North Korea Sends Top Diplomat To Russia Amid Tensions
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[quote]SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned Saturday that it is ready for an all-out war even as it dispatched its top diplomat to Russia amid a flurry of regional diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions over the North's deadly artillery attack on South Korea.
North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun left for Russia, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a one-sentence report. No details were given, but Pak accused South Korea and the United States on Friday of pursuing a policy of hostility and confrontation and reiterated that North Korea needs its nuclear program to fend them off.
"We once again feel convinced that we have made the right choice in strengthening our defenses with the nuclear deterrent," the Russian news agency Interfax quoted him as saying in an interview.
The North's National Peace Committee also claimed that the U.S. and South Korea are pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula close to all-out war.
"The army and people of the (North) are ready for both escalated war and an all-out war," the committee said in a statement carried by KCNA. "They will deal merciless retaliatory blows at the provocateurs and aggressors and blow up their citadels and bases."
The harsh rhetoric comes two days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il met in Pyongyang with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, Beijing's top foreign policy official. The two reached consensus on the situation on the Korean peninsula during candid and in-depth talks, China's official Xinhua News Agency said, without elaborating.
It was not clear whether the two discussed the North's Nov. 23 artillery attack on a South Korean island near the Koreas' disputed western sea border. The barrage killed four South Koreans, including two civilians.
China has been under intense international pressure to use its diplomatic clout to rein in North Korea, its ally.
On Friday, China briefed South Korea on Dai's meeting with Kim through a diplomatic channel, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said Saturday, noting that North Korea's position appeared to remain unchanged. He did not elaborate and asked not to be identified because of the issue's sensitivity.
In Beijing, top Chinese nuclear envoy Wu Dawei gave his Japanese counterpart, Akitaka Saiki, a "detailed" briefing about Dai's talks with Kim, Japan's Kyodo News agency reported, citing Saiki.
Saiki declined to give further details, Kyodo said Saturday.
Meanwhile, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is to visit North Korea this coming week, raising the prospect of a diplomatic resolution to the tensions. He is to depart from the U.S. on Tuesday.
The diplomatic troubleshooter has made regular visits to North Korea and has also hosted North Korean officials in New Mexico. He helped win the release of Americans held in North Korea in the 1990s and traveled to Pyongyang in 2007 to recover remains of U.S. servicemen killed in the Korean War.
The flurry of diplomacy comes as South Korean President Lee Myung-bak expressed optimism during a trip to Malaysia that the reunification of Korea is drawing near.
"North Korea now remains one of the most belligerent nations in the world," Lee said in an interview published Friday in The Star, a Malaysian newspaper. But, he added, it's a "fact that the two Koreas will have to coexist peacefully and, in the end, realize reunification."
In a speech Thursday night, Lee made similar remarks, saying North Koreans have become increasingly aware that the South is better off. He did not elaborate on how their knowledge has expanded, but said it was "an important change that no one can stop."
"Reunification is drawing near," Lee said, according to the president's website.
He also called on China to urge North Korea to embrace the same economic openness that has led millions of Chinese out of poverty – and said that North Korean economic independence was the key to reunification.
Lee didn't give a specific timeframe for the reunification of the Korean peninsula, which was divided after the end of Japanese rule in 1945 and officially remains in a state of war because the Koreas' 1950-53 conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.[/quote]
Source:[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/11/north-korea-russia-diplomat_n_795393.html[/url]
China isn't helping.
Time for Plan B.
Russia
lol good luck nk
Doubt Russia will help them in any way.
Putin alone will stop the "Best" Korea. He'll just walk through the border and the North Korean will surrender.
Didn't Russian newspapers already release statements claiming that they were backing the U.S. on this one?
[QUOTE=gufu;26639917]Putin alone will stop the "Best" Korea. He'll just walk through the border and the North Korean will surrender.[/QUOTE]
i disagree
he will fire a russian made pistol towards korea and then north korea will surrender, while he's still in russia.
I'm no political science expert, nor do I claim to be, but I don't see Russia backing NK on this. There would be nothing to gain on Russia's part. Besides that, Russia does like the rest of the world a bit too much for them to do this.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;26639929]Didn't Russian newspapers already release statements claiming that they were backing the U.S. on this one?[/QUOTE]
Well of course [I]Russian[/I] newspapers are going to say something like that.
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[QUOTE=Roof;26640000]i disagree
he will fire a russian made pistol towards korea and then north korea will surrender, while he's still in russia.[/QUOTE]
All while singing to kids to cure their cancer. Which will be cured.
You guys are way underestimating Putin. Putin smiles, everyone in the world eats for a year.
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[b][i]"To the grory of great korea!"[/i][/b]
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[b][i]"I'm sorry, but et seems I posses properties of greater korea. At least my DONGS last longeer than fourty seconds.[/i][/b]
[QUOTE=Roof;26640000]i disagree
he will fire a russian made pistol towards korea and then north korea will surrender, while he's still in russia.[/QUOTE]I disagree
He will point his finger at North Korea and Kim Jong-il and all his supporters burst into flame.
NK still has to pay off enormous cold war debts for all the weapons and weapon schematics they obtained from Russia during the cold war, if NK ceases to exist those debts will never be paid. Just saying.
NK knows Russia isn't communist anymore, right? They did get that memo....
Is it even possible to be as awesome as Russians are?
[QUOTE=Hazard;26642781]Is it even possible to be as awesome as Russians are?[/QUOTE]
obviously it is since russians are as awesome as russians, being russian and all
He's currently [b]swimming[/b] to NK to fuck their shit up.
[img]http://kiwipolemicist.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/vladimir-putin-swimming-butterfly-in-river.jpg?w=616&h=421[/img]
[QUOTE=the-dutch-guy;26642413]NK still has to pay off enormous cold war debts for all the weapons and weapon schematics they obtained from Russia during the cold war, if NK ceases to exist those debts will never be paid. Just saying.[/QUOTE]
Because wasting even more money and risking lifes in a war is totally worth defending NK just for equipment debts.
Foreign minister? I bet he doesn't have to do shit most of the time.
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He just wants a kiss :3:
[QUOTE=jjsullivan;26642181]Shit joke with a good concept.[/QUOTE]
"Prime Minister Putin, I believe you are in an advantageous position if you help the glorious nation of best korea."
[img]http://www.s9.com/images/portraits/16451_Kim-Jong-Il.jpg[/img]
"Fascinating, please tell me more, what can you offer to dear Russia and her people"
[img]http://topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/putin.jpg[/img]
"Offer? How about we won't invade you"
[img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2010/1/14/1263468190496/Kim-Jong-il-001.jpg[/img]
"I, fucking, dare you motherfucker"
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:foxnews:[B]Russia and North Korea join forces as they are sick of being potrayed as antagonists in video games. More at 9[/b]:foxnews:
[QUOTE=Tudd;26656430][B]"Russia and North Korea join forces as they are sick of being potrayed as antagonists in video games"[/b][/QUOTE]
LOL this is so true
[QUOTE=TheTalon;26642610]NK knows Russia isn't communist anymore, right? They did get that memo....[/QUOTE]
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Hey, since when were you the Chairman?
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