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That has always been my biggest concern. One small thing could light this powder keg.
The biggest catastrophes/failures/accidents/wars are usually the result of a series of small, benign, seemingly insignificant events that are not respected, but eventually create a major tipping point.
We don't know what they're capable of. Cut the nonsense about them only wanting attention. Something needs to be done. At least deploy a ship off the coast of the peninsula.
Nobody prior to 9/11 thought the US was susceptible to any threat.
The John McCain and the Decatur are already off the coast because of this. Don't read the news?
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Originally Posted by knowledgeiskey
Don't you think China would've told them already to stop the threats?
China and Russia have told them to cool their jets.
That has always been my biggest concern. One small thing could light this powder keg.
The biggest catastrophes/failures/accidents/wars are usually the result of a series of small, benign, seemingly insignificant events that are not respected, but eventually create a major tipping point.
I do not feel an egomaniac threatening nuclear way is an insignificant event
Actually, I'm beginning to think the new leadership is itching to try out the nuke capability. Pick the biggest, baddest adversary, swing your foot and kick as hard as you can, and see just how much damage you can do before you get your toe-nails trimmed. I don't think he's joking. I suspect he thinks he can get in the first lick, then plans to keep pressure on and see just how far the momentum will carry him.
Quite possible that he's over-estimating his own ability, and under-estimating the opponent. But, the government there has the populace living in a dream world, so why shouldn't the leadership do the same?
That has always been my biggest concern. One small thing could light this powder keg.
The biggest catastrophes/failures/accidents/wars are usually the result of a series of small, benign, seemingly insignificant events that are not respected, but eventually create a major tipping point.
Didn't the US ignore all the chatter and activity by Al Qaeda before 9/11? There was so much ignored that if the US did act on what they picked up there is a possibility that 9/11 might never have happened.
I think the US should just move on NK. If NK releases a missile it may not reach the US, but it's going to hit something that will give the US reason to go in. Apparently the range NK can get is Guam.
Maybe Kim Jong wants the US to attack. We devastate them, then when it's over, we apologize, pour billions of dollars into the country, and then they can start over again, just stronger.
If Al Qaeda was openly sending out messages about another attack on the US and the US knew where these Al Qaeda terrorists were, would the US do a wait-and-see, ignore it like they did the first time, call it rhetoric, or would they be sending drones out?
Much has been said about North Korea's armed forces of over a million men, but South Korea has an army that isn't exactly small and the two forces are roughly equal in size when you include the reserves of both nations. South Korea would also have a defensive advantage and far more modern equipment. Keep in mind that Iraq had more modern equipment and a compared sized army in the First Persian Gulf War.
North Korea acts tough because they have a lot less to lose than South Korea. Would North Korea be able to conquer South Korea? No, even if the Americans stayed out of it. What they can do is damage several of South Korea's major cities and kill a lot of people. They know they can say and whatever they want and most of the their neighbors will just put up with it because even though they would lose it all, they still don't have much to lose. North Korea is a basically a mostly undeveloped 1950s Communist country while South Korea is modern and relatively developed. Even in the very unlikely scenario that the North were to successfully conquer the South and done so by destroying much of the country, they still would gain tremendously. They would unified Korea under Communist rule, have access to a bunch of modern technology, an educated populace, and the best farmland in Korea. What would the South gain from turning back a North Korean invasion? A bunch of starving peasants, infrastructure that is almost completely incompatible with South Korean infrastructure, a bunch of people who are coming to terms with the fact that most of what they have been told is a lie and that their knowledge and education is almost completely useless to the outside world, and infertile farmland.
DPRK is quite a powerful military. Forget strikes on the mainland - that's jazz, but they can mess up ROK with their 1 million man army who are fanatically loyal. Their SOF is excellent and they have a few dozen nukes that can lay waste ROK and US bases there - and in Japan.
I seriously doubt anyone in the Admin or Pentagon is taking it as a joke.
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