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2012-12-12, 21:27 | Link #25082 |
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2012-12-13, 01:19 | Link #25085 | |
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Add in the fact that you've just launched a preemptive nuclear attack, which opens yourself up to retaliation... It's beyond cutting off your nose to spite your face, it's just straight up blowing yourself up. |
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2012-12-13, 02:16 | Link #25086 | |
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And besides, since the DPRK invested most of their computer technology into their nuclear program and other military departments (with enough willingness to take a shot at other countries or being an attention whore), they deserve to take something big into the teeth. Either way, such country as North Korea doesn't deserve a chance to make their way out without facing some consequences following their threats. Seriously, don't you get fed up by the threats and the missile tests they keep on doing? The same can be said about the bearded SOB in Iran. |
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2012-12-13, 02:38 | Link #25088 | ||
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Are they in form factors small enough to be carried by drones yet powerful enough to be used as weapons? No, unless you know something the rest of us don't, in which case I'd love to see you link us to working EMP weapons. Quote:
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2012-12-13, 02:41 | Link #25089 | ||
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The world cut some slack for North Korea for decades after 1953. However, I think the time has come to send them a message that many countries have enough of their antics considering how many chances they had to do something more constructive of their own. I'm sure there are people who think the same. Don't you have enough of the DPRK's antics too? Last edited by KiraYamatoFan; 2012-12-13 at 02:52. |
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2012-12-13, 02:42 | Link #25090 | |
I don't give a damn, dude
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2012-12-13, 02:56 | Link #25091 | |
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War is the last resort, when all other diplomatic means have failed. Jumping straight to open war because you don't like the other guy is exactly what you're accusing North Korea will do.. |
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2012-12-13, 03:05 | Link #25092 | |
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Now, even South Korea told the DPRK to go to hell... what more is to be interpreted from such message when it comes from people with the same blood? I have a hard time finding a better solution when the DPRK government keeps threatening everyone instead of making something more constructive after all this time. I think all diplomatic solutions have failed beyond the point of no return since Kim Jong-Il took power. |
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2012-12-13, 03:15 | Link #25093 | |
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The current citizens well, I'm not sure but they might have grown up being taught what is right and what in wrong in the doctrines of communism. They may have been made to believe that they are bound to die if they ignore or rebel against the government. In the end, the blame is to their government that continues to ignore the rights of its citizens. About South Korea? I don't know.. they're too progressive to care for their suffering brothers. |
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2012-12-13, 03:26 | Link #25094 | |
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Of course the DPRK government is to be blamed, but the situation also finds roots in the reaction (or lack of) from the people. Historically, when a population is starved and gets angry as a result, there usually is a reaction. However, the lack of reaction from North Koreans after years of starvation is just staggering and it fuels the current diplomatic situation, whether we like it or not. Last edited by KiraYamatoFan; 2012-12-13 at 03:41. |
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2012-12-13, 03:41 | Link #25096 | |||
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I find your take on the situation... overly simplistic. North Korea did not happen in a vacuum, but rather as a direct result of WW2 and the Cold War. The regime was directly supported by the Soviets and China, are you seriously saying the North Koreans should take up arms against their own govt, China, and the Soviets all together? Hell, they wouldn't even have had the weapons to do it with, what were they gonna do, ask the Chinese and Russians for them? Quote:
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I'm not sure if you get this, but not every country is going to be on the same side, but that's hardly a reason to START wars over it. North Korea may like to rattle its saber, but your kill-them-all policy is even worse. |
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2012-12-13, 04:31 | Link #25098 | ||||
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How to get weapons? Ask how the Mujahideen got them in the 1980's Afghanistan War. Bar CIA operations, good old-fashioned ambushes worked out well for any rebellion. The Afghans sure didn't have that many before the Soviet invasion. Quote:
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2012-12-13, 05:33 | Link #25099 | ||||
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In many ways, North Korea is to China as the Warsaw Pact countries were to the Soviets - both are important satellite states that served as buffers for them. And much like the Warsaw Pact, the current N. Korean regime is unlikely to fall unless China itself buckles, or decides it no longer want the buffer N. Korea provides. Quote:
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I mean, what are you gonna say to them? "How DARE you do....the same thing we do all the time...?" And FYI, N.Korea suffers plenty from the sanctions, it's just that the regime passes on the suffering to the people instead. |
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