North Korea ready for war due to United States aggression!
BEIJING, China - June 13, 2009 - North Korea has pledged to begin work "weaponizing" plutonium to create another nuclear bomb, as it delivered a furious response to a UN resolution ordering a fresh round of sanctions against the country.
The regime of the ailing dictator Kim Jong-il said it was now in the "early phase of all-out confrontation with the U.S." as it sought to raise tensions to dangerous new levels on the Korean Peninsula.
On Friday the United Nations Security Council ordered an almost-total arms embargo and a raft of strict financial sanctions against North Korea in punishment for its testing of a second nuclear device last month.
In a bellicose statement, Pyongyang described the sanctions as the "vile product" of U.S. policy in the region, adding that it would also begin work enriching uranium as it sought to build up stocks of fissile material for its nuclear weapons program.
North Korea is thought to have approximately 8,000 spent plutonium fuel rods which, if reprocessed, could yield 6-8kg of high-grade plutonium, or enough to make at least one more nuclear bomb.
The sanctions have also authorized UN member-states to stop and search North Korean vessels on the high seas if they suspect they are carrying banned nuclear or missile components, a measure that has drawn particular ire from Pyongyang.
North Korea replied that any attempt to blockade its ships would be regarded "as an act of war and met with a decisive military response", and promised to meet any such aggression with "all-out confrontation".
