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North Korea Declares War on the US
Sunday, March 31, 2013 11:39 PM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Monday, April 1, 2013 1:46 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Monday, April 1, 2013 7:11 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Monday, April 1, 2013 7:46 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:Reality check? North Korean parliamentary session shifts tone North Korea began its annual spring parliamentary session on Monday amid ongoing tensions in the region between Pyongyang, Seoul, and Washington. But in a sign that North Korea might be taking a more realistic approach than its belligerence would suggest, the ruling party declared that a stronger economy remained a top goal of the country, along with expanding its nuclear arsenal. In recent weeks, North Korea has kept up a steady stream of threats against the United States and South Korea, including plans to "cut off" hot lines to the South and to launch military strikes against the US mainland. Pyongyang has also proclaimed that it would never yield its nuclear weapons under any circumstances. But the parliamentary focus on economic reform suggests that the North may not be as obsessed with its own paranoia as its propaganda suggests. The Associated Press writes that "there has been a noticeable shift in North Korea's rhetoric to a message that seeks to balance efforts to turn around a moribund economy with nuclear development." Much more at http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2013/0401/Reality-check-North-Korean-parliamentary-session-shifts-tone?nav=87-frontpage-entryNineItem
Monday, April 1, 2013 8:09 AM
Monday, April 1, 2013 10:29 AM
HERO
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: I'm not sure what to think about this; their "threats" to US are laughable and have gone on forever, but they can make a mess over there, and that worries me. And I don't like seeing our own sabre rattlers being encouraged...
Monday, April 1, 2013 10:50 AM
Monday, April 1, 2013 11:59 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: Very unsettling. I realize we could level the country with conventional arms and sterilize them with nuclear ones, but it didn't get what it's gotten without significant, albeit clandestine, help. So, what are the goals of those other countries? A proxy war with the US? A chance to forge alliances? Selling arms and technology for profit? A lab to do things they couldn't do in their own countries? Touch NK and you touch them. And how will they respond?
Monday, April 1, 2013 12:03 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Hero: Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: I'm not sure what to think about this; their "threats" to US are laughable and have gone on forever, but they can make a mess over there, and that worries me. And I don't like seeing our own sabre rattlers being encouraged... After reading this thread its obvious that you people have not taken even five minutes to review the North Korean military position. If all out war broke out the North Koreans are in possession of one of the worlds largest and best trained armies. They have tons of chemical weapons and effective Soviet and Chinease made delivery systems. They have hundreds of aircraft, thousands of tanks. They have over 200,000 fanatical special forces whose training and readiness was once comparible (in their limited sphere of operation) to the Soviet Spetznaz units who trained them. They have hundreds of artillery pieces within firing range of the South Korean capital (which is one of the world's largest cities and home to the majority of the South Korean people).
Monday, April 1, 2013 12:28 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: The idea is to bleed us, of course.
Monday, April 1, 2013 3:09 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: The idea is to bleed us, of course. Ka-CHING! That's the sound my mind makes when it runs across something it thinks is a good idea. THANKS
Monday, April 1, 2013 3:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by Hero: Yadda-yadda-yadda... Sorry, but I've heard it all before. There was a time when we were being told all the same horror stories about Saddam's vaunted "Republican Guard", the elite of the elite troops, the best he had; why, to hear the generals tell the tale, these guys were ten feet tall and bulletproof. It wasn't true then, and it isn't true now.
Quote:Originally posted by Hero: Yadda-yadda-yadda... Sorry, but I've heard it all before. There was a time when we were being told all the same horror stories about Saddam's vaunted "Republican Guard", the elite of the elite troops, the best he had; why, to hear the generals tell the tale, these guys were ten feet tall and bulletproof. It wasn't true then, and it isn't true now.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:12 AM
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:39 AM
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 11:51 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: North Korea has been at war with South Korea and the U.S. for 60 years.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 2:49 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: North Korea has been at war with South Korea and the U.S. for 60 years. And this is the first time N. Korea has authorized a nuclear strike. But you're absolutely right. There's nothing here to fret over , at all. Just go about our business, and ignore lil'Un.
Thursday, April 4, 2013 11:35 AM
Thursday, April 4, 2013 11:37 AM
Thursday, April 4, 2013 7:57 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: Arms escalations, no matter how nutty the reason, have a history of turning nasty. I don't think this threat should be treated lightly.
Friday, April 5, 2013 2:03 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Oh, stop fretting & panicking.
Friday, April 5, 2013 3:43 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Oh, stop fretting & panicking. Worried someone might horn in on your schtick?
Friday, April 5, 2013 3:44 AM
Friday, April 5, 2013 2:20 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Oh, stop fretting & panicking. Worried someone might horn in on your schtick? Where did I do either ? And besides, it's only nuclear weapons. Duck and cover ? Got it. Oh wait... isn't that YOU who lives in the Austin TX area ?
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