Is it time to nuke north korea?

[Joe Molotov]

lol, preemptive nuclear strike on the US in 3 days time apparently.

[Cerveza mas fina]

How would they even feed 150,000 hostages?

They're obviously taking these hostages to feed to their population

 

lol, preemptive nuclear strike on the US in 3 days time apparently.

Gun in mouth, they are about to turn their country into the worlds most radioactive car park.

Their rockets can't even fly over Japan. Are they gonna post pigeon these nukes?

[chronovore]

They're just going to use South Korea's postal service.

[DCharlieJP]

40k US/S korean troops on the border just , you know, doing drills and sh1t - nothing unusually. Good chance N Korea are going to take that the wrong way.

World War Three coming up

[Cormacaroni]

calling Rodman

[Phoenix Dark]

Part of this is him showing the NK military command that he's like his father, but you  can only sabre rattle for so long before your words become worthless. Likewise SK's new president seems quite adamant on not taking any shit. So if Lil Kim wants to bomb that small fishing island like his dad did then who knows what will happen.

Ultimately NK has a good scam going on and should be able to keep it going; drug money keeps the high class families living well while everyone else starves. I agree that Kim likely won't fuck all that up. But whereas his father actually saw war close up and knew the power of the US/Nato/etc, Lil Kim apparently has no fucking idea. He's been brainwashed from day one and surrounded by idiots. That's a dangerous mix.

[Huff]

Just watched the new red dawn. I'm ready to pre empt their pre empt.

[drew]

I wish I could have pre empted that movie with a missile or two of my own.

[Huff]

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/28/north-korea-readying-rockets-to-aim-at-u-s-targets/

here we go?

[drew]

Star Wars will save us!

[DCharlieJP]

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/28/north-korea-readying-rockets-to-aim-at-u-s-targets/

here we go?

I just wonder if the US is chatting to China and giving them reassurances that any armed conflict will not result in them setting up a base in N Korea - perhaps even cooperation on control of the region?

Meanwhile, Russia upping military prepared-ness and China sabre rattling with Japan and just about everyone else over absolutely everything they can. WW3 is but a few stupid choices away.

[Boogie]

Ultimately NK has a good scam going on and should be able to keep it going; drug money keeps the high class families living well while everyone else starves.

bwuh, what?  Drug money?  From North Korea?

[Joe Molotov]

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/28/north-korea-readying-rockets-to-aim-at-u-s-targets/

here we go?

Still calling bullshit. DPRK ain't gonna do shit cuz they ain't got shit.

[Barry Egan]

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/28/north-korea-readying-rockets-to-aim-at-u-s-targets/

here we go?

Still calling bullshit. DPRK ain't gonna do sh(Image removed from quote.)

[Cerveza mas fina]

Maybe they are just readying fireworks for North Korean new year.

[Brehvolution]

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/28/north-korea-readying-rockets-to-aim-at-u-s-targets/

here we go?

[nudemacusers]

They're just going to use South Korea's postal service.

If that's the case, those nukes are gonna get banged up and flattened during shipment.

[Mr. Gundam]

Watching the local news in Seattle this morning and they were talking about the Nimitz being deployed into the Pacific until Fall. Yep, on the way.

[Don Flamenco]

calling Rodman

This is Rodman's calling in life.  Ambassador of Peace between NK and the U.S.

[Momo]

I'll take good care of the forum after all you guys are dead, god bless you all 

[Joe Molotov]

If there was a strong wind blowing out, DPRK couldn't hit any farther than the east coast, so only the Seattle Shat Pack would be wiped out. Sounds like a win-win situation.  :crazybron

[Himu]

40k US/S korean troops on the border just , you know, doing drills and sh1t - nothing unusually. Good chance N Korea are going to take that the wrong way.

World War Three coming up

correct me if i'm wrong but nk has no willing allies so how exactly would this go into ww3 if even china treats nk like the childhood friend who waves a lighter over his private parts at the bar?

[Mupepe]

40k US/S korean troops on the border just , you know, doing drills and sh1t - nothing unusually. Good chance N Korea are going to take that the wrong way.

World War Three coming up

correct me if i'm wrong but nk has no willing allies so how exactly would this go into ww3 if even china treats nk like the childhood friend who waves a lighter over his private parts at the bar?

You're assuming that if war was to break out that China and Russia would hold NK responsible.  They're both condemning the US as well for antagonizing NK.  Allowing the US to leave a footprint in NK complicates geopolitics in the East at a time when it's already getting tense from the US shifting their strategy to the Asia Pacific region. 

I'm not saying WW3 will necessarily happen from it.  And I think war is very unlikely despite the sabre rattling.  But shit will get very tense between the US, China and Russia as everyone decides who gets to exert their influence via the united Korean peninsula.

[Dickie Dee]

They're just going to use South Korea's postal service.

[Phoenix Dark]

State media: North Korea in 'state of war' with South, threatens to 'dissolve' U.S.

