Activate Missle defense system.... "Go"

[Rolex]

I think this media hyping of a missile test launch is more dangerous than the test itself. A test is over in minutes, but the hype creates an atmosphere and perceptions that lingers on.

Just to be clear:

1. North Korea is breaking no treaty with a test lanch.
2. There are thousands of missiles from a lot of countries that can reach the US.
3. Missile tests happen all the time.
4. Whether North Korea has a workable fission device, or even a few, does anyone actually think that North Korea would actually lob a few of them at the US just for fun?


All this hype is nonsense - nonsense created in the media and promoted to the media to keep Americans in a state of constant fear.

Sure, North Korea is bad place for North Koreans, but don't you think it's natural for any country to get a little defensive when the president of the US calls it part of an "Axis of Evil" and attacks one country on the list, and threatens to attack the other?

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by SMIDSY
hahaha, oh they will launch. the question is: will we shoot it down? will we risk a war that will have a questionable outcome? i dont think we have will. i certainly hope not, because North Korea has a very large, dicaplined army and the largest submarine fleet in the world by a noticable margin.

They have 97 very old subs. 71 of them are mini-subs for minelaying and spec-ops. That diciplined army is not well fed nor does it have any good weapons (by western or South Korean standards). They do however have alot of it and if the soldiers are as diciplined as you say then maybe they could do some damage based on their numbers alone. The biggest problem is that they have an obsolete but huge ammount of artillery that could do serious damage to Seoul.