NK: South Will “Pay Dearly” if Sanctions Implemented

With South Korea toying with the idea of implementing increased UN sanctions against North Korea, Pyongyang has come out and threatened South Korea in usual Nork rhetoric fashion:

North Korea warned Wednesday if South Korea joins U.S.-led sanctions against the Stalinist country, it will regard it as “a declaration of confrontation.” The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said it will treat South Korean cooperation with a UN resolution sanctioning the North as “a declaration of confrontation against its own people” and a negation of the 2000 Joint Statement by former president Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il “and take corresponding measures.” “The South will bear the entire responsibility and pay dearly if international sanctions it backs have destructive results for inter-Korean relations,” a committee spokesman said in a statement.

I tend to agree with Dr. Lankov that the South Koreans will only implement sanctions to a degree to where it appears they are doing something to get international pressure off of them, but not enough of anything that effects or changes the current situation.  Think of it like the Korean Zaytun unit in Iraq, they are just there as a symbolic presence and have no real value, that is what I expect any South Korean sanctions against North Korea to be, symbolic and with no real value.

However, I do wish that for once that somebody in South Korean government, even if they are only planning symbolic sanctions, would just get some balls and tell the Norks after one of their rhetorical attacks to go F__k Off!