It's nice to see nuclear blackmail while we build up for an invasion of Iraq. ---------------------------------------------------------- N. Korea Warns 'Sanctions Mean a War' Tue Jan 7,11:35 AM ET By HANS GREIMEL, Associated Press Writer http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030107/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear_212 SEOUL, South Korea - A defiant North Korea (news - web sites) warned that sanctions against it would "mean a war," as thousands of people rallied Tuesday in the communist capital to support the country's military. The threat came as South Korea (news - web sites) dispatched another top diplomat to Washington Tuesday to seek a peaceful solution to the standoff over the North's nuclear program. National security adviser Yim Sung-joon is to meet his U.S. counterpart, Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), and other White House officials. His visit coincides with talks already underway in Washington with diplomats from South Korea and Japan. A day earlier, the U.N. nuclear watchdog gave North Korea a second chance to abandon its suspected weapons program — delaying possible U.N. sanctions. "Sanctions mean a war, and the war knows no mercy," said the North's official Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday.
Those are either some dumb bastards or they are somehow teaming up with the Iraqis and trying to make us spread ourselves too thin. I think there is big trouble in little China---- I mean N. Korea. We may be in for a huge shock once all the chips start to fall.
North Korea is actually pretty smart in all this. They are already isolated from the rest of the world, so they really have nothing to lose. There's no way in hell we invade them -- we will NOT fight a war against a well-armed army of 1 million people -- so they figure they can get some kind of concessions out of it. If it doesn't work, they stand down and really haven't lost anything. It's ridiculous, but it's not bad diplomacy on their part.
