Pyonyang to Seoul: Sanctions mean war
Pyonyang to Seoul: Sanctions mean war
posted at 10:01 am on January 25, 2013 by Ed Morrissey A day after explicitly threatening the US with its missile and nuke program, North Korea turned its rhetorical sights south. Pyongyang warned South Korea that cooperation in the new round of sanctions after its previous missile test would prompt “strong physical countermeasures,” and would amount to a “declaration of war”: The Associated Press believes that the threats are “overblown”: That’s certainly been the case so far. Pyongyang usually ramps up the rhetoric when either their internal political situation becomes shaky or they desperately need food and fuel supplies. It’s winter, and it’s not too difficult to imagine that North Korea would be in desperate need of both at the moment, and may be applying pressure to get the UN and the Pacific Rim to back off of sanctions and give the DRPK some humanitarian aid. Still, that’s an easy conclusion to reach from this far away. ABC News reports from Seoul that they’re understandably a little more concerned that the rhetoric may be reality: Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. The Kim regime may be still crying wolf, but if they manage to put a nuke on a missile that can actually hit a target, that may change quickly. And they are progressing toward that capability, slowly as Gloria Riviera reports, but demonstrably. Even China seems to be taking this more seriously than in the past, threatening to cut aid to its client state if Kim doesn’t dial it down and return to the six-party talks. Sooner or later, the Kims will stop crying wolf and become the wolf if left unchecked. http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/2...ions-mean-war/ |
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