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North Korea declared it had entered into a "state of war" with South Korea and warned Seoul and Washington that any provocation would swiftly escalate into an all-out nuclear conflict.
The United States said it took the announcement "seriously", even though it followed a familiar pattern, while South Korea largely dismissed it as an old threat dressed in new clothing.
It was the latest in a string of dire-sounding pronouncements from Pyongyang that have been matched by tough warnings from Seoul and Washington, fuelling international concern that the situation might spiral out of control.
"As of now, inter-Korea relations enter a state of war and all matters between the two Koreas will be handled according to wartime protocol," the North said in a government statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
"The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over," the statement said, adding that any US or South Korean provocation would trigger a "full-scale conflict and a nuclear war".
The two Koreas have technically remained at war for the past six decades because the 1950-53 Korean War concluded with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
The North had announced earlier this month that it was ripping up the armistice and other bilateral peace pacts signed with Seoul in protest against South Korea-US joint military exercises.
Voiding the ceasefire theoretically opened the way to a resumption of hostilities, although the armistice was approved by the UN General Assembly, and both the UN and South Korea repudiated the North's unilateral withdrawal.
The White House labelled the latest statement from Pyongyang as "unconstructive" and, while taking it "seriously", sought to place the immediate threat level in context.
"North Korea has a long history of bellicose rhetoric and threats and today's announcement follows that familiar pattern," said National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.
In Seoul, the Unification Ministry insisted the war threat was "not really new" and the Defence Ministry added that no notable troop movement had been observed along the border.
Most observers still believe this will remain a verbal rather than a physical battle.
"The North Koreans in recent weeks have turned rhetoric into performance art," said Gordon Flake, a Korea specialist and executive director of the Mansfield Foundation in Washington.
"When they have already declared the armistice null and void, I do not think a declaration of war breaks new ground," Flake said.
But he added that the situation had now become so volatile that any slight miscalculation carried the potential for rapid escalation.
Both China and Russia called for calm Friday, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voicing particular concern.
"We can simply see the situation getting out of control, it would spiral down into a vicious circle," Lavrov told reporters at a news conference.
His warning came after North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered missile units to prepare to strike US mainland and military bases, so as to "settle accounts" after US stealth bombers flew over South Korea.
The high-stakes standoff has its roots in North Korea's successful long-range rocket launch in December and the third nuclear test it carried out in February.
Both events drew UN sanctions that incensed Pyongyang, which then switched the focus of its anger to the annual joint South Korea-US military drills.
As tensions escalated, Washington has maintained a notably assertive stance, publicising its use of nuclear-capable B-52s and B-2 stealth bombers in the war games.
The long-distance deployment of both sets of aircraft out of bases in Guam and the US mainland were intended as a clear signal of US commitment to defending South Korea against any act of aggression.
Analysts have underlined that the threats and counter-threats from all sides have increasingly stressed a conditional element of the other acting first.
"But the danger is, when the North Koreans have threatened a nuclear attack on Washington, they may not know a limit on how much they can get away with," said Flake.
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we pray for you NOKOR ~ SOKOR leaders. In war, THERE ARE NO WINNERS..EVERYBODY IS A LOSER..so please ,we beg you, don't pull the trigger !
War is not the last option !
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Nagumpisa to noong pumunta si Dennis Rodman sa North Korea. What the fall did he say to this guy?
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may mga friends pa naman ako sa s.korea. I will pray for them and for that country a peace. ::)
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ewan ko ba sa dito sa N.k. parehon naman silang Koreano
he is ready to launch nuke just to force U.S. to withdraw its military support on south korea
what a douche bag
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Let's hope and Pray na hindi na lumala ang tensyon na ito... maraming ordinaryong tao ang tiyak na madadamay sa walang kwentang gyera na yan...
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Well part ng propaganda yan ng North Korea. Gusto nya lang ma provoke ang SK at ang US pero di nila kakagatin yan matagal na yang style nila...
Pero pray pa rin tayo na hindi matuloy kasi marami at malaki ang apekto nyan sa atin at sa katabing bansa... Sana isipin na lang nila ang magiging kahihinatnan ng kanilang mga kilos... Nobody wins pag gera na...
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Well part ng propaganda yan ng North Korea. Gusto nya lang ma provoke ang SK at ang US pero di nila kakagatin yan matagal na yang style nila...
