North Korea Has Gone Completely Insane - Page 2

somebody needs to find oil below NK asap, problem fixed.

it's just more NK posturing.

there is just way too much mutual incentive for everyone possibly involved to avoid conflict

also, from a cultural stand point north koreans still consider south koreans to be 'their people', and view them more as their lost cousins who have been hijacked and brainwashed by imperialists. NK realllly doesn't want to go killing south koreans or doing anything of the sort.

if unification did happen it would economically cripple S Korea and there would be a massive infrastructure problem to deal with

China and to a lesser extent Russia don't want to lose what effectively serves as a buffer for them from the ring of hostile (in their eyes) US/SK/Japan/ROC naval/military deployments surrounding them on the pacific.

blablabla the list goes on.

I would be very surprised if anything serious happened in NK. I would be less surprised if China took some kind of proxy control of NK than any other possible change in that region.

I am very aware of the NK and the shit they have done in the past. But this is under a new ruler. You also got the USA war machine winding down. Which is bad for biz and politicians. Add to that the recent Nuke testing and the military maneuvers. hopefully there will be a war and the world can illegitimately get rid of NK regime.

On March 11 2013 17:28 Baalim wrote: somebody needs to find oil below NK asap, problem fixed.

I heard Mexico has a lot of oil...

iirc they possibly sunk a submarine and attacked a SK military base last time they announced this. Maybe they will do something like that again.

On March 11 2013 17:28 Baalim wrote: somebody needs to find oil below NK asap, problem fixed.

Im guessing Russia would bring democracy to them for diamonds too

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/...3/0200000000AEN20130313000100315.HTML

N. Korea fielding mobile ICBM: U.S. intelligence chief

NK's ICBM could only reach California, assuming it didnt self-destruct. Plus the USA has anti-missile technology that would take it out anyway, since NK only has the capacity to build+fire like 1 missile per year lol. This isnt a threat to anything. NK leaders arent stupid. Look at how they live. You think those lavish lifestyles and mansions built themselves? Again, it's all posturing to prevent the kind of shit happening in Syria. They want to look strong and stable for themselves, not the world.

yeah, i think north korea would definitely not want to attack anyone apart from the odd bombardment and submarine sinking, their government just wants to continue repressing their own populace for their own gain. Their guns pointed at south korea, ect is a defence mechanism so no one can stop them from doing this.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...20C15FA3E5E167B93CAAB178AD85F4D8485F9


I don't know what to make of this. Is this real?

There was prediction of some skirmishes in certain irrelevant areas to feign readiness for war. Hopefully thats all it is because the USA has some aircraft carriers and shit nearby participating in war games. Would be kind of ludicrous to start shit at the worst possible time.

I wouldn't think that Kim would attack S. Korea, but I'm not ruling out completely. However, the link isn't dated, but it's still a viable link. Could it be from the actual start of the war all those decades ago?

North korea talks a ton of shit...nothing has happened thus far.

I think if NK will do something drastic then we'll probably see it coming imo. ie NK on verge of collapse etc.

1 thing to note...NK doesn't need nukes to completely decimate major cities within south korea...they have thousands of mid range missles for that and can level seoul in a day or something.

NK has almost no leverage when dealing with super powers or just any other country on the world stage. They are highly dependent on foreign aid and when that is threatened...what else can they do?

On March 11 2013 17:28 Baalim wrote: somebody needs to find oil below NK asap, problem fixed.

I loled but too many of my country men would die and it would be unacceptable levels of carnage ;(

Really hope South Korea will be ok...

http://www.nknews.org/2013/03/breakin...s-short-range-missiles-on-east-coast/

North Korea has tested short-range missiles in the Sea of Japan (known as the East Sea in Korea), in an apparent attempt to counter-act joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

Nolan is smart!

On March 11 2013 11:24 dUUd_ wrote: Show nested quote + On March 11 2013 11:14 2c0ntent wrote:   On March 11 2013 11:09 dUUd_ wrote:   On March 11 2013 10:44 goose58 wrote:   On March 11 2013 05:56 VanDerMeyde wrote: I fear how Russia / China will react to this if the situation escalates They won't do shit, and they couldn't if they tried. not sure if serious or trolling A lot of people will say this seriously because the current order of the world's economy is wholly dependent on the US Dollar retaining its position as a store of value (see: every developed country's central bank's dollar reserves) Also China's economy is enormously dependent on America's continued patronage of their output. The whole modern form of the country has been and is still built on dollars. Recall that America also has many allies (see: S.K., the entire EU, Japan) who together with America represent the vast majority of China's customer base, and who would likely cut off trade with whoever America went to war with as a further economic blow. not saying they would just previous poster's second part was like [ "i am all mighty american and these little countries (china and russia) can't do shit against us in war because we are so awesome and have like 3 nuclear weapons and superheros fighting for us" ] might have misread that then my bad.

Nice strawman(s).

I shouldn't even have to explain this, and it has nothing to do with machoism:

-China is our business partner, and NK is their uncontrollable little brother who has it coming. NK is a leech on China.
-China is weaker than the USA by far, this is a fact. Every country in the world is weaker than the USA in regards to military power, this is undeniable.

You called me the troll..