North Korea Threatens Nuclear Attack, Destroys Roads and Rail Lines to South Korea
The motive? Drone-dropped propaganda leaflets. South Korean officials note that Kim Jong U’s regime has sent its own propaganda drones on previous occasions.
It’s been a while since I reported on North Korea. However, some troubling developments recently indicate that this “hot pot” is heating up intensely.
Last week, North Korea accused South Korea of sending drones to drop propaganda leaflets over the capital city of Pyongyang. The drones, supposedly, managed to penetrate what’s supposed to be one of the most fortified airspaces in the world to make the drop.
North Korea had a response that seems..disproportionate. The rogue nation has now destroyed roads and rail lines between the two countries.
North Korea blew up sections of inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its side of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas on Tuesday, prompting South Korea’s military to fire warning shots.
Pyongyang said last week it would cut off the inter-Korean roads and railways entirely and further fortify the areas on its side of the border as part of its push for a “two-state” system scrapping its longstanding goal of unification.
At around midday on Tuesday, some northern parts of road and rail lines connected to the South were destroyed, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
Seoul’s unification ministry, which handles cross-border affairs, condemned the incident as a clear violation of past inter-Korean agreements, calling it “highly abnormal.”
North Korea reports that the drones dropped propaganda leaflets on three separate occasions. South Korea is neither confirming nor denying its involvement.
At the start of this week, North Korea asserted that its front-line army units are ready to launch strikes on South Korea should the drone activity continue. The rhetoric is intensifying, as are the tensions.
In a statement carried by state media Sunday, the North’s Defense Ministry said that the military had issued a preliminary operation order to artillery and other army units near the border with South Korea to “get fully ready to open fire.”
An unidentified ministry spokesperson said the North Korea’s military ordered relevant units to fully prepare for situations like launching immediate strikes on unspecified enemy targets when South Korea infiltrates drones across the border again, possibly triggering fighting on the Korean Peninsula, according to the statement.
…Also Sunday, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un described as “suicidal” the South Korean Defense Ministry’s reported warning that North Korea would face the end of its regime if it harms South Korean nationals. She warned Saturday that the discovery of a new South Korean drone will “certainly lead to a horrible disaster.”
North Korea often issues such fiery, blistering rhetoric in times of elevated animosities with South Korea and the United States.
The rhetoric includes the threat of nuclear weapons and may be timed to coincide with the US Presidential election.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned again that he could use nuclear weapons in potential conflicts with South Korea and the United States, as he accused them of provoking North Korea and raising animosities on the Korean Peninsula, state media reported Tuesday.
Kim has issued similar threats to use nuclear weapons preemptively numerous times, but his latest warning came as outside experts say North Korea could ramp up hostilities ahead of next month’s U.S. presidential election.
In a Monday speech at a university named after him, the Kim Jong Un University of National Defense, he said that North Korea “will without hesitation use all its attack capabilities against its enemies” if they attempt to use armed forces” against North Korea, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
“The use of nuclear weapons is not ruled out in this case,” he said.
South Korean military officials say they are “fully ready” to respond after North Korea ordered army units on the border to be “ready to open fire” if their northern neighbor takes the military options. South Korea also notes that Kim’s regime has sent its own propaganda drones on previous occasions.
“Our military is closely monitoring the situation and standing fully ready for the North’s provocations,” Lee Seong-joon, a spokesman for the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), told a press briefing.
…”The North can’t even confirm the origin of a drone in the Pyongyang sky but is placing blame on the South — all the while keeping a shut mouth on its sending of a drone southward on ten occasions,” spokesman Lee said.
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Aside from the fact that nobody wants his parched, desolate plot of land, he didn’t do this when Pres. Trump was in office, did he?
I think the ineffectiveness of the Biden/Harris regime is screaming to the world that we can/will do nothing…
Maybe Obama’s pals can cook him up a USA birth certificate. He would be just the president to fix our border crisis.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2001/oct/16/20011016-030029-3710r/
To all those who were not smart enough to look up the Hillary/cop article and accused me of mendacity.
