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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on December 20, 2010, 12:58:15 am
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http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20101220/south-korea-artillery-drills-101220/
South Korea has started firing artillery in the direction directly away from North Korea, NK has said this would be an act of war and will retaliate for SK firing upon the water they unilaterally declared theirs, SK has said if NK fires on them "massive retaliation" will result, if everyone does what they said they will do we will have a war on our hands within the hour.
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Technically the war never ended so the cease fire would just be over.
Personally I have the feeling that the idiot leader wants to go out in a blaze of glory and take his entire country with him.
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Am I the only one who wants us (take that particular pronoun however you want to) to preemptive strike the hell out of NK so the big cities close to the border on both sides don't get the living daylights bombed and shelled out of them?
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that would not work how you want it to work.
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Drills are over already.
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and as of now NK has done nothing, about what I expected.
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Hooray wars not starting!
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yet.
one of the Kims could yet, wake up and decide to tell their military to level Seoul because the color blue is unpleasant.
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and as of now NK has done nothing, about what I expected.
They said they're going to play nice. (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/north-korea-says-it-wont-retaliate/story-fn3dxity-1225974129381)
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Kim Jong-il got himself a one month ban after shelling that island, so the war has been postponed.
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"The North said after the 90-minute drills ended that it resisted striking back because they would have been obliterated if they had."
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It's like mutually assured destruction without nukes and on a tiny scale. Interesting experiment this is, really. A few hundred shells back and forth is really enough to screw both parties over royally.
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Yeah. And I mean, only a complete and utter tool would strike a country in the middle of an exercise - you know, where all their toy boats, planes, and cars are out. I understand the South had aircraft flying CAP, ready to lay the smackdown on the North if they attempted anything, so they were probably correct in saying they would be obliterated. :P
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they didn't actually say that out loud, I was translating from the bul****ese korean dialect.
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one of the Kims could yet, wake up and decide to tell their military to level Seoul because the color blue is unpleasant.
Actually I think blue is Kim's favorite colour.
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then he'd level Seoul so they can't have his blue
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if everyone does what they said they will do we will have a war on our hands within the hour.
Politicians actually doing what they say they will do? You already know its not going to happen.
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"The North said after the 90-minute drills ended that it resisted striking back because they would have been obliterated if they had."
That is kind of confusing... knowing the delusions of grandeur of the North, does "they" refer to the South or themselves? O_o
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they should bomb that fake north korean city that doesnt have any people in it
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But then you'll kill all the fake happy and prosperous North Koreans!
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Actually it seems to have been a well calculated move by the South Korean government. They were criticized badly for their tepid response after the shelling and there has been quite a bit of frustration over the sinking of that frigate earlier in the year. So this exercise, already scheduled (it wasn't a new plan), plus all of the tensions makes them look like they have some backbone and in a game of chicken they have prevailed over the north. It's the usual rhetoric but the tension levels are way up there on the scale.
I fear that it will postpone things a few days or weeks or maybe months before something will spark again.
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Actually South Korea is holding larger drills on Thrusday: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/12/21/south.korea.drills/index.html?hpt=T2
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Jeez! Those MPs look like kids!
I reckon the North will retaliate, but perhaps in their own time in response to any further drills.
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Actually South Korea is holding larger drills on Thrusday: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/12/21/south.korea.drills/index.html?hpt=T2
South Korea: "hit me! hit me one more mother****ing time! I dare you!"
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The DPRK's strategy for foreign relations seems to revolve around going all in every time for every situation. Eventually someone's going to call.
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I don't have a problem if these two start World War 3, just so long as I have a chance to get off this rock before that happens.
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I would complain that that's a rather selfish opinion but you didn't specify you had to make it off this rock alive.
Anyone else think we should strap Kosh to a rocket and fire him into space? :p
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Korea's hardly in a position to start WW3, especially if those wikileaks cables had China's attitudes towards the north pegged in any way accurately. It'd be a dogpile on NK, lots of South Korean casualties, and maybe a few retribution missiles lobbed at random countries (likely Japan, given proximity), but it'd be a very localized war.
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I would complain that that's a rather selfish opinion but you didn't specify you had to make it off this rock alive.
Anyone else think we should strap Kosh to a rocket and fire him into space? :p
Howse about an ICBM? Does that still count as getting him off this rock first before he eventually "Slim Pickens" it on a MIRV?
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Now we have this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12067735). Don't smoke 'em yet.
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I would complain that that's a rather selfish opinion but you didn't specify you had to make it off this rock alive.
Anyone else think we should strap Kosh to a rocket and fire him into space? :p
The ultimate nitpick..... :P
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I would complain that that's a rather selfish opinion but you didn't specify you had to make it off this rock alive.
Anyone else think we should strap Kosh to a rocket and fire him into space? :p
How about a rocket launched from a mass driver? :drevil: