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North Korea threatens ‘pre-emptive’ nuclear strike

justabubba

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What about Dennis Rodman??
 
yes, we could take out rodman, too

I would be willing to cut Rodman's living bleeding heart out upon an altar or all that is evil to guarantee a no-premptive nuking contract. Or Kim Jong-Ass can use Rodman in movies!
 
Does N. Korea not realize we could wipe them off the face of the earth?
 
Sabre rattling, probably mostly for domestic consumption.

Threatening pre-emptive nuclear strikes is escalation past saber rattling in my opinion.
 
Whack Job leader of a dirt poor nation. Too bad Bush didn't take this guy's family out. The Kims make Saddom and his boys look like boyscouts.


Shakes head.
 
yea but its from north korea so no one takes them seriously

I think that's problematic thinking, honestly. Our country should take all threats, especially pre-emptive nuclear attacks, seriously.
 

A member of this forum stupidly (if flippantly, most likely) threatens the life of the president, and most of us can agree that he's treasonous and could very likely end up being investigated by the FBI; but a country that actually possesses nuclear material officially threatens the United States with nuclear attack and it's yawn-worthy.

Strange times we live in.
 
I hope they do it. No doubt it would most likely hit a blue part of the country, which is ok. And then we'd get to use all the cool stuff we've had sitting for decades. We'd become more red and knocking north korea off the map would be good for the economy and a good morale booster.

Bring it on you north korean asshats!

"I'm fine with the US getting nuked and I really hope they kill liberals"

You've got some issues dude
 
I doubt anybody knows what to do about NK. Hopefully, it will be the traditional stalemate. If not, you will get to live in interesting times. You can tell your grandkids about the first atomic war and they'll say "granpa, you're making that up aren't you".
 
K. What do you propose the US do that it isn't doing now?

I don't say this lightly, but the leadership needs to be taken out, as in assassination. I'm not aware of a greater example on the international scene of a regime as great a threat to other nations as it is to its own people. I'm not saying assassination isn't rife with pitfalls and potentially dangerous precedents, but the world's major powers need to get together and agree that this is something that needs to be done.
 
A member of this forum stupidly (if flippantly, most likely) threatens the life of the president, and most of us can agree that he's treasonous and could very likely end up being investigated by the FBI; but a country that actually possesses nuclear material officially threatens the United States with nuclear attack and it's yawn-worthy.

Strange times we live in.

My not-so-serious yawn wasn't directed at the thread. But North Korea has blathered on like this for decades. It is just their government grandstanding for their populace, that only hear what their government wants them to hear. That said, my response didn't add anything substantive to the thread so I apologize for that.
 
I don't say this lightly, but the leadership needs to be taken out, as in assassination. I'm not aware of a greater example on the international scene of a regime as great a threat to other nations as it is to its own people. I'm not saying assassination isn't rife with pitfalls and potentially dangerous precedents, but the world's major powers need to get together and agree that this is something that needs to be done.
And then what? The DPRK has a military fanatically loyal to whatever despot is in office, and in his absence, no doubt a general of the army will step in...unless its a full scale invasion with horrifying body counts, Seoul in ruins and at least one West Coast U.S. city uninhabitable for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, the status quo is going to continue, unless an act of God should occur.
 
I don't say this lightly, but the leadership needs to be taken out, as in assassination. I'm not aware of a greater example on the international scene of a regime as great a threat to other nations as it is to its own people. I'm not saying assassination isn't rife with pitfalls and potentially dangerous precedents, but the world's major powers need to get together and agree that this is something that needs to be done.

No. Besides the fact that it is highly immoral and unethical, assassinating the North Korean leadership would leave a power vacuum that could result in an even more unsavory character grabbing power and access to nuclear weapons. Diplomacy, as always, is the best option.
 
"North Korea Ends Peace Pact With South As UN Sanctions Fuel Propaganda"... HuffPo.

I was unaware of a "peace pact"... Could a fooled me.
 
No. Besides the fact that it is highly immoral and unethical, assassinating the North Korean leadership would leave a power vacuum that could result in an even more unsavory character grabbing power and access to nuclear weapons. Diplomacy, as always, is the best option.

Attacking another country with nuclear weapons is higher on the unethical and immoral scale. And besides, I already said that such an option is rife with pitfalls and dangerous precedents, and would need to be arrived at unanimously in the international community. When a country treats its atomic arsenal as conventional warfare that raises its threat far above your average bear.

And no, Chuck, I don't have some ingenious solution for the "and then what?" phase. Clear and immediate threats like these require a significantly brighter and more experienced mind than mine to plan this through to a workable end.
 
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