North Korea Fire Missle over Nothern Japan

I wonder if China are looking at this from a view that the United States would potentially have to dial down their military presence in South East Asia if North Korea did have the capability to launch nuclear weapons.

I hope I never live to see nuclear conflict. Even if Europe never got hit the economic domino effect if we lost say Tokyo or Seoul would be unthinkable. Just thinking about it makes me want to go and watch a comedy film or something.

Johnny Ryall wrote:I hope I never live to see nuclear conflict. Even if Europe never got hit the economic domino effect if we lost say Tokyo or Seoul would be unthinkable. Just thinking about it makes me want to go and watch a comedy film or something.

Dr Stangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb?

lex-man wrote:
Johnny Ryall wrote:I hope I never live to see nuclear conflict. Even if Europe never got hit the economic domino effect if we lost say Tokyo or Seoul would be unthinkable. Just thinking about it makes me want to go and watch a comedy film or something.

Dr Stangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb?

Threads?

Moggy wrote:
lex-man wrote:
Johnny Ryall wrote:I hope I never live to see nuclear conflict. Even if Europe never got hit the economic domino effect if we lost say Tokyo or Seoul would be unthinkable. Just thinking about it makes me want to go and watch a comedy film or something.

Dr Stangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb?

Threads?

It's not a comedy.

lex-man wrote:
Moggy wrote:
lex-man wrote:
Johnny Ryall wrote:I hope I never live to see nuclear conflict. Even if Europe never got hit the economic domino effect if we lost say Tokyo or Seoul would be unthinkable. Just thinking about it makes me want to go and watch a comedy film or something.

Dr Stangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb?

Threads?

It's not a comedy.

Depends on your sense of humour.

Threads is the most terrifying movie ever.

I think we should create a Threads drinking game. It can play a double duty for when we have an actual nuclear war.

A Republican Senator telling the BBC yesterday that an American military strike against North Korea was "inevitable" if something doesn't change.

'I'm assuming the worst. Im assuming we drop one bomb, he fires at South Korea and maybe Japan. There will be thousands of deaths...'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-c ... -us-attack

KK wrote:A Republican Senator telling the BBC yesterday that an American military strike against North Korea was "inevitable" if something doesn't change.

'I'm assuming the worst. Im assuming we drop one bomb, he fires at South Korea and maybe Japan. There will be thousands of deaths...'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-c ... -us-attack

I don't think that's the worst outcome. Although it sounds pretty bad.

North Korea isn't going to stop testing Nuclear weapons. I don't see this ending in any way other than war. It's just a matter of when.

The US isn't going to do diddly squat because
1) North Korea has nukes
2) China is their ally and they also have nukes

Sadly nothing will change for the North Koreans until there's a revolution, and sadly that probably will not happen until there is a revolution in China.

As long as NK only continue to test weapons then I don't think the US will do anything about it. Obviously a lot of voices there want to take NK out but they are in a situation ow where whatever preemptivel attack the US do it will likely result in significant deaths in SK.

It's been reported that they are preparing another missile.

I guess this post is a 'no gooseberry fool Sherlock' moment.

There really doesn't seem to be any good solutions to this.

Invading/attacking them will lead to unimaginable death.

Letting them carry on will probably eventually lead to unimaginable death.

I guess the only hope is to somehow get China onside to help take Kim's regime out, but I can't see China wanting to get actively involved - the risk to them of millions of starving refugees will put them off. China will also worry about the US "taking control" or at least having a US leaning unified Korea on their doorstep.

It's a mess and I don't think it's going to get better.

The CIA need to up their game, how hard can it be to get an assassin into Pyongyang?

They aren't going to use a nuke anytime soon as it basically would be a suicide strike. They've wanted nuclear capabilities for years in order to be self-sufficient. They've been able to strike Seoul and Tokyo for some time now, with fairy devastating non-nuclear weaponry but have always been vulnerable to American aggression.

They've wanted to be a nuclear power so they have a bargaining ploy. The whole region is a Mexican standoff whereas previously NK were only able to point to a few others in this stalemate, they'll soon be able to hit America too.

For Americans, and arguably I reckon some quarters would trade a strike on Seoul for an end to the Kim regime, it's a lot different when it's not some far off Asian capital in their sights but LA or somewhere.

It's basically a Cold War situation again. NK want nukes as an defensive weapon, to protect and uphold its regime from outside pressure.

One solution which someone must surely have thought of, is why don't America basically say they'll withdraw from the entire peninsula if the area's unified in the South's favour? The big problem is that China don't fear NK, as there's always going to be about four other enemies ahead of them in any pecking order.

Parksey wrote:One solution which someone must surely have thought of, is why don't America basically say they'll withdraw from the entire peninsula if the area's unified in the South's favour?

That would require a dictator willingly giving up their power. Has that ever happened in the history of the world?

*cue loads of examples that I hadn't thought of being thrown at stupid-me :shifty:

Some kind of 'expert' the other day on the news suggested that the best option would be to kill Kim Jong-un and then effectively have China manage the country and gradually bring it into line and onto a more 'reasonable' path. How that would work though, at any level, I don't know. Sounds good though.

Apparently China really aren't happy with North Korea and I thinking about cutting off their oil supply.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... im-jong-un

Some other twat will probably just take his place.

North Korea Fire Missle over Nothern Japan

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