Nuclear Bomb Threat on NYC!! WTF!!!!

[DJRiDDeR]

Seriously, what the hell..

http://www.cnn.com/2013/30/01/world/...013/index.html

[JohnRedWolf87]

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calling b.s. and false alarm, no offense to you ridder, jus sayin

[Razor]

this isnt a madmatt thread?


surprising

[psychoangel691]

Page is dead, but I have heard a lot about N Korea wanting to test nuclear weapons on us. Idk if this was pertaining to that.

[DotKritic]

Originally Posted by Razor

this isnt a madmatt thread?


surprising

I know, right?

[Choofers]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/wo...sify.html?_r=0

Here's a working link.

Kim Jong-un is turning out to be one crazy motherfucker. I wonder how the US would retaliate if NK actually fired nukes our way.

[Mourningfall]

They'd write an angry well thought out letter. Then maybe pee in his mailbox.

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by Choofers

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/wo...sify.html?_r=0

Here's a working link.

Kim Jong-un is turning out to be one crazy motherfucker. I wonder how the US would retaliate if NK actually fired nukes our way.

North Korea probably wouldn't be a country anymore.

That is supposed to be the ultimate deterrent for using nuclear weapons. Assuming the person with such power isn't suicidal.

[axith]

I like how the writer of the article that Choofers provided drew out the irony in North Korea's official name.

[kommisar]

and that will be the day america marches on pyongyang

[Reincarnate]

It's nothing new. North Korea has a history of sabre-rattling just to get free shit because its run so poorly and can't sustain itself otherwise. They are unlikely to attack the US head-on (and if they did it would be on the west coast / probably the SF area, not NYC).

Besides, their missile tech sucks right now and so if they seriously did try to attack us, their projectiles would probably fall into the water. They'd be more likely to direct attacks at US assets in HK/Japan/SK/China/etc.

Either way, it'd be suicidal for them. We do have stuff like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_B...Defense_System

Basically NK is like the drunk guy who shows up at the bar while you're out with your friends -- he runs out of money and starts yelling at people/making idle threats until someone walks over, tells him to shut the fuck up, and gives him a beer to keep him quiet. If that guy ever tried to pull something, he'd just get the shit kicked out of him.

[igotrhythm]

I was thinking more like the petulant, attention-seeking little kid, but the drunk guy works too.

Still, the man might have a point: Instead of reforming the economy, start a war and have the economy fix itself as a result, but NK is being awfully passive-aggressive about it.

[AlexDest]

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[d4u7211]

Originally Posted by igotrhythm

Still, the man might have a point: Instead of reforming the economy, start a war and have the economy fix itself as a result, but NK is being awfully passive-aggressive about it.

Unless the U.S. gets pissed and starts a war first, in which case Korea will no longer have an economy XD

It really is like a little bully openly making fun of a much larger person just to get attention and make himself feel better. Sometimes, if you push it too far, the big guy will punch you in your tiny face and break your teeth down your throat DDDDDD

[Crashfan3]

North Korea is allied with China, so even if they did shoot some missiles at us, I don't think the US would start sending troops there. We are not really in a position to piss off China right now, which is probably the only reason North Korea hasn't already had its ass kicked. However, if one of those nukes hit an American city and did serious damage and/or killed people, I for one would hope the US would tell China to mind its own goddamn business and then get to whooping on North Korea.

[kommisar]

China isn't retarded. Do you really think they would side with North Korea if they started shit with America? Unlikely. They are too economically dependent on 'MERIKA

[adlp]

i get a nightly newsletter in my inbox almost everyday that reports the actions of foreign government agencies that directly affect the US in the same day. it's called KGS Nightwatch and you can put yourself on their list here:

http://www.kforcegov.com/Services/IS/NightWatch.aspx

these past couple nights have been talking about the Mali conflict, and now im guessing tonight they'll talk about the DPRK again. this is from the 27th

Originally Posted by Nightwatch

For the night of 27 January 2013


North Korea: The Korean Central News Agency published in English on 26 January that, "A consultative meeting of officials in the fields of state security and foreign affairs took place as regards the grave situation prevailing in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), first chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), convened the meeting and guided it….


(NightWatch omitted a section that contains a by-now familiar justification for North Korean behavior and a screed against the US and the UN. The news item concludes with the paragraphs below.)


"… It also became clear that there can be no denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula before the world has been denuclearized."


"At the consultative meeting Kim Jong Un expressed the firm resolution to take substantial and high-profile important state measures in view of the prevailing situation as the stand had already been clarified by the National Defense Commission and the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK through their statements that powerful physical countermeasures would be taken to defend the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country.""He advanced specific tasks to the officials concerned."


Comment: The operative words are "to defend the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country." This North Korean leadership justifies its missiles, nuclear and space programs as programs that any sovereign state has the right to build, not as proving the North is the rightful leader of a reunified Korea. The main complaint is the North is being thwarted in its "economic construction" by the US and others.
The language is not the language of military conflict or of reunification by force, but of confrontation between the US and North Korea. The US is picking on North Korea and North Korea means to stand up to the US, but without going to war.
South Korean news services, quoting officials sources, have reported no signs of irregular activity in the North Korean armed forces. It is the middle of the winter training cycle.
When Kim Chong-il was in charge, rants and threats always were calculated to obtain concessions from the US, the UN, China, South Korea, or anyone else interested in donating to the Kim family business.
The diatribes and threats of the past week contain no invitation to donate in return for North Korean restraint. More importantly, the statements seem to ignore the context of the past 60 years. North Korea is not like any other state for many reasons rooted in that history. Kim Chong-il understood that. Kim Jung Un appears determined to escape that legacy to some extent, but his tactics are achieving a degree of isolation that Allied policy has failed to achieve.

[Garquillex]

In the article, they said the furthest the rocket could go is Hawaii and that it could take 3 years before a missile could hit mainland US

Even then, the missile would never go to New York. It would have to fly over canada or fly over 90% of the US to do that.

[Choofers]

maybe they'd ask china to borrow a nuclear sub, because they have 9 of em lol