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North Korea Threatens to End Korean War Cease Fire With ‘Surgical Strikes’

Mar. 5, 2013 9:20am Billy Hallowell

SEOUL, South Korea (TheBlaze/AP) — North Korea vowed Tuesday to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, citing a U.S.-led push for punishing U.N. sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing U.S.-South Korean joint military drills.

Without elaborating, the Korean People’s Army Supreme Command warned of “surgical strikes” meant to unify the divided Korean Peninsula and of an indigenous, “precision nuclear striking tool.” The statement came amid reports that Washington and North Korean ally Beijing have approved a draft of a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for sanctions in response to North Korea’s Feb. 12 nuclear test. The draft is expected to be circulated at the U.N. this week.

North Korea Threatens to End Korean War Cease Fire

In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013 in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a consultative meeting with officials in the fields of state security and foreign affairs at undisclosed location in North Korea. Credit: AP

Such heated military rhetoric and threats are common from North Korea as tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula, and Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test and rocket launches, and the subsequent call for U.N. punishment, have increased already high animosity between the North and Washington and ally Seoul.

The United States and others worry that North Korea’s third nuclear test takes it a big step closer toward its goal of having nuclear-armed missiles that can reach America, and condemn its nuclear and missile efforts as threats to regional security and a drain on the resources that could go to North Korea’s largely destitute people.

North Korea says its nuclear program is a response to U.S. hostility that dates back to the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula still technically in a state of war.

In this Sunday March 3, 2013, photo provided by ABC television “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos, left, interviews former NBA star Dennis Rodman, just back from a visit with North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong Un, in studio in New York. Kim Jong Un doesn’t really want war with the superpower, just a call from President Barack Obama to chat about their shared love of basketball, says erstwhile diplomat Rodman.”He loves basketball. … I said Obama loves basketball. Let’s start there” as a way to warm up relations between U.S. and North Korea”, Rodman said. Credit: AP

Even amid the tension, North Korea has welcomed high-profile visitors, including former basketball star Dennis Rodman, known for his piercings and tattoos – and his Hall of Fame career with the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls.

Rodman met the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, called him an “awesome guy” and said Kim wanted President Barack Obama to call him (more about this here). The trip was criticized for giving the authoritarian leader a propaganda boost, but Rodman suggested “basketball diplomacy” could warm relations. Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, made a four-day trip in January, but did not meet Kim.

North Korea warned in its statement that it will cancel the 60-year-old armistice agreement on March 11, when two weeks of U.S.-South Korean military drills that began earlier this month draw 10,000 South Korean and 3,500 U.S. forces. The statement called the drills a “dangerous nuclear war targeted at us.”

North Korea also said it will block a communications line between it and the United States at the border village separating the two Koreas.

“We aim to launch surgical strikes at any time and any target without being bounded by the armistice accord and advance our long-cherished wish for national unification,” the statement said.

North Korea lays the blame for its much-condemned nuclear weapons programs on the United States.

A rich vein of North Korean propaganda, fueled by decades-old, Cold War-era American threats, holds that the North remains at risk of an unprovoked nuclear attack. Washington and others say brinksmanship is the North’s true motive for the nuclear push.

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Comments (49)

FANGS
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:46pm
Well, I’m sure our Military knows where the mass populations of troops are in North Korea. If that nut case Jong ill fires on South Korea and our American troops. I Believe it is our Moral Duty to drop dozens of Daisy Cutters on the North’s Forces and Finally set the North’s People Free. If Obama would ignore an opertunity like this. I believe he is then truely worse than Hitler and Stalin and would have to be dealt with Militarily By Americans.

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TonyFox
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:20pm
Someone should take Dennis Rodman and North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong Un tie them together put a stick of Dynamite in both their ass take them out in a field and start shooting at them, That would be two les ass holes in the World.

