blog:It is the iron will and resolute stand
Impoverished North Korea has been angered by Lee’s policy of ending unconditional handouts
– once equal to about 5 percent of the North’s estimated $17 billion a year economy — and
instead linking aid to progress Pyongyang makes in ending the security threat it poses to
the region.”It is the iron will and resolute stand of the Korean People’s Army to go into
action anytime to mercilessly wipe out the aggressors,” the northern military official
said.The United States stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea to support its own
670,000 soldiers. The North has about 1.2 million troops but analysts say they are ill-
equipped and would be no match for U.S. and South Korean forces.The two Koreas are
technically still at war since no peace treaty was signed after their 1950-53 conflict.
