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talkpoliticsEven when the nuclear state directly suspended the armistice it claimed to adhere to years ago.
www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/world/asia/north-korea-armistice/
After all, North Korea literally suspended the armistice four years ago and hasn't done much of anything with a legal official state of war beyond the usual shenanigans. If it had the will or the power to unleash its armies in an all out assault it would have already done so, logic be damned (as with the kind of situation it has relative to South Korea and US troops in South Korea there is no logic in the first place so.....eh).
No, what I'd call this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/09/sending-us-warships-north-korea-prudent-says-us-world-braces/
is the kind of petty foolish small-minded approach I'd expect from Dorito Benito and his gang of crooks, liars, perverts, and fanatics. The smart approach with a regime like North Korea is not to play the game it wants but to rationally ignore them and not give them the kind of reaction they want. Which is to say exactly what the dipshit in the White House is actually doing.
Personally I hope nothing comes of this but with this Administration there is no certainty that it'll be the usual pantomime and same old con artist game on the part of the USA and North Korea alike. And that lack of certainty with not one but two scenarios involving other nuclear states is ah......not the best route by any means.
www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/world/asia/north-korea-armistice/
After all, North Korea literally suspended the armistice four years ago and hasn't done much of anything with a legal official state of war beyond the usual shenanigans. If it had the will or the power to unleash its armies in an all out assault it would have already done so, logic be damned (as with the kind of situation it has relative to South Korea and US troops in South Korea there is no logic in the first place so.....eh).
No, what I'd call this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/09/sending-us-warships-north-korea-prudent-says-us-world-braces/
is the kind of petty foolish small-minded approach I'd expect from Dorito Benito and his gang of crooks, liars, perverts, and fanatics. The smart approach with a regime like North Korea is not to play the game it wants but to rationally ignore them and not give them the kind of reaction they want. Which is to say exactly what the dipshit in the White House is actually doing.
Personally I hope nothing comes of this but with this Administration there is no certainty that it'll be the usual pantomime and same old con artist game on the part of the USA and North Korea alike. And that lack of certainty with not one but two scenarios involving other nuclear states is ah......not the best route by any means.
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Date: 10/4/17 20:04 (UTC)They could no sooner launch a nuke than the surviving members of Pink Floyd could get together and write a new album. (Technically possible; highly explosive; not EVER gonna happen.)
If NK meant business it would not be posting YouTube videos of burning carriers, like some suburban middle-school-age troll.
I suspect you're looking at this move through brimstone-colores lenses of Trump hate. Why the hell wouldn't the US move a carrier there? NK is a paper tiger and is being treated as such. The US is tired of treating them any other way and this a clear signal that if China doesn't want US carriers wandering near its coast, it should do something about that raving lunatic living in the garbage-strewn tent in its front yard.
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Date: 10/4/17 20:55 (UTC)They don't have to launch it, they can simply detonate it under the DMZ or send it on a ship as the world's biggest boat-bomb. Those two things are within their capacity to do.
I'm looking at it from the pragmatic point of view that when two whackos with nuclear weapons are in charge of the ol' okie doke instead of one whacko and one relatively sane person, the shit is far more likely to hit the fan than not.
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Date: 11/4/17 17:16 (UTC)The question I'm wondering is, would The Donald be dumb enough - and is his tether long enough - to provoke China by firing into North Korea "preemptively"...?