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I mean he really didn't have a leg to stand on. They've been allowing NK missile shipments to Yemen for years. Usually you want to tell people they can't do something any more before you go out and stop them.
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Yemen is also ally of United States, isn't it?Comment
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Now it is.
Recent events have sort of cheapened that concept, though.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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So they claim. We have precious little to show for it though.Originally posted by Tuomerehu
Yemen is also ally of United States, isn't it?Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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They really aren't making UN's job easier when it comes to him appealing for aid for thier country.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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BTW It has been U.S. policy since WW2 to have sufficient active duty military forces to fight two wars similtaniously.
We have something like 35k troops in South Korea and a like number in Japan. They also have Tanks and supplies prepositioned in South Korea so encase the commies attack the crews can be flown in fro the U.S. and Europe and just mated up with equipment waiting for them.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I really can't believe this happening. The US accept the threat of completely pissing off old allies by offending them with all means in order to lead a war against Iraq, whose relations to Al Quadea are considered unlikely by Mid East experts and they risk a huge increase of support for islamic terrorism in the Arab world and face a severe budgetary crises. Yet they hesitate when a country openly threatens the world with the use of nuclear weapons (well, of course North Korea is only one of three nations who don't rule out the possibility of a nuclear attack at the moment...[note: the other natinos are NOT Iraq and Iran])"The world is too small in Vorarlberg". Austrian ex-vice-chancellor Hubert Gorbach in a letter to Alistar [sic] Darling, looking for a job...
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This can be averted. Tell Kim that if he does launch a pre-emptive strike against us, NK goes radioactive."I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer
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From an objective stand point a case could be made that this will be NK last best chance for a unified communist Korea. In five years the national missile defense network will be up and running and then NK's small nuke stockpile will be effectively neutralized. It's now or never for an invasion plus doing it during the one month Saddam's regime is going through its death spasums is the best cover they're likely to get.
Of course if they really were going to invade the south they wouldn't be mouthing off about it now. They would just sit tight and try to get surprise will the U.S. is distracted. Since they aren't doing that I believe the NKs are just practicing a bit of brinkmenship.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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In a nutshell, that about sums it up.Originally posted by Oerdin
So they claim. We have precious little to show for it though.
Do for us, do for us, do for us.
And what exactly has been done, for us ?Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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That bluff probably wouldn't fly since the long standing policy is no first us of WoMD. The U.S. would not respond to a convential attack with nukes and the NKs know it. Of course one NBC attack any where by any NK unit and the whole north will begin to glow in the dark.Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
This can be averted. Tell Kim that if he does launch a pre-emptive strike against us, NK goes radioactive.Last edited by Dinner; February 6, 2003, 15:54.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Do they even have the capability? As far as I know, all they have are SCUDs, and those would never reach the US. And their subs would probably be detected long before they ever got close enough the US.Comment
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I figure we're going after Iraq now so it doesn't pull a "North Korea" on us down the line. It's bad enough having to put up with those nuclear-armed NKs and their blackmail, and it'd just get worse with Iraq doing it down the road.
As for NK's latest verbal barrage? Pshaw. Like they're really going to do something while we're preoccupied with Iraq. All this does is make me stiffen my back even more ... like someone else said in this thread earlier, every time NK spouts off drivel like this, it lessens its chance of getting any sort of help from the rest of the world.
Blackmail only works for so long, y'know, before something snaps.
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It would definitely be more so. Japan would be seen as an innocent bystander who had the misfortune of getting caught in the crossfire.Originally posted by monolith94
Same if they attacked Tokyo, only even more so, because modern Japan is a bit less hated around the world than the U.S., or at least I get that impression.Comment
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