While We Go Through Political Circuses

[Kathianne]

North Korea threatens:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/03/north-korea-readies-nuclear-weapons/81284690/


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North Korean Leader <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Kim Jong-un" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Kim Jong Un</culink> has ordered nuclear weapons to be readied for use, <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/South Korea" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">South Korea</culink>'s <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Yonhap" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Yonhap news agency</culink> reported Thursday, citing the official North Korean state news agency.

The shift in military posture would allow North Korea to carry out pre-emptive attacks, North Korea's <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Central News Agency" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Central News Agency</culink> said.

The move follows the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/United Nations Security Council" title="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">U.N. Security Council</culink>'s unanimous approval Wednesday of tough new sanctions against North Korea in response to its recent nuclear and missile tests. The resolution contains the toughest set of sanctions imposed by the Security Council in more than two decades, said <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/John Kerry" title="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Secretary of State John Kerry</culink>.

The sanctions require North Korean cargo ships and aircraft to be inspected before entering and after leaving the reclusive country. They would also prohibit small arms and other conventional weapons sales to North Korea.Just hours after the Security Council resolution passed, North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea, according to the South Korean defense ministry.


The extent of North Korea's nuclear arsenal is unknown. The nation claimed in January that it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb at a test site, but third-party experts and U.S. leaders expressed doubts.


White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said at the time that initial analysis by U.S. intelligence agencies was “not consistent with North Korean claims of a successful hydrogen bomb test.” Seismic activity was consistent with some kind of atomic detonation, however.


The United States is building a network of ground-based missile interceptors designed to counter a threat from countries such as North Korea. The Pentagon said it is on track to have 44 such interceptors ready by the end of next year. Some are already on line.

[NightTrain]

The UN is just now getting around to inspecting NK ships? How many times have they been caught selling nuclear related technology to other madmen dictators?

If the little nutjob keeps up his weapon-launching tantrums, he's going to find himself nuked. The failsafes don't always work.

[Kathianne]

The UN is just now getting around to inspecting NK ships? How many times have they been caught selling nuclear related technology to other madmen dictators?

If the little nutjob keeps up his weapon-launching tantrums, he's going to find himself nuked. The failsafes don't always work.

We still have lots of troops in S. Korea.

[Black Diamond]

We still have lots of troops in S. Korea.

50,000?

[Kathianne]

50,000?

I think it's about 1/2 that, still many in close proximity.

[namvet]

sooner or later the midget has to pull something out his ass to show the world

[NightTrain]

We still have lots of troops in S. Korea.

There's that. Only reason the commies haven't gone in to grab SK.

I was talking to an Army guy a while back, he said our troops would be a small speedbump if NK mobilized and rushed. No weapons to speak of, but millions of fanatical peasants that are utterly brainwashed.

I suppose we keep a close satellite eye on them, looking for signs of troop movements to the border... and if that's detected, we'd rush a bunch of aircraft there until the Navy can get on the scene.

Japan isn't far away, they'd help out.

[Black Diamond]

sooner or later the midget has to pull something out his ass to show the world

Napoleon syndrome??

[Kathianne]

There's that. Only reason the commies haven't gone in to grab SK.

I was talking to an Army guy a while back, he said our troops would be a small speedbump if NK mobilized and rushed. No weapons to speak of, but millions of fanatical peasants that are utterly brainwashed.

I suppose we keep a close satellite eye on them, looking for signs of troop movements to the border... and if that's detected, we'd rush a bunch of aircraft there until the Navy can get on the scene.

Japan isn't far away, they'd help out.

As long as they see us as an ally.

[NightTrain]

As long as they see us as an ally.

These days, who knows.

I think Canada might still like us. Maybe.

[DLT]

North Korea threatens:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/03/north-korea-readies-nuclear-weapons/81284690/

Every time I read about that NK fathead (as well as the Iranian diptwits) making more threats against the western world....

the thought keeps occurring to me. The world really DOES need more glass parking lots! If for nothing else, to serve as a clear lesson to tyrants everywhere re: "Don't let this happen to you."

That, of course, is the logical me. The problem with that thinking is...this is anything but a logical world we live in (now). And instead, we (America) will probably be the ones ending up with multiple glass parking lots....due to the Traitor-In-Chief and the stuckonstupid voters that wouldn't recognize a real patriot/statesman/leader (Cruz) if they stumbled over one in the dark.

[pete311]

The NK elite don't want war. They want to keep their lifestyle. Mutual destruction does not achieve that.

[DLT]

The NK elite don't want war. They want to keep their lifestyle. Mutual destruction does not achieve that.

I know. But the constant idiotic saber-rattling does get annoying, doesn't it? Sooner or later...they will rattle with/poke the wrong rattlesnake...

and they will get bitten.

Imagine someone with the temperament of Donald Trump, for instance, at the helm with his finger on the nuke button, on a bad hair day.

[Kathianne]

The NK elite don't want war. They want to keep their lifestyle. Mutual destruction does not achieve that.

Huh

[pete311]

Huh

What part is huh for you?