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originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: Eldest808
Hopefully China does step in finally and put an end to this. If nothing else this proves just how selfish and careless Fatty Kim really is.
If you're stupid enough to radiate one of the few friends you've got in the world by carelessly testing your nukes right next to them then you don't deserve friends anymore.
If I set my friend on fire because I insisted on playing with fire then I don't deserve a friend and shouldn't be allowed to play with fire.
originally posted by: RAY1990
a reply to: 3daysgone
Improvements equal testing.
The US still tests their arsenal, still improve them. They just have the technology to test on the smallest scale possible.
I imagine nearly all nuclear powers can do this.
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: makemap
The US has nothing to do with NK testing their Nuke too close to China and allowing the radiation fallout to cross the boarder into China.
BTW, the Korean War ended already.
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: Abysha
a reply to: Eldest808
I still think a smart gamble is to wait until Lil' Kim pisses off China enough to step in. If the radiation is significant, the least they'll do is tell him "no more nuke testing, dumb ass" and that would resolve what most of the international community is stressed about.
It won't resolve nothing. He is done testing, there is no need for him to test ever again because he achieved the holy grail of H Bomb thermonuclear detonation. You cannot scare the world any further than that.
originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: makemap
sorry i miss understood your post. thought you meant that the U.S. started the war.
Stalin initially did not think the time was right for a war in Korea. Chinese Communist forces were still embroiled in the Chinese Civil War, while U.S. forces remained stationed in South Korea.[90] By spring 1950, he believed that the strategic situation had changed: Mao's Communist forces had secured final victory in China, U.S. forces had withdrawn from Korea, and the Soviets detonated their first nuclear bomb, breaking the U.S. atomic monopoly. As the U.S. had not directly intervened to stop the communist victory in China, Stalin calculated that they would be even less willing to fight in Korea, which had much less strategic significance. The Soviets had also cracked the codes used by the U.S. to communicate with their embassy in Moscow, and reading these dispatches convinced Stalin that Korea did not have the importance to the US that would warrant a nuclear confrontation.[91] Stalin began a more aggressive strategy in Asia based on these developments, including promising economic and military aid to China through the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance.[92]
In April 1950, Stalin gave Kim permission to invade the South under the condition that Mao would agree to send reinforcements if needed. Stalin made it clear that Soviet forces would not openly engage in combat, to avoid a direct war with the United States.[93] Kim met with Mao in May 1950. Mao was concerned the U.S. would intervene but agreed to support the North Korean invasion. China desperately needed the economic and military aid promised by the Soviets.[94] However, Mao sent more ethnic Korean PLA veterans to Korea and promised to move an army closer to the Korean border.[95] Once Mao's commitment was secured, preparations for war accelerated.[96][97]
Korean War