One month after a deadly exchange of artillery fire, the two Koreas ramped up their rhetoric, with South Korea’s president pledging unsparing retaliation if attacked again and a top North Korean official threatening a “sacred” nuclear war if provoked.
South Korean troops, tanks and fighter jets put on a thundering display of force Thursday as President Lee Myung-bak visited with soldiers at a base near the border, while North Korea’s elite marked a key military anniversary by lashing out at the South for encouraging war.
For both countries, the rallying cries and military maneuvers mainly seemed designed to build support at home. But they raised fears anew of all-out war on a peninsula that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson called a “tinderbox” after returning from a visit to the North Korean capital this week. Full story
Remember “Beneath the Planet of the Apes?”
The “worship” of nukes is an old idea.
But hey! Gotta believe in something, right?
The word “sacred” had me wondering all day as I prepared for Christmas. Who knows what crazy thoughts might occupy the mind of a tyrant, right? Then I decided to look the word up and I discovered some very interesting definitions for the word holy. For instance it can mean “accursed”! It can also mean “inviolable: secure from assault or trespass…or…unassailable: not liable to doubt, attack, or question, synonym: untouchable.
The North Korean regime is probably one of the most psychotic since Nero. They’re beyond the delusions of even the Nazi’s in my book. Who know what they will do next? I’m just praying they wouldn’t consider a nuclear attack. It’s almost beyond comprehension what that would do to our global humanity. Of course America would be obligated to use nukes right back and the devastation would be surreal, Nagasaki and Hiroshima would look mild by comparison. And the sad part is million of their most innocent citizens who are trapped by their evil regime and who only want to escape from this madness would be among the first to die. And what would the world think of America, using nukes again? What profound impact would that have? I have no answer.
Just one more tidbit….I found this in an AP story, “The situation on the Korean Peninsula is no less puzzling today than it was on November 23, 2010 when North Korea shelled a South Korean island, killing two ROK Marines and two civilians. North Koreas foreign minister stated that the PDRK will defend itself with nuclear weapons against both the South and the United States, a statement that will do nothing to lessen the tension between the two sides. South Korea is talking about reunification, with President Lee stating that a united Korea is not very far away.”
Read more at Suite101: North Korea Threatens Use of Nuclear Weapons http://www.suite101.com/content/north-korea-threatens-use-of-nuclear-weapons-a319024#ixzz199KJNJd7