North Korea Hints at Pre-Emptive Strike Against US

[tinybear]

N. Korea Won't Rule Out Pre-Emptive Attack

By PAUL ALEXANDER
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Tuesday refused to rule out a pre-emptive attack, even amid signs it may be willing to return to the nuclear bargaining table.

The North poured out anti-American rhetoric - a tactic it has used in the past before entering negotiations - by claiming that Washington's ``hostile policies'' led it to develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent and warning against any attack to dislodge its leadership.

``The United States should be aware that the choice of a pre-emptive attack is not only theirs,'' the North's official news agency quoted the state-run newspaper Minju Joson as saying. ``To stand against force with force is our unswerving method of response.''

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How do you think USA should respond?

[lsbskins1]

Oh, full scale nuclear attack I say. If you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Put a nuclear boot up their ass, it's the American Way!

[PatrickHenry]

Pre-emption is legal, in response to a specific and credible threat. Preventive war is an international crime as proved by the Nuremburg trials. The US engages in this aggressive crime and should be stopped by international opinion and sanctions, if necessary.

[lsbskins1]

I'd have to look at a map to be sure, but maybe if we put one bomb in just the right place, it will create a tsunami that will work back across the pacific and take out California and that nasty 9th Circuit. We would lose Arnold in the process, but that might be acceptable collateral damage.

This is all sarcasm, by the way...

[tinybear]

Is a Pre-Pre-Emptive strike legal, do you think? You think if we nuke North Korea, we can say we did so 'cos we were threatened?

[Matt W]

The US has been threatening N.Korea for years and they're surprised when the same language is tossed back in their faces? How...blinkered.

[G. Adams]

This is nothing new. Personally I doubt they will make a pre-emptive nuclear strike. I don't think Kim Jong-Il can be as insane as our media makes him out to be, if he was it's likely his generals would cause a coup. I doubt it's possible to have a country led by a lunatic and all the top dogs equally stupid.

[Prometheus]

I just hate it when there crappy little dictatorial countries get all uppity and think they can start throwing their weight around. I say we get out ass out of Iraq (that decison is sure overdue) and go kish some Kim Jong tushy. As an imperious, elitist american, I am indignant of threats - we don't need to put of with this trash.

[Mr.Vicchio]

Come on people. Reality Check. NK CAN'T launch a pre-emptive anything against the USA that wouldn't result in the immediate and utter destruction of NK. This is predictable, standard NK rhetoric by a lunatic and his mental staff.

They make statements like this before sitting down to negotiate, for some reason they think people take these threats seriously, no one does.

[Gilligan]

Quote by: lsbskins1 I'd have to look at a map to be sure, but maybe if we put one bomb in just the right place, it will create a tsunami that will work back across the pacific and take out California and that nasty 9th Circuit. We would lose Arnold in the process, but that might be acceptable collateral damage. This is all sarcasm, by the way...

That's a tempting idea. I'd almost be willing to have my state break off into the ocean just to make sure that Nixon lovin actor from the land of Hitler's birth never ends up running the U.S.

[Prometheus]

Quote by: Mr.Vicchio Come on people. Reality Check. NK CAN'T launch a pre-emptive anything against the USA that wouldn't result in the immediate and utter destruction of NK. This is predictable, standard NK rhetoric by a lunatic and his mental staff. They make statements like this before sitting down to negotiate, for some reason they think people take these threats seriously, no one does.

Well if the military expediant thinks it's safe, that makes me feel better. But on the other side, Kim Jong Il is kind of nuts. He's got a small dick complex. Can you trust him to do what's logocal?

[castille]

NK is learning from the USA!

[tinybear]

Then when are they going to have a real election where the people get to choose its leaders?

[tinybear]

A related development:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in697811.shtml

[castille]

Quote by: tinybear Then when are they going to have a real election where the people get to choose its leaders?

When the USA does!

[tinybear]

You mean like 200 years ago?

[castille]

Nah, enslaving an entire race of people and wiping out populations aren't my idea of democracy.

I guess I'm just not into American democracy.

[allen]

Refusing to rule out the possibility of a preemptive attack does not mean planing to launch such an attack. Here I refuse to tell you my name, can you say that I don't have a name?

As the most experienced war monger, US not only refuses to rule out the possibility of preemptive attacks to many (if not any) other countries in the world, but also has real plan on how such attacks would be launched ... You can not ignore the fact that US has been exercising preemptive attacks on NK in SK on a yearly basis, while make an issue on NK's refusal to rule out an preemptive attack on US.

[tinybear]

You won't be so light-hearted if a mad dog's growling at you.

[castille]

I think every single country has like a gazillion attack plans for their neighbours. Hell, Britain is probably preparing their marines for an invasion of France.