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US Secretary of State Colin Powell said that three-way talks between North Korea, China and the United States had ended a day earlier than expected and warned Pyongyang that Washington would not respond to threats.

Powell said the talks had "concluded" and that while US and Chinese officials might hold talks on Friday, the North Korean involvement was over. Three days of talks, from April 23 to 25 had been scheduled initially.

While announcing the end of the discussions, Powell delivered a strongly worded warning for North Korea not to make threats as Pyongyang ratcheted up its rhetoric.

"They should not leave this series of discussions that have been held in Beijing with the slightest impression that the United States and its partners and the nations in the region will be intimidated by bellicose statements or by threats or actions they think might get them more attention or might force us to make a concession that we would not otherwise make," he said.

"They would be very ill-advised to move in that direction," Powell said after a speech the US Asia-Pacific Council

fuckers definatelly wanna get swoited!

...or iraquisized!

The North's Korean people's army (KPA) vowed to "put all people under arms and turn the whole country into a fortress", and urged its soldiers to become "human bombs and fighters ready to blow up themselves" to protect leader Kim Jong Il.

The North's defence minister, Kim Il Chol, said: "If the US imperialists and their followers intrude into even an inch of the inviolable sky, land and sea of the [North] ... the KPA will deal merciless deadly blows at the aggressors and achieve a final victory in the confrontation with the US."

Colin,
now I know where saddam is..he is writing speeches in NK
;-))

You thought that sounded familiar too?

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I wonder if they should employ SWOIT inventors to do their PR,
I'm sure US would think twice if NK had weapons of SWOIT destruction
;-)))

i think we can all be a little happy that the Iraqi information minister was again able to find gainful employment.

"This war will not be over by the next commercial break"
--US spokeperson talking to reporters during the Gulf War

Deputy Director General Li Gun, Pyongyang's representative to the talks, made a "blatant and bold" announcement that his country had nuclear weapons, and asked U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs James Kelly, "What are you going to do about it?" a source told CNN.

My response would have been that in 1000 years the piece of land now known as North Korea will be habitable again...

shaping up to be a great summer :nyanya:

Yep it is possible there could be armed conflict in N. Korea.

But it will be no easy war like in Iraq

Another dictator with an arsenal even more updated than that of Iraq's. NK actually has thousands of 1940's era tanks in their arsenal. Their airforce is antiquated too. Not to mention they are hampered by Soviet-era military doctrine.

I don't think there'll be a war but I think it would be quite easy by historical standards.