North Korea In 'Early Phase Of All-Out Confrontation With US'

The Yongbyon complex nuclear facility, some100 km (60 miles)
north of Pyongyang, North Korea Photo: EPA

From The Telegraph:

North Korea has pledged to begin work "weaponising" plutonium to create another nuclear bomb as it delivered a furious response to a UN resolution ordering a fresh round of sanctions against the rogue Stalinist state.

The regime of the ailing dictator Kim Jong-il said it was now in the "early phase of all-out confrontation with the US" as it sought to raise tensions on the Korean Peninsular to dangerous new levels.

On Friday the Security Council ordered an almost-total arms embargo and a raft of strict financial sanctions against the North in punishment for its testing of a second nuclear device last month.

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My Comment: If this is the "early phase" ..... I would have to presume that the final phase is war.