North Korea: What happens if Kim Jong-un acts on his threats?

[Red Flag 1]

Originally Posted by Dusty

If he pops one next Wednesday as implied, it's gonna create an unbelievable diversion from the economy. They'll talk about Korea and not much else all the way up until the Congressional elections.

What does this do for/to our current administration? Will our legeslative branch of government be able to anything? So far, all our legeslators have been able to do is to piss, bitch and moan about "issues".

RF q

[MR2]

They will probably start in with the background checks and ban assault nukes....

[Sdiver]

Interesting.

NK tells both British and Russian diplomats to leave the country by next Wednesday (4/10), or the NK Govt. won't be responsible for the diplomats safety.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ast-coast.html

North Korea tells Brit diplomats to get out — then sets chilling April 10 deadline

ROGUE state North Korea today sparked fears that it could trigger a nuclear strike as early as next WEDNESDAY.

Crackpot Kim Jong-un’s regime today issued a chilling threat to British diplomats warning them to get out of Pyongyang.

Alarmingly the North Korean government said it would not be able to guarantee the safety of embassies from April 10.

Russian diplomats have also been advised to evacuate.

Today the Foreign Office added that it is “considering next steps” after the threat.

It is still unclear why next Wednesday has been set as a deadline – but it is sure to spark fears despot Kim Jong-un will launch an attack after that date.

This week South Korean workers employed in factories in the North were also told to leave by April 10.

The dramatic development came as North Korea moved a second missile to its east coast in a further threat to Japan, South Korea and US Pacific bases.

The rogue state has already transported a Musudan missile with a range of 1,800 miles (3,000km) to the same area.

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[Flagg]

Originally Posted by Dusty

If he pops one next Wednesday as implied, it's gonna create an unbelievable diversion from the economy. They'll talk about Korea and not much else all the way up until the Congressional elections.

"Never let a good crisis go to waste."

How big does the crisis get?

How big will the opportunity be for the US Administration?

If the US Administration leverages the opportunity(beyond and distinct from any possibly necessary military solutions), what is the most likely and most dangerous courses of action?

I wonder how a Korean Crisis could be leveraged to provide an excuse and/or momentum for domestic US policy?

[GreatfulService]

Very well said sir...
I mean c'mon guys, if you think the CPC is made up of 80,000,000 friendly neighbors just watch "tears of a snow leopard" (a documentary of the Chinese policy on re-educating the Tibetan Monks & Nuns, with vaginal cattle prodding etc.
IMHO if we let these fuckers alone for too long, our grand kids will be speaking Mandarin and the sum total loss of our "inalienable rights" to date will be NOTHING in comparison to life as China's most pissed on province.

The PRC needs to be overthrown and its going to be a lot easier to do it before they take us over. Lets mass forces in NK then use lil Kim's international booty dance as justification to get the fucking job done once and for all. If only they'd let Patton arm the Germans to annihilate the Russian army we wouldn't be between the damned rock of WW3 vs the rock of inevitable communist take-over.

fucking politicians....
:,(

[ZonieDiver]

Originally Posted by GreatfulService

Very well said sir...
I mean c'mon guys, if you think the CPC is made up of 80,000,000 friendly neighbors just watch "tears of a snow leopard" (a documentary of the Chinese policy on re-educating the Tibetan Monks & Nuns, with vaginal cattle prodding etc.
IMHO if we let these fuckers alone for too long, our grand kids will be speaking Mandarin and the sum total loss of our "inalienable rights" to date will be NOTHING in comparison to life as China's most pissed on province.

The PRC needs to be overthrown and its going to be a lot easier to do it before they take us over. Lets mass forces in NK then use lil Kim's international booty dance as justification to get the fucking job done once and for all. If only they'd let Patton arm the Germans to annihilate the Russian army we wouldn't be between the damned rock of WW3 vs the rock of inevitable communist take-over.

fucking politicians....
:,(

Wow!

Just wow!

[Dusty]

MacArthur's spinning like a top.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by GreatfulService

Very well said sir...
I mean c'mon guys, if you think the CPC is made up of 80,000,000 friendly neighbors just watch "tears of a snow leopard" (a documentary of the Chinese policy on re-educating the Tibetan Monks & Nuns, with vaginal cattle prodding etc.
IMHO if we let these fuckers alone for too long, our grand kids will be speaking Mandarin and the sum total loss of our "inalienable rights" to date will be NOTHING in comparison to life as China's most pissed on province.

