NKorea warns of war if punished for ship sinking

North Korea warns it will meet war with 'all-out war' - CNN.com

is it just me, or does that little midget over in North Korea want a reason to drop a nuke? It seems to me like this dude is just itching to "prove" his muscle. China needs to get off it's ass and put its little dog back in the kennel.

 

the explanation i read somewhere (the times, probably) was that il had his son order the strike to ensure his transition to leader. of course the strike was also done as propaganda to maintain the fear of the people and the importance of the military. pretty sure they were hoping for some sort of retaliation though.

 

Im at the point, where I say screw it, give them what they are looking for and set those people free, the ones that survive.

 

"according to senior American officials ... Mr. Kim ordered the sinking of the ship, the Cheonan, to help secure the succession of his youngest son.

So far, at least in public, both American and South Korean leaders have been careful never to link Mr. Kim to the sinking of the Cheonan in March, which killed 46 sailors. Officials said that was in part because of the absence of hard evidence — difficult to come by in the rigidly controlled North — but also largely because both countries were trying to avoid playing into Mr. Kim’s hands by casting one of the worst attacks since the 1953 armistice as another piece of lore about the Kim family taking on South Korea and the West.

The North’s state propaganda surrounding that imagery has been used by the Kim family to sustain two generations of leaders since the end of World War II. Under the leading theory of the American intelligence agencies, Mr. Kim ordered the attack to re-establish both his control and his credentials after a debilitating stroke two years ago, and by extension reinforcing his right to name his son Kim Jong-un as his successor.

...one factor appeared to be intelligence that he appeared on April 25, the anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Army, with a military unit that intelligence agencies believe to have been responsible for the attack.

Mr. Kim used the event to praise the group, Unit 586, the officials said, and around that time a fourth star appears to have been given to Gen. Kim Myong-guk, who officials believe may have played a crucial role in executing the attack. General Kim is believed to have been demoted to a three-star general last year, perhaps in response to the humiliation that took place after a North Korean ship ventured into South Korean waters. The North Korean ship was all but destroyed, and some analysts believe the attack on the Cheonan, which was in South Korean waters, was planned as retribution.

Nobody is going to take overt credit for the sinking,” said Jonathan Pollack, a professor at the Naval War College and an expert on North Korea’s military. “But Kim’s visit to this unit has all the hallmarks of congratulating them for a job well done.”

The senior American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the intelligence assessment is classified, said they ruled out the idea that General Kim or another military officer decided on his own to attack, but they did not explain how they reached that conclusion.

Victor Cha, a North Korea expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a former official in the National Security Council during President George W. Bush’s second term in office, noted that when Mr. Kim was on the rise three decades ago, “there were similar incidents designed to build his credibility” as a leader. "

U.S. Implicates North Korean Leader in Attack - NYTimes.com


here's the article.

 

We so sorry for kill three China man. We say fahk south korea ship, we not sorry.

 

that pretty well covers it.

 

ITS CAPTAIN CHAOS!!!!!