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    Paul Joseph Watson
    Prison Planet.com
    Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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    A state of war officially exists again between North and South Korea for the first time since the end of hostilities in 1953 following North Korea’s announcement that they would henceforth refuse to abide by the terms of the peace armistice.

    “The Korean People’s Army will not be bound to the Armistice Agreement any longer,” the official Korean Central News Agency said in a statement today. Any attempt to inspect North Korean vessels will be countered with “prompt and strong military strikes.” South Korea’s military said it will “deal sternly with any provocation” from the North, reports Bloomberg.

    As we have highlighted, any North Korean attack on South Korea will be countered by the United States, which is allied with South Korea. North Korea is allied with China, and Chinese military forces will support North Korea in any conflict just as they did in the 1950’s before the armistice was signed.

    North Korea’s renouncement of the peace armistice follows yesterday’s threat by a Japanese ruling party minister that Japan should change the terms of its pacifist constitution in order to conduct cruise missile strikes on North Korea.

    Meanwhile, Russia has warned that the conflict could go nuclear and has made preparations to safeguard its far eastern regions.

    An interesting back story to this crisis is the fact that, as we reported in October last year, the RAND corporation has been intensely lobbying the Pentagon to become embroiled in a new war. Although North Korea was ruled out as a target because RAND demanded a bigger conflict, the eventual consequences of a war between the Koreas could lead to a global military confrontation involving Russia and China.

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    The origins of this whole crisis lead back to the question of how North Korea obtained its nuclear weapons in the first place, and for that we have to thank the usual suspects – the U.S. military industrial complex.

    In 2004, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atom bomb program, admitted sharing nuclear technology via a worldwide smuggling network that included facilities in Malaysia that manufactured key parts for centrifuges.

    Khan’s collaborator B.S.A. Tahir ran a front company out of Dubai that shipped centrifuge components to North Korea.

    Despite Dutch authorities being deeply suspicious of Khan’s activities as far back as 1975, the CIA prevented them from arresting him on two occasions.

    “The man was followed for almost ten years and obviously he was a serious problem. But again I was told that the secret services could handle it more effectively,” former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers said. “The Hague did not have the final say in the matter. Washington did.”

    Lubbers stated that Khan was allowed to slip in and out of the Netherlands with the blessing of the CIA, eventually allowing him to become the “primary salesman of an extensive international network for the proliferation of nuclear technology and know-how,” according to George W. Bush himself, and sell nuclear secrets that allowed North Korea to build nuclear bombs.

    “Lubbers suspects that Washington allowed Khan’s activities because Pakistan was a key ally in the fight against the Soviets,” reports CFP. “At the time, the US government funded and armed mujahideen such as Osama bin Laden. They were trained by Pakistani intelligence to fight Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Anwar Iqbal, Washington correspondent for the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, told ISN Security Watch that Lubbers’ assertions may be correct. “This was part of a long-term foolish strategy. The US knew Pakistan was developing nuclear weapons but couldn’t care less because it was not going to be used against them. It was a deterrent against India and possibly the Soviets.”

    In September 2005 it emerged that the Amsterdam court which sentenced Khan to four years imprisonment in 1983 had lost the legal files pertaining to the case. The court’s vice-president, Judge Anita Leeser, accused the CIA of stealing the files. “Something is not right, we just don’t lose things like that,” she told Dutch news show NOVA. “I find it bewildering that people lose files with a political goal, especially if it is on request of the CIA. It is unheard of.”

    In 2005, Pakistani President Pervez Musharaf acknowledged that Khan had provided centrifuges and their designs to North Korea.

    With this history in mind, the shock, condemnation and indignation being expressed by the U.S. government in response to North Korea’s second nuclear bomb test is tinged with hypocrisy to say the least. Through their policies in aiding North Korea to build light water reactors, and via the CIA asset AQ Khan who was protected at every step of the way while he helped provide North Korea with the means to build a nuclear arsenal, the U.S. government itself is directly complicit in providing North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il with the nuclear weapons that they are now condemning him for testing.

