...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...'s leader Kim
PudgeJong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
, warned joint military exercises of US, South Korea and Japan could bring about ''negative consequences'' for themselves, state media reported on Sunday.
They do that every year.
South Korea, Japan and the US will conduct annual defensive drills called the ''Freedom Edge'' starting on September 15 to upgrade aerial, naval and cyber operational capabilities against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, South Korea's military has said.
''This reminds us that the reckless display of power displayed by the US, Japan, and South Korea in the wrong places, namely around the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, will undoubtedly bring about negative consequences for themselves,'' Kim said via state KCNA news agency, using North Korea's official name.
South Korea and the United States also plan to stage the ''Iron Mace'' tabletop exercises next week on integrating their conventional and nuclear capabilities against North Korea's threats, South Korean local media reported.
If ''hostile forces'' continue to boast about their power through those joint drills, North Korea will take countermeasures ''more clearly and strongly,'' North Korea's top party official Pak Jong Chon said in a separate dispatch via KCNA.
Pyongyang has traditionally criticized those joint drills as rehearsals for invasion and in some cases responded with weapons tests, but Seoul and Washington say they are purely defensive.
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