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    Quote Originally Posted by noblemountain View Post
    Yeah, but their country isn't very big. Likely they'd end up taking out S Korea or Japan with them.
    being stationed on okinawa, this is my worry. But lordy, if they fuck it up and hit mainland, this island is going to empty in a hurry, because there are a LOT of marines here, rofl, and i'm sure after not being allowed to drink out in town for the past 4 months, they'd love someone to take their frustrations out on.

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    Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- In its latest bout of saber-rattling, North Korea on Friday warned of the possibility of "strong physical counter-measures" against South Korea in relation to tougher sanctions imposed this week by the United Nations.
    The threat against South Korea came a day after the North said it would carry out a new nuclear test and more long-range rocket launches as part of a new phase of confrontation with the United States.
    The statement Friday from North Korea's Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said it would take action against South Korea if it "takes a direct part" in the U.N. sanctions.
    The South Korean Unification Ministry declined to comment specifically on the new threats from Pyongyang. It reiterated its stance that North Korea should refrain from further provocations.
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    The two Koreas are technically still at war from the all-out conflict between them in the 1950s. Smaller scale clashes have occurred since then, most recently in November 2010 when North Korea shelled a South Korean island, killing several people.
    South Korea and the United States are often the focus of menacing language from Pyongyang, but the latest U.N. sanctions, a response to a long-range rocket launched last month by the North, appear to have prompted a ratcheting up of the threats.
    A displeased Chinese editorial
    At the same time, North Korea's strong words and vow to conduct a third nuclear test -- previous ones took place in 2006 and 2009 -- appear to be testing the patience of its main ally, China, which voted in favor of the U.N. sanctions this week.
    An editorial published Friday in the English-language edition of the state-run Chinese newspaper Global Times struck a displeased tone over Pyongyang's comments a day earlier.
    "China's role and position are clear when discussing North Korea issue in the U.N. Security Council," the editorial said. "If North Korea engages in further nuclear tests, China will not hesitate to reduce its assistance to North Korea."
    That prospect carries weight, since North Korea's impoverished economy relies heavily on China to stay afloat.
    Global Times, whose editorial line often but not always reflects official Chinese policy, made it clear, though, that Beijing isn't about to cut Pyongyang loose.
    "If the U.S., Japan and South Korea promote extreme U.N. sanctions on North Korea, China will resolutely stop them and force them to amend these draft resolutions," the editorial said.
    Global Times noted that Beijing had put "a lot of effort into amendments" to the resolution approved by the Security Council this week.
    "It seems that North Korea does not appreciate China's efforts," it said. "It criticized China without explicitly naming it in its statement yesterday."
    The newspaper was referring to a passage in the controversial North Korean statement Thursday that said that "big countries, which are obliged to take the lead in building a fair world order, are abandoning without hesitation even elementary principle, under the influence of the U.S. arbitrary and high-handed practices."
    The Global Times editorial also suggested that North Korea shouldn't rank too highly among China's priorities.
    "China hopes for a stable peninsula, but it's not the end of the world if there's trouble there," it said, referring to the Korean peninsula that comprises North and South Korea. "This should be the baseline of China's position."
    The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday had urged North Korea and the West to "keep calm, remain cautious and refrain from any action that might escalate the situation in the region."
    U.S. concerned but prepared
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Thursday there are no "outward indications" that North Korea is about to conduct a nuclear test, but he admitted it would be hard to determine that in advance.
    "They have the capability, frankly, to conduct these tests in a way that makes it very difficult to determine whether or not they are doing it," he said in a Pentagon press conference.
    "We are very concerned with North Korea's continuing provocative behavior," Panetta said, but he added that the United States is "fully prepared" to deal with any provocations.
    http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/25/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1


    NK is like a retarded child throwing a tantrum. It really needs a spanking right now. I'm tired of these dipshits threatening everyone all the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archibaldcrane View Post
    >>implying the s. koreans don't already have that shit
    Well they do play enough StarCarft..

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    Quote Originally Posted by archibaldcrane View Post
    >>implying the s. koreans don't already have that shit
    http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/wp-...shields_up.jpg

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    Oh look North Korea is still doing what they do every year since the end of the Korean War, this is certainly headline / thread worthy.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11811861

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    Oh boy.

    http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/...OYT1T01194.htm

    Rough translation of article (originally in Japanese):

    North Korea uploads video to YouTube that strongly implies the United States being attacked by nuclear weapons

    On February 2nd, North Korea's Uriminzokkiri Committee (roughly: Uniting the Motherland Peacefully Committee) uploaded a video to YouTube in which it contains images of the United States engulfed in flames from a implied nuclear attack.

    Although North Korea has threatened its third nuclear test would be "aimed at attacking the United States, this would be the first time it's used such direct imagery as a threat.

    The video's plot revolves around a North Korean photographer dreaming about traveling around the world in a space shuttle launched by a North Korean rocket. It is approximately three and a half minutes long, and is thought to be made through the use of CG.

