S. Korea to N.: "You Sunk Our Battleship!"

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The truce between North and South has lasted for 57 years, but a peace treaty has never been signed, and now, in the wake of the North's attack on a South Korean naval vessel - and the South's formal accusation that the Cheonan was sunk by a North Korean torpedo - tensions are at their highest level since 1994, when North Korea threatened to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire."

Rest here.

Yikes. This can't be good. Thoughts?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

If NK is stupid enough to attack the South, it will cause horrible damage to the city of Seoul and will result in the extermination of N. Korea as a country. Then will come the hard part. Generations of malnutrition and isolation have resulted in a population in North Korea that is significantly shorter, shorter-lived and most likely brain damaged. They will become the responsibility of the South. Anyone who thinks that the reunification of Germany was hard ain't seen nuttin' yet! It will take another two generations before the northerners are anywhere near being up to the standards of the South.

 

[TE999]

If NK is stupid enough to attack the South, it will cause horrible damage to the city of Seoul and will result in the extermination of N. Korea as a country. Then will come the hard part. Generations of malnutrition and isolation have resulted in a population in North Korea that is significantly shorter, shorter-lived and most likely brain damaged. They will become the responsibility of the South. Anyone who thinks that the reunification of Germany was hard ain't seen nuttin' yet! It will take another two generations before the northerners are anywhere near being up to the standards of the South.

Those that aren't radioactive that is. N. Korea has nothing of value that anyone wants including uncounted millions of mouths to feed. It's of no further use to China, so they won't get involved like in the Ko-War. The NK's are on their own.

 

[R. Richard]

Check out the following light show. South Korea is at the center of the image. The big, bright spot is Seoul.


http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/dprk-dark.htm

(I can't get the picture to display as an image.)

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Those that aren't radioactive that is. N. Korea has nothing of value that anyone wants including uncounted millions of mouths to feed. It's of no further use to China, so they won't get involved like in the Ko-War. The NK's are on their own.

The NK's can explode a nuclear device but they don't have any way of delivering it, according to current intel estimates. While the U.S. has 22K troops on the DMZ, the ROK's probably don't need them. The PRK's army is made up of those undersized, under-fed peasants that they deliberately produced and their equipment is pathetically obsolete. It would be a short, vicious war. And if the PRK is stupid enough to launch a missile with either gas or bio-weapons in the direction of Japan, Katy bar the door!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Nuthin much is gonna happen. China will ruin us economically if Seoul responds. Obama takes his orders from China.

 

[Xelebes]

The NK's can explode a nuclear device but they don't have any way of delivering it, according to current intel estimates. While the U.S. has 22K troops on the DMZ, the ROK's probably don't need them. The PRK's army is made up of those undersized, under-fed peasants that they deliberately produced and their equipment is pathetically obsolete. It would be a short, vicious war. And if the PRK is stupid enough to launch a missile with either gas or bio-weapons in the direction of Japan, Katy bar the door!

It's not the Koreans we're afraid of, but the Chinese - especially on a front that is as narrow as that found in Korea.

 

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It's not the Koreans we're afraid of, but the Chinese - especially on a front that is as narrow as that found in Korea.

I'm in agreement with others. I don't think the Chinese are interested in fighting anyone over North Korea. They're interested in selling their cheap goods to the world, and war interferes with that.

It be of no benefit for them to bother or worry about North Korea.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The Chinese might make appropriately protesty noises, but NK is a complete, dependent pain in the ass for them. If the South takes out Pyongyong, that's one less nuisance for China.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It doesnt matter what China wants to do, theyre unwilling to stop NK provocations, and sinking a ship isnt the same as calling someone a name. Sinking a ship is an act of war most places. But we did shit when NK took the PUEBLO back in 1968, and we wont do shit now cuz we're ascared of China.

But the time will come when an American President isnt afraid to bitch-slap NK.

 

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N. Korea to S: Did Not!

The latest:

North Korea's military has held a rare news conference to deny any role in the sinking of a South Korean navy vessel. The North is also repeating warnings of war if skirmishes break out with the South in disputed waters....General Pak Rim-su spoke in Pyongyang on behalf of the North Korean military. He said the South Korean government's fabrication about the Cheonan sinking has created a dire situation on the Korean peninsula, in which war could to break out at any moment.

46 South Korean sailors were killed when an explosion tore through their ship, the Cheonan, just over two months ago. International investigators say overwhelming forensic evidence points to a torpedo attack by a North Korean submarine.

Full story here.

And the game continues....

http://computer-vet.com/scott/miscy/battleship/images/battleship-sm.jpg

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Is anyone reminded of the German-Polish border circa 1939?

 

[jomar]

Talking heads were saying the torpedoing was, in part, retribution for SK sinking an NK ship late last year.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Along the lines of "But Daddy, he hit be back first!"

 

[CharleyH]

Nuthin much is gonna happen. China will ruin us economically if Seoul responds.

I had a longer explanation, but what it comes down to is ...exactly this.

 

[3113]

Is anyone reminded of the German-Polish border circa 1939?

How so? I'm not seeing any similarities at all.

 

[3113]

I had a longer explanation, but what it comes down to is ...exactly this.

South Korea, America and Japan buy Chinese goods. North Korea doesn't buy shit. It just causes China trouble. Last I looked, China LIKED making money. So why would it kill the golden goose rather than the thing that was upsetting the goose?

And it doesn't have to pull any economic strings to put a stop to this if it wants to. Do you think Kimmy there is going to do anything if China says, "Cut it out, Kimmy, you're upsetting our marketplace"?

China bullying Seoul (and the U.S.) as compared to bitch slapping North Korea (in private of course) makes no sense to me--but if you have fact and explanations to prove China will do this, please, trot 'em out. I'd be interested to learn why China would waste its valuable"economic ruin" card in this way, rather than keep it for when it might really be of use.

 

[Boxlicker101]

How so? I'm not seeing any similarities at all.

I think it's a reference to the way Germany phonied up a border incident to justify the invasion of Poland, but I see few similarities. There was nothing phony about the ship being sunk, and I think it has been proven that it was done by a NK weapon.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

How so? I'm not seeing any similarities at all.

The possible creation of incidents for purposes of declaring that the other guy attacked. For example, SK starts up their promised loudspeaker campaign. NK, as promised claims this is an attack and fires off artillery rounds at the loudspeakers. SK cries "They shot at us" and responds with more modern, more accurate fire and takes out a battery or two. The local NK commander loses it and commands all units to respond. So much metal lands on SK soil that they call for airstrikes. All-out war ensues.

 

[3113]

The possible creation of incidents for purposes of declaring that the other guy attacked. For example, SK starts up their promised loudspeaker campaign. NK, as promised claims this is an attack and fires off artillery rounds at the loudspeakers. SK cries "They shot at us" and responds with more modern, more accurate fire and takes out a battery or two. The local NK commander loses it and commands all units to respond. So much metal lands on SK soil that they call for airstrikes. All-out war ensues.

Yeah, but who's Hitler? I mean, why would SK start now to do this to NK? NK seemed to be pretty well on it's way to destroying itself. No need to get into it and take damage.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Yeah, but who's Hitler? I mean, why would SK start now to do this to NK? NK seemed to be pretty well on it's way to destroying itself. No need to get into it and take damage.

Good question. I think Beloved Leader is dying and is trying, very clumsily, to unite his people by summoning up threats from outside. He needs to be more careful what he wishes for . . .