{"id":730465,"date":"2010-05-20T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/north-korea-warns-any-retaliation-will-lead-to-all-out-war-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-20T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:21:19","slug":"north-korea-warns-any-retaliation-for-the-cheonan-will-lead-to-all-out-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/730465","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Warns ANY Retaliation For The Cheonan Will Lead To All-Out War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bcdab427f8b9ae271430700-352-263\/lee-myung-bak-south-korea.jpg?resize=352%2C263\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lee Myung-bak south korea\" width=\"352\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Korea formally accused North Korea yesterday of torpedoing the Cheonan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/korea\">after two months of pussyfoot investigations and diplomacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea responded with more denials and counter-accusations (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/kim-myong-chol-blames-torpedo-attack-on-the-us-friendly-fire-2010-5\">blaming the attack on friendly fire from the US<\/a>) and this time threatened that &#8220;any retaliation would lead to an all-out war,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/world.globaltimes.cn\/asia-pacific\/2010-05\/533732.html\"><em>Global Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-il is playing this poker hand ruthlessly. His adversary Lee Myung-bak has already announced that retaliations would be limited to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/south-koreas-will-avenge-torpedoed-warship-by-banning-imports-of-sand-and-fish-2010-5\">ban on imports of sand and fish<\/a> and would involve no military action.<\/p>\n<p>Now war seems unlikely and sanctions may be off the table. What that means is that South Korea has a parasite problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-south-korean-economy-2010-3#south-korea-employment-situation-has-improved-1\">Here&#8217;s What You Need To Know About The South Korea Economy &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/north-korea-warns-any-retaliation-will-lead-to-all-out-war-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/1daQpr2mSW0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea formally accused North Korea yesterday of torpedoing the Cheonan, after two months of pussyfoot investigations and diplomacy. North Korea responded with more denials and counter-accusations (e.g. blaming the attack on friendly fire from the US) and this time threatened that &#8220;any retaliation would lead to an all-out war,&#8221; according to Global Times. Kim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-341H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}