North Korea threatens war on South Korea | Breaking Tweets

North Korea threatens war on South Korea

Posted by Craig Kanalley on 5/26/09 • Categorized as Asia, Conflict, Politics

Per Yonhap News Agency in South Korea, North Korea said on Wednesday that South Korea’s decision to join a U.S.-led anti-proliferation program was a “declaration of war” and that it is no longer bound by the Korean War armistice agreement that ended the 1950-1953 conflict. The nation also said in a statement that it will respond militarily to any foreign inspections of its ships.

@BreakingNews reported the threats first to the Twitter world, though it appears to have slightly skewed North Korea’s claims based on the latest media reports.

  1. BNO News
    BreakingNews BULLETIN — NORTH KOREA CALLS SOUTH KOREAN DECISION TO JOIN ANTI-PROLIFERATION PROGRAM A DECLARATION OF WAR. 27 May 2009 from BNO Headquarters
  2. BNO News
    BreakingNews BULLETIN — NORTH KOREA SAYS IT WILL “USE ITS MILITARY” TO RESPOND TO SOUTH KOREAN DECISION. 27 May 2009 from BNO Headquarters
  3. BNO News
    BreakingNews BULLETIN — NORTH KOREA ABANDONS KOREAN WAR ARMISTICE. 27 May 2009 from BNO Headquarters

At this time, no other news organization is reporting a state of war between the nations or that North Korea will definitively respond militarily to South Korea’s decision to join the U.S. program. A report from Bloomberg wrote only that North Korea “threatened military action,” far less definitive than the @BreakingNews tweet.

CNN’s @iDesk tweeted shortly after @BreakingNews, “We are checking all these reports from North Korea and having our experts distinguish between the facts and rhetoric.”

Twitterers in the region responded with confusion, as well as surprise.

  1. Julia Lindsay
    freedomyears (Seoul, South Korea) why do I know nothing about this North Korea nonsense??? what did they do? american media hype as per… 27 May 2009 from web
  2. peijinc
    peijinc (Shanghai, China) really ? north korea leaving the ceasefire agreement? 27 May 2009 from TweetDeck
  3. Rich Pav
    richpav (Japan) OK, North Korea is officially scary now. 27 May 2009 from twhirl
  4. Jason Hill
    jasohill (Hachimantai, Japan) What is going on with North Korea? Did they just declare war on South Korea? Twitter is confusing at the moment. 27 May 2009 from Power Twitter
  5. Steven Millward
    SirSteven (Suzhou, China) Some disturbing single-line “declaration of war” missives coming out of North Korea press office. Just usual rhetoric? h/t CNN’s @klustout 27 May 2009 from Tweetie
  6. Japan design + art
    KankiKnight (Tokyo, Japan) RT @klustout Very unsettling if confirmed. JUST IN: North Korea says it is no more bound to Korean War armistice: Yonhap http://tr.im/mvJY 27 May 2009 from web
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  • Chris Matsas
    See the real scary thing here is that North Korea is lead by someone who is thought to be insane and North Korea really has nothing to lose, they currently are not an economic power; you see if this was the U.S. or Russia, they wouldn't fire those missiles because they are world powers, if the U.S. fires a missile most other world powers would turn on them same with Russia, so this is a real scary threat that we must be fragile with!
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