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Text from North Korea statement
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea announced on Tuesday it was cutting all ties with South Korea in retaliation for Seoul imposing sanctions on Pyongyang after torpedoing one of the South's warships.
The following are key points from the text of the report issued by the North's KCNA news agency.
"The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, accordingly, formally declares that from now on it will put into force the resolute measures to totally freeze the inter-Korean relations, totally abrogate the agreement on non-aggression between the north and the south and completely halt the inter-Korean cooperation.
"In this connection, the following measures will be taken at the first phase:
"1. All relations with the puppet authorities will be severed.
"2. There will be neither dialogue nor contact between the authorities during (South Korean President) Lee Myung Bak's tenure of office.
"3. The work of the Panmunjom Red Cross liaison representatives will be completely suspended.
"4. All communication links between the north and the south will be cut off.
"5. The Consultative Office for North-South Economic Cooperation in the Kaesong Industrial Zone will be frozen and dismantled and all the personnel concerned of the south side will be expelled without delay.
"6. We will start all-out counterattack against the puppet group's 'psychological warfare against the north.'
"7. The passage of south Korean ships and airliners through the territorial waters and air of our side will be totally banned.
"8. All the issues arising in the inter-Korean relations will be handled under a wartime law.
"There is no need to show any mercy or patience for such confrontation maniacs, sycophants and traitors and wicked warmongers as the (South Korean President) Lee Myung Bak group."
(Reporting by Jonathan Thatcher; Editing by Paul Tait)
Why don’t we just shove a bunch of oil executives in the well to plug it?
These 2 countries sound like a bunch of little children fighting with each other. When will they grow up and get on with normal life?
This is proof that you cannot negotiate with insane governments like North Korea and Iran. Liberals take note!! Touchy Feely attitudes and political correctness will destroy our Country. History does repeat itself.
I think, Hillary Clinton and Obama and our Congress and Senate should wake-up and take a decisive stand against this real threat to the world. In the near past they have supported Bush-Cheney to cripple and destroy the ancient civilization of Iraq giving false and imaginary reasons and are ready to start destruction of the another ancient civilization (Iran) on similar wrong ground. Rather than to start wars and killings only to grab others oil, America should stand up to fight with North Korea and her supporters TO SAVE HUMANITY, JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS.
Hmmm. While there are no winners in this, I can’t help but wonder who’s the bigger loser?
North Korea is just being it’s usual reactionary self. There is a need for the US to begin a quiet buildup to deter N-Korea.
S-Korea’s propaganda campaign of sending ballons is a very good way of informing N-Korea of what’s really happening in the west.
Why do people like njr1949 assume that liberals adore people like Kim Jong Il? With the exception of the Gulf War, every war that the U.S. has fought in the last 100 years has been fought under Democratic leadership. Democrats led America to victory in both World Wars and sent American troops to Korea in the first place.
It’s just silly to imagine that, because Democrats don’t support some sort of 24-style grab-and-beat-everyone torture model of interrogation that they’re timid. History shows that Democrats are the strongest proponents of Just War theory. It’s Republicans who, when they’re not defending the rights of terrorists to buy firearms in America, are too busy advocating war to notice whether the war is necessary.
The only reason Iran and North Korea are able to get by with their absurd practices is because China will not support strong sanctions. It seems like China is letting (encouraging) these countries to act this way to drain the US resources. The first step in resolving these issues is addressing the issues in China.