Pero pray pa rin tayo na hindi matuloy kasi marami at malaki ang apekto nyan sa atin at sa katabing bansa... Sana isipin na lang nila ang magiging kahihinatnan ng kanilang mga kilos... Nobody wins pag gera na...
well this could be a start of another world war if it isn't resolved right away
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pasugurin si Rodman sa North Korea bago mahuli ang lahat
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may mga friends pa naman ako sa s.korea. I will pray for them and for that country a peace. ::)
Fayt what makes you so sure na sa bansang South Korea nila itatarget ang nuclear missiles nila, considering na masyadong protected ang airspace nito, paano kung sa mga allied countries ng amerika at south korea nila itatarget ang missiles nila halimbawa sa.....Philippines!
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Fayt what makes you so sure na sa bansang South Korea nila itatarget ang nuclear missiles nila, considering na masyadong protected ang airspace nito, paano kung sa mga allied countries ng amerika at south korea nila itatarget ang missiles nila halimbawa sa.....Philippines!
I do have friends in s.korea and they said that the country is in state of war. All male 18+ are being held to depart the country for military purpose in case of war.
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Sa balitang to, na re reinforce lang ang belief ko.
Mayamang bansa nga, pero katabi mo highly unpredictable nation, sworn enemies pa. Sigurado if war breaks out, pulbos ang dalawang bansa na yan. So wala ng koreanovela for a long time kung nagkataon.
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ewan ko ba sa dito sa N.k. parehon naman silang Koreano
he is ready to launch nuke just to force U.S. to withdraw its military support on south korea
what a douche bag
mukhang wala naming direktang panawagan ang Nokor sa US na withdrawal of support sa Skor. Historically, isa ang Nokor sa binansagang Evil of forces ng US. And to date lahat ng mga bansang ito masuwerteng Nokor nalang yata ang hindi pa nasasalakay ng US para sakupin like what they did with Iraq, Afghanistan, Lbya etc.. Common dinaminator ng mga bansang ito ay ang pare-parehas na paggigiit ng kasarinlan mula sa control/panghihimasok ng US sa kanilanga ekonmya, pulitika at kultura. Now alam ng Nokor sila n ang susunod kayatmatinio ang pagdedepensa nitong ginagawa. lalot desperado narin ngayon ang US na higit pang magpalawak ng market to resolve its crisis....Well masakit isipin pero at nakakasuklam isipin n to resolve economic crisis gyera lang ang solusyon ng mga naghaharing bansa...sa ngayon wala tayong magagawa kundi mag pray na sana maliwanagan p ng diyos ang kanilang isipan...
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well this could be a start of another world war if it isn't resolved right away
Nope hindi yan world war....sa tingin ko even magkagyera sa Nokor at sokor with US malabong mag scalate ito into world war. Kapg ang mga naghaharing bansa ay nahati at tumindi ang awayan yan na ang simula. e sa ngayon mukhang nagkakasundo pa naman sila na paghatihatian ang market ng mga bansang kanilang nakokontrol. Ang nangyayari nga nagsasabwatan pa sila sa pagpopondo to control any countries na naggigiit ng karinlan sa kanilang panghihimasok at may usapan n yan pano ang hatian sa yaman ng bansang iyon kapag nasakop n nila.
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mukhang wala naming direktang panawagan ang Nokor sa US na withdrawal of support sa Skor. Historically, isa ang Nokor sa binansagang Evil of forces ng US. And to date lahat ng mga bansang ito masuwerteng Nokor nalang yata ang hindi pa nasasalakay ng US para sakupin like what they did with Iraq, Afghanistan, Lbya etc.. Common dinaminator ng mga bansang ito ay ang pare-parehas na paggigiit ng kasarinlan mula sa control/panghihimasok ng US sa kanilanga ekonmya, pulitika at kultura. Now alam ng Nokor sila n ang susunod kayatmatinio ang pagdedepensa nitong ginagawa. lalot desperado narin ngayon ang US na higit pang magpalawak ng market to resolve its crisis....Well masakit isipin pero at nakakasuklam isipin n to resolve economic crisis gyera lang ang solusyon ng mga naghaharing bansa...sa ngayon wala tayong magagawa kundi mag pray na sana maliwanagan p ng diyos ang kanilang isipan...
well wala silang direktang sinabi pero ginagamit nila
ang armas nuclear pAra pagbantaan lahat ng tutulong sa Skor
tignan na lang natin kung talagang magpapakawala sila ng missile
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Nope hindi yan world war....sa tingin ko even magkagyera sa Nokor at sokor with US malabong mag scalate ito into world war. Kapg ang mga naghaharing bansa ay nahati at tumindi ang awayan yan na ang simula. e sa ngayon mukhang nagkakasundo pa naman sila na paghatihatian ang market ng mga bansang kanilang nakokontrol. Ang nangyayari nga nagsasabwatan pa sila sa pagpopondo to control any countries na naggigiit ng karinlan sa kanilang panghihimasok at may usapan n yan pano ang hatian sa yaman ng bansang iyon kapag nasakop n nila.