"Any issues regarding North and South will be treated in accordance to the state of war," the report said. "... The condition, which was neither war nor peace, has ended."

Saturday's report included a direct threat to the United States, while also asserting Pyongyang "will not limit (itself) to limited warfare but to all-out war and nuclear war."

"We will first target and dissolve mainland United States, Hawaii and Guam, and United States military based in South Korea. And the (South Korean presidential office) will be burned to the ground," the KCNA report said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/29/world/asia/north-korea-us-threats/index.html

A South Korean source says there’s been a sharp increase in personnel and vehicle movement at the North’s mid- and long-range missile sites as tension on the divided peninsula rises.

The revelation, which the Yonhap news agency attributes to an unidentified South Korean military official, came after North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered preparations for strategic rocket strikes on US targets following US stealth bomber training runs over South Korea.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/movement-at-nkoreas-missile-sites-source-20130329-2gyqj.html#ixzz2OzQl1hA2

[Joe Molotov]

North Korea has powerful acid missiles aimed right at the US.

[Huff]

Anyone else starting to build bomb shelters? Need help because I'm not exactly a Mr. Fix It kind of guy

[pickle]

Anyone else starting to build bomb shelters? Need help because I'm not exactly a Mr. Fix It kind of guy

Given the current state of North Korea's missile tech, I'd recommend you just buy a sturdy umbrella.

[Joe Molotov]

Every time I see this thread bumped, I think there's gonna be details about the west coast getting vaporized while I was playing Bioshock Infinite, but no.

[Madrun Badrun]

I feel your disapointment.

[Polari]

Every time I see this thread bumped, I think there's gonna be details about the west coast getting vaporized while I was playing Bioshock Infinite, but no.

I know that feel. Nothing's going to happen is it?

[Brehvolution]

Every time I see this thread bumped, I think there's gonna be details about the west coast getting vaporized while I was playing Bioshock Infinite, but no.

I know that feel. Nothing's going to happen is it?

No. Capitalists prefer stable markets.

[Barry Egan]

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2013/04/04/0200000000AEN20130404000100315.HTML

N. Korea vows actual military actions

SEOUL, April 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's military announced Thursday that it would take a series of military actions against the United States.

In a statement, the North's supreme military command said it is formally notifying the White House and the Pentagon that "reckless operations" involving cutting-edge nuclear weapons have been finally approved.

this is so weird. 

[ManaByte]

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/03/officials-to-take-whatever-precautions-needed-after-north-korea-threat/

Didn't the US say the farthest their missiles could reach is Hawaii?

[Boogie]

Well, that's nice of them to give advance warning and all.

[Flannel Boy]

Oh, North Korea. You so crazy.

[chronovore]

According to a Japanese news show, China is angry with the USA for "provoking" North Korea.

I was talking with my wife about this the other night, and this was the analogy I made for her: The world is a neighborhood block. In the middle of the street Li'l Kim is shouting obscenities and threatening violence against the neighbors. A group of teenagers and men go down and surround the kid. They're not doing anything, but they don't know whether or not to take him seriously. Meanwhile the old lady down the block, Mrs. China, is yelling from her upstairs window, "DON'T YOU DO ANYTHING TO THAT KID. LEAVE HIM ALONE. YOU ARE BOTHERING THAT KID."

Seriously, wtf.

[Flannel Boy]

An analogy both apt and hilarious.

[Phoenix Dark]

Isn't the China thing based off some anti-UN batshit dude's article?
http://freebeacon.com/border-patrol/

[Steve Contra]

China isn't down the street from NK, however.  They have the second most to lose from conflict with the regime, and in their eyes the status quo is much more preferable to any real response.

[chronovore]

Then grandma should tell the kid to STFU, come inside and avoid those big mean boys who don't like being threatened. Grandma knows you are a big tough boy, and here, have a brownie.

[chronovore]

I mean, this is the kid who has a soap box racer, and keeps shouting, "Come one, motherfuckers! Think you're cool? I will race your Trans Am and Camaro and Mustangs in this sports car of MY OWN CREATION! BEHOLD!"

[DCharlieJP]

This isn't the first time China have moved troops to their border - the point isn't to support NK, it's to stop the XX million starving refugees that would pour through the border if Kim Joung One decides to pull the trigger of the gun in his mouth.

IF this all kicks off the whole of the NK army is massed on the south border - i'd expect China to make an incursion in from the North to set up a buffer zone/land grab to prevent the US having a strategic base right on its door step. I can't see China wanting to get involved with the US - they might get a bit more angry with Japan over territory though whilst the US is distracted i guess.

I suspect though that China and the US are already discussing what will happen - today though NKorea have really stepped over the mark and i can't see any way back for them. Threatening the US is one thing, actively putting them on warning that they have rattified action to nuke them and spark a war? Yeah - that's not going to end well. The next US move is going to be interesting - i think the Kim family just fast tracked themselves down the Iraq/Libya route.

