This Week's Song

Weapons Of Mass Destruction?


It seems appropriate then, given the developments of the recent weeks in the Korean Penninsula that we post up this song this week. Words & Music by Chris a.k.a Pharmakeus. I played a bit of guitar and mixed the thing. Chela sang on it.

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Pyongyang Blues
While we're still on the subject of North Korea, I thought it interesting and hopelessly predictable that North Korea has reacted very negatively.

Calling the resolution a declaration of war, the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a sharp-tongued statement, ``We’ll closely monitor the United States’ acts and take appropriate steps.’’

``If any nation dares to menace our sovereignty and autonomy with an excuse of the U.N. Security Council’s resolution, they would be brutally and mercilessly punished,’’ it said.

The statement is the first official response from the communist state since the Security Council unanimously passed the resolution last weekend. The resolution bans the transfer of financial resources related to missile or other weapons of mass destruction programs to or from the reclusive North.

The statement claimed that the North’s nuclear test on Oct. 9 was a rightful, legitimate exercise for its self-defense capabilities as a sovereign state.

It warned that the United States should not miscalculate the outcome of such moves, saying that the communist state would not be defeated no matter how strict the sanctions the outside world imposes.

``It doesn’t make any sense if the DPRK, which has withstood countless hardships in the past, surrenders to the enemy due to the sneaky sanctions,’’ the statement said, while again reminding the world that the Stalinist country now holds its own nuclear weapons. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the official name of North Korea.

``We are willing to hold talks with the United States. But we are not afraid of a war, if necessary,’’ it said.

Yes, but the world doesn't want to talk to you until you lower your sticks of dynamite and remove your finger from the detonator switch. It's really hard talking the aggrived, wounded, hungry, rabid, aggressive crazy from the ledge.