North Korea blasts incoming Foreign Affairs chairwoman as 'human scum'

Confused North Koreans Send Christmas Greetings to Congresswoman
No, this isn't from The Onion.North Korea's official news agency blasted the incoming chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee -- while mistaking her for a chairman. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), a Cuban immigrant, has been a regular target of dictator Fidel Castro and his Latin American allies Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales. But the Korean Central News Agency, the mouthpiece of Pyongyang in a country with no free media, said Wednesday that Ro...

North Korea Calls Republican Congresswoman Human Scum and an Anti-Communist Fanatic
(The Hill)- North Korea’s official news agency blasted the incoming chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — while mistaking her for a chairman. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), a Cuban immigrant, has been a regular target of dictator Fidel Castro and his Latin American allies Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales. But the Korean Central News Agency, the mouthpiece of Pyongyang in a country with no free media, said Wednesday that Ros-L...

North Korea calls incoming Republican Foreign Affairs chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen human scum
North Korea calls incoming Republican Foreign Affairs chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ‘human scum’ Who knew that the North Koreans were Progressives? Well, they are Communists which is basically the same thing these days. Progressives and North Koreans sure sound a lot alike when it comes to talking about a Republican or anyone who disagrees with their way of thinking. Of course the official state run North Korean news agency isn’t very bright either, and a lot like the Americ...

North Korea Warns of "Sacred War" in Standoff with South Korea
© Reuters/Jo Yong-Hak A North Korean Scud-B missile (C) and South Korean Hawk surface-to-air missiles are seen at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul, December North Korea threatened a nuclear "sacred war" on Thursday and South Korea vowed a "merciless counterattack" if it was attacked again as both sides raised the Rhetoric on a day of more Military exercises in the South. South Korea's land and sea exercises prompted North Korea, which has threatened to reduce the South to ashes on...

North Korea threatens 'sacred war'
North Korea threatened a nuclear "sacred war" and South Korea vowed a "merciless counterattack" if it was attacked again as both sides raised the Rhetoric on a day of more Military exercises in the South. South Korea's land and sea exercises prompted North Korea, which has threatened to reduce the South to ashes on many occasions, to denounce its richer neighbour as a warmonger. "To counter the enemy's intentional drive to push the situation to the brink of war, our revolutionary forces are maki...

Communist North Korea Threatens War Over Giant Steel Christmas Tree
A 30-meter-tall steel Christmas Tree is lit at the western mountain peak known as Aegibong in Gimpo, South Korea. (Herald Sun) Pyongyang warned South Korea this week that lighting its massive steel Christmas Tree near the DMZ was a “dangerous, rash act” that could trigger a war. North Korea, officially atheist and with only a handful of sanctioned churches in Pyongyang with services for foreigners, warned that lighting the tree would constitute a “dangerous, rash act” wit...

NM Gov. Richardson: Diplomacy Needed on Korean Peninsula
Tensions are flaring on the Korean Peninsula, but New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson warned Thursday that anything other than careful Diplomacy could worsen the "tinderbox" situation. Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, returned this week from serving as an unofficial Envoy to the rogue North Korean regime. The visit came as the South Koreans began four days of live-fire Military exercises less than 20 miles from the border between nations. Military officials in Pyongyang ca...

Atheistic, Communist North Korea Threatens a Holy War Against South Korea Video Report 12/24/10
Here is a video report on Communist North Korea threatening a “Holy War” against South Korea, saying they are prepared to use their Nuclear Weapons. The threats follow large-scale Military exercises by the South, which has angered the North. Interesting that atheistic, Communist North Korea would use the term “Holy War” in their threat? ...

North Korea warns of "sacred war" in standoff with South
Seoul (Reuters) - North Korea threatened a nuclear "sacred war" on Thursday and South Korea vowed a "merciless counterattack" if it was attacked again as both sides raised the Rhetoric on a day of more Military exercises in the South. South Korea's land and sea exercises prompted North Korea, which has threatened to reduce the South to ashes on many occasions, to denounce its richer neighbor as a warmonger. "To counter the enemy's intentional drive to push the situation to the brink of war, our...

South Korea ends three days of military drills
Reporting from Seoul — The South Korean Military on Friday wrapped up three days of intense land and sea exercises as officials tried to decipher what a third North Korean Nuclear Test, predicted for next year, would mean for the contentious relationship between the two Koreas. In recent weeks, the tensions on the Korean Peninsula reached their highest level since a truce ended hostilities in 1953. After the North's artillery bombardment killed four people on the southern Yeonpyeong Isl...

Two Koreas take tough stance as think-tank warns of war
Source: AFP Seoul (AFP) – The two Koreas are still talking tough one month after the North's artillery bombardment sent tensions soaring, with Pyongyang threatening Nuclear War and Seoul vowing strong retaliation for any new attack. One day after deploying tanks, artillery and jet fighters in a Military show of force, Seoul's defence ministry said Friday that a giant Christmas Tree near the North Korean border would stay lit up till January 8. The move is likely to anger Pyongyang since the date...

Treasury Department cleared U.S. business with Iran
The Treasury Department has granted nearly 10,000 special licenses to American companies over the past decade so they could sell some types of products in Iran and other countries the U.S. considers Terrorist sponsors, The New York Times reported Thursday. Companies such as Kraft Food and Pepsi and some of the largest U.S. banks benefited, the newspaper said. Most licenses were granted under a law allowing trade in humanitarian goods, even if that ended up including products as diverse as cigare...

