North Korea threatens nuclear 'sacred war' - Who will give in first!

Biggins

From this mornings Times:

North Korea today threatened the United States and South Korea with a nuclear ‘sacred war’ if the two countries go ahead with plans to carry out large scale naval exercises this weekend.

On the last day of an ASEAN summit in Hanoi held in an atmosphere of increasing tension, Pyongyang accused the US of attempting to provoke North Korea and said it would use its nuclear deterrent in retaliation for the exercises.

Nutty North Korea rattling the sabres again in another game of "chicken".
Sooner of later one of the wacko's across the border will finally just go too far - and then heaven help the world!

The full Times article:
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/83/wwwthetimescoukttonewsw.jpg
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orourkeda

Bring it on

genericguy

we're allowed call north korea cnuts, cos they aren't muslim or jewish, right?

Biggins

genericguy wrote: »

we're allowed call north korea cnuts, cos they aren't muslim or jewish, right?

No, but we are allowed to call the nutters "nutters".

orourkeda

genericguy wrote: »

we're allowed call north korea cnuts, cos they aren't muslim or jewish, right?

Can we not just them that even if they are muslim or jewish

Terry

The Americans need to be careful here. They're already fighting on two fronts, and fighting on more than one front is a bad idea.

digme

Biggins wrote: »

From this mornings Times:



Nutty North Korea rattling the sabres again in another game of "chicken".
Sooner of later one of the wacko's across the border will finally just go too far - and then heaven help the world!

The full Times article:
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/83/wwwthetimescoukttonewsw.jpg
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/83/wwwthetimescoukttonewsw.jpg

ya last i heard they were holding military exercises just off their coast so fck the yanks

digme

Terry wrote: »

The Americans need to be careful here. They're already fighting on two fronts, and fighting on more than one front is a bad idea.

ya cause their the "good guys"

ejmaztec

genericguy wrote: »

we're allowed call north korea cnuts, cos they aren't muslim or jewish, right?

There must be some religion involved if it's called a "Sacred War", but until they own up to what religion it is, I think we can safely describe them as cnuts.

Only a cnut would disagree with this.

The Aussie

North korea will win, you cant bomb them back into the stone age because they are already there....

dan719

digme wrote: »

ya cause their the "good guys"

I hope that this is one of those knee jerk reactions that people get when the US is mentioned. Because no-one could be as much of a f*cktard to think that North Korea will ever be the "good guys" or that NK having nuclear weapons is a good thing.

Biggins

The Aussie wrote: »

North korea will win, you cant bomb them back into the stone age because they are already there....

True, true...

digme

dan719 wrote: »

I hope that this is one of those knee jerk reactions that people get when the US is mentioned. Because no-one could be as much of a f*cktard to think that North Korea will ever be the "good guys" or that NK having nuclear weapons is a good thing.

talk about going off on a tangent, I said the yanks are the bad guys here,stirring sh!t looking for a war.

bryaner

They aint got no oil!

moonpurple

north korea will nuke south korea

almost casually

every major war strarts that way

america out of fear of china will keep its trap shut:pac:

Biggins

bryaner wrote: »

They aint got no oil!

No but what they do have is a LOT of rare minerals that the world is starved for - especially the kind used in the electronics business I'm told.

Mister men

This will all kick off soon enough. The great leader is on his way out and he is crazy enough to go to war. Does'nt North Korea have something like 4 million soldiers?

digme

bryaner wrote: »

They aint got no oil!

A large mineral deposit of lithium worth an estimated $1 trillion has been "discovered" in Afghanistan

weiland79

Mister men wrote: »

This will all kick off soon enough. The great leader is on his way out and he is crazy enough to go to war. Does'nt North Korea have something like 4 million soldiers?

Wiki says 1.2 million armed soldiers. And it doesn't seem to matter if he dies or not as they still celebrate the birthday of kim jong ills (spelling) father as if he were alive. Also his son seems to be just as much of a fruitcake as he is.

dan719

digme wrote: »

talk about going off on a tangent, I said the yanks are the bad guys here,stirring sh!t looking for a war.

