N Korea 'combat posture to hit US'

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

HEY! The last time I answered Oberon with that same message it started a firestorm!

Which wasn't the fault of you or the perfectly good message, though, so I recycled it.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

Which wasn't the fault of you or the perfectly good message, though, so I recycled it.

Okay, back on topic. I have missiles loaded with pretzels and they are aimed right at Godpolis!

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Okay, back on topic. I have missiles loaded with pretzels and they are aimed right at Godpolis!

We beat you to exterminating us, like, two hundreds of turns ago already. Nyah nyah nyah!

[Sailor Steve]

Well, I curse you from my grave then!

[Hottentot]

There should probably be a sequel, though. That AAR became stupidly popular for such a short project.

So fear not, there might still be use for those pretzels!

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

This.

Personally, I think we should watch them, but at the same time, ignore them,
and not give in to the temper tantrums of a "bratty child."

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

We beat you to exterminating us, like, two hundreds of turns ago already. Nyah nyah nyah!

Civilization

[mapuc]

I've been thinking

Every time the North Korean open their mouth and comes with their famous war rhetoric we just lift our eyebrows and yawn

Wonder how our reaction would be if they put action behind the words

Guess it would be a little more that just lifting our eyebrows

Markus

[Jimbuna]

If they fire on the south I should imagine there will be a retaliatory strike from both SK and the us but that strike would probably be measured so as not to escalate matters in the region.

China may appear to be tiring of their naughty neighbour but I still think they are the major player in the Korean peninsular.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Personally, I think we should watch them, but at the same time, ignore them,
and not give in to the temper tantrums of a "bratty child."

I would agree. We don't need to escalate the situation. But we need to be watchful and prepared. I hope we are talking long and hard with the Chinese about this?

[geetrue]

I had read somewhere that the young ruler of North korea was a game player, but this is all I could find: http://www.vice.com/en_se/read/north...me-is-terrible

[Red October1984]

I know what I'm about to say will become a flak magnet. Here's fair warning.

One of these days, I hope they put some action into those words. Anyone can talk. When they attack us, we'll just send in the troops and end this once and for all. We should've finished Korea in the 50's.

OPINION OPINION OPINION! I know that war is never the answer and that we shouldn't send our boys off to die. (I'm about to that age where I'd probably be going.) I don't want a big war to happen....but North Korea has it coming.

Once again. Strictly my opinion! The DPRK needs to go.

[geetrue]

What does this look like to you?:






Kim Jong Un inspects “new” military technology made by unit 1501 of the Korean People’s Army

The photo at the top of this page helps to make my point, but first a bit of background.
It is true that the North Korean military is very big, one of the world’s largest standing armies: 1.1 million troops! 4,200 tanks! 820 fighter jets! It’s also, by virtue of Pyongyang’s “military first” policies, perhaps the most privileged and best funded arm of the state, maybe outside of Kim Jong Un’s personal piggy banks.
Even the military’s size and political backing, though, can’t make up for North Korea’s isolation and impoverishment. Most of those fighter jets, for example, will never take off because the regime can’t afford enough fuel to fill them up. Even if they could somehow procure enough jet fuel, the fighters “would have been shot out of the sky in the first few hours of a conflict,” Dartmouth professor and North Korea-watcher Jennifer Lind told NPR recently. The tanks, likewise, are old and inferior.
North Korean propaganda frequently tries to make the case that, not only is their national army fearless and enormous, but it’s also breathtakingly advanced. This propaganda is for domestic consumption, of course, but seeing it from the outside is a nice reminder of the wide technological gap between North Korea and its neighbors South Korea and Japan, not to mention the United States.
Take the above photo, just released by North Korean state media from leader Kim Jong Un’s big trip to visit Unit 1501 of the Korean People’s Army, which is reportedly developing new and exciting military technology.

[Oberon]

Uh oh, they've discovered the Spectrum ZX!


@RO1984
The only problem with 'finishing the job from 1950' is that by unifying Korea, you break Korea. When the wall came down in 1989, there was jubilation across Europe, except for a few select individuals who were reluctant to see it go, not for any irrational hatred towards Germans, but because they knew that now someone would have to try and knit together two countries that have a development gap of thirty to forty years between each other, together into some sort of cohesive manner.
Even today, twenty four years on, there is still a large gap in sociological well being between the people of West Germany and East Germany, the physical wall may have come down, but there's still a wall there, and it'll be that way for a few years to come.
If North and South Korea unite, it will be thousands of times worse, North Korea makes East Germany look like Coruscant. There will be millions of people putting a massive strain on a Korean economy which has already been hit by the global recession. It would probably collapse overnight and take most of Asia with it. So it would be somewhat of a pyrrhic victory, but would make for good 'Mission accomplished' headlines in Washington, admittedly, because they haven't got to pick up the pieces.

No, sadly for those who want it, a united Korea would be more trouble than it would be worth. The only way to bring the two together would be gradual steps towards economic, technological and social integration with assistance from both America and China. Not very likely to happen.

[August]

He looks like a cartoon gangster in that picture.