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North Korean test rockets will target United States

bluejatheist

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[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/24/us-korea-north-nuclear-idUSBRE90N03I20130124 said:
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North Korea said on Thursday it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its "sworn enemy".

The announcement by the country's top military body came a day after the U.N. Security Council agreed to a U.S.-backed resolution to censure and sanction North Korea for a rocket launch in December that breached U.N. rules.

"We are not disguising the fact that the various satellites and long-range rockets that we will fire and the high-level nuclear test we will carry out are targeted at the United States," North Korea's National Defence Commission said, according to state news agency KCNA.
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China's Foreign Ministry called for calm and restraint and a return to six-party talks, but effectively singled out North Korea, urging the "relevant party" not to take any steps that would raise tensions.

"We hope the relevant party can remain calm and act and speak in a cautious and prudent way and not take any steps which may further worsen the situation," ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters at a regular press briefing.

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Washington urged North Korea not to proceed with a third test just as the North's statement was published on Thursday.

"Whether North Korea tests or not is up to North Korea," Glyn Davies, the top U.S. envoy for North Korean diplomacy, said in the South Korean capital of Seoul.

"We hope they don't do it. We call on them not to do it," Davies said after a meeting with South Korean officials. "This is not a moment to increase tensions on the Korean peninsula."

War, war never changes...
 
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Do bear in mind that there is absolutely no outside confirmation that North Korea even has a nuclear weapon, they claim they have one, but they have never tested, and nobody has ever seen it. So to claim that they definitely have a weapon is taking at face value the word of a country which claims their leader played golf once, shot a 35 and then retired claiming to be the best.

What i'm trying to say, is they might have a weapon, they might not, they might be able to launch rockets at the USA, they probably can not, most likely this is all just posturing to get attention.
 
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