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posted by mrpg on Saturday May 06 2017, @04:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-there-k-pop-in-NK? dept.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-idUSKBN18113D

North Korea on Friday accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea's intelligence service of a plot to attack its "supreme leadership" with a bio-chemical weapon and said such a "pipe-dream" could never succeed.

Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for weeks, driven by concern that North Korea might conduct its sixth nuclear test or test-launch another ballistic missile in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Reclusive North Korea warned this week that U.S. hostility had brought the region to the brink of nuclear war.

The North's Ministry of State Security released a statement saying "the last-ditch effort" of U.S. "imperialists" and the South had gone "beyond the limits".

"The Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S. and the Intelligence Service (IS) of south Korea, hotbed of evils in the world, hatched a vicious plot to hurt the supreme leadership of the DPRK and those acts have been put into the extremely serious phase of implementation after crossing the threshold of the DPRK," the North's KCNA news agency quoted the statement as saying, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"A hideous terrorists' group, which the CIA and the IS infiltrated into the DPRK on the basis of covert and meticulous preparations to commit state-sponsored terrorism against the supreme leadership of the DPRK by use of bio-chemical substance, has been recently detected."


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @08:11PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @08:11PM (#505529)

    North Korea, Iran and Syria are the only 3 countries left in the world that do not have a "world bank" controlling their money. In other words, they are not debt slaves like the rest of us. Now "we" can't have that, can "we". Time to go fight yet another banker's war like us lowly peasants have done for the past several hundred years.

    Oh, and the Syrian "refugees", yes they are predominately fit fighting-age men. That was a tactic to weaken the Assad. Also most of the men were usually middle-class, working government jobs, essentially the people the keep the infrastructure going, remove them to weaken the government and resistance to the "Allies" (again, "us", and the fundamentalist nutjobs "we" pretend to fight in other countries).

    Ever wonder how "we" are always at war with other countries on the other side of the planet? Well now Russia, China and a few other countries are getting together to create their own currency and remove SWIFT from their banking system. Guess "we" will be going to war with them soon enough. Difference is this time Russia and China are not poor little "dirt countries", they both have nukes and China has a million man standing army.

    Things are going to get way worse before they get better. Irony of that statement is "we" are the aggressors. Time to follow the french and break out the guillotines again.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @08:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @08:28PM (#505535)

    North Korea, Iran and Syria are the only 3 countries left in the world that do not have a "world bank" controlling their money.

    Define "controlling their money."

    https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/syria [worldbank.org]
    https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/iran [worldbank.org]

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday May 06 2017, @08:42PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 06 2017, @08:42PM (#505545) Journal

    North Korea, Iran and Syria are the only 3 countries left in the world that do not have a "world bank" controlling their money.

    North Korea is a shithole whose hard currency comes mostly through China. Iran is an partly integrated part of the world economy despite the economic sanctions. And Syria doesn't exist, but if it did, it'd be a Russian client state. And no world bank exists in the first place to control anyone's money..

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @02:30AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @02:30AM (#505682)

      "And no world bank"

      You out yourself as a shill with that last sentence.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:42AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:42AM (#505739) Journal
        My point here is that there is no world bank to point to (I include the actual World Bank in this). Instead, we have bunches of banks in a complex system. Among other things, there is considerable competition on all sorts of things such as currencies, central banking, usual commercial banking activities (such as lending), and financial products and as a result considerable conflict of interest. People who hint darkly at retaliation for such things as Iran's use of Euros as the currency of oil trade ignore that such countries have been doing this sort of thing for decades, and they're still here.

        Sure, you can call that system a bank, but it isn't.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @10:09PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @10:09PM (#505576)

    Glad somebody else has been paying attention to BRICS. I'd guess they'll still move away from the US dollar in 2018, though it could be a little later in 2019. After this fall, stay away from major cities.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @12:57AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @12:57AM (#505637)

      > After this fall, stay away from major cities.

      People have been saying that for centuries,
      If you keep saying it, maybe one year you'll get it right.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @02:27AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @02:27AM (#505681)

        If it hasn't happened to the US, it hasn't happened elsewhere, ever.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:44AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:44AM (#505740) Journal

        People have been saying that for centuries,

        And before the 20th Century, they would have been right too. Cities have historically been population sinks, particularly when hit by disease, war, or famine.