North Korea views second Korean war as 'unavoidable'

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Pyongyang views second Korean war as 'unavoidable'

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TOKYO (August 22, 1999 11:26 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Joint exercises between the United States and South Korea show the two allies' rising militarism, making a second Korean War "unavoidable," North Korea said Sunday.

In recent days, Pyongyang has regularly said the 12-day joint exercises could lead to war, but it had not called hostilities inevitable.

America and South Korea have been conducting war games to simulate a coordinated response to a North Korean invasion as part of their annual joint military exercises.

"The United States and South Korea are in a belligerent relationship," said an editorial in the Rodong Shinmun, the newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, monitored in Tokyo by the RadioPress News Agency. "A second Korean War has become unavoidable."

The two Koreas fought a war from 1950-53, after the peninsula was divided into the communist North and capitalist South following the 1945 liberation from Japanese colonial rule.

The United States keeps 37,000 troops in South Korea under a defense treaty.





-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), August 22, 1999

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Left, I am HTML challenged!

-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), August 22, 1999.




-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), August 22, 1999.

Let's see if this works.

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), August 22, 1999.

Um.. Maybe this.

-- (hm@hm.hm), August 22, 1999.

When do the North Korean fireworks start?

Days? Weeks?

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), August 22, 1999.


helium:

North Korea is a very primative country. Any such war would lead to the elimination of their government. Do they know this? Don't know, because they are very isolated. In a larger way China faces the same situation. I suspect that they know and would be a force in such a confrontation [in a way not helpful to NK].

Best

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 22, 1999.


Z: China is communist. N. Korea is communist. Do you think China will side with S. Korea?

Tell us another one.

-- a (a@a.a), August 22, 1999.


a:

Yep; if it is in their interest; and it will be. Communism has never existed. All that has existed is self-serving nationalism. If NK does something stupid, China will leave this unwanted period of cooperation. You can't sell Nike's in NK.

Best,

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 22, 1999.



Hate to burst your bubble there "a", but if you had been watching the news for about the past year or so, China is pretty fed up with North Korea. Turning away people fleeing from NK during the famine, showing up at a NK/SK/USA meetings saying that NK needed to behave and so on.

Could a war break out? Yes it could, but NK also has cried wolf so many times it is getting rather boring. Everytime they want something they go around threatening.

I sok though, keep reading and seeing things that only fit your view.

-- none of your business (forget@it.com), August 22, 1999.


Hmmm. China supplies its nearest neighbor NK with military weapontry, missle technology, atomic processing plants, and probably nuclear bomb secrets. But we're supposed to believe that China would not be allied with NK in WWW III? I've never done this before on this forum, but

BWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

-- a (a@a.a), August 22, 1999.


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