This is a lot of laughs for the Chinese watching the West squirm

'Get ready to annihilate the enemy': Kim Jong-Un's message to North Korea troops

8 Mar 2013 20:36

His adoring troops were filmed advancing towards him, walking chest deep and fully-clothed into the freezing water

Tyrant Kim Jong-Un’s adoring troops walked through freezing water chest deep today to show how much they love him.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un today stepped up tensions with the South by telling troops stationed on the border to be ready “to annihilate the enemy”.
State television showed him arriving by patrol boat to see soldiers dug into coastal positions facing ­Yeonpyeong Island, which North Korean artillery shelled in 2010, killing four people.
Dressed in a thick overcoat the 30-year-old shook hands with grinning and waving soldiers and their families and used binoculars to spy on his southern enemies.
But as his patrol boat headed back out to sea adoring troops were filmed advancing towards him, walking chest deep and fully-clothed into the freezing water.
North Korea’s only major ally China appealed for calm hours as the South threatened to wipe out its Pyonyang enemies, making it “extinct.”
The flare-up happened after the rogue state scrapped all peace deals with the South and warned of a pre-emptive strike against the US - possibly on Monday.
Hua Chunying of China’s foreign ministry said today: “China and North Korea have normal relations.
"At the same time, we also oppose North Korea’s conducting of nuclear tests.”

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 Experts feel the pre-emptive strike threats are more bluff than reality, since the North’s leaders know it would be suicidal.
An attack on the US would probably be impossible as North Korea’s nuclear ability is thought to be unsophisticated.
But there are fears that the North might hit back at the UN by launching a border clash with South Korea, either on land or sea, as it did in 2010.
Yesterday the UN agreed tough new sanctions and today drafted plans for even more severe measures.
North Korean hit back with a message on its official website saying it had cancelled all non-aggression pacts with the South.
The two Koreas have signed a range of agreements over the years, including a 1991 pact on resolving disputes and avoiding military clashes.
The North has also cut off the North-South hotline, effectively severing contact between the two countries so there can be no last minute peace talks if war does threaten to break out.
The North also claimed it had a right to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against its enemies.
It drew an angry response from the South’s defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok, who said that the North would become “extinct from the Earth by the will of mankind” if it took such an action.