

Nuclear strike?
#1
Posted 07 March 2013 - 12:03 PM
but,
it seems a first to me...
' North Korea has accused the United States of using military drills in South Korea as a launch pad for a nuclear war and has scrapped the armistice with Washington that ended hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War.
North Korea, which has one major ally, neighboring China, threatens the United States and its "puppet," South Korea, on an almost daily basis.
"Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest," the North's foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency. '
http://www.reuters.c...E9260BR20130307
Yeah they threat every month; but seems to me, is this the first time any country has actually, I mean can you IMAGINE, a country in th e modern age threatening a pre emptive nuclear strike? Countries just don't talk like that in the modern era; when did the US or Soviets ever actually do that in the sixties and seventies since the Cuba crisis of 1961?
#2
Posted 07 March 2013 - 12:18 PM
offworlder, on 07 March 2013 - 12:03 PM, said:
North Korea hardly counts as modern. The tendency of their leaders to blow quite this hard is more than a little bit annoying.

The once and future Nonny
"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world." Can anyone tell me who I am quoting? I found this with no attribution.
Fatal miscarriages are forever.
Stupid is stupid, this I believe. And ignorance is the worst kind of stupid, since ignorance is a choice. Suzanne Brockmann
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings. Diderot
#3
Posted 07 March 2013 - 12:21 PM
#4
Posted 07 March 2013 - 01:00 PM
Mikoto, on 07 March 2013 - 12:21 PM, said:
That's pretty much the only context that anything they say makes sense at all. And how sad for the people.

The once and future Nonny
"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world." Can anyone tell me who I am quoting? I found this with no attribution.
Fatal miscarriages are forever.
Stupid is stupid, this I believe. And ignorance is the worst kind of stupid, since ignorance is a choice. Suzanne Brockmann
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings. Diderot
#5
Posted 08 March 2013 - 09:16 AM
The Boscombe Valley Mystery: "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Art,' 1841
"Such welcome and unwelcome things at once, 'Tis hard to reconcile." --- Macbeth IV.III.138-9
LauraBertram.net
"Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived." -- Sylvester Stallone
Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes...Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears4Fears
#6
Posted 01 April 2013 - 07:24 PM
"Harry S. Truman said that he felt like a bale of hay fell on him.
I feel like I got the whole damn barn."
Darren "Condor" McGavin - "By Dawn's Early Light"
HBO TV Movie - 1990
*** (Click here to view my signature) ***
"A pound of supplies taken from your enemy is worth 10 pounds of your own supplies"
Sun Tzu "The Art of War"
#7
Posted 01 April 2013 - 09:20 PM
There have been recent cases where *Western* media has presented video game footage as "real combat".
"ITV apologises after video game footage used in documentary" [UK]
"Danish TV news report mistakenly uses video game screenshot for Syria story [Denmark]
Edited by Orpheus, 01 April 2013 - 09:28 PM.
added examples
#8
Posted 02 April 2013 - 01:05 PM
#9
Posted 02 April 2013 - 02:52 PM
Mikoto, on 02 April 2013 - 01:05 PM, said:
there is a new piece on several of th e press yesterday, pick U fave site, Intel expert says we should worry a bit more than we are?
I wonder though, about this what if: North is aware of US penchant for apropos equal level response, not 'nuke the planet from offsite' as the movies > so what if they think, if it's even possible yet for them, if they hit Guam and Kauai, expecting we will do equal level only, so like we'd hit Woonsan or whatever the hell city on their east coast, limited level, how many pop are ours, and their city, say a million total ea.? and they care only bout their lifestyles not their own people, they freaked when the new sanctions hit their buying of lux goods N lifestyles, comforts, right?
so we suffer the loss of folk, and the guilt bout hitting their 'innocent' people not the leading clans who are mostly protected> so we have a double suffer, and they carenot one whit for their loss of Woonsan folk or whatever> so they get a big trump on us?
Now,
I'm not saying this could even be; OR that US would necessarily react that way> but what if> ar e they scenario-ing this to be this way? then they half-win, and we double suffer, and they rant and laugh and parade and posture, oh they won a battle over the evil Satan, U.S. - right?
#10
Posted 02 April 2013 - 06:20 PM





#11
Posted 02 April 2013 - 07:52 PM
The Syrian reactor that was bombed a while back reportedly had Nork technicians on site.
There comes a time when a neighbor must be dealt with, even a distant one if they make enough noise.
#12
Posted 02 April 2013 - 08:27 PM
That any US sub patrolling the area could take them out easily. But it's just what I read.
#13
Posted 02 April 2013 - 09:07 PM
The horrors!
#14
Posted 04 April 2013 - 03:36 PM
QT
Een Draght Mackt Maght
#15
Posted 04 April 2013 - 03:52 PM
#16
Posted 04 April 2013 - 04:26 PM
RJDiogenes, on 02 April 2013 - 06:20 PM, said:
Maybe, but it wouldn't be much comfort to those who had been nuked. NK probably can't reach continental US, but South Korea? Japan? Those it could quite possibly reach.
Defy Gravity!
The Doctor: The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous and sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles... and that's a theory. Nine hundred years and I've never seen one yet, but this will do me.
#17
Posted 04 April 2013 - 05:03 PM
Quote
#18
Posted 04 April 2013 - 07:34 PM
#19
Posted 04 April 2013 - 08:03 PM
Mikoto, on 04 April 2013 - 07:34 PM, said:
NK is China's client state. China must prop up NK to avoid millions of starving refugees from becoming China's humanitarian problem.
While China might enjoy NK aggression being a thorn in the side of the western powers, it isn't worth war.
But again, NK striking militarily isn't the only harm of concern. Proliferation, counterfeiting, and narc o-trafficing are their bread and butter.
#20
Posted 05 April 2013 - 06:24 AM
In recent years china has gone from blocking sanctions (using its veto on the security council) to letting them happen to finally co-sponsoring the sanctions with the US. Their trajectory is clear. Their patience with the house of Kim is growing as thin as everyone else's..
Darth's point about the refugees is well taken but in a scenario where that is going to happen regardless - in a situation where NK has already made a preemptive strike with WMDs - I think China would opt to take direct and massive action against them rather than sit by while the US does so. It's their sphere of influence and they will defend it by whatever means necessary. Letting the US go to war on their border in 2013 is unthinkable for them.
Quote
Also tagged with one or more of these keywords: 2013, UN sanctions, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons
Discuss →
Orbis Terrarum →
ACA updatesStarted by Guest-Spectacles-Guest , 29 Dec 2013 ![]() |
|
![]()
|
||
Discuss →
Orbis Terrarum →
our December window on Asia,Started by Guest-offworlder-Guest , 26 Dec 2013 ![]() |
|
![]()
|
||
Discuss →
Orbis Terrarum →
Utah uses massive resistance re: same sex marriagesStarted by Guest-Cait-Guest , 23 Dec 2013 ![]() |
|
![]()
|
||
Discuss →
Orbis Terrarum →
2013 Darwin awardsStarted by Guest-Cait-Guest , 21 Dec 2013 ![]() |
|
![]()
|
||
Discuss →
Orbis Terrarum →
"We broke Iraq and we're still paying for it"Started by Guest-Spectacles-Guest , 17 Dec 2013 ![]() |
|
![]()
|
0 user(s) are browsing this forum
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users