North Korea rattling it's sabres.

[gsvol]

SEOUL - South Korea's armed forces ordered a border alert Saturday after North Korea's military threatened an "all-out confrontational posture" against Seoul.

The North's strongly-worded military statement heightened tensions along the inter-Korean frontier and raised fears of clashes along the disputed border in the Yellow Sea.

It came just hours after the foreign ministry in Pyongyang said the North may not surrender its nuclear weapons even if diplomatic ties with Washington are established.

The spokesman, wearing a military uniform, read the message on state television, according to Yonhap, which monitors the North's broadcast media.

Yonhap said it was the first message from the North Korean army's General Staff in 10 years, and was far more strongly-worded than the usual denunciation of the South.

Analysts said both the North's statements Saturday were aimed at incoming US President Barack Obama and not South Korea.

By raising military tension with Seoul it wants to persuade Washington to push ahead with a stalled aid-for-denuclearisation deal despite other world crises.

 

[SWIL]

Timing, anybody??

This is an empty test directed at our new President to get his attention. North Korea is in a state of desperation. They are gambling that Obama will reach out politically with aid to its starving people. In exchange, I'm sure they plan to back off the hostilities.

Hopefully, Obama will ignore this and make them give up something more important, say... their nuclear arsenal.

 

[joevol320]

Timing, anybody??

This is an empty test directed at our new President to get his attention. North Korea is in a state of desperation. They are gambling that Obama will reach out politically with aid to its starving people. In exchange, I'm sure they plan to back off the hostilities.

Hopefully, Obama will ignore this and make them give up something more important, say... their nuclear arsenal.

if hussein o is like his fellow lib clinton, he'll be speaking to him in a couple of months. probably offer him some type of missle parts to help it rain.

 

[volinbham]

Looks like old Biden may have been right when said BO will be tested early in his administration. Let's hope he was wrong when he said the response may not look like the right one but we need to be patient.

 

[joevol320]

Looks like old Biden may have been right when said BO will be tested early in his administration. Let's hope he was wrong when he said the response may not look like the right one but we need to be patient.

if hussein is tested early and fails, he'll blame it on bush. if he succeeds, he'll take the credit. that's the way it is.

 

[utvolpj]

isn't Obama a big basketball player? He should give Albright a call to ask her advice

 

[allvol123]

Looks like old Biden may have been right when said BO will be tested early in his administration. Let's hope he was wrong when he said the response may not look like the right one but we need to be patient.

Maybe he will send a prayer..."brownskins rook no more....Obama has kicked in the door".

 

[volinbham]

Oh hehrow Hans Brix

 

[gsvol]

Timing, anybody??

This is an empty test directed at our new President to get his attention. North Korea is in a state of desperation. They are gambling that Obama will reach out politically with aid to its starving people. In exchange, I'm sure they plan to back off the hostilities.

Hopefully, Obama will ignore this and make them give up something more important, say... their nuclear arsenal.

But if the claim is true that Obama is the second Carter administration, then he will probably give them hydrogen bomb technology, after all it was Clinton/Albright and Carter that made them nuclear capable, even the Chinese and Russians weren't that stupid.

 

[therealUT]

The RoK Army would absolutely destroy the North Korean forces if Kim Jong Il ever believed his his rhetoric enough to act. The only question is whether or not China would step in. I seriously doubt they would at this juncture.