N.Korea accuses South, threatens action
SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea accused South Korea's navy Tuesday of trespassing in its waters and threatened military action, further raising tensions sparked by the sinking of one of Seoul's warships in March.
The South has announced a series of reprisals including a trade ban after a multinational investigation concluded last week that a North Korean submarine had torpedoed the Cheonan on March 26.
The communist North denies involvement in the sinking, which claimed 46 lives and brought it widespread international condemnation. It threatens full-scale war if there is any attempt to punish it.
The North's military made its complaint Tuesday in a message to the South's armed forces, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported.
Over 10 days ending Monday, it said, dozens of the South's naval ships had intruded into the North's waters.
"This is a deliberate provocation aimed to spark off another military conflict in the West (Yellow) Sea of Korea and thus push to a war phase the present North-South relations that reached the lowest ebb," KCNA quoted the message as saying.
If the intrusions continued, the North "will put into force practical military measures to defend its waters...and the South side will be held fully accountable for all the ensuing consequences".
The defence ministry denied any of its ships had crossed the border known as the Northern Limit Line, which the North refuses to accept.
IS CHINA REALLY BEHIND NORTH KOREA'S AGGRESSION?
The USA has a long list of economic things we have wanted China to do for a decade --- like float the yuan/renminbi.
China doesn't want to.
And it appears no one can make them - especially now that the Obama Administration wants China's help taming the North Korean menace.
HMMM: Might China have encouraged recent North Korean adventurism as a distraction, so they can say to the Obama, "We will help you with North Korea but only if you leave us COMPLETELY alone as far as our currency goes and as far as our domestic human rights policies, too."???
This would get the Chinese off the hook. IOW: They use North Korea to trick us into letting them get to play the Good Cop while they're excused for pursuing economic and rights policies which hurt more than a billion people globally.
To believe that China has no involvement with North Korea's aggression, one would have to believe that North Korea is a rogue even as far as China is concerned.
IS THIS CREDIBLE!?
I think not: North Korea is ENTIRELY dependent on China and wouldn't do ANYTHING to jeopardize their relationship with China. China could topple Kim Jung Il anytime they want they wanted to. Kim knows this.
Apparently, the Chinese do not want Kin gone.
WHY NOT?!?!
The current tyrant of North Korea suits China's needs. It distracts the USA and the West from pressuring China for China's bad policies.
Also, it seems North Korea is attempting to supply Iran with weapons. Is this an alliance of mere convenience, of money, or are NoKo and Iran working in concert? Could Iran and North Korea be trying to deflect attention from some other situation? Some other goal Iran is trying to accomplish?
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It's always good to have the crazy uncle out there provoking the dangerous foe to see what can be gotten away with, to very little risk
They are smart in Beijing
Noting nationwide NG mobilization
That report reads like paranoid, totally irresponsible wild speculation.
These people have families.
Any responsible reporter would be looking to contact them
China does not want Kim Jong Il to lose power because if he does, there will be even more chaos in North Korea. China is neither equipped nor willing to deal with a massive influx of refugees. In addition, China cannot stand the prospect of foreign troops near its border following the humanitarian disaster that will result if Kim loses power.
News today is that Obumma is sending more National Guard to the Mexican border area. Could that be what people are seeing?
Crazy Kim must be taking orders from someone...then again...the Red Chinese are NOT going to back Crazy Kim like they did with his father during the Korean War.
I speculate this is a chance to bring up "non"-Communist North Korean parties to play a role in "democratization" of that country. Since South Korean businesses linked with the South Korean military are in bed with the Red Chinese.
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