North Korea Makes Fresh Threat of Attack

(AP)  North Korea is threatening to attack if the U.S. and South Korea go ahead with joint military drills later this month.

An army spokesman warned in a statement carried in official media Thursday that North Korean troops are prepared to "mercilessly destroy" its foes and could even use nuclear means.

The warning comes hours after President Obama's special envoy to North Korea arrived in Seoul from Beijing to discuss how to restart nuclear disarmament talks.

The joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises begin on March 8.

Everyone involved in the diplomatic efforts to resume talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program thinks it's important to return to the talks "as fast as we can," the U.S. special envoy to North Korea said Wednesday.

Stephen Bosworth spoke with reporters after meeting with Chinese nuclear envoy Wu Dawei for what he described as a "very useful exchange of views" on efforts to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.

Bosworth would not give details of their talk, calling it "premature" to go into specifics.

"I think everybody shares the view that it's important to get back to the negotiating table as fast as we can," he said. The China-hosted talks also include Japan, Russia and North and South Korea.

North Korea last year quit the disarmament-for-aid negotiations and conducted a second nuclear test, drawing tightened U.N. sanctions. The North has demanded a lifting of the sanctions and peace talks formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War before it returns to the negotiating table.

South Korean envoy Wi Sung-lac, who was scheduled to meet with Bosworth on Thursday in Seoul, said the North appears to remain firm in its demands, the Yonhap news agency reported.

"It remains to be seen when the (nuclear) talks will resume," Wi told reporters Wednesday after returning home from Beijing, where he met with China's Wu.

However, the reclusive communist regime sent its nuclear negotiator to Beijing earlier this month for dayslong talks on restarting the negotiations.

North Korea relies heavily on China as its main source of economic aid and diplomatic support.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met Tuesday with Kim Yong Il, the head of a North Korean delegation in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials. The official Xinhua News Agency did not indicate whether the two discussed nuclear talks, but Hu was quoted as saying that it was important to "promote friendly exchanges and expand pragmatic cooperation between the two countries."

Bosworth also will visit Tokyo on Friday.

[duespo]

well im here in s. korea and im participating in this exercise and i can't speak for everyone but I feel we're ready for anything North Korea wants to throw at us. Out here in Manchu Land we get the best training the Army has to offer and if it happens, we'll do what we're trained to do!

[kingoftheflock]

what a joke, that burned up cabbage patch kid is an annoying little bastard. oh we are srong north korea we kir all american bastards with grorious reader kim jong il at the charge!! the god damned ****** have been making these pansy ass threats for years, and havent ever followed up on it. ohh we have the 4th biggest active militay in the world! we can take on anyone! no dumbasses, you cant. half of your gun stockpiles are made of wood, and your missles are all soviet era pump powered defective toys. just becuase the russians had a huge army didnt mean they were any good, they got blown away by the germans and finland when they attacked them. when is the grorious reader going to finally drop dead?

[wdh3007]

Then the U.S. should make a threat back to destroy their nuclear launching pad but it won't happen until Obummer is finally gone!

[bluedenmant]

grow up.

[newsterl]

Yeah wdh just what we need, WW lll on top of AFghanistan and Iraq, way to go!!

[davcor2]

Jung Il Kim has finally found a solution for his country's problems. . . . Start a war and get your country nuked. Not to be an alarmest but he's probably been given a short time to live. He's got no one he really can or wants to turn over his power to. What a great way to go out and take your country with you . . . . . . . . .
That's the tragedy when dealing with a psychotic personality disorder.

[scottyusa]

What is with NK? One week they want to sing kumbuya and the next week they want to nuke everyone. The little country that needs to sqeak to get attention. I say the world should ignore them until they do something and then annialate them.

[souljam76]

The United States must go to war with North Korea right now. Obama must order All US troops and fight. The United States must then go to war with Iran immediately after claiming victory of going to war with North Korea. All U.S. troops must fight. And I think every male athletes must also fight (just like they did in World War II)

[erasmus111]

"Everyone involved in the diplomatic efforts to resume talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program thinks it's important to return to the talks "as fast as we can," the U.S. special envoy to North Korea said Wednesday."


I'm so sick of hearing this, I could puke. It ain't going to happen! And even if it does, it won't last!

[thesevenveils]

his kind of talk just gives North Korean peasants a reason for starving another day.

China should be held responsible for the North Korean; one it supports with its own blood.

[Harden_Tar]

*Makes talking movements with hand*

[NowBeWithThat]

"North Korea is threatening to attack if the U.S. and South Korea go ahead with joint military drills later this month."
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More saber rattling from the Big Buffoon.

These threats are nothing more than code for "Send food and money, and we'll agree to nuke talks until the food and money run out again. Then it's back to square one, ok?"

North Korea is starving to death. Children and the elderly suffer most. Parents have to watch their babies die of hunger.

Meanwhile Kim Jung Il keeps running the same old plays in Dictatorships For Dummies.

When is the west going to say, "Ok. Do it. Attack the U.S. We dare ya, you big bag of wind!"