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[Mytiwar]

2010 South Korea increases land and naval force on the border in response to torpedo attack that sunk a South Korean warship
2010 UN sanctions put economic pressure on North Korea
2010 North Korea dissolves any nonaggression talks with South Korea
2011 Korean border skirmishes escalate and frantic peace negotiations ensue but ultimately breakdown
2012 North Korea invades South Korea
2012 South Korea declares war on North Korea
2012 The UN is dissolved
2013 US and Japan declare war on North Korea
2013 China and Russia declare war on South Korea, the US, and Japan
2014 Australia, Sweden, the United Kingdom enter the war against North Korea, China and Russia
2015: COD MW: Hell Mode

You forgot all aboot Canada

[Pirian]

You forgot all aboot Canada

So did the rest of the world.

[Tekki]

/golfclap

[Furtwangler]

Canada is going to make a stellar entrance near the end of the war, riding on gigantic moose(es?) and wielding beaver tails. They will completely destroy whatever is left of the north koreans, russians, and chinamen in one fell swoop.

[Correction]

Canada is going to make a stellar entrance near the end of the war, riding on gigantic moose(es?) and wielding beaver tails. They will completely destroy whatever is left of the north koreans, russians, and chinamen in one fell swoop.

So the olympic closing ceremonies were really war games in disguise? I knew it.

[MaachaQ]

Here we go again...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37309788...s-asiapacific/

U.S. military told to get ready in Korea standoff
Obama orders commanders to prepare 'to deter future aggression'


WASHINGTON - The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama "fully supports" the South Korean president and his response to the torpedo attack by North Korea that sank a South Korean naval ship.

In a statement, the White House said Seoul can continue to count on the full backing of the United States and said U.S. military commanders had been told to work with their South Korean counterparts "to ensure readiness and to deter future aggression."

The administration said it endorsed President Lee Myung-bak's demand that "North Korea immediately apologize and punish those responsible for the attack, and, most importantly, stop its belligerent and threatening behavior."

Late last week, a team of international investigators accused North Korea of torpedoing the Cheonan corvette in March, killing 46 sailors in one of the deadliest clashes between the two since the 1950-53 Korean War.

The United States still has about 28,000 troops in South Korea to provide military support. The two Koreas, still technically at war, have more than 1 million troops near their border.

"U.S. support for South Korea's defense is unequivocal, and the President has directed his military commanders to coordinate closely with their Republic of Korea counterparts to ensure readiness and to deter future aggression," the statement said.

"We will build on an already strong foundation of excellent cooperation between our militaries and explore further enhancements to our joint posture on the Peninsula as part of our ongoing dialogue," it said.

"The U.S. will continue to work with the Republic of Korea and other allies and partners to reduce the threat that North Korea poses to regional stability," the statement added.

Lee said Monday that South Korea would no longer tolerate the North's "brutality" and said the repressive communist regime would pay for the surprise March 26 torpedo attack.

He also vowed to cut off all trade with the North and take Pyongyang to the U.N. Security Council for punishment over the sinking of the warship Cheonan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/wo...5korea.html?hp

U.S. Backs South Korea in Cutting Trade With the North
By CHOE SANG-HUN and MARK LANDLER
Published: May 24, 2010

SEOUL, South Korea — Tensions escalated sharply Monday on the Korean peninsula, as South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said that his nation would sever nearly all trade with North Korea, deny North Korean merchant ships use of South Korean sea lanes and ask the United Nations Security Council to punish the North for what he called the deliberate sinking of a South Korean warship two months ago.

In Washington, the Obama administration said the South Korean measures were “entirely appropriate.” President Obama instructed American military commanders to coordinate closely with their South Korean counterparts to “insure readiness and deter aggression.”

“The Republic of Korea can continue to count on the full support of the United States,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in Beijing, where she was attending high-level talks between China and the United States that have been overshadowed by the crisis. “Our support for South Korea’s defense is unequivocal.”

