TOP CARTOON: IN 1994, KIM JONG-IL GRINS AS UNCLE SAM
OFFERS A LIGHT WATER REACTOR AND 500,000 TONS OF FUEL
OIL A YEAR IN RETURN FOR THE NORTH’S DISMANTLEMENT
OF ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
BOTTOM CARTOON: IN 2008, KIM JONG-IL TURNS HIS BACK
ON THE SAME OFFER, SAYING: ‘THAT’S NOT ENOUGH. NOW
WE HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.’
Are Seoul and Washington planning to invade North Korea, and/or shoot down its ‘peaceful’ communications satellite? As the annual U.S.-South Korea war exercises get under way across the South – and with Pyongyang apparently planning to launch a missile to celebrate the ‘election’ of Dear Leader Kim Jong-il – tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at their highest in years. In part as a response to reports that the U.S. or Japan might shoot down any such missile/satellite, North Korea’s strictly-controlled state news agency reports on a statement issued by North Korea’s military command on Monday:
“If the enemies recklessly decide to intercept our satellite, our revolutionary armed forces will launch a just retaliatory strike without hesitation – not only against all means of interception, but against the strongholds of those who hatched the plot – the American and Japanese aggressors and their south Korean puppets. Shooting down our peaceful satellite will precisely mean a war.”
March 9, 2009
North Korea – Korean Central News Agency
Pyongyang: Because the bellicose group behind the traitorous Lee Myung-bak [South Korea’s president] has colluded with the U.S. imperialists and has embarked on the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint war exercises against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea DPRK, despite the repeated warnings of the Korea People’s Army [KPA], a spokesman for the General Staff of the KPA issued the following statement on Monday:
A carrier task force, strategic bomber corps and other major military assets of the U.S. imperialist aggressor have been deployed in South Korea and its vicinity – and the armed forces of the three services of the puppet army have begun exercises for a war of aggression against the DPRK.
Not content with claiming that the DPRK should “dismantle its nuclear weapons first,” the U.S. and Japanese aggressors and the Lee Myung-bak group of traitors have begun war exercises and have mobilized ambitious ground and coastal interceptor operations in a bid to prevent the DPRK from launching a satellite for peaceful purposes.
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