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GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong said on Tuesday that his country had the power to deter an "ever-increasing nuclear threat" by the United States with a pre-emptive strike if necessary.

His rare speech at the U.N.-backed Conference on Disarmament drew a rebuke from U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood, who urged Pyongyang to stop making threats and rid itself of nuclear weapons.

Ri said joint military exercises currently being staged by South Korea and the United States were "unprecedentedly provocative in nature and have an especially high possibility of sparking off a war."

"The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) cannot but bolster its nuclear deterrent capability to cope with the ever-increasing nuclear threat of the U.S.," he told the Geneva forum. "Now the DPRK has the power of deterring the U.S. and conducting a pre-emptive strike as well, if necessary."

Why even post some non-news like this?
NK is constantly annoying everybody, but there has never been caused severe harm to people outside the country.

Shits is getting bad .
I knew something screwed up is going to happen since the "The Interview" movie accident .

~ Madness

How is that getting bad? North Korea does nothing beyond their habitual threatening rhetoric, which they have been doing for decades by now. The U.S. needs a bogey perfectly played by NK, North Korea needs an external enemy to keep their population busy and in constrain. Everyone is happy.

Shits is getting bad .
I knew something screwed up is going to happen since the "The Interview" movie accident .

~ Madness

Throwing such threats to the US and South Korea is basically a part of the local political culture. Just like talking about freedom and democracy on the west. Sounds good and/or defiant, but nobody taking seriously :).

North Korea's threatening rhetoric has reached a fever pitch, but the Pentagon and the South Korean government have said it's nothing new.

"We have no indications at this point that it's anything more than warmongering rhetoric," a senior Washington Defense official said late Friday

Much needed reminder given the current obsession with IS and the like, that the craziest mofos in town are still the Koreans of the North. Beyond all dispute.

Much needed reminder given the current obsession with IS and the like, that the craziest mofos in town are still the Koreans of the North. Beyond all dispute.

has it occurred to you that they threaten you because you killed millions of them, occupy half their country, carry out war game simulated invasions one a year and point nuclear missiles at them?

They threaten for food. If they start warmongering rhetoric, it is right about time the U.S. sent a humanitarian aid to NK. Again and again, as it happened before, many times already. The rules are simple, and both sides know them perfectly.

the dprk has raised itself up to become a powerful prosperous nation with nuclear arms and space satellites, it has no need for yankee goyim "aid", this isn't the 90s

The UN food body has approved $200 million of food aid for North Korea, targeting the country’s most vulnerable people who remain dependent on external assistance. The World Food Programme (WFP) executive board has this week approved a new two-year operation for North Korea starting on July 1, WFP spokesman Marcus Prior said today. “It will target about 2.4 million people — almost all children, and pregnant and nursing women — with about 2,07,000 tonnes of food assistance at a cost of $200 million,” he said

North Korea suffered regular chronic food shortages under the Kim dynasty, with the situation exacerbated by floods, droughts and mismanagement. During a famine in the mid to late-1990s, hundreds of thousands died

^war reparations

Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 was a North Korean Earth observation satellite, which according to the DPRK was for weather forecast purposes, and whose launch was widely portrayed in the West to be a veiled ballistic missile test. The satellite was launched on 13 April 2012 at 07:39 KST aboard the Unha-3 carrier rocket from Sohae Satellite Launching Station. The rocket exploded 90 seconds after launch near the end of the firing of the first stage of the rocket

Much needed reminder given the current obsession with IS and the like, that the craziest mofos in town are still the Koreans of the North. Beyond all dispute.

the dprk has raised itself up to become a powerful prosperous nation with nuclear arms and space satellites, it has no need for yankee goyim "aid", this isn't the 90s

IS and NK are equally insane.
Kim is just doing the usual scare mongering tactics with his shitty soviet missiles.

Well, actually NK recently did quite a lot of research and development on those rockets and probably they got some know-how from China, so some of those missiles are more or less up to date stuff. Anyway, currently none of those missiles can reach densely populated areas in the US.

War reparations by the UN, wtf?! 

Though these still don't make NK into "a powerful prosperous nation". By the way, which space satellites are you talking about?

