North Korea vows 'nuclear strikes' in latest threat

Councilman said:

Yes those crude weapons should be ignored because after all they only killed tens of thousands of people and were delivered over 1500 miles away by crude old propeller driven planes.

Yea we should ignore threats from crazy people.

We know that normal people would never risk annihilation but Kim Jong is not a normal person and neither is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Kim may be terminally ill and Ahmadinejad has a religious death wish.

Crude is under estimating the danger in deal with kooks like these two or radical idiots like we have at the helm now who don't know one damn thing about how to deal with other Countries as Obama showed when insulted Benjamin Netanyahu .

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I never said ignore it. North Korean aircraft would never make it far enough to drop a bomb. The border is guarded by modern anti-aircraft equipment and fighters, and the North Korean Air Force is fielding the same jets they did when the war was still hot... only now they're 40 years old and falling apart.

Moon said:

Why do they need a missile? Seoul is within artillery range of the border, and the 2 countries share a coastline. They could deliver a warhead by any number of methods and still do a lot of damage to South Korea, and that's who the first target will be.

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Fatman and Little Boy would not fit in an artillery tube, and even if you built a big one, the firing would damage the warhead beyond use. Miniaturizing nuclear weapons is tough, it'll take them a while to figure it out. They've only recently managed their first real nuclear detonation. (the first one fizzled out it seems, the explosion measured was so weak that conventional explosives could have duplicated it)

it appears, from the location of the sinking, the locus of the explosion on the ship, the confirmed shooting before the incident, and the report from witnesses on yeonpyeong of gunfire ten minutes after the cheonan went under, that the ship was likely torpedoed by kim

kim's 1.2 million man inmun gun is the 4th largest active military on earth

if the perverted little madman ever decided to swarm the parallel, there is precious little to slow him down, let alone stop him, beyond american PRESTIGE, american WILL and the THREAT of the big one

no one this side of douglas macarthur seriously considers that third, dire impediment

obama has no WILL

and the prestige of united states might is openly thwarted from gaza to waziristan to beijing to ciudad juarez

it is what it is

South Korean Warship Sinks - Forbes.com

Councilman said:

... and China would love to get into it with the the west particularly the U.S.

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Maybe in Tom Clancy's fevered imagination, but not in real life. It wouldn't make much sense to kill off the people with whom you trade the most and whose debt you own a ton of.