North Korea: It's On!

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NKorea puts artillery forces at top combat posture

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's military warned Tuesday that its artillery and rocket forces are at their highest-level combat posture...

Analysts say a direct North Korean attack is extremely unlikely, especially during joint U.S.-South Korean military drills that end April 30, though there's some worry about a provocation after the training wraps up.

The rival Koreas have had several bloody naval skirmishes in disputed Yellow Sea waters since 1999. In November 2010, a North Korean artillery strike on a South Korean island killed two marines and two civilians.

North Korea, angry over routine U.S.-South Korean drills and recent U.N. sanctions punishing it for its Feb. 12 nuclear test, has vowed to launch a nuclear strike against the United States and repeated its nearly two-decade-old threat to reduce Seoul to a "sea of fire."

On Tuesday, the North Korean army's Supreme Command said it will take "practical military action" to protect national sovereignty and its leadership in response to what it called U.S. and South Korean plots to attack.

The statement, carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency, cited the participation of nuclear-capable B-52 bombers in South Korea-U.S. drills.

North Korea's field artillery forces — including strategic rocket and long-range artillery units that are "assigned to strike bases of the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops in the U.S. mainland and on Hawaii and Guam and other operational zones in the Pacific as well as all the enemy targets in South Korea and its vicinity" — will be placed on "the highest alert from this moment," the statement said.

Kim "needs to show he has the guts. The best way to do that is to use the military might that he commands," said Lee Yoon-gyu, a North Korea expert at Korea National Defense University in Seoul. "This paves the way for greater praise for him if North Korea makes a provocation later and claims victory."

Kim will eventually be compelled to do "something provocative to prove the threats weren't empty," Lee said.

Meanwhile, websites and organizations run by North Korean defectors in South Korea said they suffered cyberattacks on Tuesday, one week after computer systems at some South Korean banks and TV networks were widely disrupted.

Daily NK, which posts news about North Korea, said it experienced a cyperattack, and South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Free North Korea Radio also was attacked.

Yonhap said a computer network used by seven local governments was also briefly attacked, as was a network belonging to broadcaster YTN.

Authorities have not confirmed who was behind last week's cyberattack but suspect North Korea.

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South Korea will be one whole country soon half might be radioactive.

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South Korea will be one whole country soon half might be radioactive.

The radiation will cause the men in that half to grow gigantic penises and then you will have some serious competition. The VJ ladies won't love you anymore.

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I think it was Sun Tzu who said, "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." I hope that's what North Korea is doing.

On the other hand, if they boast too much, it will only be a matter of time before the North Korean people expect Kim to strike and he might do it just to save face. Who knows? He might just be that crazy.

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I think it was Sun Tzu who said, "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." I hope that's what North Korea is doing.

On the other hand, if they boast too much, it will only be a matter of time before Kim's people expect him to strike and he might do it just to save face.

They have no TV there so they could just tell their people they struck and America is now a colony of Walmart.

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They have no TV there so they could just tell their people they struck and America is now a colony of Walmart.

True. I suppose they could. But I think the NK people would notice that there is still a border with SKorea. TV or no TV.

Though, maybe there's a way around that, too.

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True. I suppose they could. But I think the NK people would notice that there is still a border with SKorea. TV or no TV.

Though, maybe there's a way around that, too.

The Japanese took South Korea. I wonder if they all look alike to them too?

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The radiation will cause the men in that half to grow gigantic penises and then you will have some serious competition. The VJ ladies won't love you anymore.

Ill still beat them all.