North Korea missile showdown!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DaShi
And all suspected terrorists. Along with several Tibetans. Some wealthy minorities in the Western provinces. A gaggle of Falun Gong practitioners. A bunch of reporters. A few students. A teacher or two. A small clergy of Catholics. A bevy of Japanese or sympathizers. And some random people just for good measure.

Just your average day in the United States.

[civman2000]

Originally posted by Geronimo


I suspect there is fear that north korea which has pursued such bizarre economic strategies as mass counterfeiting of the US dollar or kidnapping entertainment talent to create a domestic film industry and which has also sold missle technology to the highest bidder would be perfectly likely to sell weapons grade plutonium to terrorist organizations.


That can't be allowed. at all. Almost nothing would be worse than that short of a world war.

Or a nuclear war ...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Just your average day in the United States.

Reading Xinhua again?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Geronimo


I suspect there is fear that north korea which has pursued such bizarre economic strategies as mass counterfeiting of the US dollar or kidnapping entertainment talent to create a domestic film industry and which has also sold missle technology to the highest bidder would be perfectly likely to sell weapons grade plutonium to terrorist organizations.


That can't be allowed. at all. Almost nothing would be worse than that short of a world war.

And that is a load of bull, pure and simple.

1. NK already has plutonium, and there is nothing the US can do short of invasion to get it out of their hands anymore, unless we are willing to pay top dollar for it outselves.

2. Mass counterfeiting is not a crackpot idea at all- you get ready cash to use,a nd undermine the dollar. Its probably not effective, but its not insane.

If NK wants to seel plutonium to "terrorist", they would do it tommorrow. But I find that notion as stupid as I found it when people said it of Iraq. A state player like NK gains nothing by doing such a thing. Terrorist are not likely to have enough cash anyways, and if the plutonium is tracked back to them, that opens them up to attack.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Reading Xinhua again?

No, just Foxnews and National Enquirer.

[DaShi]

That's just sad.

[Saras]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

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[Saras]

Originally posted by GePap

SK is militarilly much stronger conventionally than NK, and any use of nukes by NK vs. SK or Japan would bring US nuclear attack.

Ehh, where did you get this from? AFAIK Korean War 2 has been wargamed to death with serious problems for the South, incl loss of Seoul in the first days.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Saras


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Good one!

[Ecthy]

I was searching that image for some flaws for several minutes before I realised it was a joke.

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[Saras]

My favourite eastie

[Ecthy]

I forgot you're an eastie too. Who had it worse?

[Saras]

We had it much worse. My parents went to Berlin in 1982, and came back shocked. And shopped.

[Colon™]

Originally posted by GePap


What crisises thought? I am sorry, but this is the same **** as with Iraq. Deterrence works. If there is a crisis right now, its that NK might build up some deterrence of its own, if it does not have any already, but the idea that NK can really blackmail anyone is to me idiotic. NK would be wiped out in any war. SK is militarilly much stronger conventionally than NK, and any use of nukes by NK vs. SK or Japan would bring US nuclear attack.

The point is, if NK begin to totally collapse, than under that circumstance there would be no reaosn not to go to war for the NK leadership. What SK spends now keeping NK afloat, and ditto China, is a lot cheaper than any war would be, and in the end, it costs less North Korean lives as well.

Strike 2.

[Ecthy]

West or East B? There sure wasn't much opportunity for shopping in East B in 1982. Still more than in mainland GDR though.