That’s the sanitized version. Some deep scrubbing occurred on the whistleblower interview which revealed that Clinton ordered the driver to proceed. Also the officer was laid up for months with broken bones, not bruising. Funny how the audience here bemoans the press for coverups and then don’t believe anything that isn’t spin fed them by the same press.
“A fish rots from the head down”
Many people, when they have a mendacious, conniving, grifting who*re like Hillary Clinton as a boss, will eventually begin to behave in a similar fashion. I’m not surprised that her driver thought he/she was above the law. Why not? Hillary always has.
Is it “accusing you of mendacity” to doubt your claim that this incident occurred to a NY cop working in Clinton, OK, or OH, or wherever you claimed? Which, as it turns out, it didn’t?
thanks for the article and here is a glaring statement:
I didn’t know if we had a terrorist,” Officer Dymond said of the driver,
well you did but you let hillary go anyways
Yes, the story is true. The locale which I misremembered is irrelevant to the incident. This casuistry is beneath you.
The destruction of road and rail links tells me he’s not planning a ground offensive any time soon. Probably just a tantrum about his people trying to get away.
Maybe not.
As I recall, starting in the 60s NK started construction of invasion/infiltration tunnels dug under the DMZ, at least one supposedly big enuf to theoretically allow passage of 30,000 troops a day. The project was revealed when South Korea noticed smoke from explosions underneath the DMZ. As of 2023 the count of known tunnels was up to 42, in fact at least one of them operates as a tourist attraction where visitors from the south can visit up to the concrete plugs currently blocking access.
There’s no guaranty that that total is inclusive of all existing tunnels. Given time and NK’s propensity for slave labour it’s entirely possible some manually dug tunnels remain undiscovered until or unless the southern ends are unmasked fly invasion.
in fact at least one of them operates as a tourist attraction where visitors from the south can visit up to the concrete plugs currently blocking access.
Can confirm. Been there, done that.
Yup. OP Dora tunnel. Been there, also. It’s pretty extensive/impressive. And it’s the tip of the iceberg.
Pre-positioning in hopes of a sweet deal when the adults take charge of our foreign policy again in a few months?
Apparently Kim hasn’t gotten an infusion of cash from anyone lately.
Actually, he has. It’s been paid by Russia in exchange for an undetermined number of DPRKs soldiers (probably a regiment) being sent to Ukraine to help the Russians. It’s also believed Russia is providing them with S-300 and perhaps the even more advanced S-400 as well. This might go some way to explaining why he’s feels empowered now. While the S-400 wouldn’t make him invincible by any means, it would further complicate any effort to change his regime.
You’re right.
I tend to concur it’s the opening stages of a “Feed me!” gambit. He’s done it a bunch of times before. The cutting of transportation lines was a way (previously) of preventing family reunification, which then gets the families to demand something be done, which leads to sending some form of aid northward.
It could be different this time. But the Norks don’t tend to change much.
Exactly – a grab for goodies before the election:
“…outside experts say North Korea could ramp up hostilities ahead of next month’s U.S. presidential election.”
He’s waited a little late in my opinion, any more military action before the election will help Trump and hurt Harris.
He’s mad because the South won’t return the favor (of the North’s penpal jesture) by flying balloons of their poo back
Evil and totalitarian regimes are taking full advantage of the vile Dhimmi-crats’ manifest and glaring ineptitude, fecklessness, emasculation, naivete/stupidity and gullibility in foreign affairs, on multiple continents.
There is no such thing as an effective military deterrent, under a Dhimmi-crat President and administration. The global rogues gallery knows this and exploits it.
the world>>>hurry ,,Dad is coming home and momala dont know or care
kim is still alive as at some point he realized that initiating a nuclear exchange would be his end–though he might imagine a blaze of glory exit would bet not–he’s a coward and too greedy
“She warned Saturday that the discovery of a new South Korean drone will “certainly lead to a horrible disaster.”
I wonder if the drones are 20 feet long and weigh 100 pounds, like the ones China is flying over our military installations in Virginia?