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North Korea Threatens "Merciless Military Strike" Against U.S.
June 17, 2009 8:52 a.m. EST
  
     
     
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Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor
 
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Responding to President Barack Obama's tough rhetoric after meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, nuclear-armed North Korea on Wednesday warned of a "thousand-fold retaliation" against the United States.
"If the US and its followers infringe upon our republic's sovereignty even a bit, our military and people will launch a one hundred- or one thousand-fold retaliation with merciless military strike," the state-run Minju Joson newspaper said in a commentary published by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The newspaper also called Obama a "hypocrite" and said the United States has no monopoly on nuclear programs.
Obama had called the communist nation a "grave threat to the peace of Asia and the world" on Tuesday after meeting with Lee at the White House.
He added, "North Korea has abandoned its own commitments and violated international law... there is another path available to North Korea -- a path that leads to peace and economic opportunity for the people of North Korea, including full integration into the community of nations. That destination can only be reached through peaceful negotiations that achieve the full and verifiable denuclearization."
The U.S. President said he and Lee discussed the steps being taken by allies in the region, including China, Russia and Japan, to make clear to North Korea "it will not find security or respect through threats and illegal weapons."
The U.N. Security Council last Friday announced tougher sanctions on North Korea in response to the communist nation's May 25 nuclear test. Resolution 1874, which passed with a unanimous vote from the 15-member Council, demands that North Korea stop all nuclear and missile activity, and return unconditionally to the Six Party negotiations.
China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States are part of negotiations, called Six Party talks, with North Korea about nuclear disarmament.
The U.N. resolution also imposes a complete embargo on the export of arms by North Korea, and broadens the ban on the nation's imports. It gives Council member states the authority to inspect any land or sea vessel inside or outside their territory that they suspect is carrying material banned under the current and previous resolutions.
Financial sanctions have also been tightened, and member states can freeze transactions and assets related to North Korea's proliferation activities, and financial institutions halt new loans, grants and trade credits except for humanitarian purposes.
A Pentagon spokesman explained in a Tuesday press briefing that inspecting cargo would begin with a request to North Korea, and not to the land or sea vessel, for permission to do so. If the request is denied, a likely scenario given the communist nation's rhetoric, another one has to be made again to North Korea asking it to order the vessel to a port to be inspected.
North Korean officials last week held a rally to denounce the U.N. resolution as an "intolerable mockery of the dignity of the Korean people and an arrogant criminal act of wantonly violating its sovereignty," according to KCNA.
"The DPRK has so far done what it should do despite the ceaseless 'sanctions' on the part of the imperialist allied forces," the statement released by the KCNA also said. "These 'sanctions' prompted it to augment its national power, far from 'weakening' it."
North Korea conducted its second nuclear test and test-fired two short-range missiles from its eastern coast last month. It subsequently ended the 1953 ceasefire agreement ratified after Korean War, saying South Korea's decision to fully participate in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) was "a declaration of war."
The PSI is a multilateral effort that began under the Bush administration in 2003. It seeks to stop trafficking of weapons of mass destruction and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. It has 15 major members, including Japan, France, Germany and Russia.
South Korea officially joined the PSI a day after the North's May 25 nuclear test.
 
 
 
  
  
    
      
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