Diplomacy via the official leak
Earlier this week I speculated as to why North Korea did not respond to a series of South Korean Military drills.  In the list of possibilities I provided, I was somewhat skeptical that Chinese pressure was the answer. In today's New York Times, however, Mark Landler quotes some Obama Administration sources suggesting that Chinese (and Russian) pressure was a determining factor: after a tense week, when the threat of war hung over the Korean Peninsula, the Obama Administration and Beijing s...

U.S. Approved Business With Blacklisted Nations
Source: NYT Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the United States government has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of Terrorism, an examination by The New York Times has found. At the behest of a host of companies — from Kraft Food and Pepsi to some of the nation’s largest banks — a little-known office of the Treasury Department has granted nearly 10,000 licenses for deals invol

NKorea makes 'Holy War' nuclear threat...
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea warned on Thursday of a "sacred war" against the South using its nuclear deterrent as South Korean President Lee Myung-bak vowed a "merciless counterattack" if southern territory is attacked again. Both sides raised the Rhetoric on a day South Korea launched major land and sea Military exercises, prompting North Korea, which has threatened to reduce the South to ashes on many occasions, to denounce its richer neighbor as a warmonger. "...

NKorea Prepared to Launch 'Holy War'
(AFP) - North Korea is prepared to launch a "sacred war" based on its nuclear deterrent, the North's state media said Thursday amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. "The revolutionary Armed Forces of the DPRK are getting fully prepared to launch a sacred war of justice of Korean style based on the nuclear deterrent at anytime necessary to cope with the enemies' actions deliberately pushing the situation to the brink of a war," the Korean Central News Agency said. KCNA said armed forc...

North Keeps its Cool after South Korea Drills
Learn about the people, economy and history. Follow the decades-long rift between North and South Korea. Learn about the people and history of each nation, and attempts to forge new ties. (AP) POCHEON, South Korea - South Korean fighter jets dropped bombs and tanks fired artillery Thursday as the Military staged its largest air and ground firing drills of the year in a show of force a month after North Korea's deadly shelling of a front-line island. The drills, at training grounds in mountainou...

China seamen freed after fatal clash
South Korea has released three Chinese fishermen following a fatal clash between their trawler and a South Korean patrol ship earlier this month. Seoul says the incident happened in the Yellow Sea as Coast Guards tried to prevent Chinese boats from fishing illegally off South Korea's West Coast. It said the trawler intentionally struck the patrol ship to allow others to sail back into their waters - but the boat sank after the impact. One fisherman died in the clash. Four South Korean coast...

North Koreans Are 'Toning Down,' Richardson Says
What is this? Just back from a trip to North Korea, New Mexico Governor and former U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson tells NPR that despite some of their heated words, North Korea's leaders are "starting to move in the direction of toning down their actions." Still, Richardson agrees with those who say the situation on the Korean Peninsula now is as dangerous as it's been there in decades. He adds, though, that when it's reported that North Korea, for example, has vowed to wage a "sacred war" on t...

NKorea praises iron-willed commander Kim Jong Il
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea could be planning another Nuclear Test for next year, a South Korean Think Tank warned, as Pyongyang celebrated the anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il’s elevation to Military chief, calling him “an invincible and iron-willed commander.” The 19th anniversary of Kim’s being named supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army came a day after South Korea held massive drills near the world’s most heavily armed border R...

Two Koreas take tough stance as think-tank warns of war
The two Koreas are still talking tough one month after the North's artillery bombardment sent tensions soaring, with Pyongyang threatening Nuclear War and Seoul vowing strong retaliation for any new attack. The move is likely to anger Pyongyang since the date marks the birthday of its heir apparent Kim Jong-un. The Communist North sees the tree topped with a glowing cross as a provocative Propaganda symbol. The ministry said it hoped to send "a message of peace to the North" and the timing was j...

NKorea praises 'iron-willed commander' Kim Jong Il
South Korean border guards patrol the fence-line at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. One month after a deadly exchange of artillery fire, the two Koreas ramped up their Rhetoric, with South Korea's president pledging unsparing retaliation if attacked again and a top North Korean official threatening a 'sacred' Nuclear War if provoked. North Korea could be planning another Nuclear Test for next year, a South Korean Think Tank...

NKorea praises 'iron-willed commander' Kim Jong Il
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea could be planning another Nuclear Test for next year, a South Korean Think Tank warned, as Pyongyang celebrated the anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's elevation to Military chief, calling him "an invincible and iron-willed commander." The 19th anniversary of Kim's being named supreme commander of the Korean People's Army came a day after South Korea held massive drills near the world's most heavily armed border - part of a series of exercises that have angered...

What's North Korea's next move? Perhaps a nuclear weapons test.
North Korea appears poised to display its Nuclear Weapons capability with an underground test, say experts, in a bid to keep Military tensions high and force a return to talks....

Complex issues for China, North and South Korea?
by Andrew, Allied Liberty News Yes, I asked just that question. Consider this, N.Korea is armed with pre-vietnam era Soviet and Chinese Military hardware. N.Korea does not so much as breathe without China's orders. China is facing a huge monetary Inflation problem. This is in part due to fuel prices but mostly due to China allowing their own economy grow by a totally unsustainable 12%. In economics, when something grows in numbers or value by 12% in one year, you get what Economists call a "bu...