Ringer wrote on Apr 6^th, 2013 at 10:49am:



lol!!! that's obvious

Won't you be running out of manpower soon Chard? Your soldiers are necking themselves quicker than the Taliban can say  "Allahu Akbar".

Whatever their history, and no doubt they've taken several kicks in the teeth, as has China, we come back to the point of where they are at now.
Whenever I see a film clip of NK I think I'm back watching a Nuremberg Rally. Only the North Koreans do the goosestep even better.
We've got a mixture here of a country that thinks it's a victim of oppression and a leadership that thinks the only way to stay in power is to use oppression and aggression.
The only thing the rest of the world can do is try to contain it peacefully and not overreact. I can't see Obama overreacting.

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 6^th, 2013 at 11:45am:


In some ways it would be better to have a republican president, they generally aren't under any pressure to be seen as 'strong leaders', ( but not the chimp obviously ).

'Conventional warfare' is a bit of an oxymoron; the main point being to introduce new factors that give a massive advantage. That said there's little doubt that American firepower is greater than any army they'd care to take on.

Right now China is 'onside', but if Americans start lobbing nukes into NK you can safely bet that wont last.

the problem of NK has been deferred far too long. It really has to be dealt with once and for all. The only way of doing that seems to me for America to take a step back publicly, while privately offering China all the support they'd like to sort out the problem. It is China's problem and they need to step up.

Best thing would be for China to invite Kim to Beijing and arrest him I'm betting their intelligence on the ground situation is better than anybody elses.

It's a bad situation, Nk is almost certainly bluffing and blustering but ignoring them while they build nuclear capability is fraught with risk for the worlds next generation.

Ringer wrote on Apr 6^th, 2013 at 10:49am:


Actually that's precisely how you win at conventional, symetrical warfare. Turns out it works for nuclear war as well.

Lets take a moment to consider North Korea..

OK


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Done - whats next.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Apr 6^th, 2013 at 12:00pm:


Hi Pansi,
It's all quite interesting -
the last time we had a nuclear crisis like this was October 1962 in Cuba.
That all fizzled out but they weren't dealing with the dear one.


It's all quite reckless to play with these nuclear toys.

Yes Pansi,
who has the biggest balls?