North Korea

Iraklis F.C. · 24 Sep 2017 at 12:24

Malevolence said:
Do you not count the DPRoK threatening to nuke US territory to be a US problem then? How strange.

It is a US problem, but it seems you dont read my comments very well. The rhetoric goes too far and it will soon make a full scale war in the Korean peninsula inevitable, probably with "spicy" weapons. Me gusta? NOT, so i suggest to cool down and approach the problem seriously

Participant · 24 Sep 2017 at 15:51

Iraklis F.C. said:
It is a US problem, but it seems you dont read my comments very well. The rhetoric goes too far and it will soon make a full scale war in the Korean peninsula inevitable, probably with "spicy" weapons. Me gusta? NOT, so i suggest to cool down and approach the problem seriously

How else should one interpret the comment 'he is acting like there are no problems in the US to deal with'? The NK crisis is a problem in the US to deal with.

Furthermore one does not ignore one problem just because one has other problems.

ubersonic · 24 Sep 2017 at 16:31

Participant said:
How else should one interpret the comment 'he is acting like there are no problems in the US to deal with'? The NK crisis is a problem in the US to deal with.

Technically it's a problem in Asia not the US, not that GW Bush would have known the difference lol.

Rroff · 24 Sep 2017 at 17:03

Hades said:
I see Iran are using the NK situation to their advantage. They just announced the testing of a medium range missile. There's not a lot the US can do about it unless they also pile into NK for doing the same. No doubt there will be some harsh words but it seems that unless the international community does something about NK then many more nations will have long range missiles and atomic weapons soon.

Hadn't really thought about that aspect - if it goes down that path with NK and Iran it would weaken the nuclear non-proliferation treaty considerably - what next Venezuela pursuing nukes?

XeNoN89 · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:13

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41391978

jimjamuk · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:17

XeNoN89 said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41391978

More news garbage - they have the right to shoot down US bombers that fly into their airspace anyway

Roar87 · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:31

Memes are all fun and games until the bombs start flying and people realise that North Korea has an army of 6 million men.

Burnsy2023 · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:32

jimjamuk said:
More news garbage - they have the right to shoot down US bombers that fly into their airspace anyway

BBC said:
This applied even when they were not in North Korean airspace, the minister added

Yaayuh! · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:33

jimjamuk said:
More news garbage - they have the right to shoot down US bombers that fly into their airspace anyway

BBC News said:
This applied even when they were not in North Korean airspace, the minister added.

Yaayuh! · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:34

I'm watching you @Burnsy2023 lol

Freddie1980 · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:37

ubersonic said:
Technically it's a problem in Asia not the US, not that GW Bush would have known the difference lol.

Correct, the only reason why GW Bush in invaded the middle east was because he thought it boarded the mid west.

ubersonic · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:47

jimjamuk said:
More news garbage - they have the right to shoot down US bombers that fly into their airspace anyway

He also said they could (not that they would) shoot down ones flying directly towards their airspace.

Avenged7Fold · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:57

BREAKING NEWS:

Tensions climb as fear-mongering media finds new ways to deliver non news as dramatic change in current events

DAIR · 25 Sep 2017 at 17:34

XeNoN89 said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41391978

How crazy would it be if NK were bluffing all this time?

I mean if it turned out they had no real weapons of mass destruction.

IronWarrior · 25 Sep 2017 at 17:42

DAIR said:
How crazy would it be if NK were bluffing all this time?

I mean if it turned out they had no real weapons of mass destruction.

Eh.. but they have done nuclear tests... you can't fake that.

DAIR · 25 Sep 2017 at 17:46

"Tests" to make us believe they have something..... I'm not buying it anymore.

I call all talk.

IronWarrior · 25 Sep 2017 at 17:52

DAIR said:
"Tests" to make us believe they have something..... I'm not buying it anymore.

I call all talk.

We don't believe North Korea has nuclear devices because they told us, we know they have done nuclear tests because we can test for it.

Monitor stations around the world can detect the tell-tell signs of a nuclear device done underground, the signals are different to mother nature, secondly. They can detect the radioactive, radiation in the air.

The US Airforce and Japan has a few planes that fly around to measure the tests too

DAIR · 25 Sep 2017 at 17:58

They won't do a thing!

Mark those words

LabR@t · 25 Sep 2017 at 19:09

Roar87 said:
Memes are all fun and games until the bombs start flying and people realise that North Korea has an army of 6 million men.

All hungry and to weak too fight

Fusion · 25 Sep 2017 at 19:25

One of the worst aspect of all this is the threat of proliferation. Knowledge and material could easily be swapping hands. Suppose some rogue group get their paws on substances to make a dirty bomb, for instance. So much resource must be dedicated behind the scenes to keeping eye for these sorts of developments.