siguro sir malay natin samantalahin ng iba ang sitwasyon
same naman na koreano sila ewan ko ba kung bakit di nila maresolva ang di pagkakaunawaan nila
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God only knows kung masyado lalala ang sitwasyon na magkakaworld war o hindi. Let us pray na hindi mangyari to at mawala na sana ang sigalot sa pagitan ng korean country
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God only knows kung masyado lalala ang sitwasyon na magkakaworld war o hindi. Let us pray na hindi mangyari to at mawala na sana ang sigalot sa pagitan ng korean country
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Like ko ang sinabi mo sir... :)
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Like ko ang sinabi mo sir... :)
on a war/conflicts between countries never ignore the possibility of a world war
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on a war/conflicts between countries never ignore the possibility of a world war
Tama ka, pero wala rin tayo magagawa kundi makinig at magdasal. Eto lang ang best natin magagawa as ordinary citizen
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siguro sir malay natin samantalahin ng iba ang sitwasyon
same naman na koreano sila ewan ko ba kung bakit di nila maresolva ang di pagkakaunawaan nila
Ang Nokor bayan ni jumong yan...historically ayaw talaga n mga yan sa colonial na panghihimasok...palaban talaga mga yan.
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Kawawa naman si Rain. nasa military service pa naman siya. Kaya pala parami ng parami ang mga tao sa Zyzzx sa remedios circle sa ermita. giyera na pala. Dadami nanaman ang classmates nating mga anyonghaseyo.
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Ang Nokor bayan ni jumong yan...historically ayaw talaga n mga yan sa colonial na panghihimasok...palaban talaga mga yan.
well thats true sir but ancient problems doesn't even matter anymore
because today the can have peace talks and a lot more to settle the issue
its just certain government officials doesn't open up for such thing in NoKor
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More or less...ang problem lng kc dahil unpredictable ang bagong head ng nokor, its been known in the past nmn na mostly empty threats lng nmn ang sinasabi ng nokor and planning on hitting the us mainland? Are they effin serious? I believe na kaya ng nokor targetin ang mga pacific bases ng us but not its mainland...us is even planning to do an preemptive strike if necessary...napakavolatile na ng nokor since sa pag upo ng new head nla now they already even cut all communication lines with the us according sa int news.....in the end kawawa parin ang mga civilians na madadamay....
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"South Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth jets"
-Reuters(april 1,2013)
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack, the new president in Seoul warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of radar-evading fighter planes.North Korea says the region is on the brink of a nuclear war in the wake of United Nations sanctions imposed for its February nuclear test and a series of joint U.S. and South Korean military drills that have included a rare U.S. show of aerial power.The North, whose economy is smaller than it was 20 years ago, appeared to move on Monday to addressing its pressing need for investment by appointing a reformer to the country's ceremonial prime minister's job, although the move mostly cemented a power grab by the ruling Kim clan.North Korea had said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in response to what it termed the "hostile" military drills being staged in the South. But there have been no signs of unusual activity in the North's military to suggest an imminent aggression, a South Korean defense ministry official said last week."If there is any provocation against South Korea and its people, there should be a strong response in initial combat without any political considerations," President Park Geun-hye told the defense minister and senior officials at a meeting on Monday.The South has changed its rules of engagement to allow local units to respond immediately to attacks, rather than waiting for permission from Seoul.Stung by criticism that its response to the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010 was tardy and weak, Seoul has also threatened to target North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and to destroy statues of the ruling Kim dynasty in the event of any new attack, a plan that has outraged Pyongyang.Seoul and its ally the United States played down Saturday's statement from the official KCNA news agency as the latest in a stream of tough talk from Pyongyang.North Korea stepped up its rhetoric in early March, when U.S. and South Korean forces began annual military drills that involved the flights of U.S. B-2 stealth bombers in a practice run, prompting the North to puts its missile units on standby to fire at U.S. military bases in the South and in the Pacific.The United States also deployed F-22 stealth fighter jets on Sunday to take part in the drills. The F-22s were deployed in South Korea before, in 2010.On its part, North Korea has cancelled an armistice agreement with the United States that ended the Korean War and cut all hotlines with U.S. forces, the United Nations and South Korea.NUCLEAR WEAPONS "NOT A BARGAINING CHIP"Park's intervention came on the heels of a meeting of the North's ruling Workers Party Central Committee where leader Kim Jong-un rejected the notion that Pyongyang was going to use its nuclear arms