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    85 Responses to “State Of War Between Two Koreas After Armistice Ended”

    1. NASH Says:

      This is it. WWlll is about to commence. Massive death will occur, the rich will get richer the poor will die. NWO’s plan all along. RAND wants a war, they are gonna get one. One thing they might underestimate is the fact that if this thing goes nuclear the planet will be ruined for decades. They will have to live in a bubble. Dumb f---s!!!!!

      aaron Reply:

      hey, man, it didnt stop dr. stranglove: provided the RANDites got some procreation material in their bunkers, i think they’ll be fine.

      Warrior of Freedom Reply:

      We can survive this, but everyone of us needs to start focusing on empowering ourselves.

      The below article describes succinctly where the focus needs to be placed to stop the New World Order. Alex Jones understands it, David Icke understands it, now the average man on the street needs to really take this point in and live it.

      http://digg.com/world_news/Sto.....orld_Order

      duh Reply:

      run to the hills, live off the land, in communities…
      the cities and populous areas are screwed, and the source of most problems in the world…

      Matthew-FL Reply:

      http://directory.ic.org/iclist/geo.php

      Communities in your area you can look into to get off the grid and stop playing the NWO game. Stop being part of their play and live your own life!

      Simple Simon Reply:

      Wanted – Some infowarriors to debate global warming with the Al Gore followers.

      http://ftags.com/GAS5

      Let’s smash em’

      Max Reply:

      I’m afraid that I agree with you. The one thing that assures me is that the banker Illuminati can run underground but they won’t get away.

      jins Reply:

      Per Russia: Conclusion: no North Korea does not intimidate the world with war, North Korea merely wants to intimidate the evil empire so they can be left alone.

      We hear what they want us to be told in the USA. How many useless underground nuke tests have we held here in the USA? Not to mention the one we laid on Japan. Here’s a suggestion to everyone here: Read papers from other countries. We are NOT the only productive society on the face of this earth folks. You don’t have to like it.. just read the news that we aren’t told. Our media doesn’t tell us what other countries think. that’s a fact!

      And Per Russia: Russia will sign a groundbreaking commercial contract on Tuesday to supply US utility companies with enriched uranium fuel, a Russian atomic industry official has said. Under the contract, state-run Tekhsnabeksport would supply US markets with nuclear fuel enriched from raw uranium for the first time, Tekhsnabeksport marketing executive Vadim Mikerin told The Associated Press.

      (they told here in Fla that they are going to raise our rates so they can use nuke fuel.. summer of hell). Anyway.. check it out.. this story and more on: http://www.russiansentry.com/?area=main

      owl Reply:

      They’ll just go underground for a few hundred years like they did in the film Logan’s Run

      Izzy Reply:

      From what I have read nobody really knows how long a nuclear winter lasts. Is this true?

      Parker Reply:

      If you are worried and want to understand the subject…..that is, the scientific facts as well as what you can do, there is a good, easy to understand book by Cresson Kearny called Nuclear War Survival Skills……Kearny is from Oak Ridge National Labs….can’t get better expert than that.

      Nuclear winter is an impossible theory that could only occur…again, in this theory, after an full scale global thermonuclear war. You don’t sound like you would be around afterwards to find out anyway.

      Izzy Reply:

      Im to numb on the subject to be worried anymore, so I guess it dosnt matter how long the planet will be ruined for considering most of us wont be here. I have to assume it will become like mars for quite a long while.

      Tailgunner Reply:

      Nuclear weapons are obsolete.

      A war will be fought with negative energy weapons and ULF/UHF.

      Besides, the patents for radiation free atom bombs are plenty.

      jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj Reply:

      I used to think that, too. However, I have aquired new(to me) knowlege that the type of radiation, although intense, has a very steep decay rate. For instance, an area in which the fallout produces 1000 rems/hr will be safe to work in all day within two weeks time. See, this is what they know, also. That’s why this(an all out nuclear war) is ideal to rid them of 90% of us. ENDGAME!!!

      WWIII WWIII Reply:

      ooooo scary things oooooooooo scary things!

      high time for truth Reply:

      There will be no war with North Korea or anyone else for that matter. We’re already in our wars. There won’t be any others for some time, a long time. So relax, and everyone get yourselves together.

