
North Korea has threatened to mount a "physical counterattack" to a South Korean naval drill scheduled to open in the Yellow Sea later this week.
Seoul is planning to start the five-day military exercise on Thursday.
The North's military command in charge of western sea border defense sent a notification to the South blasting the drill, calling it a "military invasion" and a "reckless political provocation for the South to maintain the Northern Limit Line." The North does not recognize the legitimacy of the NLL, which was set by U.S.-led United Nations forces in 1953.
The statement was carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
S: KBS Global
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Date: 2010-08-03 03:47 pm (UTC)I mean i get that this is probably another bluff by North Korea, but you never know...
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Date: 2010-08-03 04:07 pm (UTC)North Korea just makes me want to scream. War is not a game.
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Date: 2010-08-03 07:00 pm (UTC)Whether they actually attack or not is a huge issue.
But the fact they are threatening to is an even bigger issue. :-/
Scaring the shit out of people seems like a tactic in hopes that maybe SK will just go and attack them first. Like I shoot you before you shoot me...I don't know, its just messed up. >*