N.Korea, this aint looking good

[Tac]

The real thread NK has is not atomics but conventional artillery. The one that is aimed at Seoul.


Yes, lil' Jim rattles his nukes to get the media attention and get money in return. However the true threat are the thousand of high caliber artillery pieces that will blast the S.K. capital to rubble in a matter of minutes, at a moments notice.

You got to give credit to the NK's though... they keep the conventional threat while building and developing the nuclear one. A prime example to any other nation wanting to gain immunity from UN / US / NATO influence or retaliation. This is why I believe that the UN should get off its bellybutton and understand that action now prevents holocaust later. Sadly though, the UN is useless.

[Nemisis]

The U.N. is too lenient many times but the have their uses...like being the scapegoat if a Holocaust does happen it can't be anyones but the U.N.'s fault for not seeing the build up.

[Roundeye]

They must not teach world history in North Korea.  He clearly does not understand what happened to the last country that attacked the US....which happens to be the same (and only) country in history that got atomic/nuclear weapons used on it.  The US is the only country in history to have actually used atomic/nuclear weapons in anger.



Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1942:

 "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." 

This same giant is now wide awake....and pissed off.

[CHAPPY]

^^^^
 

[antivortex]

The U.N. is too lenient many times but the have their uses...like being the scapegoat if a Holocaust does happen it can't be anyones but the U.N.'s fault for not seeing the build up.

Send the U.N. to Brussels and N.A.T.O. to New York...

[Vulcan]

NK is like the bum on the street corner you give a buck too to put his pants back on. Nobodies really scared, we just don't want see the family jewels strung out and no one wants to touch him for fear of catching something bad.

[kilo2]

The Conventional threat to Sk is really the one thing that should worry anyone. Oh and the U.S. is still at war with NK (technically)

[Nemisis]

Nice, now we don't have to worry about a decleration or any of that legal crap. And SK MIGHT have to worry about nukes, probably after testing a few of them then NK will be flat broke though.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1942:

 "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." 

This same giant is now wide awake....and pissed off.

Go pissed of giant!!! Smash the crap out of NK and the other idiot countries that have threatend us with nukes.

[sntslilhlpr6601]

I just hope that NATO will allow us to use our nukes on N. Korea, and finally get this over with. I honestly don't want to have to fight them again, and this really has to end. We have been doing this for 50 years now with them, I don't feel like losing many more American lives there, so launch the Nuke please.

As much as I want to agree with you I don't think that nukes should ever be used again (on this planet, anyway), and I don't think they will. I want to wipe out NK as much as anyone but nuking them is just a bad idea for many reasons.

If NK does pull something stupid we will probably bomb the crap out of their military hardware with conventional weapons and invade. My only fear is that the civilians of NK will die fighting rather than be liberated because of their brainwashing. Those poor people have no idea how pathetic their country really is. No contact with the outside world, no information, no nothing. All they know is propaganda.

I'd rather we didn't have to lose more lives with another war but using nuclear weapons again would open up a whole new can of worms.

[thedudee95]

THere will always be civillian casualties in war. It is unavoidable.

[Ack-Ack]

I agree Bosco, it HAS to end. And as long as we are afraid to use our power (armed forces and nukes) and throw out weight around, then little countries like NK will continue to think that just because they have nukes and can launch outdated missiles, they can bully us and make us afraid of them. About the only countries that aren't allied with us (and I mean really allied with us, not just saying they are friends and planing to backstab us) that could pose a threat to us are China as they are a nuclear country and rather large modern army (not as good as ours, not by a mile, but still) and Russia (nuclear country and have lots of people to join the army if not necessarily IN the army)

I think the fact that there are over 100,000 NK artillery pieces along the DMZ all well within firing range on Seoul and all capable of firing both conventional and chemical artillery rounds is enough to keep from going in Rambo style.  Especially with over half the population of S.Korea living in or near Seoul and that in the first opening minutes of any war with NK, there will be over a million artillery shells fired at Seoul within the first hour.  Imagine what a million rounds of conventional and chemical shells will do to Seoul and half the population.


ack-ack

[eagl]

See Rule #14

[Simaril]

NK is like the bum on the street corner you give a buck too to put his pants back on. Nobodies really scared, we just don't want see the family jewels strung out and no one wants to touch him for fear of catching something bad.

Pretty much sums it up.

Meanwhile, some of you guys watch too much "Hyperventilation Today News" shows on TV. And don't pay attention to recent political history.

NK is almost totally isolated (China gives them money only to keep NK refugees from flooding into china). Like the annoying suburban neighborhood kid, NK will keep doing anything to get attention....because when they don't feel important unless people are worrying about them. On the other hand, the last time NK was really WORRIED about intervention (right after the invasion of Iraq), they were quiet well behaved little mice.

[Nemisis]

See Rule #14

[Skuzzy]

Folks, in case you have forgotten.  Any mention of anything based on politics is an automatic suspension from the board for up to a week.  Just thought I might remind you.