{"id":24771,"date":"2017-08-21T20:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24771"},"modified":"2017-08-21T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:05:56","slug":"us-commanders-to-issue-rare-warning-to-n-korea-as-kim-threatens-merciless-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24771","title":{"rendered":"US Commanders To Issue &#8220;Rare Warning&#8221; To N.Korea As Kim Threatens &#8220;Merciless Revenge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-21\/kim-threatens-merciless-revenge-us-south-korean-war-maniacs-begin-drills\">US Commanders To Issue &#8220;Rare Warning&#8221; To N.Korea As Kim Threatens &#8220;Merciless Revenge&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-602075 ads-injected\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>As the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military drills begin near the Korean Peninsula, North Korea&#8217;s Kim has threatened &#8220;merciless revenge&#8221; against the &#8220;US Imperialists and South Korean war maniacs&#8221; for ignoring his warnings. North Korea\u2019s state-run<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcna.kp\/kcna.user.article.retrieveNewsViewInfoList.kcmsf#this\"> Korean Central News Agency reports that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"excl\"><strong>The US imperialists and the South Korean war maniacs launched the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military drills <\/strong>aimed at a preemptive attack on the DPRK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"excl\">Despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK, they have kicked off the war in the pretext of resolving &#8220;countering&#8221; the &#8220;provocation by the north.&#8221; <strong>This is aimed at igniting a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula at any cost.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"excl\">What is more serious is the fact that on the eve of the war exercises, American troops, including US Pacific Commander and Strategic Commander, flew to the South, <strong>contributing far more US troops from overseas, as well as seven vassal states including Australia and Britain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"excl\"><strong>The Korean peninsula has plunged into a critical phase due to the reckless north-targeted war racket of the war maniacs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Bloomberg notes, KCNA further cites an unidentified military spokesman as saying <strong>it would be a misjudgment for the U.S. to think that North Korea will \u201csit comfortably without doing anything\u201d during the U.S.-South Korea joint military drills<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"excl\">Ongoing drills and visits of U.S. military officials to South Korea <strong>create the circumstances for a &#8220;mock war&#8221; on the Korean peninsula,<\/strong> KCNA says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"excl\"><strong>U.S. can\u2019t avoid &#8220;merciless revenge&#8221; by North Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"excl\">U.S. should never forget North Korea is watching its moves closely with<strong> &#8220;fingers on triggers, ready to pour a fire shower of penalties at any time&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, adding further tension, <a href=\"http:\/\/english.yonhapnews.co.kr\/national\/2017\/08\/22\/0301000000AEN20170822001300315.html\">Yonhap reports<\/a> that three top U.S. military commanders plan to issue a &#8220;strong warning message&#8221; to North Korea in a rare joint press availability here later Tuesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Commanders To Issue &#8220;Rare Warning&#8221; To N.Korea As Kim Threatens &#8220;Merciless Revenge&#8221; As the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military drills begin near the Korean Peninsula, North Korea&#8217;s Kim has threatened &#8220;merciless revenge&#8221; against the &#8220;US Imperialists and South Korean war maniacs&#8221; for ignoring his warnings. North Korea\u2019s state-run Korean Central News Agency reports that: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2006,740,15666,827,4318],"class_list":["post-24771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-north-korea","tag-south-korea","tag-ulji-freedom-guardian","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24772,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771\/revisions\/24772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}