Tennessee Kid Cooper

Apr 4 2013, 07:49 PM

Well, personally, I'm ready for Fallout. -shot-

Get to the Vault? -stabbed-

Pip-Boy? -wounded-

Radiation-wise, that will definitely have a huge, negative impact on the planet, people, and everything in-between. Obviously.

Bowie

Apr 4 2013, 08:17 PM

Nothing is going to happen because the regime knows they don't have what it takes to fight a full scale war, if they use their only threat.. nukes/biological weaponry (which are faulty and inaccurate at long ranges).. they will cease to exist.

Apparently there is some social unrest in the country as well because of the relatively young age of Kim Jong Un, lots of North Korean soldiers along the northern border with China are defecting because they are hungry, a vast majority of food and resources are channeled into Pyonhyang and along the DMZ with South Korea, North Korean soldiers are mostly surviving on mediocre potato crops and the like.

The sanctions are hitting North Korea and its military real hard, my guess is that they cave before this even gets close to being a war. I just hope it doesn't take a toll on the citizens who have little or nothing to do with the "war" lead up directly.

Shapeshiftress

Apr 4 2013, 07:15 PM

I agree with TUC. I don't think Russia would want to fight with us. I could be wrong, but...eh.

Does anyone consider the potential for nuclear fallout? Even if the middle itself doesn't strike, the fallout itself can spread radiation and kill over time. = (

So if it hits Texas or Los Angeles...I could be saying "adios" sooner than I hoped.

I suppose the size and strength of the missiles should be taken into consideration when analyzing the potential threat level.

Still...I have to wonder...would any of the other major superpowers back North Korea? I kind of doubt it, but the possibility remains...

Mightyena

Apr 5 2013, 01:30 PM

Shapeshiftress

Apr 4 2013, 07:15 PM

I agree with TUC. I don't think Russia would want to fight with us. I could be wrong, but...eh.

Does anyone consider the potential for nuclear fallout? Even if the middle itself doesn't strike, the fallout itself can spread radiation and kill over time. = (

So if it hits Texas or Los Angeles...I could be saying "adios" sooner than I hoped.

I suppose the size and strength of the missiles should be taken into consideration when analyzing the potential threat level.

Still...I have to wonder...would any of the other major superpowers back North Korea? I kind of doubt it, but the possibility remains...

Their tech doesn't even have the capability to reach america. It's all for show.

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Assuming he is not suicidal, Mr Kim will not consciously choose such a course. But he also faces a conundrum of his own making. Having started this crisis and stretched even his regime's repertoire of chilling threats, Mr Kim would lose face if he simply cancels the confrontation. He might decide that honour – and the credibility of future threats – demands an incident of some kind.

His eye could then settle on a South Korean island or warship. In 2010, the North torpedoed a South Korean naval vessel, killing 46 sailors, before bombarding an island with heavy artillery, claiming another four lives. South Korea, anxious to avoid escalation, chose not to retaliate.

Mr Kim may decide that repeating the trick is the best way out of his predicament. If so, he will hope that the South will stick to its policy of non-retaliation.

And that is where his gamble might fail. South Korea's previous government was criticised for its failure to respond to the attacks of 2010. President Park Geun-hye, the country's newly elected leader, has already promised not to follow that example.

"They don't really have the option of heroic restraint this time round," said Hugh Chalmers from the Royal United Services Institute. "There would be a response. The question is how they grade their response to avoid further escalation."

Yet an escalation could happen anyway. Any retaliation by the South might lead Mr Kim, an untested and perhaps hot-headed leader, to launch a bigger counter-strike of his own.

Cy-Fox v1.0

Apr 6 2013, 12:53 PM

North Korea knows all it takes is the wrong heading and we'll start excavating the Pyongyang City Pool and Parking Lot.

North Korea striking the mainland U.S with their nukes. Refer here to my reaction on such a possibility:

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5) The aggravation of fault lines in U.S.-Chinese relations. Every time North Korea does something wrong, there is an inevitable outcry that China should solve this problem for us. The logic is, as the North's closest political and economic ally, Beijing has more influence with Pyongyang than anyone else. China, however, is right in claiming that its influence is limited, not only because the North Koreans are adept at resisting pressure from all comers, but also because Beijing has its own national interests. China's top priority has been to avoid instability on its borders--not the U.S. prime objective of denuclearization of the North--and that means making sure North Korea stays solvent in order to avoid collapse and the emergence of a unified Korea aligned with the U.S. on its doorstep.

If Pyongyang's arsenal continues to grow and China does not join in efforts to stop it, chances are this problem will aggravate fault lines already appearing between Beijing and Washington on a whole raft of issues in Asia and elsewhere. The split between the two will deepen, as will the divide between China and South Korea and Japan, who remain the target of threats by Pyongyang. That will create more tensions in a vital region already beset by a host of other problems.

Smashmaster

Apr 17 2013, 01:28 PM

If North Korea's leader had any sense he'd take a look at Japan and remember not to "wake the sleeping giant." (no offense to the Japanese I think they are cool and am sorry for what happened between them and us during WWII)

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If NK attacked SK instead of us, would we back them with our current leadership? Would Austrailia? Japan? (as I recall our treaty didn't give them much military force, but they could finance SK.)