Did the US just threaten NK?

[Renew Deal]

US warns N. Korea against 'provocative' acts

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon warned Pyongyang on Friday that "further provocative action would be regrettable" after reports that North Korea had deployed two mid-range missiles near its eastern coast.

"Missile tests outside their international obligations would be a provocative act. They need to follow international norms and abide by their commitments," Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters.

Several UN Security Council resolutions require North Korea to abstain from all nuclear and ballistic missile activities.

Little declined to comment on a report by South Korea's Yonhap news agency saying that two intermediate Musudan missiles had been transported by train earlier in the week and loaded on vehicles equipped with launch pads.
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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. I consider it more of a warning, because in the present climate created by North Korea...

we would not know if a missile launch was a test or an attack. Waiting to make sure could cost hundreds or thousands of lives. According to the news, North Korea has just told British and Russian embassy's that they should remove their people from North Korea. Countries only do this when a war is very close.

From all I've seen, North Korea is driving this. We should all remember that we are still at war with North Korea. There was never an armistice or a peace treaty. It has just been a long ceasefire. They seem to be hell bent on ending the ceasefire.

http://news.yahoo.com/uk-says-north-korea-query-embassy-anti-u-121509494.html
http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-asks-russia-consider-evacuating-embassy-staff-104454738.html

[sarisataka]

2. It is from the Chinese book of diplomacy

where the strongest condemnation of an action is China finds it regrettable. An open ended statement with threat of action neither implied, nor excluded.
Essentially we are phrasing our thoughts in terms NK relates to.

[lovuian]

3. N Korea just had a 6.2 earthquake hit them

just putting this on the list
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000g0cq#summary

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. So you think we caused the quake?

May I introduce yiu to plate tectonics?

Worst Geography...that is...wait for it...Russia.

[Renew Deal]

6. Or they did?

But I don't think it was either them or us. Also, I thought the earthquake was in Russia

[AsahinaKimi]

8. I hope that was a quake and not

a faulty A-bomb going off.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Warned them, in a very non-threatening way. We've publicly backed away from confrontation

(with the assumption that they got the recent message during the exercises that if they tried to attack South Korea in the future, we can and will fuck their shit up), so anything they do is 100% aggressive on their part.

[Erose999]

7. NK's response: ARE YOU THREATENING ME??

Their new leader is a lot like Beavis and Butthead.

[temporary311]

9. So the great Kimholio

just needs TP for his bunghole? Guess I would be belligerent, too, if I were in those shoes. Maybe we should air drop some charmin and this whole thing will blow over.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. The pissing contest continues. That's showbiz.

[TimberValley]

11. Warning isn't the same as threatening.

Nor is 'threatening' an aggressive nation necessarily a bad thing.


If the United States had threatened Nazi Germany a bit more with consequences - while Germany was considering its invasion of Poland, etc. - that might have been a very good thing.