North Korea Threatens US - Missile Imminent

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Yahoo! News said:
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea accused Washington of seeking to "provoke a second Korean War" as the regime prepared to hold maritime military exercises off the eastern coast.
U.S. and regional authorities were watching closely for signs that North Korea might fire short- or mid-range missiles during the June 25 to July 10 timeframe cited in a no-sail ban for military drills sent to Japan's Coast Guard.
North Korea had warned previously it would fire a long-range missile as a response to U.N. Security Council condemnation of an April rocket launch seen as a cover for its ballistic missile technology.
An underground nuclear test last month drew more Security Council action: a resolution seeking to clamp down on North Korea's trading of banned arms and weapons-related material by requiring U.N. member states to request inspections of ships carrying suspected cargo.
In a first test of the new resolution, a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons was sailing off China's coast with a U.S. destroyer close behind.
The Kang Nam, which left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago, is believed bound for Myanmar, South Korean and U.S. officials said.
Myanmar state television downplayed the reports of a possible weapons shipment Wednesday evening, saying another North Korean vessel was expected to pick up a load of rice but that the government had no information about the Kang Nam.
A senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday that the ship had already cleared the Taiwan Strait.
He said he didn't know how much range the Kang Nam has — that is, whether or when it may need to stop in some port to refuel — but that the Kang Nam has in the past stopped in Hong Kong's port.
Another U.S. defense official said he tended to doubt reports that the Kang Nam was carrying nuclear-related equipment, saying the information officials have received seems to indicate the cargo is conventional munitions.
The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing intelligence.
Officials said last week that they believed the ship was carrying smaller arms, though they didn't elaborate.
The U.S. and its allies have not decided whether to contact and request inspection of the ship, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Wednesday.
"That's a decision that will have to be made at some point, and not necessarily just by us or this government," he said at a news conference. "I think we will likely take (the decision) collectively with our allies and partners."
He said he didn't believe a decision would come soon.
North Korea has said it would consider interception of its ships a declaration of war, and on Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking to start another Korean War.
"If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," a dispatch from the official Korean Central News Agency said.
The warning came on the eve of the 59th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. The brutal fighting ended after three years in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula divided and in a state of war. The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect against an outbreak of hostilities.
On Wednesday, the top U.S. commander in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, praised soldiers from U.S.-led U.N. forces who died fighting the "tyranny" of communist North Korea decades ago.
"A North Korean victory in the Korean War would have brought the nightmare of tyranny to this great land, thrusting the citizens of the Republic of Korea into a darkness that their northern counterparts have yet to emerge from," he said a commemoration ceremony Wednesday, referring to South Korea by its official name, the Republic of Korea.
Reports about possible missile launches from the North highlighted the state of tension on the Korean peninsula.
A senior South Korean government official said the no-sail ban is believed connected to North Korean plans to fire short- or mid-range missiles. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
Yonhap reported that the North may fire a Scud missile with a range of up to 310 miles (500 kilometers) or a short-range ground-to-ship missile with a range of 100 miles (160 kilometers) during the no-sail period.
U.S. defense and counterproliferation officials in Washington said they also expected the North to launch short- to medium-range missiles. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
South Korea will expedite the introduction of high-tech unmanned aerial surveillance systems and "bunker-buster" bombs in response to North Korea's provocations, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing lawmakers.
Meanwhile, a flurry of diplomatic efforts were under way to try getting North Korea to return to disarmament talks.
Russia's top nuclear envoy, Alexei Borodavkin, said after meeting with his South Korean counterpart that Moscow is open to other formats for discussion since Pyongyang has pulled out of formal six-nation negotiations.
In Beijing, top U.S. and Chinese defense officials also discussed North Korea. U.S. Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy was heading next to Tokyo and Seoul for talks.
South Korea has proposed high-level "consultations" to discuss North Korea with the U.S., Russia, China and Japan.

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Well... looks like there will only be EU Gamedays soon...
 

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damn i hope their attack is after Thursday, which is payday
 

Spike

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I'm against Iraq war, but if US had to Nuke or H-Bomb NK then it would be ok.
 

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They better do it after I release Scoville's A1S1 or after the 4th, I have plans.
 

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All of North Korea's population is brainwashed. Plus nobody likes them anyways. Would be like bugs hitting a big... nuclear... windshield.
 

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Not as innocent as you think
i believe the north Korean people are brainwashed. i mean, they really havent done anything, because they cant. they're oppressed. i would support a liberation movement spearheaded by a group of nations.
 

Spike

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Every single civilian in NK would agree on bombing SK, Japan and USA, they've been brainwashed and they would make everything the leader says.
 

Drexer

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All of North Korea's population is brainwashed. Plus nobody likes them anyways. Would be like bugs hitting a big... nuclear... windshield.

So would you say then that all the population of Germany after the WW2 was brainwashed? Why is it then that the country managed to lift itself out of its fascist regime with time and evolved into one of the most important members of the EU? Even if its government is still mainly of the right?

Do you really believe that if they had nuked the whole country after the war, it would be any better?

In the end, doing things like you describe is exactly what is an ideology of perhaps not evil, but certainly not good. Why do you think that comics such as Superman and Batman time and time again identify the characters as good, not only because of their arrests, but because they mainly never kill any of their enemies?

This strikes me specially as a bad judgement, being Portuguese. During WW2 Portugal was under a fascist regime, perhaps not equal to Korea due to the differences in culture of geography, but we were certainly under a fascist rule. Why didn't the US nuke us then after WW2 had ended and we still were in that same situation? After all, if we were under such a regime, we were all mindless lemmings, correct? Because human nature does not cause rebellion or curiosity for the outside world, or rationality for a fight for freedom. Because there wouldn't be a chance that there would be a revolution right, seeing that we were all under one ruler, right?

25th of April of 1974. The Carnation Revolution. Only 2 deaths. Of agents of the Political Police.

How much do you want to bet that was a better solution than the annihilation of 1 million lives?

All human lives should be taken to the greatest of efforts to conserve. When anyone stops doing that, they lose the rationality of ethics.
 

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Every single civilian in NK would agree on bombing SK, Japan and USA, they've been brainwashed and they would make everything the leader says.

That doesn't mean it's okay for us to nuke them. And what about the fall out? South Korea? Japan? Or even China? Eastern Russia? Millions and millions of people would get cancer. But at least we got rid of that pesky knowitall Kim Jong-what's-his-name!
 
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Bleh, if the US were missiled, NK would be off the map quicker than you could say Barack Obama.
 

Nineaxis

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Bleh, if the US were missiled, NK would be off the map quicker than you could say Barack Obama.

If the US were missiled, we'd sit through 8 months of NATO deliberation, then 14 months of trying to lift anti-missile pacts imposed by the UN, then 6 months of the military trying to locate the missiles needed before two more months of bureaucratic fiddly-farting, and then we'd have clearance to launch a single missile within a four month timeframe.
 

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If the US were missiled, we'd sit through 8 months of NATO deliberation, then 14 months of trying to lift anti-missile pacts imposed by the UN, then 6 months of the military trying to locate the missiles needed before two more months of bureaucratic fiddly-farting, and then we'd have clearance to launch a single missile within a four month timeframe.

Don't forget the eons of "negotioatin without precondition."