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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: 3, Insightful) by n1 on Saturday May 06 2017, @09:42PM (1 child)

    by n1 (993) on Saturday May 06 2017, @09:42PM (#505566) Journal

    From what i've seen, the rhetoric hasn't changed much with the new Kim in power, they've always been about 'merciless retaliation' should they be invaded or be attacked, and I don't think that's changed, except less emphasis on the retaliation element of the statements when they're covered in the western media. They are developing their capabilities... Much like every other nation with a large military. All the nuclear powers have the capability to destroy humanity, or just their adversaries should the mood strike. This has been the case for decades, but it doesn't stop continual investment and refinement into new, bigger and better ways to annihilate the enemy/everyone in different ways.

    There is a bigger change in optics of what's happening in the US and interested parties may have seen this as an opportunity to rattle their sabers a little harder when we have a new set of figureheads in office, who seem easily lead. Taking on North Korea has a wealth of opportunities for arms manufacturers and foreign policy think tanks.

    In my opinion, that is where the real change has come, and the renewed focus on North Korea, an opportunity in the shifting US political landscape to change this decades long stalemate. There is huge economic and military opportunity in unifying Korea by force and completely removing the tyrannical regime. And it's a relatively easy sell since the lack of human rights and internal repression in North Korea is well documented and essentially completely unchallenged, even by China, their strongest ally.

    I've been following North Korea to some degree for the last 10 years and reading the actual quotes coming out of the country, nothing much has really changed in their rhetoric and saber rattling, it's just being reported on more and quoted selectively for dramatic effect.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @06:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @06:56AM (#505752)

    You can't honestly say you've been following north korea and have not noticed changes. Things have changed a lot, in some ways the country is a lot more open. With cell phones... but only the hands of the elites. Also the recent expansion of the non-party business elite class. Oh and the aggressive pursuit of ICBMs, being now well on track to develop the ability to strike the USA.

    No everything is different I have heard almost no expert analysis that reads anything like you assessment.