The steps outlined by Mr. Lee in a nationally televised speech — coupled with new moves by South Korea’s military to resume “psychological warfare” propaganda broadcasts at the border after a six-year suspension — amounted to the most serious action the South could take short of an armed retaliation for the sinking of the ship, the South’s worst military loss since the Korean War ended in a truce in 1953.

“We have always tolerated North Korea’s brutality, time and again,” Mr. Lee said. “But now things are different. North Korea will pay a price corresponding to its provocative acts. Trade and exchanges between South and North Korea will be suspended.”

North Korea’s military immediately warned that if South Korea put up propaganda loudspeakers and slogans at the border, it would destroy them with artillery shells, the North’s official K.C.N.A. news agency reported.

Mr. Lee’s speech came just as economic and security talks between China and the United States began in Beijing. In meetings on Sunday evening and Monday, Mrs. Clinton pressed Chinese leaders to take a much tougher position toward North Korea, China’s historical ally. Mr. Lee’s speech was bound to add to the pressure on the Chinese, who have called for restraint.

Mrs. Clinton expressed confidence that the Chinese would agree to take at least some measures, noting that Beijing supported additional sanctions against Pyongyang after it tested a nuclear device last year. But other American officials cautioned that Beijing remains unconvinced of the need to punish Pyongyang in the case of the warship.

“I can say the Chinese recognize the gravity of the situation we face,” Mrs. Clinton said to reporters after Mr. Lee’s speech. “This is a highly precarious situation that the North Koreans have caused in the region; it is one that every country that neighbors or is in proximity to North Korea understands must be contained.”

President Hu Jintao did not mention North Korea in his speech welcoming the American delegation, though he did say the two countries should “strengthen coordination on regional hot-spot and global issues.”

North Korea has denied responsibility for the sinking of the South Korean warship, the Cheonan, on March 26, which left 46 sailors dead. A growing body of evidence assembled by the South has suggested a North Korean torpedo sank the ship.

Cutting off trade with North Korea is the most punishing unilateral action the South could take against the impoverished North. South Korea imports $230 million worth of seafood and other products from the North a year. North Korea earns $50 million a year making clothes and carrying out other business deals with South Korean companies.

Mr. Lee also said that South Korea would block North Korean merchant ships from using South Korean waters, which would force the ships to detour and use more fuel.

Besides these unilateral measures, South Korea will “refer this matter to the U.N. Security Council, so that the international community can join us in holding the North accountable,” Mr. Lee said. “Many countries around the world have expressed their full support for our position.”

Mrs. Clinton declined to detail specific steps the United States is weighing until after she meets Mr. Lee in Seoul on Wednesday. Other administration officials said the United States might conduct joint naval exercises with South Korea in anti-submarine warfare in the waters off the Korean peninsula.

But Mrs. Clinton did not suggest that the State Department would soon add North Korea’s name to its list of state sponsors of terrorism, as some members of Congress have demanded. Reinstating North Korea, which was taken off the list by the Bush administration, would only happen if there was evidence that it was involved in acts of terrorism, she said.

In a separate announcement, the Defense Ministry announced the resumption of propaganda blitzes aimed at the North, a cold war tactic with loudspeaker broadcasts along the border, propaganda radio broadcasts and leaflets dropped by balloon. The resumption was bound to irritate the North Korea leader, Kim Jong-il, whose grip on power rests partly on denying outside information to citizens.

North Korea has already warned that such a move would prompt it to shut down the border with the South completely, raising the possibility of stranding 1,000 South Korean workers at a joint industrial park in the North Korean town of Kaesong.

President Lee cited evidence that a multinational team of investigators released last week on the sinking of the ship, saying “no responsible country in the international community will be able to deny the fact that the Cheonan was sunk by North Korea.”

But he did not mention China by name.

Mr. Lee also stopped short of terminating the Kaesong industrial complex.