[chronovore]

I'm against war and, for that matter, regime engineering through accelerated Darwinism. But I am really hoping this leads to that little turd from a family of turds, royalty pretending to be communists, being flushed down the shitter.

[Trent Dole]

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/03/officials-to-take-whatever-precautions-needed-after-north-korea-threat/

Didn't the US say the farthest their missiles could reach is Hawaii?

Officials ‘Whatever’ After North Korea Threat

Headline fixed

[Phoenix Dark]

I still believe this is just Kim flexing for the military brass/command, and in a couple months he'll declare that NK has defeated the US/SK in a major conflict.

If he's not bluffing...thoughts/prayers for SK. I remember reading about a wargame from 2005 where a perfect US response would still result in at least 100,000 South Korean casualties. My only question: if North Korea were to launch a nuclear attack on South Korea, would the US respond with nuclear weapons? Even the most tactical nuclear attack would result in a shit ton of fallout and of course impact non-proliferation. I'd imagine such an extreme act on North Korea's part would have to be met with an overwhelming response, not just to disable the country's artillery/military but to send a message to the world.

Personally I think the US wouldn't use nukes, and instead use something like the MOAB.

[Smooth Groove]

According to a Japanese news show, China is angry with the USA for "provoking" North Korea.

I was talking with my wife about this the other night, and this was the analogy I made for her: The world is a neighborhood block. In the middle of the street Li'l Kim is shouting obscenities and threatening violence against the neighbors. A group of teenagers and men go down and surround the kid. They're not doing anything, but they don't know whether or not to take him seriously. Meanwhile the old lady down the block, Mrs. China, is yelling from her upstairs window, "DON'T YOU DO ANYTHING TO THAT KID. LEAVE HIM ALONE. YOU ARE BOTHERING THAT KID."

Seriously, wtf.

Why would anyone take Lil' Kim seriously?  She's just a fucking rapper.  Everyone knows rappers say dumb shit for shock value.

[Great Rumbler]

Personally I think the US wouldn't use nukes, and instead use something like the MOAB.

That's kinda my thinking, too. North Korea isn't the USSR, there's no need to respond to an NK nuke with nukes of our own, especially with lots of allied countries in the immediate vicinity.

[Cormacaroni]

Kim Jong Un's entry onto the world stage reminds me of that time I played Starcraft on battle.net

[Flannel Boy]

Kim Jong Un's entry onto the world stage reminds me of that time I played Starcraft on battle.net

Someone can't tell apart North Koreans and South Koreans.

[Phoenix Dark]

Un ling rushes every game, but doesn't reach the opponents base in time to do any damage

[Phoenix Dark]

North Korea seen moving mid-range missile to east coast: reports
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE93301S20130404?irpc=932

 

[Great Rumbler]

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a missile is a good guy with a missile.

[brawndolicious]

According to a Japanese news show, China is angry with the USA for "provoking" North Korea.

I was talking with my wife about this the other night, and this was the analogy I made for her: The world is a neighborhood block. In the middle of the street Li'l Kim is shouting obscenities and threatening violence against the neighbors. A group of teenagers and men go down and surround the kid. They're not doing anything, but they don't know whether or not to take him seriously. Meanwhile the old lady down the block, Mrs. China, is yelling from her upstairs window, "DON'T YOU DO ANYTHING TO THAT KID. LEAVE HIM ALONE. YOU ARE BOTHERING THAT KID."

Seriously, wtf.

It's more like the North and South are a couple where one partner (NK) is always threatening and sometimes even hitting the other (SK) and usually the rest of the block ignores it but one day you (the US) go over and say "STOP IT OR MAYBE I MIGHT JUST DO SOMETHING" and then China says you're being a provoker.

[Positive Touch]

the point is, a lot of people are going to die soon

[Positive Touch]

i would like to add that i really really hope that no one dies

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Nothing's going to happen.

Kim Jong Un is just showing how hardcore he is to the NK military.  If he didn't do something like this, due to his lack of credibility and respect, there probably would have been some military coup by now.

[Don Flamenco]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417407,00.asp


The headline is "Anonymous Hacks North Korean Twitter, Flickr Accounts"  but the story says they have people in NK and real internet set up in some spots, which seems like, oh, i dunno, a billion times bigger of a story. 

The part about the people of NK rising up is pretty stupid though and reveals that cute Anonymous naivete.   This is like telling Jews in a concentration camp to just fight back at the nazis. 

[Joe Molotov]

we are not terrorist, we are the good guys from the internet

[Phoenix Dark]

Nothing's going to happen.

Kim Jong Un is just showing how hardcore he is to the NK military.  If he didn't do something like this, due to his lack of credibility and respect, there probably would have been some military coup by now.

Can't link on my iPod right now but there was a report that an attempt was made on his life last year; it allegedly related to the demotion of a general.