North Korea threat getting serious! :eek:

Indeed, I wonder if anyone else is thinking we should give South Korea a nuclear bomb for a laugh?

At this point, nukes are their only leverage. And when their entire stockpile isn't enough to weigh up to even Fat Man...

good point.

The problems created by evil men are not easily remedied with whatever makes sense to everyone else.

North Korea's antics are increasing daily now.
Embassies in Pyongyang were asked to shutdown today, a sign that things could get extremely interesting soon? Or not....
I met with the head financial consultant for LGD on Friday. According to him all companies were asked on Monday to have a backup emergency plan in case a full on war or an armed conflict with the North were to occur. As you know S.K. has mandatory conscription and it would mean most companies staff would be sent to the front lines if they are below age 45.
Serious stuff!! Never in the history of SK has the Government issued this kind of Alert or request.

He wants a Nuke that can reach the US Mainland.......why don't we just send him one?? we can have it there in minutes :crackup:

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He wants a Nuke that can reach the US Mainland.......why don't we just send him one?? we can have it there in minutes :crackup:

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^^ Proper LOL'd at that.

<phone> "Yes Mr Un , it should be with you shortly, arriving on vector 54W/23S @ Mach 3.45" ....Mr Un?...Mr Un? <hangs up>

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^^ Proper LOL'd at that.

<phone> "Yes Mr Un , it should be with you shortly, arriving on vector 54W/23S @ Mach 3.45" ....Mr Un?...Mr Un? <hangs up>

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That'd be JongUn (JongEun actually), Mr.Kim (Kim is his family name)

This is a music video from Perfect Circle by James Maynard Keenan of Tool.
I am reminded that the lyrics are so relevant to NK vs SK and how things are being played up overseas in the Foreign press.

Seoul_lasers said:

North Korea's antics are increasing daily now.
Embassies in Pyongyang were asked to shutdown today, a sign that things could get extremely interesting soon? Or not....
I met with the head financial consultant for LGD on Friday. According to him all companies were asked on Monday to have a backup emergency plan in case a full on war or an armed conflict with the North were to occur. As you know S.K. has mandatory conscription and it would mean most companies staff would be sent to the front lines if they are below age 45.
Serious stuff!! Never in the history of SK has the Government issued this kind of Alert or request.

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"The United States of America provided 88% of the 341,000 international soldiers which aided South Korean forces in repelling the invasion, with twenty other countries of the United Nations offering assistance. Suffering severe casualties within the first two months, the defenders were pushed back to a small area in the south of the Korean Peninsula, known as the Pusan perimeter. A rapid U.N. counter-offensive then drove the North Koreans past the 38th Parallel and almost to the Yalu River, when the People's Republic of China (PRC) entered the war on the side of North Korea.[27] Chinese intervention forced the Southern-allied forces to retreat behind the 38th Parallel. While not directly committing forces to the conflict, the Soviet Union provided material aid to both the North Korean and Chinese armies. The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when the armistice agreement was signed. The agreement restored the border between the Koreas near the 38th Parallel and created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a 2.5-mile (4.0 km)-wide fortified buffer zone between the two Korean nations. Minor incidents still continue today."

-----------> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

So North Korea is going to do a missile launch test, and then another nuclear test. Both are going to receive condemnations; however, I don't think it's going to receive any more significant reactions.

I'm thinking that the next step up for NK will then be to perform an atmospheric nuclear test instead of an underground test. This will give North Korea: 1) visual propaganda in the form of a mushroom cloud to show the world and its people that it is nuclear capable, 2) cause detectable nuclear fallout that'll attract a lot of attention and show the widespread effects of the radiation, 3) still not be a provocation that would reasonably cause a war because it's still on its own soil. It would also be an excellent way to bring back memories of nuclear weapons to regional players such as Japan.

What remains to be seen is whether this would cause a very negative backlash from NK's ally China, especially if the radiation happens to drift into China. Having significant amounts of radiation go into South Korea would also not be good because that could be construed as an aggressive act of war.

So we'll have to see...

They will continue to have problems miniaturizing their warheads. It takes many many times more testing and cash than what they have spent so far.

Check out post #25. You can see their "secret weapon of ultimate american destruction" at the front of the navy flagship much better

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NK does not have the ability to do any damage to the powers of the world that have provided the sanctions that are slowly killing it. Just getting any one of the UN nations to lift the sanctions will provide NK with its desired outcome. Imagine if you could not get food or supplies to survive from other than your own country. How would you react if you had the ability to?

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Imagine if you could not get food or supplies to survive from other than your own country. How would you react if you had the ability to?

... I would spend the $ I usually wasted on ineffective weapons and spend it instead on developing my country's agriculture and manufacturing? :thinking: