Pyongyang: We'll turn South Korean govt to ashes in 4 minutes

Published time: April 23, 2012 12:32
Edited time: April 23, 2012 17:34
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North Korea said it will reduce South Korea’s government to ashes in a matter of minutes, should a military escalation of the decades-old conflict occur.

­The statement by the North’s military, carried by the state media, did not elaborate as to how exactly such an attack would be carried out. It mentions “special actions” that would “reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, (or) in a much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style.”

Monday’s threat is the latest in Pyongyang’s tough-talking rhetoric against the government of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. The relations between the two countries have been at a decades-long low since the conservative hardliner took office in 2008.

Tension in the region was heightened by the April 13 attempted launch of a North Korean satellite. The failed attempt to boost a spacecraft into space was condemned by the UN Security Council, because it violated a resolution banning missile launches by the North.

There is fear that after the failure Pyongyang may carry out a third nuclear devise test. North Korea withdrew from a nuclear moratorium it agreed to as part of a food aid deal with the US, after Americans canceled the program following the missile launch.

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America Rocks 24.04.2012 16:17

North Korea, now has a young kid running the show, there is no telling what this guy will do. Those people will do anything he tells them to do. Let's just hope he dosen't spend most of his time playing war games on playstations.I thought he would be more compassionate than his father, but I quess its how ur raised. he will probally try to make a statement and show everyone how bad he is at the cost of his peoples lives. Let's hope not. 

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ManiacMagic(MM) 24.04.2012 14:34

A.Smith wrote in #7

Y ou sir are a moron ... NK agreed to these conditions in return for food. Prior to that no one around them trusts them with nukes, because they make outlandish threats to all around them.
Who is telling them these things? China, Russia, the US, NATO, UN, SK, Japan ... is that enough for you? I know these are all evil zionist governments but oh well. 
As far as sabotage?? How many of the first Russian/American attempts to launch satelites and rockets failed? Quite a few over the years ... so why is it that when it happens here it is due to spys. You sound like a child stuck in an action movie. 
Even spacex makes no claim that their rockets will work perfect at first. Also it wouldn't be such a big deal of NK didn't threaten the heck out of everyone around and insist on pushing three stage rockets. If they wanted a simple two stage to orbit rocket it would make their arguing point a hell of a lot better.

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all seeing eye 24.04.2012 06:30

The problem is the same all over.  Remember the famous experiment "Too many rats in a cage"The places with the worst problems are the places most crowded.Overpopulati on will kill almost all of us

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