North Korea says it is up for war if US President Donald Trump wants it

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Source: The Age

April 15 2017 - 6:58AM

Pyongyang: US President Donald Trump's tweets are adding fuel to a "vicious cycle" of tensions on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea's vice foreign minister told The Associated Press. The official added that if the US shows any sign of "reckless" military aggression, Pyongyang is ready to launch a pre-emptive strike of its own.

Vice Minister Han Song Ryol said Pyongyang has determined the Trump administration is "more vicious and more aggressive" than that of Barack Obama. He added that North Korea will keep building up its nuclear arsenal in "quality and quantity" and said Pyongyang is ready to go to war if that's what Trump wants.

Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington go back to President Harry Truman and the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. But the heat has been rising rapidly since Trump took office in January.

"Trump is always making provocations with his aggressive words," Han said. "It's not the DPRK but the US and Trump that makes trouble."



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[Warpy]

1. They've told their people every day for 65 years via propaganda loudspeakers

that the US is ready to invade. Asshole's saber rattling is playing right into their hands and the military and intelligence agencies and anyone sane left at the State Dept. know this.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. You think it has dawned on FF45 that

to stop the chubby sociopath's nuclear program that he is going to have go and get them, and the research and the people who have knowledge of it.

You tweet and bee ess and try to scam the little nut. You send carrier task forces and stage bombers and put our troops in the DMZ on alert, but in the end.

All he has to do is nothing.

He keeps his bombs, he keeps the technology and he keeps his reluctant big brother to the north.

If FF45 does go after them, the people of Seoul will pay for it first.

[dalton99a]

3. If Seoul is destroyed so Trump can prove himself in this dick-measuring contest

there will be immense hatred for the United States not just in Korea, but across Asia

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. There would be hatred for the US around the world everywhere all nations. Yuge. . . nt

[Ligyron]

5. Some would say that this is already occurring.

When one has to pretend to be a Canadian while overseas, it's getting pretty bad.

[Hekate]

6. Weenie-wagging with nuclear weapons. Oh dear.

The adults have left the room.

[Initech]

7. Trump needs to be removed from power before he gets us all killed.

And if we can't remove him from legal means, then I'm perfectly OK with using force.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

8. Oh god. Wish we could lock these 2 together in their own little insane delusional paranoid world -

and throw away the key. Leave the rest of us alone!

[workinclasszero]

9. We were warned...when a fascist madman tells you he loves war even nuclear war..believe it