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More in link apparently breaking newsNorth Korea's foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country and said Pyongyang had the right to shoot down US bombers.
Ri Yong-ho said this could apply even if the warplanes were not in North Korea's airspace.
The White House dismissed the statement as "absurd". The Pentagon warned Pyongyang to stop provocations.
A UN spokesman said fiery talk could lead to fatal misunderstandings.
Mr Ri's comments were a response to Mr Trump's tweet that the North Korean leadership would not "be around much longer" if they continued their rhetoric.
"The whole world should clearly remember it was the US who first declared war on our country," Mr Ri told reporters as he was leaving New York, where he had addressed the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
"Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make counter-measures, including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the airspace border of our country."
Mr Trump's tweet followed Mr Ri's fiery speech to the UN on Saturday, when he described the US president as a "mentally deranged person full of megalomania" on a "suicide mission".
Referring to Mr Trump's post, North Korea's minister said "the question of who won't be around much longer" would be answered by his country.
Mr Ri's remarks - not the first time that North Korea has used the phrase "a declaration of war" in relation to the US - are the latest in an increasingly angry war of words between the two countries.
His statement came two days after US warplanes flew close to North Korea's coast in a show of force.
Pentagon spokesman Col Robert Manning reacted by saying: "If North Korea does not stop their provocative actions, you know, we will make sure that we provide options to the president to deal with North Korea."
Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN Secretary General António Guterres, said: "Fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings."
"The only solution for this is a political solution," he added.
Despite weeks of tension, experts have played down the risk of direct conflict between the two.
North Korea has continued to carry out nuclear and ballistic missile tests in recent weeks, in defiance of successive rounds of UN sanctions.
The country's leaders say nuclear capabilities are its only deterrent against an outside world seeking to destroy it.
After the North's latest and most powerful nuclear test earlier this month, the UN Security Council approved new sanctions on the country.
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2017-09-25, 06:52 PM #1Deleted
North Korea accuses US of declaring war
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2017-09-25, 06:57 PM #2Elemental Lord
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I checked. No declaration of war from Congress. No bombs dropped. No troops on the ground. No war were declared.
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2017-09-25, 07:01 PM #3Banned
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Funny they used to say that only once a year, what a dramatic increase.
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2017-09-25, 07:06 PM #4I am Murloc!
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Don't worry NK, when the US declares war on you, you'll be so certain that you won't have to ask the question.
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2017-09-25, 07:08 PM #5Banned
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Don't worry North Korea. The US doesn't have the capacity to declare war on you at the moment without fucking itself. We've been busy spending the last 15 years treating terrorists as an existential threat and under-resourcing it. It caught up with us.
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2017-09-25, 07:09 PM #6Brewmaster
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No war declared, will only happen once NK launches a missile on anyone. Until it happens there is nothing.
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2017-09-25, 07:10 PM #7Void Lord
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Yeah Kim is going to keep trying aim for the third rail, simple as that.
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2017-09-25, 07:11 PM #8DeletedBut they are dangerous! US should strike first to finally give this region some rest. Almost the whole world would support them! Why waiting till NK is capable to destroy all of SK?
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2017-09-25, 07:13 PM #9Deleted
Someone please explain to Rocket Man that Orange Dump doesn't need to declare war, the Korean War never ended in the first place.
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2017-09-25, 07:15 PM #10Banned
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They already are. Originally Posted by Naadir
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2017-09-25, 07:23 PM #11Void Lord
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The White House dignifies this with a response, giving NK once again the trolling victory.
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2017-09-25, 07:24 PM #12Deleted
Inb4 the usual apologists defend Kim Jong Un.
Sickening
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2017-09-25, 07:24 PM #13Void Lord
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Oddly enough, not even Iraq. Either time. Originally Posted by tollshot
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2017-09-25, 07:28 PM #14Legendary!
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No one is defending Kim, we're just not willing to go to war. If we do go to war, I'm sure you'll enlist to defend your country. Right? Originally Posted by Soulslaver
Originally Posted by Mormolyce
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2017-09-25, 07:32 PM #15Immortal
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I notice a lot of you using the idea of the boy who cried wolf but that boy did not previously have a deliverable ICBM thermo nuclear weapon that could wipe Seoul off the map and kill hundreds of thousands of troops on the DMZ in under a day.
My feeling is this war goes thermo nuclear extremely quickly once that fuse is lit.
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2017-09-25, 07:34 PM #16Banned
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Nobody is defending this. But the United States is litterally going in the EXACT OPPOSITE DIRECTION of what your loser President keeps running his mouth over. Originally Posted by Soulslaver
The USS George H.W. Bush is about to be turned off for five years of overhauls.
The Navy is retiring two more Los Angeles class attack subs by the end of the year.
Half the B-2 bomber fleet will be grounded for the next 24 months (minimum) for upgrades.
Half the B-1B bomber fleet don't have their wings attached at the moment... they're undergoing major upgrades after being run into the ground bombing ISIS (nice use of resources, eh?)
The US Army? They've taken ownership of their first "Dragoon Stykers" which are going to Eastern Europe to ward off Russia (note: not South Korea).
The Air Force estimated it will take five years to rebuild its stockpile of 95,000 bombs it expended bombing ISIS (nice use of resources, eh) and until then it is scrounging for spare bombs.
The United States is about as much on "war footing" as Donald Trump is getting ready to run a marathon.
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2017-09-25, 07:39 PM #17Immortal
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I checked twitter and I saw the President of the United States threaten another country with a military strike. Originally Posted by Very Tired
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2017-09-25, 07:42 PM #18Pandaren Monk
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I thought we never actually got out of war with Korea
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2017-09-25, 07:46 PM #19Banned
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Nobody is defending this. But the United States is litterally going in the EXACT OPPOSITE DIRECTION of what your loser President keeps running his mouth over. Originally Posted by Soulslaver
The USS George H.W. Bush is about to be turned off for five years of overhauls.
The Navy is retiring two more Los Angeles class attack subs by the end of the year.
Half the B-2 bomber fleet will be grounded for the next 24 months (minimum) for upgrades.
Half the B-1B bomber fleet don't have their wings attached at the moment... they're undergoing major upgrades after being run into the ground bombing ISIS (nice use of resources, eh?)
The US Army? They've taken ownership of their first "Dragoon Stykers" which are going to Eastern Europe to ward off Russia (note: not South Korea).
The Air Force estimated it will take five years to rebuild its stockpile of 95,000 bombs it expended bombing ISIS (nice use of resources, eh) and until then it is scrounging for spare bombs.
The United States is about as much on "war footing" as Donald Trump is getting ready to run a marathon.
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2017-09-25, 07:53 PM #20Pit Lord
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Damn all that money into the defense budget and you managed to sum up the entire US arsenal in a couple statements. Originally Posted by Skroe
Oh well guess we gotta use ICBMs then since those are just laying around and ALL WE HAVE LEFT. North Korea is devoid of anything useful so it doesn't matter if it gets turned into a radioactive hellscape, right?
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