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Farsala on 08 March 2013
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mrstickball said:
binary solo said:
mrstickball said:

Its getting interesting in Korea...

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2013/03/06/0200000000AEN20130306003500315.HTML

There was a twitter feed that said that the DPRK was going to nullify the 1953 truce if the military exercises between the ROK and USA were going to continue on March 11th. If the DPRK does a full mobilization... Watch out.

Ha Ha! Watch out for what? More bluff and bluster? Shit even China has had a gutsfull of this petulent child of a country. DPRK are as much of a threat as a kitten. It might biteandscratch a bit, but in the end it can so easily be crushed that it's not going to seek to draw too much blood.

They are run by some Megalomanic tyrants. But one thing you can rely on with these peopleis a very strong sense of self preservation and a desire to remain in power for life. So in the end they are not going to do anything that gives America cause to go ballistic on them.

I think people in RoK living close to the DMZ have a bit of cause for concern and my sympathies are with them. But for any Americans thinking of stocking up their 1950s bomb shelters, wake up from your delusions.

That wasn't what I meant.

I When I said "Watch out", I mean that from the standpoint of hostilities between the DPRK and ROK. It won't effect the US. There is nothing the DPRK can do to the US. However, that doesn't mean that there won't be hundreds of thousands of deaths from the war, mostly on the Northern side of the border.

 

@Farsala - the US would get in far more trouble if we didn't nuke the DPRK if they in fact nuked South Korea. They are underneath of our nuclear umbrella. If we didn't retaliate, it'd send a clear message to every country that America simply will not respond to a nuclear attack on any other nation. This would do far more harm than good (it'd promote probably a dozen countries to develop nuclear weapons, and encourage them to deploy nuclear weapons against eachother, as we wouldn't intervene). Additionally, the US wouldn't have to hit the DPRK with a huge nuke to send a message. A small, tactical weapon against a DPRK research site or nuclear base would be more than enough, and have no long-term effects.

I just feel like if South Korea or Japan got nuked by North Korea then they would retaliate with their own nukes. Would be no use for US to send nukes too. But if US got nuked by North Korea I would hope that US would not nuke them, because then any country would know that if you mess with US then you will get killed. And that is not really the image US needs.