Yea North Korea is starving. Where else do you get TV shows on how to make potato pancakes with grass filling? That's if you're lucky to have electricity and a TV.ncc6206 wrote:
Can't use embargos or starve them either. They are already undergoing that.
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But the US also knows that Pyeongyang has enough conventional weapons pointed at Seoul - one of the industrial world's most densely populated cities - to cause millions of casualties in the first 1/2 hour of bombardment.King_County_Downy wrote:
North Korea is small enough to be carpet bombed in 2 days. They know this.
That would be blood on the hands of the US were we to attempt a pre-emptive strike.Willis Stanley - National Institute for Public Policy wrote:
The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) is poised, not for a war of attrition using irregular forces like the Viet Cong, but for a lightning strike that leaves them in possession of the peninsula in a matter of weeks. Supporting that intent is the forward deployment of a vast conventional force and (at least) chemical weapons. The DPRK has amassed an imposing military force over 1 million persons strong with a reserve of over 7 million. Over seventy percent of the DPRK's active duty ground troops are stationed within about 145 kilometers of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North and South. More worrisome are the DPRK's estimated 12,000 artillery tubes and 2,300 multiple rocket launchers that, from their current emplacements, are capable of raining 500,000 shells per hour on U.S. and South Korean troops. 500 long-range artillery pieces are able to target Seoul, a mere 40 kilometers from the DMZ.
North Korea won't nuke South Korea. They view them as being oppressed by the Americans and want to liberate them, which is why South Korea wants the US to leave as they feels that it is antagonising the issue. It also leads to tension with Japan (or rather, increases tension with Japan after WWII and even earlier).Hellogoodsir wrote:
Just think about all them South Koreans and what will happen to leaderboards on games all over. Hope they don't get nuked first.
Actually, I think you'd be more likely to see it annexed by China, which could create whole new problems.............Pubic wrote:
If NK launches a nuke they'll be flattened, I imagine the US would do most of the work, but even vehmently anti-US countries would be behind them simply because NK launched a nuke and NOBODY wants to see another mushroom cloud.
You tried. You failed.Miller wrote:
We should've dealt with North Korea long ago.
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Mr.H@x0r wrote:
shit were gona DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
_-_911_-_180891 wrote:
Mr.H@x0r wrote:
shit were gona DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Actually, I think you'd be more likely to see it annexed by China, which could create whole new problems.............Pubic wrote:
If NK launches a nuke they'll be flattened, I imagine the US would do most of the work, but even vehmently anti-US countries would be behind them simply because NK launched a nuke and NOBODY wants to see another mushroom cloud.
and we know if they do, they'd be jumped by soo many forces its not funny.Bubbalo wrote:
The worry is that they'll send chemical/biological weapons flying Japan's way.
You manage to miss the point entirely:TheDoctor wrote:
and we know if they do, they'd be jumped by soo many forces its not funny.
hmmm you have a point there. (correct me if i am wrong) Nuclear weapons is not the only threat NK holds. It also holds the threat of invading SK.Bubbalo wrote:
You manage to miss the point entirely:TheDoctor wrote:
and we know if they do, they'd be jumped by soo many forces its not funny.
People get so hung up on words like "terrorist" and "nuclear" that they miss the actualy threats.