Delivering his speech from the Korean War Memorial in Seoul, Mr. Lee drew an analogy between the North’s surprise invasion that started the three-year Korean War on June 25, 1950, and the blast that sank the Cheonan.

“Again, the perpetrator was North Korea. Their attack came at a time when the people of the Republic of Korea were enjoying their well-earned rest after a hard day’s work,” he said. “Once again, North Korea violently shattered our peace.”

Choe Sang-hun reported from Seoul, and Mark Landler from Beijing.

[Zilong]

Great, more wars ahead

Should just glass em all bro

[Shenrien]

Inc. WW3

[Foras]

Inc. WW3

jps giving us gundams this time, no worries.

[Kazen]

jps giving us gundams this time, no worries.

Spoiler: show

IT'S A GUNDAM

[Vajra]

Anyone want to make a prediction on what will happen? I don't think this is just North Korea just saber rattling like usually. They're definitely not trying to troll us either. If this had been a US Navy Ship getting sunk by some NK torpedo they would be in serious doo doo...

BTW, Hillary is over in China and she's asking them to side with the US in condemning the North Korea break of armistice. If they don't join in the condemnation then she says she want's China to "not hurt us" which probably means "stay the f@#k out of the way, we goin past the DMZ and glassin em bro' ™."

[Kuya]

No predictions can be made because no one has detailed what the parties' interests are nor what gambits they are playing. The most important thing to find out here is what N. Korea's gambit is, and what it's trying to accomplish.

[Beckwin]

NK doesn't really seem to have a gambit other than internal propaganda. They can either drum up some gusto about how they've sunk a ship of the traitors to the south, or they can (and are) denying it to take the angle of the rest of the world, led by the lying traitors to the south, picking on the greatest nation ever.

They aren't really impressing any (potential) trade partners by doing this. On the conspiracy theory side, it could possibly be a way to become more isolated internationally in order to have more secrecy in weapons production and black market trading, but I just don't see that as being very plausible.

[Atreides]

I wonder if that whole shit with Mugabe wanting to gift KJI all those animals is indicative of increased food/humanitarian aid to North Korea by Zimbabwe as well, perhaps they feel a little more comfortable ratcheting up the tension and thus jeopardizing their US food aid now that they potentially have another source.

[Viq]

The most important thing to find out here is what N. Korea's gambit is, and what it's trying to accomplish.

Probably looks a little something like this:

Phoenix Down
Cure
Bubble
Decoy
Haste
Bravery
Pro
Attack

[Kerberoz]

No predictions can be made because no one has detailed what the parties' interests are nor what gambits they are playing. The most important thing to find out here is what N. Korea's gambit is, and what it's trying to accomplish.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph.../XanatosGambit

Obviously.

[Kuya]

Actually, i'm quite pleased with this thread. Usually they turn into discussions about the meticulous fashion in whish the US could invade Country X, and they never discuss what the US is actually doing or what country X is actually doing. In fact, this is probably the first time i've seen a thread about this subject that hasn't turned into a discussion about how the US could attack some country.

[Tymon]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37329506...ws-asiapacific

N. Korea severing all ties with S. Korea

Pyongyang reportedly says its troops are bracing for war

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea declared Tuesday that it would sever all communication and relations with Seoul as punishment for blaming the North for the sinking of a South Korean warship two months ago.

North Korea also announced it would expel all South Korean government officials working at a joint industrial park in the northern border town of Kaesong, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch monitored in Seoul late Tuesday.

We all know what's coming..

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3...4809499587.jpg

[BadKarma]

Someone photoshop Steven Colbert riding an American flag painted unicorn.

[Jodwahh]

I wonder if that whole shit with Mugabe wanting to gift KJI all those animals is indicative of increased food/humanitarian aid to North Korea by Zimbabwe as well, perhaps they feel a little more comfortable ratcheting up the tension and thus jeopardizing their US food aid now that they potentially have another source.

Zimbabwe is shit outta food at the moment. Since Mugabe kicked out the white farmers most the farms aren't producing shit anymore.