N. Korea threatens South Korea with 'final destruction'

Run_to_da_hills

Crazy, I don't trust that kid one bit.

I wonder would this have anything to do with it?


North Korea has threatened South Korea with "final destruction" during a debate at the UN Conference on Disarmament and warned that it could take "second and third steps" after a nuclear test last week.

Jon Yong Ryong, a North Korean diplomat, responded telling the meeting; "as the saying goes a new born puppy knows no fear of a tiger. South Korea's erratic behaviour would only herald its final destruction

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/19/us-nkorea-threat-idUSBRE91I0J520130219

On Twitter too.

intellectual dosser

What are the second and third steps? If North Korea launched a preemptive them surely its game over for them doing anything else? The world would surely paralyze them from doing anything. Any idea what kind of missile defense shield South Korea has?

Overheal

intellectual dosser wrote: »

What are the second and third steps? If North Korea launched a preemptive them surely its game over for them doing anything else? The world would surely paralyze them from doing anything. Any idea what kind of missile defense shield South Korea has?

Not specifically, but it's going to be robust. If DPRK actually tried to destroy S Korea without the support of China they'd accomplish nothing other than opening themselves up to invasion from all sides.

Red Crow

And why would China support that at this time? You're right though.

sink

China would never support such a move as it would destroy international trade in the region and beyond. China has it's own potential domestic instability which could be triggered by major economic disruption. If it thought NK was about to attack, China would be more likely to pre-emptively invade North Korea to prevent drawing in South Korea, Japan and most of all the United States into a war on it's border.

Cookie_Monster

The sooner the find oil and gas in North Korea and decide to liberate due to the massive amount of money to be had the social injustice it the better.

wingsof daun

This is not a sensationalist threat from N Korea. I really doubt they have ANY intention of destroying the bottom half of their peninsula. This is the north's opinion of what may happen their neighbours if they continue to endourse capitalism and "western" culture. They dream to "liberate" South Korea some day.
You are creating a panic over nothing RTTH.

666irishguy

Wouldn't have to go nuclear to cause S.Korea a big problem. Seoul is within range of conventional artillery and the North could easily drop 1-3000 shells into Seoul an hour. They could be tipped with chemical, biological or high explosive warheads. Not even the most sophisticated missile defense system like Israel's Iron dome could stop that volume of shells and it would be impossible to air strike all of those battery's at once. I think the North relies hugely on the old tactic of giving it's populace an outside enemy to distract them. The Chinese though are the key to the whole thing. USA would obliterate North Korea if such an attack happened. The Japanese are even making noises.

Jonny7

wingsof daun wrote: »

This is the north's opinion of what may happen their neighbours if they continue to endourse capitalism and "western" culture. They dream to "liberate" South Korea some day.
You are creating a panic over nothing RTTH.

If I had a dollar every time NK threatened the south with "total destruction" I could probably fund my own private train to bring me lobster every day.

Conmaicne Mara

Threatening "final destruction" of South Korea at a disarmament meeting, the Naughty Koreans either don't get or are really good at irony.

Defiler Of The Coffin

China would have to deal with an influx of refugees if war broke out on the Korean peninsula. Can't see any reason why they would support any such action by their client state.

Also, farewell to Run_to_da_hills, seems as if the global elite finally got him

AllthingsCP

Jonny7 wrote: »

If I had a dollar every time NK threatened the south with "total destruction" I could probably fund my own private train to bring me lobster every day.

Why not a trip to South Korea with the money?