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Originally posted by mckyle
As for the Armistice, it's still intact. N.Korea are just just posturing at moment.
Originally posted by bpg131313
You're wrong.
"The US-led UN Command in South Korea yesterday rejected the Korean People's Army repudiation of the armistice agreement and said it remained binding on all parties, including the North Koreans. The regime said on Wednesday that it was no longer bound by the armistice, that legally a state of war had resumed on the Korean peninsula and that it would attack any force that tried to halt or inspect its shipping. "The armistice has served as the legal basis for the ceasefire in Korea for over 55 years and significantly contributes to stability in the region," a UN Command spokesman said. "The armistice remains in force and is binding on all signatories, including North Korea. The UN Command will adhere to the terms of the armistice and the mechanisms that support it."
Originally posted by lpowell0627
There were a lot of questions raised about why this is happening now and what China gets out of it.
A conventional war in the Korean peninsula could quickly kill tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people, estimates Joseph Cirincione, nuclear disarmament expert from the Ploughshares Fund.
“The border between the two Koreas is the most heavily armed in the world and most militarized section of the Earth as well right now. Conventional weapons alone could cause tremendous devastation in just the first few hours of a conflict.”
Originally posted by Toecutter.
Kim is Angry, he has been watching Mad TV Parodies of Himself
Seriously though my take on this is.
1. Stop giving foreign aid to them period, if a country can't stand on it's own two feet something is wrong, that needs fixing from the inside.
3. Call all troops home from south korea.
4. Sit back and watch.
Originally posted by Totalstranger
yeah I don't believe it either. too bad though, if we nuked them, maybe all those other rogue countries might believe us.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
As I pointed out earlier, we used nuclear weapons in preemptive strikes against Iraq and Afghanistan, so what makes you think we wouldnt in a nation that has ACTUAL MILITARY TECH AD CAPABILITY?
I'm not saying its going to happen. I am saying it is by no means out of the question though.
Originally posted by cautiouslypessimistic
Originally posted by Totalstranger
yeah I don't believe it either. too bad though, if we nuked them, maybe all those other rogue countries might believe us.
So, what makes the U.S. so great that all other countires *SHOULD* listen to them? What is your basis for this statement?
Also, why would you want to see wwIII?
Originally posted by runetang
I think Kim Jong-Il will definitely use nukes, even if they're weak nukes compared to modern nukes (ICBM warheads).
He's been devoting the entire countries budget to defense ever since he took power, at the expense of his people starving.
As long as the soldiers are well fed, he cares not.
He has the type of megalomanic personality to spark off a war with an atomic bomb simply because he is getting old and wants to do it before he dies; wants to experience it before he dies.
Perhaps he feels justified to get to play top General in a war. I mean .. he does consider that military HIS creation ...
It doesnt look good. At least China and Russia are not supporting N. K., although they wouldn't want to deal with us much either. It would be a stick situation for sure.
I still stand by my initial claim. The armistice is still intact. It's dissolution can only come about by joint declaration or recommencement of hostilities by all parties.
Originally posted by bpg131313
When North Korea backed out of the Armistice it was for their own reasons. Something is brewing.
Originally posted by intelinside451
With headlines like news.bbc.co.uk... "
Alert level raised in S. Korea and the U.S. and then North Korea's tantrum worries Russia and China seattletimes.nwsource.com...
Looks to me like this story has some substance to it. But on the other hand, if a story like this hit main stream today, the sheep would be running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I can see why this isn't blasted all over the news stations.