    2. derek Says:

      Wars and rumors of wars!!!

      Graham Reply:

      yeah the scripted Armageddon is here.

    3. homedawg Says:

      it wont be long now

      homedawg Reply:

      these fools that “want war” are going to get one…there are too many places just waiting for an excuse to kill someone else for it to be ignored….all we can do is get ready….and hope that our neighbors arent from the country’s fighting

      One Red Pill Reply:

      That’s what the dawg said when he got his tail caught in the car door! LOL

    4. EU-Lex Says:

      All right…it has just begun…

    5. Mike Benson Says:

      World War III will begin in the Korean peninsula.

    6. jmc Says:

      …if you’ld like …..i watch this video a while back….. very interesting http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=1442318652 seems to be on the fritz …this guy gose to n.korea and is shuttled around ..but you get to see the country its interesting…

    7. Bill Says:

      Buclke up and enjoy the ride…

    8. Mike Benson Says:

      World War III will start in the Korean peninsula.

    9. The Rock Says:

      just more sabre rattling, don’t get your panties bunched up…

    10. razor Says:

      My focus are the leaders who enabled this to happen…they are our focus, they are the traitors, they are the money behind the puppets.

      Rich Reply:

      If you are talking about The leaders of the USA think again and do your homework! Our “leaders” are the puppets of the international banking elite(I hate to use that term for those low life scum suckers). They are the money behind all major conflicts. The money and the false intel/propaganda that forces the blind sheep into a stampede to war.

    11. centerbound Says:

      Russia and China will not support the nuts in N. Korea. You people are really stupid if you really think that.

    12. jackpontiac Says:

      Anybody want to buy a Hyundai or a Kia?

    13. bar abbas = son of god Says:

      Other countries should have learned that those occupying seats in the American government ARE hypocritical. They help to create “evidence” that they then turn around to try to use against them.

      All the while, The US throws monopoly money their way.

    14. camels-nose-under-the-tent-flap Says:

      a big problem is that America does not have the resources(read Men and material) to fight another war…pre-klinton the US military was set up to fight two major and one regional war…this is no longer viable…we can maintain a force in Iraq and increase Afganistan and thats a very long stretch….fighting in Korea is out….in 1950 we had about the same level of troops as we do now and we had a hard time holding onto Pusan…and we werent fighting anywhere else…this is potentialy a very bad deal….wonder what fearless fly obama will do now?

      MilwaukeeRick Reply:

      Camels – Nose – You’re correct, the U.S. currently is in no position for another war. We’re overextended right now. But how about this scenario – Obama and his lapdogs push through a national sales tax (VAT) and re – institute the draft? To all young people reading this post – think very seriously about Conscientious Objector (CO) status! I’m old and got my good years in! Do some research and tell the motherf---ers whatever you have to in order to not participate in this charade!

      BobLeeSwagger Reply:

      Ancient Rome all over again. Like saying goes, those who do not know or learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

    15. Killogramm Says:

      Данный пост реально помог мне принять очень важное для себя решение. За что автору отдельное спасибо. Жду от Вас новых постов!

      sweetjustice Reply:

      “This post actually helped me to make a decision very important for itself. After that to the author separate thanks. I wait from you new posts!”

      What decision did you come up with?

      Sorry, had to translate..was bothering me. :)

      Of course Reply:

      i agree.
      :)

      jackpontiac Reply:

      I did not understand what you wrote , but I Agree with you!

    16. Tony Says:

      I tought I taw a putty tat? I did, I did. Its really just a crazed 4′7″ deminutive pot bellied dumbf--- crazy ass pig putty tat from North Korea.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Alright folks get your iodide tablets and bomb shelters ready. I hope all here enjoy the beautiful scenic mushroom clouds. I like the ones that are on the order of 10 mega tons anything else just does not say I f---ing hate your guts and you are not worthy of your cells DNA. Anything bigger and your a TTH poser. ( Try to hard poser).

