N.Korea to Japan: "remember, you are within striking distance"

[Dinner]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The US is moving 17,000 troops forward.

The DPRK could do some serious damage to the RoK if a war starts, so let's not start one, Mm'kay? Seoul wouldn't be a happy place if war began.

Anyway, maybe if Bush hadn't called the DPRK part of the axis of evil and then begin threatening to take those countries out, Kim wouldn't have restarted his nuclear weapons program. He's justified in considering the US an agressive country.

We now know they've been reprocessing their old spent fuel rods for several years now. The main reason Kim restarted his breeder reacter is so he can replace the spent fuel rods he's already reprocessed. Bush's speech had little or (more likely) nothing to do with Kim's half decade old policy other then it gave Kim a convient time to inform the world he'd been breaking treaties and being a generally naughty boy.

[yavoon]

yah north korea got hit by floods. but its also a radical gov't under sanctions practicing a very oppressive and volatile regime. who while can't feed its own ppl can maintain one of the 10 largest militaries ont he planet. and one decently impressive capital city.

incidently north korea has denied the level of starving in its own country while at the same time asking the world for aid, and now at the same time threataning countries like japan w/ its nuclear arsenal.

[Felch]

The nuclear program was reactivated prior to the Axis of Evil speech Che. Don't be an apologist for any regime that claims to be Communist. You and I know full well that's just a bull**** claim that Kim uses to justify exploiting his people. He's no better than any other dictator and a good deal worse than most.

Would you defend Pinochet if he were in the same situation?

[Felch]

Doesn't that DPRK rag read like some junior high essay?

"These facts clearly indicate that the South Korean "National Assembly" is a group of warmongers keen on isolating and stifling the DPRK, pursuant to the U.S. strategy for world domination aimed to bring down one by one those sovereign states it had listed as part of an "axis of evil", its hostile policy toward the DPRK in particular."

I mean, I know it's not their native language, but other foreign newpapers are able to write things that aren't so idiotic. It's not propaganda that bothers me, it's propaganda that lacks tact and subtlety. At least pretend like you're trying to convince me of something.

[Dinner]

Sanctions are the anwser. Of course we won't call them sancations instead we should simply stop giving this maniac something for nothing. He must realize he is entitled to nothing and the only time we will give him aid is when he is behaiving like a good boy.

Sure he'll threaten, he'll make demands, and all sorts of wild aqusations but then he'll shut up and do as he's told because he has no other choice. He doesn't have the resources (oil, food, spare parts) to sustain a war and Kim knows it. He also knows he's forces are far, far behind both South Korea and Japan much less the U.S..

What we need are the balls to say no to this freak and he will start behaiving more acceptably.

[yavoon]

so oerdin ur gna use the ppl of north korea as pawns to attempt to get a psychotic dictator to listen to u? sounds very humane.

[Q Classic]

tell him no. he doesn't have the balls to attack skorea.

but don't ever, ever, try and attack him first. korea's not a pretty place to engage a ground war in.

unlike iraq, which is flat, korea is mountainous, forested, and heavily fortified--both sides, not just the north. the north just happens to be more heavily fortified. even worse, there are scores of military hardware scattered throughout the north in positions we don't know of yet.

this, naturally, would cause air cover to be less effective, and naval support to be less effective, and make ground war hell.

a different path must be found.

[DinoDoc]

Re: N.Korea to Japan: "remember, you are within striking distance"

Originally posted by monkspider
If America becomes bogged down in Korea, it seems unlikely that they would have enough troops to garrison Iraq in the event of an outbreak of hostilites with Persia or Syria.

Where is Persia?

[Lincoln]

US to N. Korea: Remember you are within striking distance

[Drake Tungsten]

Anyway, maybe if Bush hadn't called the DPRK part of the axis of evil and then begin threatening to take those countries out, Kim wouldn't have restarted his nuclear weapons program. He's justified in considering the US an agressive country.

As others have said, the North Korean nuclear program never ended; they merely suspended their plutonium-based program and switched to a secret uranium-enrichment program. To say that the "Axis of Evil" speech was the cause of the North Korean nuclear program, not a reaction to it, is moronic at best.

[Felch]

Don't call Che a moron. He knows his stuff. He's just a troll, which is worse. It's someone who should know better but insists on saying stupid things.

[DarthVeda]

"The US is an aggressive country so we're going to develope WMD's to defend ourselves." Yeah. Like we're going to be less likely to attack you.

[Joseph]

Some of you live in a vacuum. Kim want someone to feed his people, so he can continual to spend 80% of GDP on the military and the other 20% in his bank account. About 2 month ago if some of you can remember, the Internet listed all of the bad guys in the world and their bank accounts. Kim was right in the middle of the bad guys. If Saddam is still alive, he had quite a bit stashed somewhere. Arafat had hundreds of million. One of them, can't remember which one now had almost a Billion. So if you want to be rich, become a dictator.

[LoneWolf]

Originally posted by DarthVeda
"The US is an aggressive country so we're going to develope WMD's to defend ourselves." Yeah. Like we're going to be less likely to attack you.

OR "You're damn right were an aggressive country. Deal with it, and live right"

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Sanctions are the anwser.

Answers to what? Didn't work on Iraq, didn't work on Cuba. In fact, sanction has never worked on anybody.