPRK News Agency Rambling"February 16, the birthday of Kim Jong Il, was significantly celebrated in Korea and in different countries of the world as a common holiday of humankind. In the morning the Korean people visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung with beautiful and fragrant flowers in their hands." Mercy.President? That's "Great Leader" to you lurker.. insolent you ! Yes that was one of the last posting on the site... "celebrated in different countries"" WTF?? WHICH ones??? LOL.. Like I said, UN-BE-LEAV-ABLE Link to comment
Lurker Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Lets hope that we get our loveones here before any wars. In the Sunday Parade magazine section, it lists Kim as the worst dictator.you don't have to read the sunday parade mag to know that. Just go to the official DPRK news agency... and read the stuff. Unbelievable....the rambling and the rest.. Educating indeed :-)DPRK News Agency Rambling"February 16, the birthday of Kim Jong Il, was significantly celebrated in Korea and in different countries of the world as a common holiday of humankind. In the morning the Korean people visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung with beautiful and fragrant flowers in their hands." Mercy.President? That's "Great Leader" to you lurker.. insolent you ! Yes that was one of the last posting on the site... "celebrated in different countries"" WTF?? WHICH ones??? LOL.. Like I said, UN-BE-LEAV-ABLE George Orwell would have loved it. Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Speaking of George....that's what comes to mind when I think of Homeland Security!I mean, did you guys look at the site?? It's not a spoof.. It's the actual one. It blows my mind that real people buy into this.. Then again, why your average N.Koreans shouldn't? They have no internet per se... So all is hunky dory... Link to comment
Eric&Yuhui Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Lets hope that we get our loveones here before any wars. In the Sunday Parade magazine section, it lists Kim as the worst dictator.you don't have to read the sunday parade mag to know that. Just go to the official DPRK news agency... and read the stuff. Unbelievable....the rambling and the rest.. Educating indeed :-)DPRK News Agency Rambling"February 16, the birthday of Kim Jong Il, was significantly celebrated in Korea and in different countries of the world as a common holiday of humankind. In the morning the Korean people visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung with beautiful and fragrant flowers in their hands." Mercy.President? That's "Great Leader" to you lurker.. insolent you ! Yes that was one of the last posting on the site... "celebrated in different countries"" WTF?? WHICH ones??? LOL.. Like I said, UN-BE-LEAV-ABLE George Orwell would have loved it.No visa for you going to PyongYang bud ! You should have said " His excellency "I feel so sad for the North Koreans....... I know South Koreans well... and they are the same breed..With a different system... Yet same folks separated by a damn parallel and a DMZ. Link to comment
Mick Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 And lest we forget, poor Owen lives only a couple hundred miles from the border. All the more reason his visa should be a priority, not to mention the fact that he has been trying to obtain it since 2000. Link to comment
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