      See ya in the light

      T

    17. sweetjustice Says:

      NoKo is troublesome. Hussein and his administration sit idly by waiting. Worse yet, Israel will not let Iran continue to build it’s nuclear arsenal for another 6 months at Hussein’s suggestion. Hussein has already thrown Israel under the bus. Israel will launch a military strike against Iran’s facilities very soon. Hussein and his crew will continue to sit idly by as the missiles scream by. Where does all this lead to?

      Global thermonuclear war. Millions will die. Millions will be left in a nuclear winter time frame.

      The world is a very dangerous place. More so than yesterday, or last week or last year. We are powerless to stop any of this with this administration standing idly by.

    18. Viet Nam Vet Says:

      To all you “Arm Chair Generals”!

      Who more than likely have never worn a uniform…………….

      as Jerry Clower said…………..

      This ain’t good at tal!

      BRASS BALLS Reply:

      I wore one. B.F.D and how many of you R.E.M.F.:s who were in actual combat, go smoke a pole fox hole killer.

    19. FedUpFederate Says:

      Killogramm:
      Каково был важным решением?

      BRASS BALLS Reply:

      Like a cestema punch to the nuts this whole line off b.s. this knid of crap to suck will suck yhe whole world into war and make animals ouy of all.

    20. Glurtch Says:

      The Dutch Prime Minister’s name is Ruud Lubbers. Do you think he named his son “Land” by any chance? That would be awesome!

    21. BobLeeSwagger Says:

      aw s---- the freight trains a comin’ and the brakes ain’t workin… Ill fly the flag of distress, but pretty soon, it might just very well be in ruins.

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      HillbillyJihad&TheBubbaLiberationFront Reply:

      “Hells’ comin’ and they got tickets!!!” Cheese and Crackers the Love continues!!! All I can say is maybe Kim Jong-Il’s hairdresser reaLLLy pissed him off and I mean bad!!! Thermal Expansion…Coming to your town soon!!! “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”

    22. Sean Says:

      People, don’t jump the gun on this being “WWIII”. We constantly have serious issues around the world. While this is serious, it is not worth fretting over.

      Derek I like your quote, “Wars and rumors of wars!!!” – A wise man said that – Jesus. “Do not be disturbed by wars and rumors of wars”.

      HillbillyJihad&TheBubbaLiberationFront Reply:

      What are you a f---in’ Ostrich??? Or maybe a vole!!! You need to board the “Love Train” brother!!! It’s amazing…sad really… that a person can quote Christ when Jesus NEVER wrote a single word!!! Peter and Paul ran thier mouths incessantly 30 years after the fact. But hey…a soda machine has as much Salvation as anything else on this dirt clod!!! BTW, is Thermal Expansion in scriptures??? And don’t bring up Daniel!!! Ezekial maybe. So Sean, all those Jews that did flee Germany were’nt paying attention to rumors of war or the those that fled Pol Pots’ regime and died in the killing fields of Cambodia??? What say you??? “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”

      roaddog Reply:

      LOL. you can’t tell a thumper nothing. You’re wrong and they’re right, no matter how right you are. Diseased I tell ya, thats what they are. Insane in the membrane. Reaching for straws in a bolt factory.

    23. AJ VidZ Says:

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    24. Mr. Blonde Says:

      Where the f--- is Che Guevara when you need him.

    25. german in seoul Says:

      right now it feels stranger than ever to be in seoul, u get used to the emergency gas equipment in the subways, but now with the ex-president who killed himself and all that s--- going on in the north, u think more than twice when you see young soldiers with rifles standing in the streets, or see black choppers in the sky…but im sure its gonna be alright…at least its that what it feels like when u talk about that with koreans…Wars and rumors of wars….

      SERFIN USSA Reply:

      Back when I was an employee of the ‘Empire’, I spent 4 wonderful years near the DMZ…on the south side… This is all bulls---, Kim just wants some more money, and this is how he get’s it, extortion.

      But if the ‘S’ were to ‘HTF’, you folks in Seoul wouldn’t have a snowballs chance in hell…they don’t need missiles to waste your ass, you’re within range of low tech field artillery, they can slap any number/type of NBC ordinances into a barrel and it’s going to really suck for those massed on the Han Gang.

