Apart from willy waving.
North Korea
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Apart from willy waving.
But this is where Trump will back himself into a corner with his rhetoric, a bit like Obama did with his 'red line' to Assad. Trump said to NK if you keep doing this we will bring fire and fury like the world has never seen down on you.....well, they have kept doing it...
This is where recent developments with stuff like kn-09 makes things complex as they can launch an attack with minimal signs leading up (none the least easier to disguise than towed guns or self propelled artillery with their support vehicles) to an attack have a volley of rockets in flight and find cover in short order leaving a potentially very short period of time to detect them and start evacuating. Unlike the older artillery platforms where there would be more noticeable signs of a build up.
Soldato
And progressing.
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Fire and fury like the world has never seen before. Over twitter.
Saw some speculation that the medication, including likely steroids, Kim is probably taking for a couple of ailments is possibly causing him to act somewhat erratically and possibly belligerent. By all accounts not far off the same story for Trump :s
As originally said by Ronald Regan.
...every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face--that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender.
...every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face--that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender.
And flinging missiles over Japan.
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I'd just like to say how I strongly condemn these actions. I'll be meeting with my work colleagues to discuss the latest incident. Then we'll go all back to our day jobs.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
I don't think anyone other than China is in a position to do anything.
I don't think an effective military option (other than all-out full on invasion) will work, lets face it - other than sanctions we're all pretty much powerless, against stopping NK from developing their nuclear weapons, no matter how uncomfortable it is.
The best we can do, is keep them isolated, let them do their thing and sit behind the notion, that if he does anything silly, he gets deleted.
I honestly don't see any other options
I don't think an effective military option (other than all-out full on invasion) will work, lets face it - other than sanctions we're all pretty much powerless, against stopping NK from developing their nuclear weapons, no matter how uncomfortable it is.
The best we can do, is keep them isolated, let them do their thing and sit behind the notion, that if he does anything silly, he gets deleted.
I honestly don't see any other options
Pedantry is strong in this one. I doubt you'd be so blasé about the semantics of what type of projectile it is if they were firing them over the UK. "It's a rocket!" he says, until it's not.
It's not the same thing. The United States of America is a permanent member of the UN Security council, the UN Security Council is tasked with restricting the proliferation of nuclear weapons to maintain world peace. North Korea is banned from testing missiles and is under heavy sanctions. This is how international law works. They aren't allowed to launch rockets or missiles, period. North Korea could have course disarm their missiles, allow weapons inspectors in, come to peaceful terms with the South, and sanctions would be removed and their country could prosper like other countries in SE Asia are.
They are also, of course, literally testing intercontinental ballistic missiles, with the goal of being able to launch nuclear warheads.
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Soldato
I just want to stick my oar in here and mention that BBC are not alone in the missile/rocket naming, yet you seem to have an axe to grind. If you're going to slate the reporting due to the terminology of the object then you can add many (if not all) other media sources to the list.
The BBC could call it a Thunderbird and it'd still be illegal for North Korea to launch it.
Soldato
The US/Japanese and South Koreans know the next step will invoke a war so you can guess why they aren't jumping straight in and kicking off although Japan has every right to if you ask me
could you imagine if say France was firing missile/rockets/paper planes over the UK to land in the Atlantic, that most of the UK wouldn't be up in arms when those nightmarish nuke alarms start to sound and being told to find a shelter. Obviously we would have an import ban on stripy tops but that wouldn't cut it after a second missile launch
could you imagine if say France was firing missile/rockets/paper planes over the UK to land in the Atlantic, that most of the UK wouldn't be up in arms when those nightmarish nuke alarms start to sound and being told to find a shelter. Obviously we would have an import ban on stripy tops but that wouldn't cut it after a second missile launch
Soldato
Have we reached the point where not reacting is going to have far greater consequences than reacting? He's simply going to keep pushing and pushing until it is felt we have no choice.
Soldato
There are reactions through sanctions against NK, recently oil import and textile export. Nothing has occurred to warrant a full military reaction, it would be deemed an invasion. NK are baiting the UN, Japan and US. That's the gist anyway.
China and Russia also complicate things.
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