North Korea leader tells military to be ready to use nuclear weapons at any time

[NJHalo]

My sister just left for South Korea yesterday. She adopted my niece from a Korean Catholic charity as a baby, and promised to take her there to visit her roots for her 14th birthday.

I really wish she stayed home.

[mtangelsfan]

6 minutes ago, NJHalo said:

My sister just left for South Korea yesterday. She adopted my niece from a Korean Catholic charity as a baby, and promised to take her there to visit her roots for her 14th birthday.

I really wish she stayed home.

Scary stuff.

[fan_since79]

According to some comments here, the Pentagon is pushing back at the NBC story, saying it's wrong and "dangerous".

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/852648458402115587

 

So, fake news? The "big and important event" that North Korea is talking about might end up being a parade, and not a nuclear test.

[Jason]

[fan_since79]

Live coverage from North Korean TV of the "big and important event", namely, the military parade, interspersed with patriotic crap.

It's absolutely maniacal, and the announcer sounds like he's ready to hyperventilate. Unreal. Thousands of manic people, soldiers, weapons, missiles, the works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q901s3wcNSU

 

Edited April 15, 2017 by fan_since79

[Lhalo]

It's like watching Team America: World Police. 

[gotbeer]

10 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

Live coverage from North Korean TV of the "big and important event", namely, the military parade, interspersed with patriotic crap.

It's absolutely maniacal, and the announcer sounds like he's ready to hyperventilate. Unreal. Thousands of manic people, soldiers, weapons, missiles, the works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q901s3wcNSU

 

Watching all those military people clapping and such.  All I could think of is this.

 

Except the guy that didn't get the harumph had to feed the dogs.

[gotbeer]

Okay, what was up with that group of white folk in the audience?

[Blarg]

13 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Watching all those military people clapping and such.  All I could think of is this.

 

Except the guy that didn't harumph was fed to the dogs.

Fify

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 4/13/2017 at 5:28 PM, Lawrence said:

Anyone have SPF 5 billion sunblock I can borrow?

I've got this. When I was in elementary school during the Cuban missile crisis, I learned that a school desk will protect you from a direct nuclear strike.

[Blarg]

1 minute ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

I've got this. When I was in elementary school during the Cuban missile crisis, I learned that a school desk will protect you from a direct nuclear strike.

Yeah but they don't use lead paint anymore to guard you from radiation. So, we're screwed. 

[Tank]

8 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

I've got this. When I was in elementary school during the Cuban missile crisis, I learned that a school desk will protect you from a direct nuclear strike.

it would also save us from flying shards of glass when the windows blew out.

those were some amazing desks, i'm telling ya.' we had them at our school, too.

[arch stanton]

So, since we never used the MOAB in all the years we've been chasing cave dwellers in Afghanistan until now, is it possible that was a show intended for Pyongyang?

[ABC]

Anyone else unimpressed with the MOAB? After all the hype, I expected a lot more.

[tdawg87]

29 minutes ago, #CF8 said:

Anyone else unimpressed with the MOAB? After all the hype, I expected a lot more.

Why? If you're looking for a death toll, it's 94 and counting, with no reported civilian casualties. It was meant to show ISIS and other terrorists that they aren't safe hiding in caves. It worked perfectly.

[Kevin]

18 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

I've got this. When I was in elementary school during the Cuban missile crisis, I learned that a school desk will protect you from a direct nuclear strike.

Little did you know, a refrigerator was the safer bet.

 

 

[fan_since79]

latest missile test:

 

[mtangelsfan]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-and-russia-dispatch-ships-to-shadow-donald-trump’s-armada-as-it-approaches-north-korean-waters-japanese-media-report/ar-BBzVr0V?li=BBnb4R7

What the hell are we doing?

[fan_since79]

Well, it's been a while since we had a good world war.

Seriously though, things are getting very dicey. China and Russia issuing warnings to the U.S. and Pence telling North Korea not to doubt our resolve.

NY Times is calling it a "Cuban missile crisis in slow motion", but it could heat up very quickly.

 

[arch stanton]

If China or Russia sent a carrier group to our side of the globe I'm sure we'd be shadowing it also

[gotbeer]

11 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Well, it's been a while since we had a good world war.

Seriously though, things are getting very dicey. China and Russia issuing warnings to the U.S. and Pence telling North Korea not to doubt our resolve.

NY Times is calling it a "Cuban missile crisis in slow motion", but it could heat up very quickly.

 

 

Yup, a game of chicken now.  I actually don't mind Russia and China shadowing the carrier group.  Those two will not fire first, and we will not fire on them.  And it'll be witnesses if something major happens.

What my guess is.  Best case, a warning by Trump, and it'll eventually pass.  Medium case, North Korea is stupid enough to launch missles/fighters at the carrier group.  Which would mean direct provocation and not sure what Russia or China will do about it.  Would probably mean just retaliatory measures, probably love taps on their military targets.  Worse case.  They fire a nuke at the carrier group.  With China and Russia probably saying F this noise.  Possibly giving China reason to invade and take over.  But in the US, it'll pretty much be a declaration of war, and a rally to demolish and oust Short Round.

[Lhalo]

lol @ Short Round.

There are rumors that we are sending 2 more aircraft carries to the waters off NK. That's a shitload of firepower. 

[Crampknees]

Doors song keeps playing in my head. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

15 hours ago, Tank said:

it would also save us from flying shards of glass when the windows blew out.

those were some amazing desks, i'm telling ya.' we had them at our school, too.

In retrospect, I suppose that they had to tell us something other than "If you see the flash in the sky, your ass is already bought and paid for."

We had Civil Defense packets at school, and we practiced evacuation by train. All of it exercises in futility, looking back on it. With a father in the military in Florida, I knew a bit more about what was going on than people who just watched the national news. We came very close.

[fan_since79]

Well, with the president tweeting that NK is "behaving badly" and is a "problem" that "will be taken care of", that tells me he means business.

But words are words, and military actions don't necessarily follow. I think Trump will always try to make a deal first. The question is, will the deal be with China and/or Russia?