[Bobboau]

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.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

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.

[Scotty]

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?

[Bobboau]

that would not work how you want it to work.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Drills are over already. 

[Bobboau]

and as of now NK has done nothing, about what I expected.

[Turambar]

Hooray wars not starting!

[Bobboau]

yet.

one of the Kims could yet, wake up and decide to tell their military to level Seoul because the color blue is unpleasant.

[Dilmah G]

and as of now NK has done nothing, about what I expected.

They said they're going to play nice.

[newman]

Kim Jong-il got himself a one month ban after shelling that island, so the war has been postponed.

[Bobboau]

"The North said after the 90-minute drills ended that it resisted striking back because they would have been obliterated if they had."

[Kolgena]

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.

[Dilmah G]

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.

[Bobboau]

they didn't actually say that out loud, I was translating from the bul****ese korean dialect.

[Snail]

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.

[Hades]

then he'd level Seoul so they can't have his blue

[Sarafan]

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.

[Nemesis6]

"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

[iamzack]

they should bomb that fake north korean city that doesnt have any people in it

[Thaeris]

But then you'll kill all the fake happy and prosperous North Koreans!