[IceFire]

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.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

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

[Dilmah G]

Jeez! Those MPs look like kids!

I reckon the North will retaliate, but perhaps in their own time in response to any further drills.

[Bobboau]

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!"

[StarSlayer]

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.

[Kosh]

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.

[karajorma]

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?

[Black Wolf]

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.

[StarSlayer]

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?

Howse about an ICBM?  Does that still count as getting him off this rock first before he eventually "Slim Pickens" it on a MIRV?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Now we have this. Don't smoke 'em yet.

[Kosh]

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?

The ultimate nitpick.....

[Androgeos Exeunt]

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?

How about a rocket launched from a mass driver?