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Trurl

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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #120 on: April 04, 2013, 12:47:18 PM »
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.
My main concern is that someone who takes this brinksmanship seriously will find himself in the position to do something.  A lot of Republicans seemed to want to hold the line on the debt ceiling.  Is the NK that much more rational than Republicans?

But yeah, while I might be a little worried if I lived in SK, I can't imagine NK doing anything apart from some accident.

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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #121 on: April 04, 2013, 04:46:17 PM »
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #122 on: April 04, 2013, 05:14:35 PM »
pffft hahahaha
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #123 on: April 04, 2013, 05:23:38 PM »
North Korea is like the Nintendo of rogue states.

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yup
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #124 on: April 04, 2013, 05:35:18 PM »
North Korea is like the Nintendo of rogue states.

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yup


inferior hardware, the art style hasn't budged an inch in years, and they keep relying on the same old mascots to win the favor of the people.

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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #125 on: April 04, 2013, 05:36:17 PM »
Good lord.
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #126 on: April 04, 2013, 05:51:46 PM »
North Korea is like the Nintendo of rogue states.

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yup


inferior hardware, the art style hasn't budged an inch in years, and they keep relying on the same old mascots to win the favor of the people.
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #127 on: April 04, 2013, 06:04:36 PM »
North Korea is like the Nintendo of rogue states.

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yup


inferior hardware, the art style hasn't budged an inch in years, and they keep relying on the same old mascots to win the favor of the people.

 :dead
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #128 on: April 04, 2013, 10:31:26 PM »
Yeah a country with nuclear weapons can't get any of them digital cameras. It's probably a regular citizen who had a hand-me-down, or maybe it's one of them NK agitprop dudes trying to go all Robert Rodriguez but can't afford the post-processing.

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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #129 on: April 05, 2013, 04:30:44 AM »
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Unless North Korea wants to be annihilated, its leadership has to find a way to climb down from its current wave of provocative rhetoric. But one of the CIA’s former top Pyongyang analysts thinks dictator Kim Jong-un will order a limited strike on South Korea — as a way to actually tamp down hostilities.

“North Korea will launch an attack,” predicts Sue Mi Terry, a Columbia University professor who served as a senior analyst on North Korea at the CIA from 2001 to 2008. The attack won’t be nuclear, she thinks, nor will it be a barrage from the massive amounts of artillery Pyongyang has aimed south.


Instead, Terry believes, “it will be something sneaky and creative and hard to definitively trace back to North Korea to avoid international condemnation and immediate retaliation from Washington or Seoul.” This, she thinks, is what counts as de-escalation in 2013 from the new regime in Pyongyang: a relatively small attack that won’t leave many people dead.

North Korea’s bluster waxes and wanes so often that it’s hard to know what to take seriously. But in recent years, North Korea has shown a willingness to follow its rhetoric with actual violence. In March 2010, it sunk the South Korean corvette Cheonan, killing 46 sailors. That November, Pyongyang attacked the island of Yeonpyeongdo during a U.S.-South Korea military exercise. Today, it moved an intermediate-range missile to its east coast, seemingly a feint at Japan.

“Something like Cheonan is more likely than an artillery strike like the November 2010 shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, because it lessens the chance of a definite retaliatory strike by the South,” Terry assesses.

You might not know it from the American debate about North Korea, but Pyongyang has to strike a difficult balance. Regime survival is the top priority of the militaristic nation, Terry believes, so it’s got to signal strength to its own populace while not provoking either the South or the U.S. into a devastating war. “An all-out war with South Korea would spell the end of the North Korean regime,” she says. “Pyongyang knows this and wants to avoid it.”

That right there points to the dangers of miscalculation. South Korea didn’t respond to the Cheonan. But new president Park Geun Hee is “determined not to echo that weakness and has vowed a strong response to any direct provocation,” writes regional expert Patrick Cronin. Terry thinks President Obama will restrain South Korea from a major reprisal — and she wouldn’t “bomb Pyongyang” in any case — but Washington “won’t be making any significant gestures to the North,” either.

The Obama administration’s goal seems to be to give North Korea diplomatic room to climb down without making substantive concessions. It’s sent bombers, fighter jets and guided-missile destroyers to the Korean peninsula, and ordered a missile-defense system to Guam. But, as the Wall Street Journal reported, the administration is “dialing back the aggressive posture” so Pyongyang doesn’t think an attack is the only way the current tensions can end.

North Korea tends to bluster about attacks it can’t deliver, against foes that could destroy it — albeit at terrible cost, measured in Korean lives. And intelligence assessments are hardly crystal balls.

But if Terry’s assessment proves accurate, the erratic standoff might get worse before it gets better. “While Washington and Seoul tries to figure out next steps, the North will then engage in a ‘peace offensive’, after a deadly attack, to pressure Washington and Seoul to return to [diplomatic] talks,” she says. But it’s hard to predict either capitol’s willingness to talk if the North starts firing its weapons.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/north-korea-climbdown/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co

Mirrors my thoughts. Who knows what South Korea would do in this case, or whether the US could convince them to back down.
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #130 on: April 05, 2013, 10:14:42 AM »
North Korea is like the Nintendo of rogue states.

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yup


inferior hardware, the art style hasn't budged an inch in years, and they keep relying on the same old mascots to win the favor of the people.
Fanbase in thrall to an obviously crazy Asian

Their bodies are ready (for food).
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #131 on: April 05, 2013, 10:22:37 AM »
North Korea is like the Nintendo of rogue states.

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yup


inferior hardware, the art style hasn't budged an inch in years, and they keep relying on the same old mascots to win the favor of the people.

:rofl :rofl :rofl

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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #132 on: April 27, 2013, 12:42:04 PM »
I didn't realize an american was arrested in NK:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22320287


he's so dead  :(

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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #133 on: April 27, 2013, 12:57:58 PM »
Nah, North Korea will keep him around for when they want something from the US.
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #134 on: April 27, 2013, 03:44:05 PM »
North Korea is so last month.
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #135 on: April 28, 2013, 11:07:57 PM »
Yeah, we need to uh, purge Russia of tarist Strokes lookalikes now ???
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #136 on: April 28, 2013, 11:13:23 PM »
yea it's funny how quickly N Korea fell out of our minds. It was a wrap after Taco Bell blessed us with cool ranch dorito tacos :rejoice
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #137 on: April 29, 2013, 12:03:35 AM »
It was the Boston Bombing :ninja
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #138 on: April 29, 2013, 12:30:07 AM »
If DPRK converted to muslimism, then we might nuke them.
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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #139 on: April 30, 2013, 08:23:55 AM »
yea it's funny how quickly N Korea fell out of our minds. It was a wrap after Taco Bell blessed us with cool ranch dorito tacos :rejoice


If you think North Korea feels bad, imagine how Bradley Manning feels   :lol

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Re: Is it time to nuke north korea?
« Reply #140 on: April 30, 2013, 09:28:41 AM »
yea it's funny how quickly N Korea fell out of our minds. It was a wrap after Taco Bell blessed us with cool ranch dorito tacos :rejoice


If you think North Korea feels bad, imagine how Bradley Manning feels   :lol

He's gonna have a great year with the Broncos this season, you'll see.
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