Kathianne
05-28-2009, 05:31 AM
The Obama response to NK:
http://www.borowitzreport.com/article.aspx?ID=7029
U.S. to Respond to North Korea with ‘Strongest Possible Adjectives'
Obama: We are Prepared to Consult Thesaurus
One day after North Korea launched a successful test of a nuclear weapon, President Obama said that the United States was prepared to respond to the threat with "the strongest possible adjectives."
In remarks to reporters at the White House, Mr. Obama said that North Korea should fear the "full force and might of the United States' arsenal of adjectives" and called the missile test "reckless, reprehensible, objectionable, senseless, egregious and condemnable."
Standing at the President's side, Vice President Joseph Biden weighed in with some tough adjectives of his own, branding North Korean President Kim Jong-Il "totally wack and illin'."...
Meanwhile:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25549902-401,00.html
Korean War truce over, says North
From correspondents in Seoul, South KoreaAgence France-PresseMay 28, 2009 08:02am+-PrintEmailShare
NORTH Korea has abandoned the truce that ended the Korean War and warned it could launch a military attack on the South, two days after testing an atomic bomb for the second time.
The announcement came amid reports that the secretive North, which outraged the international community with its bomb test on Monday, was restarting work to produce more weapons-grade plutonium.
The North's latest display of anger was prompted by the South's decision to join a US-led international security initiative.
Defying global condemnation, the regime of Kim Jong-Il said it could no longer guarantee the safety of US and South Korean ships off its west coast and that the Korean peninsula was veering back towards war.
"Those who have provoked us will face unimaginable merciless punishment,'' a military spokesman said, blaming Washington and Seoul for the latest turn of events.
It said its military would "no longer be bound'' by the 1953 armistice that ended hostilities in the Korean War, in which the United States fought with the South....
http://www.borowitzreport.com/article.aspx?ID=7029
U.S. to Respond to North Korea with ‘Strongest Possible Adjectives'
Obama: We are Prepared to Consult Thesaurus
One day after North Korea launched a successful test of a nuclear weapon, President Obama said that the United States was prepared to respond to the threat with "the strongest possible adjectives."
In remarks to reporters at the White House, Mr. Obama said that North Korea should fear the "full force and might of the United States' arsenal of adjectives" and called the missile test "reckless, reprehensible, objectionable, senseless, egregious and condemnable."
Standing at the President's side, Vice President Joseph Biden weighed in with some tough adjectives of his own, branding North Korean President Kim Jong-Il "totally wack and illin'."...
Meanwhile:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25549902-401,00.html
Korean War truce over, says North
From correspondents in Seoul, South KoreaAgence France-PresseMay 28, 2009 08:02am+-PrintEmailShare
NORTH Korea has abandoned the truce that ended the Korean War and warned it could launch a military attack on the South, two days after testing an atomic bomb for the second time.
The announcement came amid reports that the secretive North, which outraged the international community with its bomb test on Monday, was restarting work to produce more weapons-grade plutonium.
The North's latest display of anger was prompted by the South's decision to join a US-led international security initiative.
Defying global condemnation, the regime of Kim Jong-Il said it could no longer guarantee the safety of US and South Korean ships off its west coast and that the Korean peninsula was veering back towards war.
"Those who have provoked us will face unimaginable merciless punishment,'' a military spokesman said, blaming Washington and Seoul for the latest turn of events.
It said its military would "no longer be bound'' by the 1953 armistice that ended hostilities in the Korean War, in which the United States fought with the South....