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

[fan_since79]

Kim called the missile an Independence Day "basket of gifts" to the U.S.

How thoughtful of him...

 

[RallyMo]

Imagine all the threads that he could start. So much death.

[mtangelsfan]

I am kind of confused by your and cals response to this.

This isn't news worthy or worthy of discussion?

[gotbeer]

North Korea does not have capacity to hit U.S. 'with any degree of accuracy': U.S. general

I think this is military talk for they can shoot at Camp Pendleton, but they have no accuracy, so it'll only hit either Los Angeles or San Diego.  No big military deal.

[RallyMo]

On 7/6/2017 at 4:34 PM, mtangelsfan said:

I am kind of confused by your and cals response to this.

This isn't news worthy or worthy of discussion?

Of course it's worthy of discussion. That's why we addressed it.

[mtangelsfan]

sigh

[Lhalo]

Vacation plans ruined...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40680500

[Tank]

[Blarg]

 North Korea has an entire military that hasn't been battle tested since 1953. They are a parade ready country, nothing more.

[Lhalo]

Here's a scenario that scares me:

NK nukes Seoul killing millions including our troops. We invade and risk war with China. After the dust settles a little bit, we act as an occupying force and NK detonates a nuke in Pyongyang wiping out everyone in the city. The U.S. Could lose more troops in one day than we did throughout the whole Vietnam conflict. Hopefully this problem is solved diplomatically...

[Jason]

30 minutes ago, LHalo said:

Here's a scenario that scares me:

NK nukes Seoul killing millions including our troops. We invade and risk war with China. After the dust settles a little bit, we act as an occupying force and NK detonates a nuke in Pyongyang wiping out everyone in the city. The U.S. Could lose more troops in one day than we did throughout the whole Vietnam conflict. Hopefully this problem is solved diplomatically...

You could be right but how do you have any sense of diplomacy with N. Korea?

[Jason]

Just now, Jason said:

You could be right but how do you have any sense of diplomacy with N. Korea?

Never mind. I forgot

[fan_since79]

On 7/24/2017 at 6:03 PM, Blarg said:

 North Korea has an entire military that hasn't been battle tested since 1953. They are a parade ready country, nothing more.

The Washington Post has a story up that they will be ready to launch an ICBM next year that could hit the United States. Defense Department is declining comment.

So, maybe not just a parade ready country?

 

Edited July 26, 2017 by fan_since79

[RallyMo]

13 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

The Washington Post has a story up that they will be ready to launch an ICBM next year that could hit the United States. Defense Department is declining comment.

So, maybe not just a parade ready country?

 

That's the Amazon Washington Post to you, pal. Stay on message.

[Thomas]

On 7/25/2017 at 7:21 AM, LHalo said:

Here's a scenario that scares me:

NK nukes Seoul killing millions including our troops. We invade and risk war with China. After the dust settles a little bit, we act as an occupying force and NK detonates a nuke in Pyongyang wiping out everyone in the city. The U.S. Could lose more troops in one day than we did throughout the whole Vietnam conflict. Hopefully this problem is solved diplomatically...

The um..silver lining of NK using nukes is that it tips the equation for China quite decisively. China lets NK exist simply because it's in their (mostly financial) best interest. Most of all above anything they value stability. The moment nukes start going off that ceases to be the case and they will be a million of their soldiers on the move before you can blink. Of course it'd be in their interest as well for them to be the ones in NK before the US even had a chance to be.

[AngelsLakersFan]

On 7/25/2017 at 6:21 AM, LHalo said:

Here's a scenario that scares me:

NK nukes Seoul killing millions including our troops. We invade and risk war with China. After the dust settles a little bit, we act as an occupying force and NK detonates a nuke in Pyongyang wiping out everyone in the city. The U.S. Could lose more troops in one day than we did throughout the whole Vietnam conflict. Hopefully this problem is solved diplomatically...

That seems just a little too suicidal for NK. Also if that happened China would not be an issue. 

 

[AngelsLakersFan]

5 hours ago, Thomas said:

The um..silver lining of NK using nukes is that it tips the equation for China quite decisively. China lets NK exist simply because it's in their (mostly financial) best interest. Most of all above anything they value stability. The moment nukes start going off that ceases to be the case and they will be a million of their soldiers on the move before you can blink. Of course it'd be in their interest as well for them to be the ones in NK before the US even had a chance to be.

Good point. If something like that did happen China will have invaded long before we could... unless we just leveled the country with nukes...

[Taylor]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-korea-missile-japan-1.4226019

[gotbeer]

We should just shoot these things down, once it gets into international and especially national territory.  The military does have the ability to shoot them down, right?

[Thomas]

1 minute ago, gotbeer said:

 The military does have the ability to shoot them down, right?

The generally accepted consensus of the US military's ability to shoot them down is a decisive maybe.

[AngelsLakersFan]

I don't think they want to try and shoot them down if only to reveal how effective our capabilities are.

[Lou]

16 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

I don't think they want to try and shoot them down if only to reveal how effective our capabilities are.

We should just catch them and throw them back 

[Rico]

 

[Spirit]

11 hours ago, Lou said:

We should just catch them and throw them back 

 

Shouldn't we at least tag them before we release them back into the wild? 

 

[Lou]

Why don't we just wait for North Korea to have one of their military parades and then bomb it?