Actually they are quite a bit far from being prosperous. They are still alive because of the mercy of China. Technologically they are developed relative fast, but the lack of arable land (the whole country is a big bunch of mountains) is still crippling them.

U.S. needs to send Dennis Rodman to North Korea again to make Kim calm down. LOL ;D

yes the un went to war against the dprk and lost

the one they sucessfully launched 8 months later

yes the un went to war against the dprk and lost

The operation will be implemented under stringent monitoring conditions, which includes immediate permission for missions to access all parts of the operational chain, access to markets and the use of Korean speakers

The satellite which is not working and tumbling as it orbits around the Earth? I wouldn't call this a successful launch.

Nice turn. But what about the restrictions that UN put on their "war reparations" to North Korea? Don't you think it rather strange that a country (or an organization) subject to pay reparations sets terms and conditions?

The operation will be implemented under stringent monitoring conditions, which includes immediate permission for missions to access all parts of the operational chain, access to markets and the use of Korean speakers

Besides that, what about China and Russia, do they also pay reparations?

we know it is working because it broadcast the song of general kim il sung and song of general kim jong il

Data from trackers in South Africa and Britain suggest the brightness of the satellite has been fluctuating, which indicates it is tumbling as it orbits. That likely means a malfunction in the probe's stabilizers because it was designed to constantly point toward the Earth

Facts don't confirm that their rocket technology is "up to date". The two stages of the rocket launched in 2012 were examined by Korean missile experts. They reported that the components of the rocket were unreliable and inefficient, the rocket design being based on older technologies from the 1960s and 70s, whereas the rocket engine was almost identical to the Iranian one (don't ask me where they got the Iranian rocket engine from).

I said more or less :).
BTW nothing wrong with the 60' 70' rocket technology. E.g. the good old russian kerosene/nitric acid or DMH/NTO rocket engines are still the most reliable and cheapest engines "on the market" (...but a bit fussy to handle the fuel). The keyword here is "based" e.g. the Scud-C and Scud-D are both based on the ancient Scud-A (what is a direct descendant of the V2) but the newer C and D models are very different in almost every possible ways. So underestimating NK could be a serious mistake. BTW nobody will directly attack NK as it's still a Chinese outpost. Same situation as Ukraine.

But what is wrong with Ukraine, whose outpost is it? if you think it is Russian, then I beg to differ.

Sorry , who is Dennis Rodman and how are we supposed to peacefully get him down to North-Korea ? :-)

Have you heard it yourself or just been told so?

According to data collected by astronomers from different countries, the North Korean satellite is malfunctioning.


Are they telling us lies?

told me someone who has contact with their embassy

one presumes they are mistaken

So you think that qualified astronomers from different countries are flat-out wrong, and at the same time you believe what someone told you who allegedly has ties in the NK embassy? And we should believe you? Why then didn't anyone apart from those in NK hear that song?

Just in case, do you know the meaning of the phrase "wishful thinking"?

i trust in the greatness of kim jong un over western capitalist stooges, mostly everything we hear from sources hostile to the dprk turns out to be wrong

More...http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-power-deter-u-nuclear-threat-foreign-095038342.html (http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-power-deter-u-nuclear-threat-foreign-095038342.html)

Don't let your feelings to mislead you. I agree the western political/economic establishment is a bunch of crooks, but the north Korean ruling elite isn't any better.

they are a good deal better, when times are hard in korea the suffering is shared equally, during the arduous march period it is said that kim jong il survived on just a few bowls of rice a day because he couldn't bear to live in luxury while the people suffered

The world of politics is so messed-up today! I wouldn't be surprised if the US is paying for North Korea to make these threats so they can continue their political goals in the east.

That's why he carries a Patek Philippe luxury Swiss watch, right?

he doesn't carry anything because he died in 2011

They are sending there food through the UN humanitarian aid channels. There is a thread somewhere around this forum where this issue is analyzed in greater detail.

Frankly speaking, I don't distinguish between Kims, but the younger Kim's propensity for luxury goods seems to exceed even his father's, who was conspicuous for leading an expensive lifestyle.

there isn't a famine going on any more, kim jong un can wear what he likes

Former NBA superstar Dennis Rodman, who has been to the North three times, said he spent seven days on Kim's private island partying, jet skiing and horse riding and saw an array of big yachts there.