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We're going look awfully silly if it turns out they're being serious...

Well they're constantly ready to get moving if needed any way, and NK makes threats like this constantly... you can't be jumping in the fox holes every time they say boo.

Well, they just ended the cease-fire treaty and cut the emergy telephone line to south-korea. Extreme sabre rattling or will there be actual action?

SK are scrambling troops as we speak.

 Soladrin wrote:
Well, they just ended the cease-fire treaty and cut the emergy telephone line to south-korea. Extreme sabre rattling or will there be actual action?

SK are scrambling troops as we speak.

I haven't heard anything about scrambling troops. We were engaging in an exercise with them that already had troops mobilizing. That was unrelated to this though.

The most telling thing that I've seen with this situation is China's backing of the sanctions. They've offered no resistance to it, even supported it. N. Korea is probably seeing the writing on the wall right now...

SK and US forces Korea isn't scrambling, nor is 7th fleet. Per an intell buddy this is being treated as saber rattling for the time being, the next couple days will be telling though so stand by for things to get interesting.

Does this mean the Dennis Rodman mission has failed?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290052/North-Korea-cancels-peace-pact-South-revenge-tough-UN-sanctions-threatens-thermonuclear-war-US.html

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un today told his troops to be ready for 'all-out war' and instructed them to 'make the first gunfire' if tensions with South Korea boil over.

He also promised a 'great advance' over the border between the two nations, shortly after the North announced that it had abandoned its peace treaty with the South.

The pariah state has launched a new round of warlike rhetoric in anger over tough new sanctions imposed on it.

The UN Security council voted to impose the fresh round of sanctions targeting North Korea's economy and leadership in the wake of the country's third nuclear test.

It's not the first time they cancelled it.

 djones520 wrote:


The most telling thing that I've seen with this situation is China's backing of the sanctions. They've offered no resistance to it, even supported it. N. Korea is probably seeing the writing on the wall right now...

China was actually responsible for drafting the latest set of resolutions along with the US.

Spoke to a friend in SK today though and she wasn't worried about this at all. She thought it was probably just an excuse to rally people around a common enemy (there are some big rallies going on) and try and take the onus away from domestic troubles. As per normal, in fact.

I do think though that the big joint US/SK military manoeuvres might be ill-advised though. As we saw last time with the sinking of the Cheonan a few years ago, having masses of military hardware milling around on the border opens the door for itchy trigger fingers to get the better of people, and for mistakes to be made.

The war has to wait a few years, i want a front row seat damnit!

Thats an interesting thought. The NK is so focused on charging south, what if the US/SK invaded first, or even pulled Inchon II This Time Its Personal?

 Soladrin wrote:
Do you believe for a second that he actually has any power at all in that country?

Yes I do, however he is replacable. Thing he has too many puppetmasters, which gives him a lot of levity. He will do Chinas bidding, up to a point, and that of the generals, up to a point, and his family, up to a point. He has levity by playing one off against other, the nice way, that is by prioitising what he does on their behalf in his order and to his degree As a result he becomes the powerbroker in his own country

Kim Jong Un knows that when he has got nukes he will be left alone, and thats all he wants. Sanctions actually help him, as he can bunker down rely on China for essential supplies and defer any reform pressures from south of the border.

North Korean soldiers vow to 'destroy American imperialist aggressors'...



They are also threatening Nuclear strikes...