North Korea: "New Conservatives"

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(CNN) -- In the latest rhetorical clash in a long running nuclear standoff between North Korea and the U.S., Pyongyang has threatened to respond "in kind" should Washington deploy new high-tech weapons to South Korea.

"The DPRK [North Korea] will consider the ultra-modern weapons the new conservatives of the U.S. try to use as tactical nuclear weapons, which compels the DPRK to make as powerful weapons as them," read a statement issued in on Thursday by Pyongyang to mark the 50th anniversary on July 27 of the truce to end Korean War fighting.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/07/24/us.nkorea/index.html

Does anyone else find it odd that they would say "new conservatives" in their threat?

[blueindian]

that's gotta be a typo of some sort. that sentence doesn't even make sense.

[CornMonkey]

Originally posted by blueindian
that's gotta be a typo of some sort. that sentence doesn't even make sense.
but you also have to realize that nothing the north koreans say makes sense...

[kimchicowboy]

it's just engrish. come on now. hahaha.

[CornMonkey]

perhaps "new conservatives" = "neo-conservatives?"

[molecularfire]

Wait... why don't we want to sign a non-aggression pact. I mean... I can understand that we might want different specific things in a non-aggression pact than them, but the article makes it sound like we don't want to sign one at all? I mean... the Korean war never ended. Personally, I hate leaving anything undone. We should either sign a treaty to end the war, or start fighting with them again. :shrug:

[sbp]

Originally posted by molecularfire
Wait... why don't we want to sign a non-aggression pact. I mean... I can understand that we might want different specific things in a non-aggression pact than them, but the article makes it sound like we don't want to sign one at all? I mean... the Korean war never ended. Personally, I hate leaving anything undone. We should either sign a treaty to end the war, or start fighting with them again. :shrug: Its a bunch of bs by a totally despotic regime desperate to stay in power. The Stalinist jerkoffs come up with unreasonable demands, engage in blackmail to get goodies and still break agreements. :rolleyes:

Check this crap out:

N.Korea Tribunal Demands U.S. Apology, Compensation (http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3160923)

North Korea, ahead of this weekend's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Korean War truce, demanded the United States apologize and give compensation for crimes ranging from genocide to drug smuggling.

The "International tribunal on U.S. crimes" Friday pronounced President Bush and his 10 predecessors going back to Harry S. Truman guilty of crimes against the U.N. charter, human rights declarations and "the principles of the military tribunal of Nuremberg" among others.

"The U.S. government must make an official apology for all its criminal acts in Korea, and make due compensation for physical, mental and material losses inflicted upon the Korean people," North Korea's KCNA news agency quoted the verdict as saying.

Those responsible for the "crimes" should "be sentenced to criminal punishment" and the U.S. Congress should "investigate and address this issue," it said.

The tribunal also repeated Pyongyang's official position that Washington "abandon its hostile policy toward the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), sign a nonaggression treaty with it, and settle peace issues in bilateral talks.

The verdict calls for the United States to immediately withdraw its 37,000 troops in the South and end political pressure, sanctions and "psychological warfare" against North Korea, KCNA reported.

It said the "trial" of the 11 U.S. leaders -- and all U.S. foreign policy, military and intelligence officials dating back to 1950 -- was endorsed by "democratic international organizations, progressive anti-war peace organizations, justice-loving individual figures and lawyers."

The purported trial in absentia opened in Pyongyang Wednesday, as the isolated communist state appeared to be inching toward a new round of talks with the United States, China and other neighbors over North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Soviet-backed North Korea launched the Korean War with a surprise invasion of the South on June 25, 1950. President Truman rallied the United Nations to send troops from 16 countries to reverse the communist takeover of the South.

At talks leading to the truce signed 50 years ago Sunday, North Korea acknowledged that there were no foreign troops in South Korea at the time of the June 25 invasion, but said the U.S.-led intervention "prevented the peaceful settlement of the internal problem of Korea," according to historic transcripts.

North Korea officially maintains it was the victim and the victor in a war started by the United States.

"The U.S. provoked the Korean War and has made persistent attempts to ignite another war," said the Pyongyang indictment, which also accused U.S. presidents of drug trafficking, human rights abuses and violating nuclear disarmament agreements.

North Korea calls July 27 the "Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War," and KCNA says the anniversary is being celebrated as far away as Uganda and Peru.

[brainsmile]

North Koreans lost in the last James Bond movie. Made them sad