SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea, facing international censure for this week’s nuclear test, threatened on Wednesday to attack the South after it joined a US-led plan to check vessels suspected of carrying equipment for weapons of mass destruction.
Adding to tensions in the region, South Korean media reported that Pyongyang had restarted a plant that makes plutonium that can be used in nuclear bombs.
In Moscow, news agencies quoted an official as saying that Russia is taking precautionary security measures because it fears mounting tensions over the test could escalate to war.
Russia also called the North Korean ambassador to the foreign ministry and told him Moscow has “serious concern” over this week’s test, the ministry said.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed US commitments to allies Japan and South Korea, said North Korea was behaving in a “provocative and belligerent manner” toward its neighbors, and that there were consequences to such behaviour.
Both Moscow and Washington said they hoped North Korea would return to the six-party talks aimed at ending its nuclear programme.
Here we go again.
what happen? obama like he ducking. he afraid or what?
man i was in south korea i was in the us army up to 2007..this stuff happens all the time…normally (under bush aka poor peoples oppressor) north korea starst up their nuclear program then usa offer them some money and food and they shut it down for a few years …but now the usa tight on their money so north korea gots to put the pressure on them to squeeze the $$$ out of the usa falling economy…and gas is raising again…obama only tricked us and gived us false hope…got us still waiting on that $1000 us he said the gas componies would have to pay since there wasen’t a real gas shortage…but now he in his seat he aint saying anything about that..
North Korea needs money.
Maybe this domino will finally fall…66 years later.