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Karenna Awtry
 Post subject: smithereens
PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:48 pm 
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They're going to blow us all to fuck (can I say that) before we can say Iraq Special Section:
From AP:
North Korean ... state-run media
... criticized annual U.S.-
South Korean military exercises
that began Tuesday, saying they
were preparation for an attack.
The exercise, named Foal Eagle,
ends April 2.
"This Foal Eagle exercise is
escalating the danger of armed
clashes on the Korean Penin
sula," said Minju Joson, a North
Korean newspaper.
"If the eagle swoops down on
us, a nuclear war will break out
and it is clear that the whole
Korean nation will not escape
nuclear holocaust," said the
report, which was monitored by
South Korea's Yonhap news
agency.
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Phillip Blanchard
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:54 pm 
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Please: Keep your composure. Remember who you are and what you do.
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Karenna Awtry
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I'm composed. That was more of a comment on news judgment. Again, Iraq and Al Qaeda stories get front-page play in our tiny coastal S.C. paper, while N. Korea gets 6 inches on A4.
I comment with some humor that we will, in fact, be working diligently on the pre-planning of our Iraq war special section. Meantime, N. Korea is spitting nasty threats while its nasty little 5-megawatt generator is pumping out neutrons, or whatever nuclear generators pump out.
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