Meanwhile On Another Front
Kim Jong Il, North Korea's Minimum Leader, has announced he plans to begin upgrading his nuclear weapons. More alarmingly, he has apparently begun equipping and training his civilians and readying artillery units.
North Korea will upgrade its arsenal "in every way by employing all possible means and methods" and will greet any aggressors with "all-out do-or-die resistance and unprecedented devastating strikes," Kim Il Chol said, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
Kim said such a move is necessary to counter the United States' "extremely hostile act and the irresponsibility of the U.N. Security Council."
Kim spoke at a gathering to mark the 53rd anniversary of the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War.
North Korea fired seven missiles in early July, including at least one believed capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. International condemnation prompted the Security Council to adopt a resolution sanctioning North Korea and banning member states from missile-related dealings with the communist country.
The defense minister warned that the U.N. resolution will not force Pyongyang to give up its nuclear program. North Korea "can survive without sweets, but not without bullets," he said.
Separately, a South Korean civic group said the North is readying its forces for conflict.
Artillery units have been armed and civilian forces, composed of laborers and farmers, have been outfitted with uniforms, the Seoul-based Good Friends group said in a statement Wednesday.
Drills are being held for both active duty and civilian forces, and civilians have been issued vehicles covered with camouflage netting, Good Friends said without citing sources for its information.
The Iranians and the North Koreans are trying their best to stir something up. The world had better get on the same page or all hell will bust loose.
North Korea | Gaius Wednesday, 26 July , 2006
By crosspatch, Wednesday, 26 July , 2006 @ 1:32 pm
Note that neither Iran nor the NorKs have tested a bomb. I still have this gut feeling that August 22 is a date set for a joint NorK/Iranian bomb test but have no hard information to base that feeling on. I pray for a fizzle.
By Gaius, Wednesday, 26 July , 2006 @ 1:33 pm
Ugly speculation, isn’t it? Though that’s better than my worst fears.
By Reilly Bear, Wednesday, 26 July , 2006 @ 6:40 pm
“The Iranians and the North Koreans are trying their best to stir something up. The world had better get on the same page or all hell will bust loose.”
And as we all know, it will be the fault of the U.S. in general, and GWB in particular. Just ask anyone in the Democrat Party hierarchy (for that matter, you could ask the looney lefties today … the asnwer won’t change), all the problems in the world exist because we forced an abnormal conclusion to WWII.