[IceFire]

China had seemingly changed their stance recently, and said that they would not condone a nuclear test.

I just read that the Japanese and the Chinese governments had issued a join statement saying that a test would be "unacceptable".  These two NEVER agree on much of anything.  So its good that they are working together but bad that it has to be over this.

[Bobboau]

there is a korean girl in my chem class, maybe I should tell her to tell any relitives she's got there to take a vacation to the south.

[Taristin]

12:46:03> RosenOttr: World's largest pot of kimchi explodes.  Thousands feared fed.

[BlackDove]

Just as I started playing Defcon too. Hopefully soon we can have a real live simulation to base our games on.

[Prophet]

If, IF NK has nukes, and starts playing like a big boy China, Japan and Russia will gang up on them like a pack of wolves. And ofcourse US will make a complete fool out of itself by trying to police the mess. If NK keeps going in this direction, you can kiss their sorry asses goodbye. I just hope that US has the patience to wait for them to ruin themselves before going off on an invasion spree again.

[Ulala]

Hmm, more great news...

[Dough with Fish]

Well, I think this is something serious. Why? Well, lets just say my brother who is in the Marines just got deployment orders for South Korea, and my girlfriends cousin who is in the Air Force just got orders to head to Japan.

Also, am I the only one who thinks that Kim in the picture there is walking like a gangster?

[Prophet]

Ofcourse it is serious. But serious in the "nukular hollocaust" kind of way. When thinking of the people living in NK and what has been done to them. They actually belive in all that **** about NK being great and wonderfull and the best place to be in the world. Sooner or later they will have to wake up. And it will be ugly. So yes, anything relating to North Korea is serious and makes me wan't to forget the whole thing.

[NGTM-1R]

Has anybody from NORAD or anything confirmed there was an actual nuclear detontation? I'm not going to just take the DPRK's word on this. For all I know they got a few kilotons of conventional crap together and detonated it. Lord knows they've got the ordinance to waste.

Hell, the idea of getting them to waste their bombs in testing isn't all that bad. At the very least it'll get them to kill most of their citizens with the fallout. (And the wind naturally blows north in that part of the world...too bad about China I suppose.)

[Ashrak]

i guess running for the hills isnt an option nor is it useful

[aldo_14]

Has anybody from NORAD or anything confirmed there was an actual nuclear detontation? I'm not going to just take the DPRK's word on this. For all I know they got a few kilotons of conventional crap together and detonated it. Lord knows they've got the ordinance to waste.

Hell, the idea of getting them to waste their bombs in testing isn't all that bad. At the very least it'll get them to kill most of their citizens with the fallout. (And the wind naturally blows north in that part of the world...too bad about China I suppose.)

US Geological survey also measured a (4.2 IIRC) seismic event in NK.

[Mongoose]

Can someone please, please just go ahead and assasinate this small-dicked psycho?

Please?

I'll give you $10.

Seriously, though, just reading the vile **** that their propaganda machine spews is enough to make anyone laugh.  A "glorious future of communism," eh?  Sure, 'cause that's exactly what I think when I see one small nuclear tests and millions of starving, dirt-poor citizens.  That is, it would be funny if it weren't actually happening.

(And already people start to blame Bush.  You guys never cease to amuse me. )

[IPAndrews]

Don't worry. Chris Jacobs and ExOps will stop him firing the nukes. Oh wait that's Mercenaries on the PS2.

[IPAndrews]

Kim Jong Il: It will be 911 times 2356.
Chris: My God, that's... I don't even know what that is!
Kim Jong Il: Nobody does!

[aldo_14]

(And already people start to blame Bush.  You guys never cease to amuse me. )

Actually, that's not an unreasonable suggestion - I don't think there's any doubt that Bushs' tactics of pre-emptive warfare and declaring the targets (Axis of Evil) nice and early has encouraged N.K. and Iran in particular to arm themselves.  Whilst NK would certainly desire a nuclear weapon in any case, I can't help but think the perceived threat and rumours of US military action has acted as a spur (and this is no justification or excuse for it) to their sabre-rattling.

[Prophet]

Aldo has a point. While it is true that NK & brothers can be considered "hostile", one can say same of US. Bush is protecting voters by coming down on small countries. And pissing off half the globe while doing it.

[karajorma]

Can someone please, please just go ahead and assasinate this small-dicked psycho?

Please?

Dumbest idea EVAR.

Who do you think would take over from him? Some other nutcase who now has reason to add assassination to the list of reasons he has to be worried about the west most likely.

Or you have a civil war/period of instability and run the risk of the nukes going missing.

[Sandwich]

If this is true (which it might very well be or not be), then I would say: ****, the Bush administration really ****ed this ****ing thing up pretty ****ing badly.

You're so cool. Just like all those people who buy iPods because, heck, everybody has them! {/sarcasm}

All joking aside, I admit I could easily have missed some blatantly obvious connection between US President George W. Bush and North Korea's testing of an underground nuclear device. Is that the case, or were you merely jumping on the ever-popular "Bush-bashing bandwagon"?

[aldo_14]

If this is true (which it might very well be or not be), then I would say: ****, the Bush administration really ****ed this ****ing thing up pretty ****ing badly.

You're so cool. Just like all those people who buy iPods because, heck, everybody has them! {/sarcasm}

All joking aside, I admit I could easily have missed some blatantly obvious connection between US President George W. Bush and North Korea's testing of an underground nuclear device. Is that the case, or were you merely jumping on the ever-popular "Bush-bashing bandwagon"?

The connection would be failure of diplomacy to avert (in fact, it seems to have sped up) NK action, with the US (Bush) responsibility lying within its role as the heagemonic nation.  As mentioned prior, there can be a suggestion that the US' aggressive-stroke-belligerent foreign policy has only served to provoke these 'rogue nations' into a similarly aggressive attitude.

[Mefustae]

All joking aside, I admit I could easily have missed some blatantly obvious connection between US President George W. Bush and North Korea's testing of an underground nuclear device.

"Rouge" nations look at Iraq and think; 'Hmm, if the US can unlawfully invade a sovereign nation and get away with it, what's to stop them invading me? I know! Nukes!!'.

Bad idea? You betcha. But it's still a logical conclusion to make in a post-Iraq age. Thus, one may conclude that the actions of US leaders have indirectly spurred development of nuclear weapons in nations that believe themselves to be at threat from American [or proxy] invasion.