North Korea threatens US with a pre-emptive nuclear strike.

illuz · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:12

http://news.sky.com/story/1061345/north-korea-threatens-us-with-nuclear-strike

Craziness, China have just pumped 76billion into their defenses too. I don't think anything will come of this, however if it does US won't stand for it. Crrrazzy.

Danthus · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:16

Does North Korea posses the capability to strike America.

Move along, it is all posturing.

Draeger · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:20

OldCoals said:
Move along, it is all posturing.

Yep. Wacky North Koreans. It's naughty, mouthy Ginger schoolkid syndrome again. Hey Korea - whatevers. Until your next crazy rhetoric appears next month....... :rolleyes:

Woden · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:20

I don't think North Korea has the ability to reach South Korea with it's nukes to be honest.

Oh Ed not again. · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:22

Little more detail here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21695887

estebanrey · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:24

Why do North Korea keep referring to the US as 'aggressors'? Are they actually doing anything to them?

It reminds me of when Liverpool fans keep saying Man Utd are their 'rivals' when in reality they pose no threat to them and United don't actually care about them.

Castiel · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:30

Its just rhetoric...if the media didn't pick it up then everyone would simply ignore the fools.

Kazz · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:34

I think NK have a higher chance of nuking themselves due to untested / crappy technology than a missile hitting the states.

Castiel · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:39

estebanrey said:
Why do North Korea keep referring to the US as 'aggressors'? Are they actually doing anything to them?.

The US operate a wide range of economic and political sanctions against North Korea, both sides have defaulted on an agreed framework to supply nuclear reactors to North Korea and it is the same old story of the US interfering in another countries policies due to ideological and political reasons....whether they are right to do so or not is another debate, but that is the reason why North Korea see the US as aggressors.

dacads · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:40

Didn't they also threaten to wipe out South Korea?

MasterPlan1 · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:46

Castiel said:
The US operate a wide range of economic and political sanctions against North Korea, both sides have defaulted on an agreed framework to supply nuclear reactors to North Korea and it is the same old story of the US interfering in another countries policies due to ideological and political reasons....whether they are right to do so or not is another debate, but that is the reason why North Korea see the US as aggressors.

They have thought themselves "at war" with the US since the Korean War.

MickeyFinns · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:54

Castiel said:
The US operate a wide range of economic and political sanctions against North Korea, both sides have defaulted on an agreed framework to supply nuclear reactors to North Korea and it is the same old story of the US interfering in another countries policies due to ideological and political reasons....whether they are right to do so or not is another debate, but that is the reason why North Korea see the US as aggressors.

Agreed. If anyone's looking for some good insight into the effect of the sanctions in NK checkout a book called "A capitalist in North Korea" by Felix Abt. He's a Swiss businessman who just got back from running a pharmaceutical company in Pyongyang for 7 years.

CREATIVE!11 · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:55

bunch of retards....

I really just think to myself, it's petty grow the **** up?

It's almost like dealing with a child...

McGray · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:58

estebanrey said:
It reminds me of when Liverpool fans keep saying Man Utd are their 'rivals' when in reality they pose no threat to them and United don't actually care about them.

Man U v Liverpool is probably the biggest rivalry in English football. :confused:

krooton · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:00

South Korea gave us Samsung and Gangnam Style.
North Korea gave us a humourous antagonist in Team America: World Police.

So like with most things, South is better

arknor · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:01

Rodman says the guy isn't a proper crazy guy maybe he's not all bad and things will slowly change

dacads · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:02

McGray said:
Man U v Liverpool is probably the biggest rivalry in English football.

Not anymore..Man ** fully star out swearing please ** *** have taken the so called rival spot

ubersonic · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:02

Castiel said:
The US operate a wide range of economic and political sanctions against North Korea, both sides have defaulted on an agreed framework to supply nuclear reactors to North Korea and it is the same old story of the US interfering in another countries policies due to ideological and political reasons....whether they are right to do so or not is another debate, but that is the reason why North Korea see the US as aggressors.

That and the US attacked them during the north/south Korean war.

*EDIT*

Wait a damn minute...

"An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry says the North will exercise its right for "pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the headquarters of the aggressors"."

So basically Sky got some info from an anonymous (possibly even fictional) source and now all the news outlets are doing a Chinese whispers /facepalm

MickeyFinns · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:05

estebanrey said:
Why do North Korea keep referring to the US as 'aggressors'? Are they actually doing anything to them?

They do quite a lot. If a Company sets up a North Korean subsidiary then their US subsidiary will be shut down. This puts off numerous companies investing in North Korea as the will lose their lucrative US investments.

What harm does this cause? Well North Korea is massively rich in various natural resources but they cannot afford (or get credit) to import the machinery to release and process these themselves. There are also various lucrative markets in North Korea that the government cannot afford to exploit (there is a very wealthy middle class of around 1 million people in North Korea).

Traditionally they would set up a partnership with a foreign company who supply the equipment (You can see an successful example of this in the Oracom/Koryolink partnership) but these sanctions make a lot of these arrangements difficult.

Stumble Bum · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:07

You know Man U fans are pathetic when they have to belittle Liverpool in a thread about North Korea.

Anyway back on topic, it's the usual posturing by NK to seem important on the world stage. Happens every so often.