      Have some soju and think about that.

      bar abbas = son of god Reply:

      “emergency gas equipment in the subways” ?

      What “we” got told was to “go shopping” at the strip malls or buy duct tape and don’t ferget to invest in Wall Street….and many many did just that.

      “soldiers with rifles standing in the streets ” – check
      “black choppers in the sky” – check

    26. Got the guts? Says:

      The REAL WWIII is beginning, guys. This is it.

      mmm ww3 Reply:

      lawn chair check X

      sun glass’s check X

      highest spf check X

      pop corn check X

      bong and weed check X

      200+ miles away form any major city check X

      lots of food and ammo working on it []

      let the doom and gloom begin sick of the waiting

      scott Reply:

      Sounds like you need some company.. Have the same things except I am in the middle of the largest suburb.. Phoenix, AZ. Its 50mi in any direction to get out of here.. Peace, and enjoy the show.

      bar abbas = son of god Reply:

      Im sure Albuquerque has one or two big ICBM’s from Russia glaring down on it too.

      Full Metal Jackass Reply:

      Just wait till bugs bunny finnally finds Albequerque…

    27. Sandra Says:

      Good Evening!
      First: Thank you, Alex Jones, for waking me up!! Your film O.D. was unbelievabely shocking.
      I remembered any (I don’t know anymore whose) prophecy that said something like: “the end, third wold war is coming, when the wrong prophet apears.” that was sounding in my ears last year when your actual president became famous. There were moments I believed in this person. Well, it is an illusion for the people….
      Friends, I am German. I was tought 12 years at school about fashism, kommunism, right, wrong, dead and alive or not… we were treated by these themes and I always thought: what would I have done, when I where in a situation 1936-1939?! Would I have a clear view about? And: today, I tell you, anyone who is reading this: It is all repeating!!! Now!!
      I wrote a comment about “North Korean” danger in a magazine online, today. Critically.
      Not in a unkind manner! The blog was shut immediately! I am shocked. So far about free speech.
      I hope, you understood my school english! In mind and feelings you do!
      Thanks for reading! God bless you all!

      Parker Reply:

      Friends, I am German. I was tought 12 years at school about fashism, kommunism, right, wrong, dead and alive or not… we were treated by these themes and I always thought: what would I have done, when I where in a situation 1936-1939?! Would I have a clear view about? And: today, I tell you, anyone who is reading this: It is all repeating!!! Now!!

      Sandra, I would like to hear more of your thoughts on this. Your English was just fine! I hope people like you keep talking! Tell more of your story Leakyhat ….at live dot com if you wish.

    28. richard Says:

      North Korea has had a massive famine with internal strife. This country will implode unless something is done to unite them. They are told that North Korea is paradise, that there millitary is supreme. This group need something to unify them and quite the disenters. War or slight scurmishes will do the trick. There leader is failing the people and the people know it. He needs to look much better in the people’s eyes and get thier minds off of thier stomach and pockets. I would say, He is just carzy enough and power hungry enough to fight this battle, also Kim Jung Ill is very sick and there is no clear successor. This might be a attempt to pull a stunt and say, if I am going to die then let my whole country die with me.

    29. NOT STONED ENOUGH Says:

      No one knows what is happening.

      No one is in control, not the president, not the pope, not jesus, not china, not russia, not the jews…nobody.

    30. Life is fascinating Says:

      ‘World War III will be fought with nuclear technology, World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.’

      This story is a bit fabricating from the get-go. The border b/t South and North Korea has been guarded with armed military for decades and they are pointing guns at each other just 10 feet away.

      Four years is a long time…

      TheGhost Reply:

      the quote is “I know not what weapons WW3 will be fought, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones” that might not be exactly it, but jesus atleast try to make it close next time lol

    31. mmm ww3 Says:

      4 years just means if nothing happens in 4 years nothing will happen. who backs iran russia who back russia? china,cuba,india,venezvala,chile

    32. Tailgunner Says:

      I can’t think of a point where he’s been wrong, incrementally speaking.