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Arshloch
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:06pm
Another stupid dumb-o-crap move caused this problem. GENERAL MacArthur tried to finish the ‘Korean problem’ but was stopped by a dumb-o-crap. When he insisted the dumb-o-crap then fired him. So now the little bucket head in charge wants, and certainly try, to nuke the U.S. Ain’t them DUMB-O-CRAPS grande?

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zgomer
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:04pm
LoL…when pigs fly…

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:57pm
Well….if I were a North Korean dictator bent on war….now is the time to do it with a complete idiot in the white house. BTW…thank God I don’t own a KIA….when that war starts….parts will be hard to get…lol.

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lefthook37
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:48pm
I think a Harsh letter to the north with all capital letters on the swear words is in order….that will show them we’re not just a pretty face…pilgrim

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cosmic dogma
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:13pm
Where is a drone when you need one? That is one dictator the world wouldn’t miss.

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justa_thought
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 2:43pm
I think a new “stern letter” is in order. That will put this guy back in his place.

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zoro51
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 2:42pm
its been foretold this ping pong will be removed offed and korea united and ONE… he shall try somehting that will trigger a nuke strike but will be stopped offed by one of his own… THEn north n south shall be ONE….

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Independent4233
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 1:14pm
“North Korea Threatens to End Korean War Cease Fire With ‘Surgical Strikes’ ”

And the Obamaites regard Iran as a bigger threat.

I wonder if it’s because North Korea can respond with nuclear warheads and Iran can’t.

Or is it because one country is a threat to Israel, but the other isn’t?

We can’t economically survive another police action in the Middle East. A trillion dollars has already been spent on Iraq and Afghanistan.

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- bioengineer
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:31pm
  Why can’t South Korea defend itself is my question. Twice the population and 25 times the economy. A trillion dollar economy vs 40 billion and the worst poverty in the world. Completely asinine that this gnat is a pest to anyone. We need to pull out and let the South Koreans deal with it. And if they had any brains they would carpet bomb his ass out of existence.
  
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spfoam1
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 12:52pm
N. Korea is a whore, pimped by China. N. Korea will love us long time if we pay. She aren’t lovin us right now, so I think she wants mo money.

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- gb123
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 1:13pm
  Send no money, just Obama phones.
  
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Redbarron17
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 12:28pm
Type “South Koreans hate Americans” into google and see how many stories come up. We should give them what they have been asking for and bring our troops home.

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- Redbarron17
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 1:31pm
  Watch this
  
  http://youtu.be/h7l7v_yvpQ4
  
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AUsername
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 12:18pm
they should face the consequences for their action on their own and USA should stay out of it.

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- Fubared
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 12:39pm
  Windy, do you have any clue as to how many troops we have around the dmz and how often do you clean your bong water? This has to be the moron formerly known as Windydualism. The neo crap was a tell.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 1:43pm
  bring them home and likely your the monk.
  
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- Redbarron17
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 1:54pm
  Yeah they’re the best! This is what they teach kids when not teaching them English.
  
  http://youtu.be/sx6V0YHNxSI
  
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Stevsea
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:13am
My niece just arrived in South Korea starting a teaching job. Teaching English to Korean students. I worry for her. I don’t think she realizes the real threat that is looming over there. I was in South Korea in the ’80′s while in the Marines and they treated us like family. I pray for them all.

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- pdw
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 12:03pm
  I was in Kora in the 50′s and they are very nice people.
  
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- tnman65
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 12:45pm
  I never got stationed there but I did go with my job in ’04. The were very nice people, especially the older ones that remember the war. All of the ones I met really liked Americans.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:55am
BHO spent last week making the world think everything would fringe to a halt over 2% cuts.
When north Korea sees denniscrodman as a typical American and gears our military is about to be rendered useless, it’s no wonder they decide they can threaten the south again.

And terrifyingly, students of the Left in Seoul mistakenly believe the north is not a horror for all but the elite (nancy, Harry, Barack Olivier to the nth degree).

