US considering Preemptive Strike against North Korea.

bear1

Dubh Linn wrote: »

My simple question is: is it going ahead?

Are you well? Do you think we've some inside knowledge of Kim's future plans and thought we'd just start talking about it on Boards?

CoolHandBandit

PREG1967 wrote: »

have you seen NK launch many of their 'long range ICBMs?'

Eh no and with good reason they haven't, they'd be bombed back to the stone age. Just because they have not tested one doesn't mean they haven't the means to produce some. Nobody including you can say the missiles on display aren't the real thing.

bear1

archer22 wrote: »

I thought the parade was very impressive...lots of orderly disciplined well coordinated and fit looking people and some nice military kit :cool:.
I would like to see Ireland try to match any of that...best we can hope for here is a few dopes waddling about

I had thought from most of the posters on here that it would be an endless procession of starved dressed in rags poor wretches carrying stone tipped spears dragging themselves down the street :rolleyes:.

You'd have to be some delusional lad to believe that whatever North Korea wants you to see is exactly how the entire country is.
Most of their gdp is spent on defence so no **** it looks impressive.
Most of the stuff they have are Soviet hand me downs.
You seem to be giving the impression that it must be some paradise living there.

CoolHandBandit

Imo the North Koreans are going to troll the hell out of Trump. They'll wait a few weeks until the American aircraft carrier heads back on it's next mission and then carry out their next test. This will go on for maybe another year or so until Trump decides enough is enough and hands the North an ultimatum. When NK refuses the Chinese (who have had spy's and plants within the NK army for years) decide to assassinate Kim Un Fat by means of a coup. It will make the fall of the Berlin wall look like a tea party.

PREG1967

CoolHandBandit wrote: »

Eh no and with good reason they haven't, they'd be bombed back to the stone age. Just because they have not tested one doesn't mean they haven't the means to produce some. Nobody including you can say the missiles on display aren't the real thing.

I could also parade my own ICBMs if i was running my own town somewhere and I had the cash to mock up some cardboard ones or metal ones if I was starving the population of my town and saving on the cost of food, you would be fooled in the same way?

CoolHandBandit

PREG1967 wrote: »

I could also parade my own ICBMs if i was running my own town somewhere and I had the cash to mock up some cardboard ones or metal ones if I was starving the population of my town and saving on the cost of food, you would be fooled in the same way?

So you agree you have no idea if they are real or fake?

PREG1967

CoolHandBandit wrote: »

Imo the North Koreans are going to troll the hell out of Trump. They'll wait a few weeks until the American aircraft carrier heads back on it's next mission and then carry out their next test. This will go on for maybe another year or so until Trump decides enough is enough and hands the North an ultimatum. When NK refuses the Chinese (who have had spy's and plants within the NK army for years) decide to assassinate Kim Un Fat by means of a coup. It will make the fall of the Berlin wall look like a tea party.

wow thats a fantasy, if that was the case why has it not happened yet?

CoolHandBandit

PREG1967 wrote: »

wow thats a fantasy, if that was the case why has it not happened yet?

Not a fantasy just a possible scenario. It's more likely than a nuclear exchange of weapons on China's doorstep.

PREG1967

CoolHandBandit wrote: »

So you agree you have no idea if they are real or fake?

tests my friend, tests are the only way NK know whether they are duds/fakes etc. and the rest of us know they have not tested long range ICBMs so these are duds/fakes until proven otherwise, the burden of proof is on NK to prove these missiles are functional not the rest of the world, they have a massive failure rate on just their short range missiles, its reasonable to presume these are duds/fakes therefore

PREG1967

CoolHandBandit wrote: »

Not a fantasy just a possible scenario. It's more likely than a nuclear exchange of weapons on China's doorstep.

Kim purged many of his own family members when he came to power because they had links to the chinese but you seem to know more than he does about moles in his circle

CoolHandBandit

PREG1967 wrote: »

Kim purged many of his own family members when he came to power because they had links to the chinese but you seem to know more than he does about moles in his circle

Where did i say i know anything? If you read the post i said a possible scenario. Anyway dude enjoy your evening.

Anyone who thinks that the average NK man in the street would celebrate the toppling of Fat boy un, needs to remember one thing: the People of NK have only ever been told "one version of the truth" and the government have gone to great lengths to ensure that they only hear the "correct" version.
For example Radios & televisions made for the local market are designed to operate on frequencies that are outside of the internationally agreed radio spectrum, this means that they will not receive foreign broadcasts, short wave radios are banned and being found with one is a one way ticket to oblivion.

They'll support the supreme leader because they're so conditioned to follow, they have no other option (or opinion) and will die for him.

archer22

All I have learned is the average man in the street in Ireland knows feck all about North Korea other than what they have been conditioned to believe by western MSM and Hollywood.

tbayers

archer22 wrote: »

All I have learned is the average man in the street in Ireland knows feck all about North Korea other than what they have been conditioned to believe by western MSM and Hollywood.

And what does the above average man believe??

wingsof daun

I don't see any threat from NK. But I do see how aggressive Trump is, he is way more aggressive than Obama was. He could walk blindly into a terrible conflict with Russia or Iran, and when the gloves are off it's too late have regrets. NK can't respond to an attack and China won't retaliate against America so the fears are laughable because they are baseless. Good for Kim of he developes a nuke or 2, it might stop America or others invading in the future, after all, it's only countries that had no nuclear weapons were invaded and destroyed.

PREG1967

wingsof daun wrote: »

NK can't respond to an attack

seoul will have no soul left if NK are attacked

Damien360

archer22 wrote: »

All I have learned is the average man in the street in Ireland knows feck all about North Korea other than what they have been conditioned to believe by western MSM and Hollywood.

Ah yes. I must have missed the North Korean tourist information messages.

CoolHandBandit

News just in of a failed missile launch of the NK east coast.

byte

North Korea has launched a missile on its east coast which is believed to have failed, South Korea's military says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39612095

And so it continues...

CoolHandBandit

I think they'll go for a nuclear test now. Interesting days ahead.

PREG1967

byte wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39612095

And so it continues...

probably was damp when they lit it

Dyr

PREG1967 wrote: »

probably was damp when they lit it

"ah ****it, dese tings are useless. Will we just do a genie with it, lads?"

byte

"Bring out the Gimp"

PREG1967

Bambi wrote: »

"ah ****it, dese tings are useless. Will we just do a genie with it, lads?"

call this one the Taepodong-Squib

ChikiChiki

Imminent strike from the US fleet on the way? How do they respond I wonder.

Gatling

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Imminent strike from the US fleet on the way? How do they respond I wonder.

They probably won't

bilston

Pretty embarrassing for the North Koreans.

Some North Korean scientists/general whatever are going to get it now.

I have this image in my head of Kim force choking some poor general because they f****d up.

bilston

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Imminent strike from the US fleet on the way? How do they respond I wonder.

To a missile test?

Are missile tests even illegal?

ChikiChiki

Apparently it launched and blew up almost immediately. Embarrassing for the fat one.

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/853389826896179200

PREG1967

bilston wrote: »

To a missile test?

Are missile tests even illegal?

tis