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North Korea has put their military on full combat ready status opposing the joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises that began on Monday. They are also suspected of test-firing a long-range ballistic missile. They are threatening merciless retaliation against any country that attempts to interfere with their missile launch. Read more about this threatening situation below.

North Korean Threats

The world feels increasingly unstable in recent months. Its seems that all the enemies of the United States are standing in line for an opportunity to take a swipe at the U.S. and her allies. Each, in their turn, are putting on a show for their people. Seeming to show that they can make the great United States back down when faced with their threats and boasting.

Yesterday it was Iran, today it is North Korea. Russia was the first to take a swipe at the new American President. But they are much too sophisticated at this game to show their hand. Their threats are much more subtle and unpredictable. Venezuela has taken a swipe or two. Their clown prince, Hugo Chavez, threatens, then makes jokes, then threatens, then gives advice. He seems to go with whatever his mood is on any given day. What has been evident with him is that he shows no respect for the man who is currently in power in the United States.

Now Korea is making open threats to the United States, South Korea and Japan. Both South Korea and Japan have benefited from North Korea and her sponsor, China, knowing the the United States had a strong military presence in the waters just off their shores. Now, no one believes the Obama Administration has the strength to deal with the wolves of the world. So communist dictators can make the lives of their own people and the lives of the people in their vicinity even more miserable. Thus is the case of North Korea and Kim Jong-Il.

Pyongyang has announced that they are launching a satellite on Monday and if anyone attempts to interfere with that launch, they will view it as a declaration of war. Of course, all the surrounding countries suspect this is really a test-firing of a long range missile that North Korea has bragged could reach Alaska.

We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means,” the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army as saying.

If countries such as the United States, Japan or South Korea try to intercept the launch, the North Korean military will carry out “a just retaliatory strike operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but against the strongholds” of the countries, it said.

“Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war,” it added.

North Korea earlier announced it is preparing to put a communications satellite into space, but outside observers suspect it may in fact be a test-firing of a long-range ballistic missile.

The United States, Japan and South Korea have said that even if Pyongyang calls the launch a missile test, it would violate existing U.N. Security Council resolutions.

The same North Korean statement said the country’s military will cut off communications with its South Korean counterparts during the U.S.- South Korean exercises for the duration of the exercises beginning Monday.

In addition, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), has demanded that the U.S. and South Korea call off their joint exercises, saying that they will not guarantee the safety of civilian airplanes flying through the territory during the exercises.

A separate, more rare statement by the KPA’s Supreme Command was quoted by the KCNA as saying that its soldiers are under orders to be “fully combat-ready” during U.S.-South Korean military exercises beginning Monday.

The North’s armed forces have been ordered to “deal merciless retaliatory blows” should there be any intrusion “into the sky and land and seas of the DPRK even an inch.”

Our allies have a right to be nervous. No one seems to be intimidated by Barack Obama in the least. There isn’t another country obviously qualified to step in a power vacuum that would be created by the United States losing power. Certainly, not a benign power. When the world is without a leader, all the other powers and petty dictators of the world start vying for their own places in a new pecking order.