I half exect china to move on Taiwan, but suspect they are going to just defang us economically, first

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:43am
OMG what did Dennis Rodman tell them? They all pissed off now? We so sorry N. Korea, please accept our apology, we make nice funny video for you, by Michelle Malkin, its on youtube, you likey likey? She dance for you – its so funny, you forget all about Dennis making you mad?

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:37am
And so we are seeing another fine example of Obama’s utterly useless and completely failed policies.

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- Pokerjoe
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:26am
  If they fire on us. Obama will let it happen. Then say I told you that 2% did it. This guy has no business in the white house. He lies all the time. Only here do you see it and Fox.
  
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Xiccarph
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:13am
Rodman’s a useful idiot. Kim’s a total idiot. Can’t do much about Kim, unless he attacks the South. Rodman…hey, looks promising as a future Cabinet Member in the Obama administration, eh??

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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:43am
  Is Rodman really even useful?
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:06am
  Rodman useful? Absolutely if there’s no such thing as bad publicity. He needs to get some skin in the NorK’s game, take an office and wait for the South Korean response to Ill Kim Junk’s surgery. Nuke them up to the Ninteenth Century, it worked for Japan.
  
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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:12am
North Korea is prepared for a night time air raid, they have been under blackout conditions for years

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- cosmic dogma
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:19pm
  They are also prepared for the austerity and depravation measures necessary when engaged in war. Been on a starvation diet for half a century.
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:47pm
  “starvation policy”
  Yes…everyone is on a starvation policy except the elite. Same thing obama is planning on doing. People languish with no jobs and he vacations.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:03am
I thought our Secretary of State, Dennis Rodman, said that our countries could unite through basketball?

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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:18am
  Fits right in. Clown Secretary of state, they wanted more color, right?
  
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- Outlaw_Josey_Wales
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:29am
  Will be fun to watch the north koreans play basketball on stiltes.
  
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- Outlaw_Josey_Wales
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:34am
  stilts
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:54am
Sounds to me like the North Koreans are tired of their steady tree bark diet and throwing their female babies into the rivers. Maybe “Great Leader” Fat Boy should cut back on his golf outings, like someone else I could name?

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- Xiccarph
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:09am
  Hey, a petition on the WH website asking Obama to go to meet Kim for a few rounds of golf to start a new Friendship of Peace. I’m sure Kim’s golf course there has never been played on by Obama…and we certainly don’t want a crises to go to waste, especially if it may involve a missed golfing opportunity. Besides…Obama may get there and notice that N.K. *already* has the Socialist Marxian Paradise he and the Progressives here have been incrementally building for the last 100 years or so…he may just decide to stay on…permanently!
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:16am
  @Sargeking
  
  True story. If Kim Jon Un just gave 1 out of every 3 pizzas he eats weekly to the people he could end hunger in all of North Korea.
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:49am
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Pull the Trigger already……

Maybe Marc Kelly and his Drooling wife should show up for Gun Control Talk’s………

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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:22am
  That’s harsh Monkey, but I have to admit I chuckled.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:44am
I could have sworn that Rodman has all of this crap fixed….LOL.

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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:11am
  @RJJinGadsden
  
  LOL. I know what you mean. Who knew a faded sports star with mulct-colored ****, more piercings than a goth chick, and who has a penchant for wearing dresses couldn’t solve the problems between the two Koreas? I mean, he co-starred in Double Team with Jean-Claude Van Damme for cripes sake!
  
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13th Imam
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:40am
Evidently Barry got Un’s message. O called him and they formulated a plan for more world chaos. Meathead, 1776 bald Vulture, and the rest of the Marxist DEMOCRAT dorks will flock to their hero messenger Rodmoron, and his handler jugears.

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101stIraqVet
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:40am
Just like his Father, all bark and no bite. Call their bluff.

Oh wait, Obamas in office. He’ll just use “harsh rhetoric,” threaten sanctions and call it a day.

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- barber2
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:51am
  Don’t forget he’ll wag his finger and put his chin up and do a MSM performance…
  
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