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

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China and Russia have just nailed their colours to the mast when it comes to foreign powers intervening in the paths of development of other nation states, presumably including Syria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21911842

I can't see them getting involved tbh. Plenty of talk, little action. Neither country has anything to gain by taking on the US over insignificant pieces of land. Actually, they have a lot to gain by leaving the US to it.
 
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North Korea said on Tuesday its strategic rocket and long-range artillery units have been ordered to be combat ready, targeting U.S. military bases on Guam, Hawaii and mainland America after U.S. bombers flew sorties threatening the North.

So after America flew bombers over NK, NK react.

Why is this even news?

America is a hateful, greedy and selfish country.
 
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So after America flew bombers over NK, NK react.

Why is this even news?

America is a hateful, greedy and selfish country.

Way to generalise. When did they fly over North Korea?

I do agree with you on one aspect. Why is this news. North korea is all bluster and the occasional artillery strike. They know theyd be turned into smoking glass if they tried anything on a scale bigger than a single bi-yearly strike against a SK target.
 
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To be fair, the south korean and US joint military exercises are a HUGE provocation to the north and yet they continue doing them.
 
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Way to generalise. When did they fly over North Korea?

I do agree with you on one aspect. Why is this news. North korea is all bluster and the occasional artillery strike. They know theyd be turned into smoking glass if they tried anything on a scale bigger than a single bi-yearly strike against a SK target.

see someone here said flew over - which isnt true - do you really think nk would allow bombers to fly into their air space?
 
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America isn't a country! Do you also think Africa is a country too?

i'm all for grammar nazism and pointing out silliness but come on..its nothing at all like referring to africa as a country. 'America' is the well established colloquial name for the USA. Nobody thinks of Canada or Mexico or anywhere else when saying America.
 
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I kind of want something to happen like NK leadership and weapons getting smashed, if it leads to the North Korean civilians getting freedom and quality of life more like the South.
 
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"The North has already stopped responding to calls on the hotline to the US military that supervises the heavily armed Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)


"Under the situation where a war may break out at any moment, there is no need to keep north-south military communications which were laid between the militaries of both sides," the North's KCNA news agency quoted a military spokesman as saying.
"There do not exist any dialogue channel and communications means between the DPRK and the U.S. and between the north and the south."



So, has King Jong Pong Kong IIIIII not paid the phone bill then?
Back to baked bean tins and string like the rest of the country
 
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Why would I pay for a US SK strike on NK? I have not read anything about the UK getting involved?

Well you didnt say anything about who would do it :o but my point was that its not just the action of getting rid of the leadership, its dealing with north korea afterwards.

The costs involved would be absolutely astronomical. Which is part of the reason a lot of people are fine with the status quo, SK especially :o
 
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Half a century of major North Korean provocations

A timeline of North Korea's major provocations since the 1960s:

1960s

April 27, 1965: Two North Korean MiG-17s attack a U.S reconnaissance plane above the Sea of Japan. The aircraft is damaged.

Jan. 17,1968: A unit of the North Korean army disguised as South Korean soldiers crosses the DMZ in an attempt to kill South Korean President Park Chung Hee. The assassins make it to Blue House, the official residence of the president, but are stopped in a firefight. Twenty-eight members of the unit are killed.

Jan. 23, 1968: The U.S. Navy ship the USS Pueblo is boarded and captured, along with its crew, by North Korean forces in the Sea of Japan in North Korean waters. One sailor is killed in the attack. The 83 other crewmembers are held until Dec. 23.

Oct. 30,1968: A wave of more than 100 North Korean commandos begins landing on the northeast shore of South Korea to wage a guerrilla war against the South Korean government. A total of 110 commandos and 20 South Koreans are killed.

April 15,1969: A U.S. reconnaissance plane is shot down off the North Korean coast, killing 31 Americans.

1970s

June 5,1970: North Korean patrol boats seize a South Korean broadcast vessel with 20 crew on board.

Feb. 15,1974: North Korea sinks two South Korean fishing boats.


Aug. 18, 1976: Two U.S. officers cutting down a tree in the DMZ are killed with axes by North Korean troops.

1980s

March 1980: Three North Koreans are killed trying to cross the Han River.

July 1981: Three North Koreans are killed trying to cross the Imjin River.

November 1984: Nine North Korean soldiers and one South Korean soldier are killed in firefight after a Soviet man tries to escape into South Korea.

1990s

May 1992: Three Northern soldiers in South Korean uniforms are killed in Cheolwon, Gangwon-do.

December 1994: North Koreans shoot down U.S. Army helicopter, killing one American.

May 1995: North Korean forces fire on a South Korean fishing boat, killing three.

May 1996: Seven North Korean soldiers cross into the DMZ but return after warning shots are fired.

April 1997: Five North Korean soldiers cross the DMZ in Cheolwon, Gangwon-do, and fire on South Korean positions.

June 1997: Three North Korean vessels cross into South Korean territorial waters and attack South Korean boats. A unit of North Korean soldiers crosses the DMZ and are turned back in a firefight.

June 1999: Several clashes between North and South Korean vessels take place in the Yellow Sea near the border between the two countries.

2000s

June 29, 2002: North Korea vessels attack a South Korea naval ship, killing four South Korean sailors and sinking the vessel.

July 17, 2003: North and South Korean forces exchange fire at the DMZ.

Oct. 9, 2006: North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, in violation of international agreements it has signed.

May 25, 2009: North Korea conducts a second nuclear test, in violation of a U.N.Security Council resolution.

Nov. 10, 2009: Naval vessels from North and South Korea exchange fire near the border.

2010s

March 26, 2010: North Korea sinks the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan with a torpedo in the Yellow Sea. Forty-six sailors are killed.

Nov. 23, 2010: North Korea fires artillery shells at South Korea's Greater Yeonpyeong island in the Yellow Sea. Two South Korean marines and two South Korean civilians are killed, and dozens of houses are destroyed.

April 12, 2012: North Korea rocket launch fails, as rocket breaks apart.

Oct. 9, 2012: North Korea warns that the U.S. mainland is now within the "scope of strike" of its missiles.

Dec. 12, 2012: North Korea fires long-range missile and says it has launched a satellite into orbit.

Source: Congressional Research Service
 
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