SEOUL - North Korea warned on Wednesday that it would regard any sanctions imposed on it by Japan as a declaration of war and would hit back with an "effective physical" response.
That's all? No sea of fire? I think the previous KCNA guy starved to death and was eaten by others. |
It also said it would reconsider its participation in six-nation talks aimed at ending the nuclear stand-off if a "provocative campaign" under way in Japan against the country continued, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
The insane outburst came after Japan said it would halt aid shipments to the impoverished Stalinist state in a dispute over the fate of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents during the Cold war. "If sanctions are applied against the DPRK (North Korea)..., we will regard it as a declaration of war against our country and promptly react to the action by an effective physical method," the unidentified spokesman said in a statement carried by the official Koran Central News Agency news agency.| "Yeah! We'll murderlize youse!" |
More than two-thirds of Japanese support sanctions against the Stalinist state, according to a newspaper poll, after Pyongyang provided the wrong ashes to Japan to support its claim that two Japanese whom it kidnapped during the Cold War had since died. The finding reignited anger in Japan against North Korea and Tokyo froze shipments of food aid to the destitute country. However, the North Korean foreign ministry spokesman insisted that the human remains were those of Yokota and said Pyongyang suspected the test results were "cooked up" to serve a political purpose.| Yum. Freshly cooked test results. Bet they go great with a cup of pine needle tea. |
The remains had been handed to Japanese authorities by Yokota's husband and it was "unimaginable" he would give them the ashes of anyone else, the North Korean spokesman said.| Unless of course he was hungry as hell and had a gun to his head, and those of his children. |
Instead, elements in Japan were trying to revive a long-standing row over the abductions "because they needed a subterfuge to justify Japan's militarisation, hold in check any improvement in the bilateral relations and step up their political and military interference in regional issues," he said. He accused the United States of supporting this because it wanted to provoke a war on the Korean Peninsula.
| We're the Great Satan, donchaknow? We don't need to provoke anything. Just ask the Taliban. |
A Japanese official said Tuesday the United States had warned Japan to be cautious about imposing sanctions on North Korea because the unpredictable regime could "out-manoeuvre" such a move. |