North Korea threatens to 'strike South Korea mercilessly'

[Elsa]

Protests in Seoul with effigies of the North Korea leadership appears to have angered Pyongyang.

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea sent a fax to South Korea on Thursday, threatening to "strike mercilessly without notice" after protests against the secretive regime this week in Seoul.

The message warned that North Korea would strike if "the provocation against our highest dignity is to be repeated in the downtown of Seoul."

Earlier this week, on the second anniversary of the death of former North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, conservative protesters rallied in Seoul, burning effigies of the country's leaders as well as its flag. Such protests are common during North Korean festivals and anniversaries.

The South Korea's Ministry of National Defense said it sent a response.

"The reply was sent through wired message and in the fax message, we warned that if North Korea is to carry out provocation, we will firmly retaliate," said Kim Min-seok, the spokesman for South Korea's Ministry of National Defense.

He added that there have been no significant military movements in North Korea.

Pyongyang routinely threatens to retaliate after what it considers "provocations" including protests or balloon launches to the north by South Korean groups.

Relations between the Koreas have seesawed this year, verging on hostile earlier this year amid a nuclear test in February.

This month, the execution of Jang Song Thaek, an advisor and uncle of North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong Un unsettled its neighbors, prompting speculation about instability in the country's leadership.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/20/wo...html?hpt=hp_t2

[Anglojew]

Someone please nuke NK. I'm over them.

[ALSh]

Doesn't have guts to do that.

[Bartuc]

North Korea only bark but they know they can't do anything beside "barking". It's the same blackmail to get money and food for their starving population. What do you expect from a communist government? With a society built using outdated garbages like Gramsci and Marx as intellectual foundations? Plus the North Korean leader is only a spoiled kid trying to look mean.

[Styrian Mujo]

North Korea can't do shit. First thing NK slodiers would do if they invaded would be eating all the SK food.

[Windischer]

one of defense measures of south korea could be establishing fast food facilities all along the border. this will reliably stop north korean infantry attack.
the only major problem is protection of seoul from bombardment and shelling.

[rob211080]

It wouldn't even be a contest if those two went to war,i doubt the south would even suffer any casualties.

[Windischer]

It wouldn't even be a contest if those two went to war,i doubt the south would even suffer any casualties.

north korean artillery can cause serious damage to seoul.

[rob211080]

north korean artillery can cause serious damage to seoul.

The south koreans will take out there missile capabilities fairly quickly if war was declared and there are many military experts that think north koreas missiles don't even work anymore as they are that old.

[Unome]

Fuck North Korea, let's get this over with already.