North Korea's military vowed a new and unusually specific threat to its neighbors, saying it would reduce South Korea "to ashes" in less than four minutes.
The statement, released Monday when programming was interrupted on North Korea's state TV by a special report, comes amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Earlier this month, North Korea was unsuccessful in a long-range missile launch, prompting worries that North Korea may conduct another nuclear test. South Korean officials say new satellite images show that North Korea has been digging a tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third atomic test.
According to the Associated Press, the statement from North Korea was unusual in promising something soon and in describing a specific period of time.
The North Korean military threatened to "reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, (or) in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style."
For months the North has castigated South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and the conservative administration for insulting their leadership and criticizing a new cruise missile capable of striking anywhere in the south.
South Korean officials responded, urging North Korea to end the threats. "We urge North Korea to immediately stop this practice," Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk said, according to the Associated Press. "We express deep concern that the North's threats and accusations have worsened inter-Korean ties and heightened tensions."
Meanwhile, in a meeting Sunday with a North Korean delegation in Beijing, China's senior official on foreign policy praised the leadership shown by North Korea's new young leader, Kim Jong Un.
The meeting follows the April 13 launch of what the United States called a disguised ballistic missile test by North Korea. The rocket disintegrated minutes after launch.

>>1
Huh. Scary to think this could start another war. Hopefully it doesn't, but I suppose we'll have to wait and see.

North Korea should leave South Korea and the whole world alone!!!!

Daaaaaaammmmmmnnnnn iiiiiiiittttt... I've recently joined the Air Force, and am vurrently waiting on a deployment date for Basic Training, and AIT school for intelligence or cyber security as my number 1 back up. This means I might have to end up going to Korea... DAMN YOU NORTH KOREA!!!

I hope this doesn't escalate into something too serious. I wish something could be done about it :/

I still don't understand what their beef is.
Has anyone ever asked them the question "Why?"

I have. I don't get it either.

>>4 Sorry dude

>>6 Because the leader of North Korea is a douche... He has beef with everyone, just to have beef...

>>4 I've been to Korea (Navy) and here's what you have to look forward too.
- A really boring town outside the base
- Some pretty good deals out in town (if you can find them)
Also two things to remember is that you can negotiate with them to get a better price on an item you want; and their all a bunch of pussies. If they start to acting up towards you just raise your voice or make some small violent gesture and they will back-off fast.

>>9

You are so fucking retarded.

Why can't they just be allies?

>>11 Have you not payed attention in history class?

>>12 all of this with a side of oatmeal

>>12 apparently not.
>>11 to answer your question, their ideologies are totally opposite of one another. it's like suggesting that cold war USA should team up with the USSR, y'know, cuz people were scared shitless of the nuclear threats they posed to one another. It just would never happen.

Only thing i really learned is they bark and EPICLY fail to bite.

NK Rockets Suck!

>>15 You didn't learn that they almost completely took over South Korea?

>>16
Did you not forget that they almost completely took over North Korea before the Chinese intervention?

Just saying

>>17 It wasn't really relevant to the point I was trying to make, which is to say that his statement that North Korea can't do anything, is false.

>>18
You have to hand it to >>15, though.

North Koreas's rockets DO seem to have a habit of failing miserably. As for the rest of their military, who knows.

>>19 let's be serious here though, they'd have to fail pretty god damned hard not to be able to get a nuke over to SK. hell, even if they didn't launch it via rocket, they could prolly like...i dunno. smuggle it in a cargo crate or something stupid. hope to god nothing like that happens, but it would be kind of funny.

>>19 let's be serious here though, they'd have to fail pretty god damned hard not to be able to get a nuke over to SK. hell, even if they didn't launch it via rocket, they could prolly like...i dunno. smuggle it in a cargo crate or something stupid. hope to god nothing like that happens, but it would be kind of funny.

bump

>>21 Maybe they could just put it in a giant slingshot and launch it over the fence XD

There's a new report that says their missles that were parade in NK were fakes.

The officials ho gave the threat were in the moment. That's the only way, the threat could've been so specific. I'm sure they probably do intend to turn South Korea to ashes as soon as possible though. It's weird, in my entire life I've never heard any news from south Korea up until recently in the news and when I was in China a week ago. Is that sad?

It's cause they're communist. You can blame dictators for everything. THIS IS KIM JONG IL'S FAULT!!

Since the North and South Koreans look alike, North Koreans could have suicide bombers infiltrate and destroy South Korean/allies bases. But, I don't think they are smart enough. Looks like the piggy they have dictating is more focused on eating the countries food supply than anything. <.<

Go ahead North Korea, see how fast your little piece of land becomes a firing zone.

>>28 I don't think excessive force being met with excessive force is worth the petty provocation

Point is we should probably vouch for the side that doesn't want anyone to die on either side, since the citizens of North Korea largely have nothing to do with their leaders' decision to be a jackass

>>29 Indeed. Regardless of North or South, nobody wants to die. Nobody has to die. One dropping a nuke on the other is not going to fix anything.

It may be needed to use excessive force if they follow through with this threat, or maintain it. If we allow this to go to far, we show extremist factions globally that if they have nukes, they have massive power. The world is already threanted by madmen with nuclear wepons, and the lat thin anyone needs is someone actaully kicking following through.

While war is not the most favored thing, isn't that the only solution when the countries like North Korea start threatening to turn bases to ashes, and refuse to listen to any other country?

>>3
yeah, and we should leave them alone too.

>>4
don't hate em. they have their own ideology, you know. they just want to be left alone.

>>15, >>18
Careful with that stuff. Japan wasn't a superpower pre-world war 2, but they almost owned the South-East Asian countries.

>>26
Dictators CAN be good, if they want to.

>>29
yeah pretty much. but I've read an article that they're conditioning the kids for stuff (source: not really reliable.)

>>32
we don't start anything unless they start the anything.

>>33 Never said I hated them. Just that since i have a job in intelligence for the Air Force, if tensions escilate, then I might have to go to South Korea, which i really don't want to do. Also, I said the North Korea is a potential threat.

yeah, sorry. be careful by the way, if ever..

Oddly specific? What the hell? If they had said, "We will burn your city to ash and stand on your corpses," I would say it's justified but this is as ridiculous as the newspaper in my country saying, "Dodgy chicken repackaged..."
Can nuclear missiles even reach the other country in less than 4 minutes?

... do you even know your geography?

>>37 It's the same Country, idiot.

North Korea does not have the capability to start a war in the 21st century even if they're chummy with China. I don't get what all this hype and scare of another war is about.

Do you not know how stupid people can be?

>>41 Says who? You. Who are you and how do you know what a whole country can and cannot do behind people's fucking backs?

>>41
Didn't you hear? Those guys got some nasty thing called nuclear weapons and nukes. And it's not like China wouldn't capitalize on the situation.

North Korea is best Korea.

>>45
Would you be so kind as to shut the fuck up?

i agree

>>47 With what?

with what >>46 said. >>45 should shut up because he isn't contributing anything worth saying.

>>46 >>47 right on.
it's hard to give out an opinion, but let me say this:
NK almost took out SK had the UN not intervened. >>16 is right, (talk about the forgotten war).
In my opinion, NK is trying to exact revenge through this nuclear thing.

Ya know... NK can spend billions on nukes they really don't need but won't give their starving people some food. What up with that??