IMF Emergency Action Signals Imminent Threat to International Monetary System

According to Dow Jones the "International Monetary Fund will likely re-activate a $580 billion resource pool in coming weeks to ensure it has funds to help cover Europe's worsening sovereign-debt crisis, according to several people close to the matter." Why is this a big flashing red light? "According to the IMF, the pool of supplementaryresources are only to be activated when "needed to forestall or cope with a threat to the international monetary system."