ZitatSEOUL — North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States.
"The moment of explosion is approaching fast," the North Korean military said, warning that war could break out "today or tomorrow".
Pyongyang's latest pronouncement came as Washington scrambled to reinforce its Pacific missile defences, preparing to send ground-based interceptors to Guam and dispatching two Aegis class destroyers to the region.
Tension was also high on the North's heavily fortified border with South Korea, after Kim Jong-Un's isolated regime barred South Koreans from entering a Seoul-funded joint industrial park on its side of the frontier.
In a statement published by the state KCNA news agency, the Korean People's Army general staff warned Washington that US threats would be "smashed by... cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means".
"The merciless operation of our revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified," the statement said.
Last month, North Korea threatened a "pre-emptive" nuclear strike against the United States, and last week its supreme army command ordered strategic rocket units to combat status.
America's hope is not the donkey or the elephant, but the Lamb.
I honestly don't know what to make of all this. They've certainly raised up the bluster a few degrees. How does one "walk back" from this point? I'm concerned that there are a lot of unstable actors and processes in North Korea.
Quote: FP123 wrote in post #3I honestly don't know what to make of all this. They've certainly raised up the bluster a few degrees. How does one "walk back" from this point? I'm concerned that there are a lot of unstable actors and processes in North Korea.
Me either. I honestly think little poon tang may be worse and more unstable than daddy was.
America's hope is not the donkey or the elephant, but the Lamb.
Someone needs to take out the little punk! I think he's trying very hard to be significant, but I also think he's dangerous. Maybe not to America, yet, but to South Korea and our troops stationed there.
Quote: FP123 wrote in post #3I honestly don't know what to make of all this. They've certainly raised up the bluster a few degrees. How does one "walk back" from this point? I'm concerned that there are a lot of unstable actors and processes in North Korea.
If we're lucky as they have done in the past, North Korea will settle for a nick chunk of change aka foreign aid.
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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