    33. Bill_N_Florida Says:

      GET A GRIP DUDE, THIS IS POLITICAL POSTURING.

      GAD DAMN YOU FEAR MONGERS.

      “THIS IS IT, BIRD FLUE
      THIS IS IT WAR IN GEORGIA
      THIS IS IT JESUS IS COMMING.

      WHAT A BUNCH OF NUTS.

      AND NOW ALEX WILL JUMP ON THE BAND WAGON”

      Alex won’t jump on the band wagon, Alex is the band wagon (in his own mind)
      Realize that he MUST be the one that “first brought this news to you” , “I, Alex Jones said it first”, “You heard it first here”,”IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII”. Notice that this man says his own name more often than any one I have ever known. Right now he is saying “People think that I am omni-present”. I doubt that very seriously. Did anyone notice the flip-flopping that was done about the flu, first it’s just a scare tactic, then “HIS IS IT”, “EVEN THE VICE PRESIDENT IS SAYING TO STAY OFF PLANES AND TRAINS”. He has often said that his show is not a religous show, well that is because there is not enough room in Austin for jesus and ALEX JONES at the same time!!!

    34. One Red Pill Says:

      Mr Know It All; why don’t you get your own site? You obviously don’t like what’s goino on here.

    35. joeglas Says:

      In the Big One No. II,US troops in the Pacific theater had pass-words which the sons of Nippon would find difficult to articulate,such as “Yellow Velvet” which would come out like “Oueou Ueuvet”.The hot lead was the inevitable result at attempts to infiltrate.

    36. J-dog in Korea Says:

      Hey Guys I live in Korea and have been here for quite some time. What the Norks are doing is nothing more than political juxtaposting so they can get more money not to shoot more fireworks.

      bar abbas = son of god Reply:

      Maybe the N. Korean leaders want another all-expense paid trip from Bill Richardson of New Mexico so they can party it up at his mansion like last time.

    37. Richard Sweats Says:

      HEY!

      Jesus IS coming!

      Why do you think all this crazy stuff is finally happening? Read the bible and be VERY afraid!

      Jesus Reply:

      im here ya skitzo

    38. BobLeeSwagger Says:

      If Jesus is comin, I better try and look busy…

    39. BobLeeSwagger Says:

      Hey- I thought Jesus was comin’ in his corvette dude! Why ain’t you tryin to look busy too?

    40. Iraq Vet Says:

      LOL!!

    41. scott Says:

      FLASE FLAG TIME LOOK OUT .

    42. WWIII WWIII Says:

      hey….draft = more lonely women……hmmm I might like this! might….no this will be great! oh wait…did you say it was North Korea…..s---! there went that idea…..they never follow through with their threats….I know what will push them over the edge! I’ll send him my Pontiac! when he finds out the US will back the warranty Kim will be pissed! let the kimshi fly! Ladies I will see you when your man leaves….. buy American! support the fat bastards society!

    43. BobbieJo Says:

      World war 2 got us out of the last depression. I wonder if world war 3 is their plans to boost that old economy worldwide.
      How do any info warriors out there get to sleep? There is so much going on.
      Hold on to your summer hats this is going to be one bumpy ride at the nwo carnival.

    44. Mac-101 Says:

      Comrade Kim can’t do anything without the approval of his boss, the Red Chinese. How does this benifit China? Take the headlines off the economy? It’s not getting that much play. More welfare to N Korea not to act up? Only thing I can think of!

    45. madman Says:

      why is the man in the picture waving a gun?..don`t chinese fight with nunchuck and ninja stars?…lol communist will lose.

    46. Yawn,like a broken record Says:

      This morning while watching CNN, I had to laugh, The film clip showed the North Korean Rocket of mass destruction being launched and how very upset Hillary Clinton and her buddies were. Then the commentator said the same words used earlier in the year about the financial collapse….” The world is going to have to solve this problem on a global level as it is not just one countries problem.” I then realised that North Korea is also part of the NWO freaks big plan to scare the world s---less, and that they also sit down with Kissinger and his pals to discuss the next bulls--- move to make. I then rolled over in bed, comfortable in the knowledge that North Korea is not a threat to anyone.