development as a bargaining chip."The nuclear weapons of Songun Korea are not goods for getting U.S. dollars and they are ... (not) to be put on the table of negotiations aimed at forcing the (North) to disarm itself," KCNA news agency quoted him as saying.At the meeting, Kim appointed a handful of personal confidants to the party's politburo, further consolidating his grip on power in the second full year of his reign.The most surprising appointment came on Monday as former prime minister Pak Pong-ju was re-appointed as premier, although the move likely signaled another power struggle in Pyongang staged by the country's leader Kim Jong-un.Pak is viewed as a key ally of Jang Song-thaek, the young Kim's uncle and also a protege of Kim's aunt and is viewed as a pawn in a power game that has seen Jang and his wife re-assert power over military leaders.Analysts said the move would not likely change Pyongyang's approach to a confrontation that appears to have dragged the two Koreas closer to war.Pyongyang's on-off negotiations saw it take part in nuclear disarmament talks for five years aimed at paying it off in return for abandoning its atomic weapons program. Those talks fell apart in 2008. Some experts say the talks gave the North grounds to pursue a highly enriched uranium program that took it closer to owning a working arsenal.Songun is the Korean word for the "Military First" policy preached by Kim's father who used it to justify the use of the impoverished state's scare resources to build a 1.2-million strong army and a weapons of mass destruction program.CALLS FOR RESTRAINTWhite House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said North Korea's announcement that it was in a state of war followed a "familiar pattern" of rhetoric.China has repeatedly called for restraint on the peninsula.However, many in South Korea have regarded the North's willingness to keep open the Kaesong industrial zone, located just a few miles (km) north of the heavily-militarized border and operated jointly by both sides, as a sign that Pyongyang will not risk losing a lucrative source of foreign currency.Closure could also trap hundreds of South Korean workers and managers of the more than 100 firms that have factories there.(Additional reporting by Paul Eckert in WASHINGTON; Editing by David Chance, Raju Gopalakrishnan, Ian Geoghegan and Ron Popeski)
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Hope that the Sate of war between Nokor and Sokor will be still on armistice principle.
Cuase if Nokor will nuke Sokor a lot of innocent people will be affected. And remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki up to this day the effect of the nuclear bomb is still being felt physically and emotionally.
But if you will closely study the western economy. During the great depression WWII broke out and it help revitalized the western economy cause of the war.
Maybe it is a pseudo declaration of Nokor so that they will be at the spectrum of the world. Cause if you weigh the pro's and con's they will be at the losing end. They reacted to the new UN embargo cause of the previous nuclear and missile test they conducted. More than a million people in Nokor is still able to feed themselves thru the donations of foods from different NGO's and United Nations World Food Programme.
Kung baga sa Poker eh diga lang nila yan.
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Sana walang giyera..
Pero sa totoo lang may magandang epekto din kung magkakagyera..
Para maalis na ang lider nila at mga general na utak nukleyar.. Kawawa naman mga tao sa nokor, namamatay na sa gutom ang mga tao. Kawawa ang mga nasa prison camp. Sana naman alisin na ang prison camp at asikasuhin na ng nokor ang mga mamamayan nila..
Kung gyera lang ang tamang paraan para maipakita sa mga ungas na lider na mali ang kanilang ginagawa, ok lang na gyerahin nila pero wag sumali ang china at russia.
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Nope hindi yan world war....sa tingin ko even magkagyera sa Nokor at sokor with US malabong mag scalate ito into world war. Kapg ang mga naghaharing bansa ay nahati at tumindi ang awayan yan na ang simula. e sa ngayon mukhang nagkakasundo pa naman sila na paghatihatian ang market ng mga bansang kanilang nakokontrol. Ang nangyayari nga nagsasabwatan pa sila sa pagpopondo to control any countries na naggigiit ng karinlan sa kanilang panghihimasok at may usapan n yan pano ang hatian sa yaman ng bansang iyon kapag nasakop n nila.
Tama yon Jcoles maaring naisip na din yan ng NoKor, kaya kung magka gyera man, pwede nilang paputukin sa bansa nila mismo ang nukleyar na bomba nito hindi rin makakaligtas ang Sokor sa fallout dahil magkatabi lang sila nito. Damay Pati Tsina. Ganito yata kung magisip ang mga Lider ng Nokor, hindi ba?
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papansin lang yang president ng north korea, anong magagawa nila sa america, underdog sila dun >:(
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hope hindi mag-scalate sa paligid na mga bansa or sana makahanap sila ng solusyon para hindi mag-gyera.
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Pero kakaiba talaga isip ng lider nila at ng government ng NOKOR
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Pero kakaiba talaga isip ng lider nila at ng government ng NOKOR
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di lang simpleng armas gagamitin nuclear ba naman
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di lang simpleng armas gagamitin nuclear ba naman
Communist kasi at may eternal president sila
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