    In the latter half of the video, when the photographer turns its camera outside the window, along with the subtitles of "black smoke is rising from somewhere in the United States" viewers can watch scenes of large building engulfed in flames. It is then followed up with the subtitles of "The den of evil is burning from the flames its unleashed upon itself".



    This ought to be good.

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    Pretty sure whoever owns the rights to "We Are The World" is gonna be having a problem with this in no time flat. Also, doesn't NK know that the US can most likely stop an ICBM dead in it's tracks the moment it realizes that it's traveling in it's general direction? Only way an attack like that could work is if their wobbly satellite contains a hidden warhead and even then they can't exactly drop the thing accurately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aurara View Post
    Well yeah, that really is the reason that they can get away with this type of behavior, because they know we aren't going to glass them because it will devastate S.Korea and we don't want to do that.
    There's also the fact that north Korea is so shitty now that South Korea doesn't WANT to have to conquer it.
    Basically everyone involved in this wants peace because they dont want to have to take over shitty old North Korea while North Korea is begging for a spanking.

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    Dreaming of being nuked by NK while Richard Clayderman belts out We Are The World on the piano tonight

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    Quote Originally Posted by Khajit View Post
    There's also the fact that north Korea is so shitty now that South Korea doesn't WANT to have to conquer it.
    Basically everyone involved in this wants peace because they dont want to have to take over shitty old North Korea while North Korea is begging for a spanking.
    The way Seoul keeps expanding I'm sure the Koreans would love to have all that land back, but not the responsibility of taking care of millions of brainwashed and starving people. I'm sure that a plan could be whipped up (if it doesn't exist already) for putting the NK people to work and for the utilization of the natural resources available in the reclaimed territory, but it would most definitely not come cheap. SK has advanced so much in the last 50 years, and I imagine what they learned should make the transition period much shorter than it could be, but I'd expect a decade or more of severe adjustment issues for the entire region once NK finally falls.

    I don't expect anything to happen anytime soon, but at least I don't live in Seoul anymore ^^; Chuncheon isn't that far from the border really, but it's a much smaller city and a less likely target if the shit really does hit the fan. Could be very interesting around the time of the 2018 Olympics though...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kerberoz View Post
    that thing's in storage?

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    lolllllll

    don't mess with those Call of Duty storylines dawg

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    While I'm all for giant lasers, we've had BMD going on the sea since the mid 90s ( we withdrew from that treaty in like 92? that allowed us to start going at it again ), though actual deployment of tested platforms did not occur until 2011.

    I believe I've talked about these platforms before, but: BMD Elements ( link ). The fact sheet you'll probably be the most interested in is this one ( link ).

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    Lil' Kim was a big movie fan, supposedly. Looks like Lil'er Kim picked that habit up and got a few ideas from that shitty Red Dawn remake. Too bad the villains were supposed to be the Chinese in that movie but Hollywood pussed out like little babies and didn't want to hurt their share of the Chinese DVD market. Kimmy will be all "What do you mean we don't have 500 million soldiers in our army like in the movie?"

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    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...003246654.html
    SEOUL—North Korea appeared to have exploded a nuclear device Tuesday, its third experimental detonation in a long effort to build weapons of mass destruction that the U.S. and other countries consider a serious threat.

    An "artificial earthquake" was detected at 11:57 a.m., according to authorities in South Korea who attributed the seismic activity to the northeastern area of North Korea where it previously detonated nuclear devices in October 2006 and May 2009.

    North Korea made no immediate statement. Its authoritarian regime gave several explicit warnings since Jan. 24 that it was planning to detonate a nuclear explosive.

    Even before those statements, diplomats and observers in other countries had considered such an explosion likely as Pyongyang appeared to be repeating a pattern of provocative actions seen before the previous explosions.

    The U.S. Geological Survey said it detected seismic activity with a magnitude of 4.9, bigger than the seismic activity produced in North Korea's previous two blasts. A report by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said the quake registered a magnitude of 5.1.

    Both of the previous detonations were considered small by the standards of nuclear testing in other countries.

    The first one in 2006 produced a tremor that measured a magnitude 4.1, and analysts in the U.S. later estimated its explosive force at less than one kiloton. The second one in 2009 produced a seismic tremor of 4.7 and an explosive force of about two to six kilotons, according to estimates by U.S. seismic and geological experts.

    Estimates are in both cases are constrained by limited information about the geology of the mountains where the explosions took place. By contrast, the first nuclear bomb tested by the U.S. in 1945 had an explosive force of approximately 18 to 20 kilotons.

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    Eyebrow raising, but funny they are still 70+ years behind.

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    Clearly they require more vespine gas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FNH View Post
    Eyebrow raising, but funny they are still 70+ years behind.
    True, but that could still do a nice chunk of damage to a city in South Korea or Japan. Still hoping these idiots end up nuking themselves.

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