North Korea Threatens US Military Over Exercises

North Korea has said that it will “legitimately counter with powerful nuclear deterrence the largest ever nuclear war exercises to be staged by the U.S. and the South Korean Puppet Forces.” North Korea is still upset that they are blamed for the sinking of a North Korean War ship a few months back and they aren’t big fans of the United States so even the notion of the United States and South Korea doing anything together can be seen as some type of hostile act in the eyes of North Korea.

While this is only a threat for now, I do believe that North Korea is very capable of carrying out this threat. They have already vowed to have a physical response to the drills that the U.S. and North Korea plan on starting Sunday (7/25/10). I don’t think that this is just some idle threat that should be taken lightly even though that’s probably how some of the people in power feel. We are not invulnerable and we can be touched. Never underestimate a crazy man, especially one with a large army and nuclear weapons.

The U.S. military doesn’t seem to take this threat seriously because there was ‘no sign of significant troop movement’ but how significant of a movement do you expect. If they are planning a nuclear attack or response then there is not a need for a significant amount of troop movement. This may be something that they said just to throw us off and downplay the situation though. who knows.

North Korea is a major foe with major nuclear power at its disposal. Threats like these should not be taken lightly and some type of resolution should try to be reached before this gets ugly. Or is it too late for that?