Read this carefully. They're not "threatening" anything.
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Originally Posted by tecoyah
""The army and people of the DPRK are now in full preparedness to answer a pre-emptive attack with a relentless annihilating strike and a nuclear war with a mighty nuclear deterrent," its communist party newspaper said on Monday."[/B]
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This is what's called the Porcupine Strategy. They're not saying they are going to attack. What they're saying is that their response to
our attack will be devestating. There's nothing inherantly threatening about this statement. But it may keep American hands off them. Saddam's inability to credibly deliver this message might have been his downfall.