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China-Japan-Koreas

Norks threaten H-bomb test

2006-10-16

Thoth posted the headline without text. Ya gotta know we want the details! And the snark, of course. AoS. Kim Myong-chol, director of the Center for Korean-American Peace, who is regarded as an unoffical spokesperson for Kim Jong-il has claimed in a radio interview that North Korea has an H-bomb and is ready to test it. When asked for evidence the director replied, "that’s why we are going to test the bomb." They won't really know if it's an H-bomb until they test it. Chances are it's a blob of plutonium and some circuitry. He went on to say "If the Bush administration makes more provocations, both New York City and Tokyo will be blazed." It's a real, live nukooler Sea of Fire™! Don't settle for anything less! The South Korean Ministry of Unification minimised the importance of the remarks, saying they should be ignored. Kim however claims to be in contact with high ranking North Korean officials and that his comments are representitive of Pyongyang. "He's a loonie. He's a Nork. We repeat ourselves. Pass the kimchee." Kim also said that thee North is targeting the United States but does not want to wage a war against the South as long as Seoul takes a neutral position. "The destiny of the Korean Peninsula will be decided within a week, and South Korea should maintain its neutral stance, Seoul should request that Washington not mobilize U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) even if a war breaks out." Yup, we should just stay in our barracks, you betcha.

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China-Japan-Koreas

Norks threaten New York

2006-10-12

WASHINGTON – As reports circulated of a second imminent nuclear test, a high-ranking North Korean official who is called the unofficial spokesman for Kim Jong-il issued a not-so-veiled threat to the United States today in an interview with South Korean radio. "Everything will be settled in a week," said Kim Myong-chol on KBS Radio. "That is, whether we, Korean people, will remain as we are now, or lose, or New York will lose, or Washington, D.C., will lose, it will all be settled once and for all." The report was carried in Chosun Ilbo, a Korean-language newspaper in the south. They keep banging their spoon on the high chair tray. The South Korean government is trying to verify intelligence that North Korea is to conduct another nuclear test soon – possibly in the next two or three days. Quoting a reliable source on North Korea, the report said: "Many indications from North Korea point to the high likelihood that North Korea would conduct another nuclear test in two or three days. We received intelligence Oct. 11 that says the North Korean military is showing unusual movements." Alexander Downer, Australian foreign minister, said yesterday, "We have intelligence that North Korea would have another nuclear test soon. We are very concerned about it."

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China-Japan-Koreas

Why Pyongyang is going nuclear

2006-08-30

Bizarre article. Confirmation, if any is needed, that these people are insane By Kim Myong-chol The time is coming fast to decide who is the winner and who the loser in the long-standing conflict between the Korean people, with a history of 5,000 years - proud descendants of Dankun and Paedal Korea and Koguryo - and the United States, with a history of a mere 200 years. The Korean people have many scores to settle with the US. The North Korean government of Kim Jong-il is going to show who the real masters of Korea are by winning the nuclear standoff with the US. The Korean people adamantly refuse to be second-class citizens, but are determined to prove that they are sovereign masters of the Land of Morning Calm. The Korean-US conflict began long before the late Kim Il-sung and his son, current North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, were born. It was nearly 150 ago, in 1866 when the US gunboat General Sherman raided Pyongyang. The final stage of the conflict is in the present nuclear standoff between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United States. Kim Jong-il and his North Korean people have long-standing scores to settle with the US and its allies. Scene I of the first stage is the declaration of nuclear-weapons status. Scene II is to show beyond doubt that North Korea has the nuclear capability to settle the old scores with the US.

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Korea

Pyongyang: We’ll put a torch to New York

2003-03-09

North Korea would launch a ballistic missile attack on the United States if Washington made a pre-emptive strike against the communist state's nuclear facility, the man described as Pyongyang's "unofficial spokesman" claimed yesterday. Kim Myong-chol, who has links to the Stalinist regime, told reporters in Tokyo that a US strike on the nuclear facility at Yongbyon "means nuclear war". "If American forces carry out a pre-emptive strike on the Yongbyon facility, North Korea will immediately target, carry the war to the US mainland," he said, adding that New York, Washington and Chicago would be "aflame".

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