Kim orders rockets on standby to attack

[BMCSean]

Also, disregard posts 59-63, 65-69, 71, 76, 78, 80-83, 85-89, 91, 94-96, 100-103, 105-113, 127-191, 193-196, and 202-240.

Exempt 234 from that list, sir.

[jw33]

There is no money to be made in a swift, thorough ass kicking. You have to draw the mission out over years with vague objectives and goals only to end in either a tie or a loss so that there are options to start it back up later.

It is all about fueling the military industrial complex.

Winner-winner chicken dinner....

[Moose242]

The puny United States Military will get crushed by the glorious forces of North Korea. I mean the odds are only slightly in America's favor:

http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail.asp?form=form&country1=United-States-of-America&country2=North-Korea&Submit=Compare+Countries

[YALE]

FYI: the Washington Times is a hack paper.

[stevo]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/04...uclear-attack/

Still a unnamed source, but major media has picked it up.

We won't know if they are considering an attack for sure until a few hundred missiles are captured on video flying overhead.

Stevo

This dumbass is about half a decision away from being liquified.

[stevo]

We have roughly 28,000 American sons and daughters on that border.

I would wager we have quite a bit at stake.

Other than the stake in US lives, S. Korea is the 6th largest trade partner with the US, has the 16th largest economy in the world, one of the top industrial production hotspots and is the top country in communications and information technology on the planet. Most people think it is some back-water third world country.

Stevo

[Baron Von Crowder]

Jeez... people are going to bitch about anything posted no matter what.

They'll argue in circles with each other all day if you let them.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

See? Isn't it an easier argument to make when it's not one, unverified source commenting on it? It's still just two sources, using unspecified sources of their own to try and explain it, but I'm absolutely not going to fight you on that because I don't know any better than you or they do. It's absolutely a possibility that they're ready to get involved in an armed conflict with us and that the buildup along the border is for that reason; all I'm suggesting is that the possibility exists that that's not the case.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/04/03/north-korea-warns-military-cleared-to-wage-nuclear-attack/

Still a unnamed source, but major media has picked it up.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/u-s-troops-stand-poised-to-respond-at-north-korea-border/

The United States says it stands “poised to respond” at the border of North and South Korea, where U.S. troops are on high alert.
“They have ratcheted up their bellicose, dangerous rhetoric and some of the actions they’ve taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger,” Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said.
The U.S. is sending a missile battery to Guam and two guided missile destroyers are on the border of South Korea, joining Navy warships already poised to shoot down an incoming missile.
U.S. warplanes, including fighter jets, U-2 spy planes and an A-10 attack jet, are in the South Korean skies today as part of a massive military exercise overseen by the U.S. lieutenant general who brought in F-22 stealth fighters as well. They’d be first into the North if war broke out.

(Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)

“Their super cruise capability, their stealth capability gives them the opportunity to go places no other aircraft can go,” Lt. Gen. Jan-Marc Jouas, deputy commander of the U.S. forces in South Korea, said.
In the secretive North stands the largest special operations force in the world. It is the head of the spear of the world’s fourth largest military with 1,700 planes, 800 ships and 4,000 tanks.
But all the military and the nuclear weapons program, allowing them to threaten the world, has come at a very high price.
PHOTOS: Inside North Korea
At a border checkpoint, it is easy to tell where the North begins because there are no trees.
The people chop them down for firewood to keep warm and eat the softer roots. The lack of food and nutrition is so bad in North Korea that UNICEF estimates 28 percent of the children have stunted growth. One study found that on average North Koreans are a full two inches shorter than South Koreans.
Rare footage on Japanese television shows what are believed to be political prison camps where prisoners, men and women are kept on the verge of starvation, forced to do back-breaking labor.
With electricity scarce, North Korea is dark at night. It is a third world nation now commanding the attention of a superpower.
Despite North Korea’s formidable military power, the U.S. is certain it would eventually be crushed in any type of war by the U.S. and South Korea but North Korea could no doubt inflict substantial damage if there was a surprise attack.
ABC News’ Martha Raddatz and Brian Hartman contributed to this report.

[mikec]

They actually had a pilot defect a couple of years ago, and the South had no idea he was in their airspace until he was putting his landing gear down.

The people who have something to fear here are the South Koreans, not us. Yes, we'll be tangentially involved (which we'll turn into massive involvement), but the South Koreans have far more at stake.

We have roughly 28,000 American sons and daughters on that border.

I would wager we have quite a bit at stake.

[95DRGT]

Can I get another recap-my head hurts again

[Denny]

Jeez... people are going to bitch about anything posted no matter what.

[Slowhand]

This article is from some hack backwoods blogger-

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/3/risky-business-china-continues-military-buildup-ne/?amp

Stevo

See? Isn't it an easier argument to make when it's not one, unverified source commenting on it? It's still just two sources, using unspecified sources of their own to try and explain it, but I'm absolutely not going to fight you on that because I don't know any better than you or they do. It's absolutely a possibility that they're ready to get involved in an armed conflict with us and that the buildup along the border is for that reason; all I'm suggesting is that the possibility exists that that's not the case.

[Slowhand]

I disagree. China has a standing agreement just like we do with the South to aid North Korea in a time of conflict.

Russia would want nothing to do with it. It is too busy right now rebuilding the USSR.

20 years ago? Perhaps. But the tone the Chinese have already taken with this event reeks of "Whichever one of you dipshits pulls the first trigger is the one that gets the hammer dropped on you."

The Chinese are endlessly devoted to their economy. Trade with the rest of the world will become very difficult for them if they're devoting their resources to fighting half the rest of the world. Going to war with your biggest customer isn't exactly ideal, especially when an unprovoked attack will generate a lot of sympathy from the rest of the Western world (sympathy we won't have in the event of a preemptive strike of our own).