North Korea today said it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked — its latest bellicose rhetoric apparently aimed at deterring any international punishment for its recent atomic test blast.
The tensions emanating from Pyongyang are beginning to hit nascent business ties with the South: a Seoul-based fur manufacturer became the first South Korean company to announce Monday it was pulling out of an industrial complex in the North's border town of Kaesong.
The complex, which opened in 2004, is a key symbol of rapprochement between the two Koreas but the goodwill is evaporating quickly in the wake of North Korea's nuclear test on May 25 and subsequent missile tests.
Pyongyang raised tensions a notch by reviving its rhetoric in a commentary in the state-run Minju Joson newspaper today.
"Our nuclear deterrent will be a strong defensive means...as well as a merciless offensive means to deal a just retaliatory strike to those who touch the country's dignity and sovereignty even a bit," said the commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
A country run by a petulant pot-bellied meglomaniac dictator is worried about its dignity?
In the good old days our president would quietly, and then if needed publicly, remind North Korea that should they act on their impulses the entirety of North Korea would fit in a dustpan when we're finished with them...once it cools down below 1,000 degrees. However, with the Jimmy Carter-like administration we have now I fully expect them to offer every manner of bribes to get them to calm down, exactly what the North is looking for.
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