Phrases of North Korean Rhetoric

This work of progress is a phrase list of rhetoric used by the North Korean regime.
* May 20, 2010
** Investigators said they had discovered part of the torpedo on the sea floor and it carried lettering that matched a North Korean design. Pyongyang rejected the claim as a "fabrication" and threatened war if sanctions were imposed, say reports...A North Korean defence spokesman said the country would "respond to reckless countermeasure with an all-out war of justice", the state KCNA news agency reported.
* November 30th, 2012
** 'The discovery of the unicorn lair, associated with legend about King Tongmyong, proves that Pyongyang was a capital city of Ancient Korea as well as Koguryo Kingdom.'
* January 24th, 2013
** “We do not hide that a variety of satellites and long-range rockets which will be launched by the DPRK one after another and a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action, a new phase of the anti-US struggle that has lasted century after century, will target against the US, the sworn enemy of the Korean people,” the commission said.
* February 12th, 2013
** "The latest nuclear test was only the first action, with which we exercised as much self-restraint as possible," the foreign ministry said in a statement..."If the US further complicates the situation with continued hostility, we will be left with no choice but to take even stronger second or third rounds of action."
* March 7th, 2013
** An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for "a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors"
** "Intercontinental ballistic missiles and various other missiles, which have already set their striking targets, are now armed with lighter, smaller and diversified nuclear warheads and are placed on a standby status," Kang said. "When we shell (the missiles), Washington, which is the stronghold of evils, .... will be engulfed in a sea of fire."
** "strongly warns the U.N. Security Council not to make another big blunder like the one in the past when it earned the inveterate grudge of the Korean nation by acting as a war servant for the U.S. in 1950."
* March 11th, 2013
** 'Over the past week, newspapers here in the South have turned Pyongyang's threats into front-page spreads: its promises of "pre-emptive nuclear strikes", "all-out war" and withdrawal from the 60-year-old Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War.'
* March 12th, 2013
** "Kim Jong Un told artillery troops stationed near disputed waters that have seen several bloody clashes in past years that "war can break out right now," according to a report by North Korean state media."
* March 12th, 2013
** ""The Korean Armistice Agreement is to be scrapped completely just from today," said a spokesman for the North Korean military"
* March 12th, 2013
** North Korean propaganda video claims: "“Drinking coffee made from snow, living in tents and buying guns to kill each other, especially children,” the video intones."

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