That's strange. I read the article as North Korea threatens war. Just like they did two and a half months ago. And a few months before that. And a little while before that too.

Joke of a country.

Terry

ejmaztec wrote: »

There must be some religion involved if it's called a "Sacred War", but until they own up to what religion it is, I think we can safely describe them as cnuts.

Only a cnut would disagree with this.

It appears to be based on the teachings of Kim Jong-il.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche
Basically a way of living which has been turned into something of a religion by the dude who will always be pictured as a puppet on strings in my head.

moonpurple wrote: »

north korea will nuke south korea

almost casually

every major war strarts that way

america out of fear of china will keep its trap shut:pac:

Not neccessarily.
North Korea's nuclear tests have weakened relations with China.
Then there was the incident where they fired rome rockets towards China, and then detonated them just before they reached the border.

http://www.cfr.org/publication/11097/chinanorth_korea_relationship.html

digme

dan719 wrote: »

That's strange. I read the article as North Korea threatens war. Just like they did two and a half months ago. And a few months before that. And a little while before that too.

Joke of a country.

I'd threaten war too if Russia was doing military exercises 20 miles from Miami.Open your eyes man.

Biggins

dan719 wrote: »

...Joke of a country.

Joke of a leadership to be more accurate but then who are we to cast the first stone ...or the States or a lot of countries to be honest.

End of the day, there is no good guys here - just a lot of nutters wanting to play "I'm the big boy on the block"
The worst thing is that these two sides have some terrible weapons that will effect us all not just themselves.

Frankly, if these were just two street local bullies, I'd be very tempted to slap both around their ears repeatedly till they saw sense and make to kop on.
Sadly, we, the rest of the world don't have the better hands (or arms!) to do it.
So brinkmanship rears its stupid head again... Sooner or later one side will just go that bit too far...

stovelid

I hope their nuclear warhead aim isn't comparable to that of their footballers.

Terry

Biggins wrote: »

No but what they do have is a LOT of rare minerals that the world is starved for - especially the kind used in the electronics business I'm told.

This changes my mind on the troubled relations with China.
They'd love to get their hands on that.

digme wrote: »

A large mineral deposit of lithium worth an estimated $1 trillion has been "discovered" in Afghanistan

Along with Iron, Copper, Cobalt and Gold.

Conor108

Watched an excellent little documentary on North Korea just the other day.

Here it is if anyone's interested.

To get to part 2 and the next parts just change part 1 thats in the URL to part whatever Its good

Pepe LeFrits

North Korea sank a South Korean warship... hello??

Who gives a toss what's been found in Afghanistan. South Korea needs allies here and I'm glad the Americans are stepping up.

d22ontour

I wonder if sky will show this on a 3d channel...

ejmaztec

d22ontour wrote: »

I wonder if sky will show this on a 3d channel...

I hope they send that bitch Kay Burley there on a fact-finding mission, preferably with a target painted on her head.

I'd watch the channel if that happened.

genericguy

isn't it hilarious that nobody ever comes out to defend north korea? i can't help but correlate this with the fact that there's no mention of a holy book when you read more about the country.

Dempsey

At this stage I wouldnt mind if North Korea was carpet bombed off the face of the earth

MagicMarker

A little off topic... but the other day I saw countdown for the very first time in years. That Rachel Riley is fúcking smoking hot. Like, I'd seen pictures and already knew she was hot, but when I saw her actually on the show, it was like I was hypnotized by her sheer hotness.

Anyone agree, disagree?















Anyone?

Biggins

genericguy wrote: »

isn't it hilarious that nobody ever comes out to defend north korea?...

By the looks of things, they are well able (at least according to them) to be able to look after themselves - and that goes for the states too whom by the way, I'm not defending their actions either.

