North Korea Threatens to Wipe the United States Off the Map

In what I consider to be a foolish statement, North Korea essentially threatened to “wipe the United States off the map” today:

NKorea threatens US; world anticipates missile

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer Hyung-jin Kim, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jun 24, 8:51 am ET

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.

Off China’s coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month…

The new U.N. Security Council resolution requires member states to seek permission to inspect suspicious cargo. North Korea has said it would consider interception a declaration of war and on Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking to provoke another Korean War.

“If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will … wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all,” the official Korean Central News Agency said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear_91

This is foolish for many reasons, including the fact that the United States would likely wipe much of North Korea off the map if North Korea actually exploded a nuclear weapon within USA territory.

Despite posturing, North Korea is not going to be the nation to militarily destroy the United States. But if it keeps up its rhetoric, it could make Washington upset enough to consider military action against North Korea. And that could strain stretched US military commitments further as well as increase USA debt.

It remains my position that ultimately, North Korea will likely end up cooperating with other nations in Eastern Asia and will stop its policies of intentionally trying to enrage as many as it now seems to do.

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