N. Korean military postures for war against U.S. nuclear-powered carrier

[charlie and algernon]

Source: Yonhap News Agency

SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Yonhap) -- All North Korean troops have been placed on an emergency posture to launch operations any time against U.S.-led defense drills off the peninsula, the communist nation's state news agency reported Tuesday.

The General Staff of the Korean People's Army took issue in particular with the deployment of the USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered carrier, for the joint exercises with South Korea and Japan.

"This clearly proves that the remarks of such high-ranking officials of the U.S. Obama administration as the secretary of state that the U.S. neither pursues a hostile policy towards the DPRK (North Korea) nor has the will to attack it are sheer lies," an unnamed spokesman for the military body said in an English-version statement, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

In this connection, it added, the entire North Korean military received an "emergency order from its supreme command to re-examine the operation plans already ratified by it and keep themselves fully ready to promptly launch operations any time, watching with high vigilance every move of the U.S. and Japanese aggressors and the puppet forces."

Read more: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/10/08/17/0301000000AEN20131008000951315F.html

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I guess North Korea felt it wasn't getting enough attention during the whole US Gov't shutdown crisis.

[Ash_F]

1. Well don't worry the military is staying well funded. /nt

[charlie and algernon]

2. To be fair, that's one of the reasons they keep it funded

don't want some other nation or group from doing something stupid just because Congress has its head up its ass.

[Ash_F]

3. Well I'm sure they won't go overboard and destroy our economy with this.

Just like all the past superpowers who ended up in a place where they couldn't fund a military.

[Owl]

4. Dang near forgot about the N. Korean Bozo's amongst Boehner's government shutdown.

[Turbineguy]

5. Don't they know?

They could save a lot of effort, we already have the republicans attacking us.

Somebody should let them know.

[Snake Plissken]

6. Kim Jong Boo Boo should just get a reality show

This dictator thing is clearly not working out for him.

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. It appears we have not been paying sufficient attention to N. Korea. Perhaps David Rodman

should be sent there on basketball diplomacy and that will make the tin pot dictator happier so he can go back to his efforts to starve his own people to death.

[davidpdx]

8. I say send him over with a big bottle of steak sauce and a note saying they can keep him

[davidpdx]

9. North Korea is at it again, big surprise

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Just after the reopened the factories in Kaesong. Personally I think South Korea should have told them tough luck until they were really ready to deal. There won't be another joint exercise mostly likely until the spring. This is the usual foaming at the mouth bullshit coming from North Korea.

If we really wanted to punish them we'd ship John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, and Michelle Bachmann over there and make them listen to their ranting and ravings for a few weeks.

Edit: Hattip to Beacool, I forgot Bachmann.

[Beacool]

10. No problema...........

[Dash87]

11. *Yawn*

Another North Korea "imminent strike."

[charlie and algernon]

12. pretty much

One news guy on twitter said last night that this is coming right after they recieved an aid shipment from Mongolia.

So at least North Korea is consistant: ratcheting up the rhetoric just to get more food and aid.

[treestar]

13. They do this every time there is an exercise

Idiots.

[NickB79]

14. N. Korea vs. one US carrier battlegroup. Seems like a fair fight

Fuck, they'd be lucky to get anything within 100 miles of it before being blown out of the sky, and the George Washington likely has enough firepower onboard (and the jets to deliver it) to turn most of their military installations to rubble.

And that's assuming she doesn't have a nuclear-armed escort sub with her (which she probably does).