Like I said above, there is no good guys here, just over self-inflated ego's to begin with I suspect!

genericguy

MagicMarker wrote: »

A little off topic... but the other day I saw countdown for the very first time in years. That Rachel Riley is fúcking smoking hot. Like, I'd seen pictures and already knew she was hot, but when I saw her actually on the show, it was like I was hypnotized by her sheer hotness.

Anyone agree, disagree?
Anyone?

i'll have a consonant - F
and a vowel - U
and a consonant - C...

mikom

SKY NEWS: North Korea angry at US war games

Ahh Come on North Korea, War Games Was Matthew Brodericks finest hour outside of Ferris bueller.

Bob the Seducer

weiland79 wrote: »

Wiki says 1.2 million armed soldiers.

On the DPRK army wiki page it's down as 1.9 million active personel with 9.7 million reserve.

While I think this number is inflated, I'd say the actual reserve is still around the 4.5 million mark.

I honestly don't think anything is going to kick off, China doesn't want US military personel stationed on it's doorstep (their tacit support of the DPRK whenever it gets itself into trouble is based almost completely on this) and Seoul is only around 35 miles from the border. China/DPRK versus USA/RoK wouldn't benefit anyone in any way, shape or form.

fizzynicenice

Nuke the Indians and take thier casinos.

Biggins

fizzynicenice wrote: »

Nuke the Indians and take thier casinos.

:pac: Say "Wot!" :pac:

kleefarr

Oh goody! May get a decent fireworks show at last. :rolleyes:

JONJO THE MISER

Cant wait,nothing like a nuclear war to brighten up my television viewing for the summer.

Biggins

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Cant wait,nothing like a nuclear war to brighten up my television viewing for the summer.

With a good dose of EMP, good luck watching that tv!

ejmaztec

I think that 90% of the North Korean population would rather get nuked than than put up with the **** knobs and cnuts running the country. It would sort their food shortage problem out in a flash, or several flashes.

They make the Somali pirates, or even the Taliban, look like Oxfam volunteers.

Yakult

America should raise their bluff and ****ing nuke that hell hole or do something to destroy it. I feel somewhat sorry for the innocent people trapped there, death is more freedom than what they get right now.

digme

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

North Korea sank a South Korean warship... hello??

Who gives a toss what's been found in Afghanistan. South Korea needs allies here and I'm glad the Americans are stepping up.

It could have been anyone even the Chinese have there doubts.

Wolfe Tone

Sabre rattling. That is all.

ejmaztec

The North Korean leadership just wants to its greasy hands on what their southern neighbours have built up over the past 60 years. Of course, they could be on the scrounge for a hand-out again, and are trying the old blackmail trick.

Biggins

digme wrote: »

It could have been anyone even the Chinese have there doubts.

The Chinese ALWAYS have their conveniently timed doubts when its comes to North Korea and their close complicated relationship with them.

briany

N. Korea may one well one day kick some stuff off but it's funny because their main source of confidence comes from their alliance with China. N. Korea needs China but China will not roll over and die without N. Korea. A posturing North Korea reminds me somewhat of a scene from the Simpsons episode "Lemon of Troy" :

America: Hey, nobody hassles my little Korea.
N. Korea: Hey! And no one manhandles the bosom chum of China. Spring forth, burly protector, and save me! *China steps out from behind a tree*
China : Aw, jeez. I never hang out with him, normally. *throws America off Korea*
Korea: [skipping around China and singing] Hark to the tale of China, 'N' the Korea she loved so dear. They remained the best of friends for years and years and years.

LC2010HIS

every time the world turns its back on korea for 2second, -"i got nuclear weapons haw haw" :rolleyes: here we go again!

johngalway

digme wrote: »

I'd threaten war too if Russia was doing military exercises 20 miles from Miami.Open your eyes man.

You must have missed this so...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7792370.stm

Granted, Cuba is a whopping 90 miles from Florida so I guess it doesn't count

KeithAFC

America could do nothing, they can't even win a war against a bunch of tribe men in the desert.