The PRC needs to be overthrown and its going to be a lot easier to do it before they take us over. Lets mass forces in NK then use lil Kim's international booty dance as justification to get the fucking job done once and for all. If only they'd let Patton arm the Germans to annihilate the Russian army we wouldn't be between the damned rock of WW3 vs the rock of inevitable communist take-over.

fucking politicians....
:,(

Hunh.

Richard

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Richard

Hunh.

Richard

What happened to your tolerance for differing viewpoints, Richard?

[Richard]

Went out the window somewhere between the call for Patton to rearm the Nazis and MacArthur to wade the Yalu.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Richard

Went out the window somewhere between the call for Patton to rearm the Nazis and MacArthur to wade the Yalu.

lol Heard dat.

[Richard]

In an interview reminiscent of @TheDuffelBlog, @RT_Com rolls out the one person on Earth who thinks the DPRK is the offended party.

This guy should send his CV to Columbia - he'd be a 'shoe in' for a professorship in their School of International and Conflict Studies.

Richard

‘US wants to take S. Korea into new Korean war’
RT, 5 Apr 2013

The US is trying to embroil South Korea in conflict with its Northern neighbor in a bit to oust its current government without taking heavy US casualties, political writer and journalist Dan Glazebrook told RT.

The Oxford-based expert believes that only stopping US military provocations will bring stability to the region.


RT: What do you think about the warning of North Korea telling international embassies to evacuate their staff? It sounds pretty dire, doesn’t it?

Dan Glazebrook: Their intention has been clear from the start of this crisis. North Korea’s whole intention is to show its willingness and preparedness to defend itself should war be launched upon it. Every year we have these massive provocations of joint US and South Korean war games exercises right at the borders of North Korea. This year the provocations were stepped up to actually simulate a nuclear missile attack on North Korea. B2 bombers were used for the first time along with B52s and F22 bombers. So there is a military provocation from the US. North Korea feels rightly threatened – they’ve seen what’s happened to Iraq, to Libya and so on. It feels threatened because it knows it was in the explicit hit-list of the American government some years ago. It needs to make very clear that it will not tolerate any kind of infringement of its sovereignty, any kind of attack, and this is all about to show that it’s willing to defend itself.

RT: We're receiving reports of an earthquake near North Korea - do you believe there could be any links with the country's nuclear intentions?

DG: Well, I think we should wait and see what happens, but of course constantly North Korea has this policy called the Army First policy, where it’s constantly trying to develop its nuclear and military resources to defend itself. Again, the lessons of Iraq and Libya are very clear – Saddam Hussein gave up his weapons program and we saw what happened to Iraq as a result, kind of [Muammar] Gaddafi gave up his weapons program and we saw what happened to Libya as a result. So they are constantly trying to upgrade their weapons in order to defend themselves. Of course, one of the reasons for this constant annual provocation, these war games exercises, is to keep tensions of the peninsular high to justify the massive US military presence – it’s one of the most militarized regions on the entire planet.

RT: Is there anything Washington can do to prevent a full scale confrontation in case North Korea is determined to take it to the extreme?

DG: Of course, they can stop launching these provocations, stop simulating nuclear strikes against North Korea on its border. The thing is that they would love to occupy North Korea, they would love to have troops right upon the border of China. What stops them every time is that they calculate their losses would be in the magnitude of tens and tens of thousands of soldiers. What they would dearly love then, the US and its allies, would be actually to get South Korea into a new Korean War in which South Korea took all the casualties. This is why the North is so determined to make it clear that if the US and its allies attempt to provoke some kind of inter-Korean conflict they will have to pay a heavy price for that.

http://rt.com/op-edge/us-wants-new-korean-war-402/

[GreatfulService]

Originally Posted by Richard

Hunh.

Richard

thanks, i'm still chuckling.


-but yeah, IMHO the CPC is a growing menace that needs a brain transplant, a yoke, or to be put out of existence. They worry me more than the Jihadists.

I'll stop chunking in my wooden pairs of unwanted pennies now.

Thanks again guys. love this board and can't wait to enlist, just gotta file my provisional patents first. I just wish i was born far enough in the future to see the USArmy weaponize its first pulsar.

[Richard]

We've got it under control...

Richard

[Utah Bob]