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North Korea's foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country and said Pyongyang had the right to shoot down US bombers.
Ri Yong-ho said this could apply even if the warplanes were not in North Korea's airspace.
The White House dismissed the statement as "absurd". The Pentagon warned Pyongyang to stop provocations.
A UN spokesman said fiery talk could lead to fatal misunderstandings.
Mr Ri's comments were a response to Mr Trump's tweet that the North Korean leadership would not "be around much longer" if they continued their rhetoric.
"The whole world should clearly remember it was the US who first declared war on our country," Mr Ri told reporters as he was leaving New York, where he had addressed the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
"Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make counter-measures, including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the airspace border of our country."
Mr Trump's tweet followed Mr Ri's fiery speech to the UN on Saturday, when he described the US president as a "mentally deranged person full of megalomania" on a "suicide mission".
Referring to Mr Trump's post, North Korea's minister said "the question of who won't be around much longer" would be answered by his country.
Mr Ri's remarks - not the first time that North Korea has used the phrase "a declaration of war" in relation to the US - are the latest in an increasingly angry war of words between the two countries.
His statement came two days after US warplanes flew close to North Korea's coast in a show of force.
Pentagon spokesman Col Robert Manning reacted by saying: "If North Korea does not stop their provocative actions, you know, we will make sure that we provide options to the president to deal with North Korea."
Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN Secretary General António Guterres, said: "Fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings."
"The only solution for this is a political solution," he added.
Despite weeks of tension, experts have played down the risk of direct conflict between the two.
North Korea has continued to carry out nuclear and ballistic missile tests in recent weeks, in defiance of successive rounds of UN sanctions.
The country's leaders say nuclear capabilities are its only deterrent against an outside world seeking to destroy it.
After the North's latest and most powerful nuclear test earlier this month, the UN Security Council approved new sanctions on the country.
The rhetoric on both sides may have got out of hand already but the real question is what practical consequences might ensue from the war of words between Washington and Pyongyang?
It should be remembered that the Korean peninsula is not at peace - the Korean conflict of the 1950s was only brought to a halt by an armistice, not a peace treaty.
But it is actions that are likely to provoke renewed fighting, not just words.
The latest North Korean threat to shoot down US warplanes comes in the wake of a recent US patrol that took its B1-B Lancer bombers and their accompanying F-15 fighter escorts over waters to the east of North Korea - the furthest north US warplanes have flown for several months, albeit still outside Pyongyang's airspace.
The US believes it has every right to do this but if one day Pyongyang judges that these aircraft are on an offensive mission - what then?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41391978
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anarchist23 wrote:North Korea's foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country and said Pyongyang had the right to shoot down US bombers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41391978

Hit NK before they hit US. Praise the Lord. HalleluYah.
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Tainari88 wrote:Cry havoc and let loose the radiation sickness, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, disasters and problems and dead innocents so that idiots can go to war!

Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.

Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.

Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

(Matthew 24:6-14 NIV)
Praise the Lord. HalleluYah.
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skinster wrote:North Korea and the US have been at war since the 50s.
This is not news or even breaking news. :|


Tell you the truth, I mainly watch RT News and Euronews. I don't watch much of the BBC News (British Brainwashing Corporation) as it focuses on domestic news. It is pro Palestinian which is great.
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Other sources quote the DPRK diplomat as saying that 'Trump's words amount to a declaration of war'. The subtlety of which is lost when translating this as saying that 'Trump's words are a declaration of war'.

Anyhow, media seems to be magnifying and amplifying the entire issue.


skinster wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pnt_uT5YzQ
That's a great mix, illustrates some of the issues.
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skinster wrote::eh:
BBC is a zionist shill.

You should see its reporting whenever your lot conduct your periodical attacks on Gaza.


really? every time there was a terror attack in Israel they had this kind of titles

maybe after the next attack in London they should have a similar title that says:

3 Muslims killed after deady shooting in London" how would that sound?
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