From XinHua News Agency:
North Korea declares:
War on the peninsula "cannot be avoided".
金正恩再上前线促备战
Kim Jong Un once again at the front line urging war preparedness.
美警告全力反击核攻击
America warning of full-scale retaliation for [any] nuclear attack.
韩国担心朝鲜“突然袭击”
South Korea worries about a North Korean "surprise attack".
North Korea's leadership in a frenzy after recent military exercises of South Korean and U.S. troops (picture above).
After nullifying the 1953 armistice agreement that ended a three year's war between North and South Korea and cutting an important telephone line connecting both countries, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is driving his escalation of the situation even further:
朝鲜威胁要让韩国一岛屿陷入火海
North Korea threatening to make one of South Korea's islands get caught in a sea of flames.
朝鲜官方媒体星期二报道说，金正恩命令边防前线部队做好战斗准备，摧毁白翎岛上的敌人目标。2010年韩国一艘军舰在白翎岛附近被击沉，40多人丧生。
On Tuesday [March 12], North Korean official media reported that Kim Jong Un ordered frontline troops of the border defence to engage in preparation of a combat targeting the smashing of enemies on White Feather Island. In 2010, more than 40 people lost their lives when a South Korean navy ship was sent to the bottom in the neighbourhood of White Feather Island.
[Source: Voice of America, Chinese website, on March 12, 2013]
On the same day [March 12], People's Network in Beijing delivered a rather harmless view on the current conflict by using the following headline:
Military exercises on the Korean peninsula: The possibility of starting a war is rather small, some " accidental discharge while cleaning the gun " being important to promote vigilance.
The Chinese article is quoting Jin Can Rong, deputy director at the Institute for International Relations of the People's University of China:
Jin Can Rong: If America is determined to use a [tough language] towards North Korea, North Korea cannot help getting in the way. Therefore, U.S.-South Korean military exercises are endangering talks with North Korea while this is of no significance to China.
When asked about the deterrent effect of North Korea's selfdeclaration as a nuclear power, Jin Can Rong said:
Jin Can Rong: [What is said to] South Korea is definitely deterrent, however not deterrent for America.
Firstly: As North Korea's nuclear power is not mature, it isn't certain that each of their nuclear weapons will produce an explosion sound.
Secondly: North Korea's nuclear weapons are quite bulky. They cannot be launched with a guided missile. It needs a ship to transport them to the U.S.A.. But [in case of delivery] by ship, this would be early enough [sent to the bottom] by the Americans. However, telling this to the Americans would have no effect.
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