Kim Jong-Un is stable?
North Korea has just tested their first hydrogen bomb
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Kim Jong-Un is stable?
It's that time of the month again...
DPRK (Best Korea) say they have successfully tested a nuclear bomb causing a 5.3 magnitude earthquake.
Kim is happy!
New BF avatar incoming for me!
Not sure on that - by all accounts they exported a lot of their missile experience to Iran who've been perfecting it and communicating the lessons learnt back to NK (atleast that is what Israeli intelligence are claiming).
North Korea beyond artillery capability has relatively little chance of fighting a long and protracted war. The biggest concern is (according to my college day research) an estimated 50,000 rounds of artillery per hour could fire at Seoul.
Tens of thousands would die in a matter of hours.
Is Kim JongUn stable? Only I the regard that like his father he is all bluster. We can for the moment rely on him being stable to not act out his paroxysms.
I think I said what Tefal did a while ago in that threats and carrying out aggressive tactics are NOT in any way comparable to US actions. The closest I could tread to deliberate provocation would be the sub sinking a SK Naval vessel and a shelling of an island.
SK would after initial shocks soundly beat North Korea in any event of war.
Tens of thousands would die in a matter of hours.
Is Kim JongUn stable? Only I the regard that like his father he is all bluster. We can for the moment rely on him being stable to not act out his paroxysms.
I think I said what Tefal did a while ago in that threats and carrying out aggressive tactics are NOT in any way comparable to US actions. The closest I could tread to deliberate provocation would be the sub sinking a SK Naval vessel and a shelling of an island.
SK would after initial shocks soundly beat North Korea in any event of war.
Any nuclear weapon is devastating. I think we can all agree it would be preferable to have a thousand tonnes of TNT detonated than a 1kt atom bomb.
I maybe thing if NK does perfect their uranium capability and actually successfully tests a high yield bomb, then we would see the US/China/SK/Japan begin to panic, as it starts to tip the military scales in that area.
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It's like a game of civ 5....
Ghandi has denounced you for researching nuclear weapons.
Ghandi has nuked you.
Ghandi has denounced you for researching nuclear weapons.
Ghandi has nuked you.
You need to be careful you'll be getting a visit, remember the barber shop incident.
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I've never nuked anyone. Although I did get quite cross once at someone who couldn't spell my name correctly.
People have an emotional perspective of nuclear weapons with a huge fear of them versus conventional bombs - sure there will be some issues with fallout and thermal flash but modern kt range nukes are relatively contained in terms of wider/global environmental pollution.
One of the biggest issues for tipping the balance is that NK would be hell for any invading force while if they perfected and stockpiled nuclear missiles they could do a lot of damage. From what I recall while they have massive artillery capabilities on paper a lot would fall short of the city and/or suffer from reliability issues unless they made a push for closer positions.
And do what?
North Korea has been a fetid swamp for a long time, no-one does anything because there's nothing to be done that obviously makes things better. Despite the sabre rattling and the rhetoric North Korea is pretty much contained. They get into border squabbles with South Korea with occasional deaths but that's nothing compared to the blood bath a military conflict would kick off.
China's patience with North Korea has run thin and, in any case, they're hardly going to hand nukes over to them. Nukes are too potent to give out even to your allies and North Korea isn't much of an ally to China, more of an awkward nephew who keeps trying to look up girls skirts.
North Korea is a disaster area, of course, but that doesn't mean that it can't scrape together some decently educated scientists and put together a nuclear project. The US built the first bombs in the 40s, it's not like they need cutting edge technology to replicate it.
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Latest news from the states 
Hillary said "if he likes nukes so much we are planning to drop a few of ours off via a B2, just as soon as I get the codes"
Trump said "North Korea....? Well its ok, nothing to fear folks, the wall will keep them out, erm I mean in, have you seen their wall, its awesome"
Hillary said "if he likes nukes so much we are planning to drop a few of ours off via a B2, just as soon as I get the codes"
Trump said "North Korea....? Well its ok, nothing to fear folks, the wall will keep them out, erm I mean in, have you seen their wall, its awesome"
Ulterior motives my friend. Or, indeed, lack there of.
NK have (supposedly) buried a lot of their military infrastructure beyond the reach of regular ordinance and the terrain and dispersion of their forces doesn't tend to be favourable to the tactics normally employed by the US, etc. either (and the US has learnt some harsh lessons about fighting wars on unfavourable terrain).
The only case I think of where the possession (as opposed to use) of chemical weapons was used as an excuse for war was in the UK against Iraq.
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Funnily enough he is the most aggresive in civ.
Dude tosses out nukes on everyone like candy and declares war if you so much as touch his borders.
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Anybody know when a fresh delivery of freedom is being shipped first class to North Korea?
Or have we learnt that war solves nothing? At the very time when a mental dictator actually has "MAYBE" the potential to nuke a country close?
Yet we went in to Iraq based on a guess WMD's were there! And yet people still are convinced it wasn't to control the oil/Petrodollar LOLCAKES.
Or have we learnt that war solves nothing? At the very time when a mental dictator actually has "MAYBE" the potential to nuke a country close?
Yet we went in to Iraq based on a guess WMD's were there! And yet people still are convinced it wasn't to control the oil/Petrodollar LOLCAKES.