More Beef? N. Korea Says It Has The ‘Severest Punishment’ Ready for U.S.

First Iran challenges the U.S. and starts preparing mass graves for our troops, now N. Korea is poppin’ sh*t. They believe that the U.S. is practicing for war because they eventually plan to have one and the “drills” they conduct are just preparation for the real thing.

SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea’s military threatened Sunday to launch the “severest punishment” against South Korea for staging massive joint war games with the United States this week.

The North’s army and people will “deal a merciless counterblow” to the allies “as it had already resolved and declared at home and abroad”, a spokesman for the country’s army General Staff said in a statement published by state media.

“The military counteraction of (North Korea) will be the severest punishment no one has ever met in the world,” he said.

The warning came a day before US and South Korean troops begin the 10-day computerized war games called “Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG)”.

About 30,000 US soldiers will take part in the exercise, a US military spokesman said, adding an unspecified number of American soldiers based in the United States would join in via computer networks. Some 56,000 South Korean soldiers will also be mobilized for the war games, a defense ministry spokesman said.

Last month South Korea and the United States held a massive joint naval and air drill in the Sea of Japan (East Sea), which were opposed by Beijing.

A week ago South Korea ended its largest-ever anti-submarine drill including live-fire training near the disputed Yellow Sea border.

The war manoeuvres including the UFG exercise “represent the phase of practical actions aimed at a full-dressed military invasion”, the North’s spokesman said.

“The more recklessly the warmongers persist in the war rackets as a result of wrong policy option, the faster and deeper they will fall into the grave of self-destruction,” he said.

China also issued a warning Friday that a US decision to use a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in joint drills with the South constitutes a “fresh provocation” to China and its neighbors.

In a commentary published in the official China Daily, Rear Admiral Yang Yi said Washington would “pay a costly price for its muddled decision” to participate in further drills near Chinese territory over Beijing’s objection.

Yang also warned it was “inadvisable” to push a country of 1.3 billion people, noting that there was instead a wide scope for US-China naval cooperation should Washington choose the route of caution.

Last week, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said future joint US-South Korea drills would involve the nuclear-powered USS George Washington in the Yellow Sea.

Ironically, America works hard to find weapons of mass destruction and disarm other nations, all the while finding bigger and better ways to arm themselves. We don’t know about this one. The North Korean Army has a mean high step.

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