SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea stoked regional tensions Wednesday, threatening more nuclear tests and saying additional sanctions imposed on it would be considered an act of war, as nervous neighbors raced to bolster defenses and punish Pyongyang. South Korea said it was making sure its troops were prepared for atomic warfare, and Japan imposed new economic sanctions to hit the economic lifeline of the communist nation’s 1 million-member military, the world’s fifth-largest.
I SAY: A-BOMB THEM. apparently they forgot about hiroshima and nagasaki. WHO’S WITH ME?
yup. NK is to be dealt with economically. We’re essentially China’s bitch in this one, so it’s our job to get China to be willing to go as far as possible with economic sanctions
They will fire ICBMs that are intended to travel thousands of miles - only to have them screw up like their prior ones and crash land after only a short flight.
however…in the event that bombing was unavoidable…
i’m not in favor of us bombing them…but i am in favor of it if this becomes a matter of “who strikes first” and not just a matter of “are they/we going to strike”
if confronted with a big dude, and you can’t really run anywhere…and he’s sitting there, saying he’s going to hit you…do you brace yourself and let him hit you first?..or try to get in a quick hard shot right off the bat to give yourself a chance?
i know this is completely different…but if they ARE going to attempt to bomb us…we need to beat them to it…
NK’s not really a big dude though… it’s more like, you’re the big dude and you don’t want this schmuck to do something stupid… but when it happens, you don’t want to look like the bad guy throwing a whupping down…
Right now NK knows they can make these threats and get away with it because everyone knows they have no way of following up on them.
If they had a delivery method and made the same threat it would be a completely different situation, and warrant a pre-emptive strike. But in that case I don’t think they would be dumb enough to make the threat in the first place.
Totally cut them off. Their economy will collapse and they will not have the money/resources to build more nukes to the scale they would need to go to war.
if they are totally cut off to many “bleeding heart liberals” will piss and moan about how we are hurting the innocent women and childern etc and how these people have no food etc
I say tough shit. I would rather risk some of the population of a country threatening us with war, than have a nuke hit an American city and kill a population 1/5 the size of their county’s pop. Even f their technology is not that good, there is still a chance it could hit, and that is a chance I don’t think we should take lightly. Though if they did do something that stupid, You, I, and the rest of the world knows we will totally wipe them off the face of the earth.
ummm not really b/c they’ll still get humanitarian aide…if anyone is proposing cutting off humanitarian aide, then I have a real problem with that. Keep in mind this is an UNELECTED leader whos people CANNOT leave the country.