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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21935342

Well North Korea, it's been fun knowing you. We've had good times, and bad times. You've given me a lot of fodder for economics presentations, so at least you've done something beneficial.

So I guess this won't help endear the US to the North Koreans either!?



(ie: a film about a bunch of North Korean commandos slaughtering civilians and fustigating the White House...)

Experiment 626 wrote:
(ie: a film about a bunch of North Korean commandos slaughtering civilians and fustigating the White House...)

They made a film based on the Dear Leader's wet dream?

*gets popcorn*

Just shoot NK. Shoot 1 shot. You will be wiped off this planet's surface.

Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

or
2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

or.
3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

What do you do Mr. President?

 Frazzled wrote:
Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

or
2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

or.
3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

What do you do Mr. President?

Send Frazzled's weiner dogs on a covert seek-and-devour mission to end the threat and bring about world peace?!

I'm against nuking.

But this guy needs a nuking.

Even crassus armored transport cannot save you from the badger dog tide!

Well guys, remember NK's record of "Satellite launching" and how well they went.

That is all.

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
Well guys, remember NK's record of "Satellite launching" and how well they went.

That is all.

Considering they were successful, that's hardly comforting...

 Frazzled wrote:
Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

or
2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

or.
3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

What do you do Mr. President?

Can't their nukes only barely reach Alaska?

 Surtur wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

or
2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

or.
3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

What do you do Mr. President?

Can't their nukes only barely reach Alaska?

The Grizzly Bears will snatch those missles....

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
Well guys, remember NK's record of "Satellite launching" and how well they went.

That is all.

Considering they were successful, that's hardly comforting...

Successful doing what? Toppling over into the Sea of Japan?

 Frazzled wrote:
Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

or
2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

or.
3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

What do you do Mr. President?

NK nukes 1 spot the US is related to. US nukes NK away from the planet's surface. The end.

The US won't use nukes on N. Korea. The risk of fallout on Japan would be to high.

 Surtur wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

or
2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

or.
3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

What do you do Mr. President?

Can't their nukes only barely reach Alaska?

Not quite, but close enough for Sara Palin can see how close to Alaska they can get from her back yard.

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
Well guys, remember NK's record of "Satellite launching" and how well they went.

That is all.

Considering they were successful, that's hardly comforting...

Successful doing what? Toppling over into the Sea of Japan?

No, succeeding in launching a satellite into orbit.

 kronk wrote:

 Surtur wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

or
2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

or.
3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

What do you do Mr. President?

Can't their nukes only barely reach Alaska?

Not quite, but close enough for Sara Palin can see how close to Alaska they can get from her back yard.

I've heard NK has the nukes, and that NK has missiles that can reach the lower 48, but the two aren't compatible (something like the nuke is too big for the missile) yet

Probably. I was just making a Sara Palin joke. I honestly don't know either way.

Frazzled wrote:Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

or
2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

or.
3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

What do you do Mr. President?

Every option in this choose-your-own-adventure ends with North Korea looking like the Gobi.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

or
2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

or.
3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

What do you do Mr. President?

I would not waste one US life for SK.

NK nukes 1 spot the US is related to. US nukes NK away from the planet's surface. The end.

"Shove a nuke up his butt and press the little red button." Abe Lincoln

 kronk wrote:
"Shove a nuke up his butt and press the little red button." Abe Lincoln

Ole honest Abe was always one for quiet diplomacy.

Seriously, its like watching a toddler throwing a fit, and trying to raise the fit level when the parents finally learn to ignore it.

North Korea's nuclear capacity is barely passed where the U.S. was in 1949. I'm not concerned about their weapons. I am concerned about the consequences for South Koreans and Japan, I have lots of friends in both areas.

just makes me think of this..

 djones520 wrote:
The US won't use nukes on N. Korea. The risk of fallout on Japan would be to high.

China may not be thrilled either

I say let em invade, at least my Curio & Relic firearm collection will be boosted significantly (gun owners will get the joke once they see the video)




Skip to 5:50 and see how many museum quality firearms you can spot! I'll give you a few to start with, DP 28's, PPSh 41's, Mosin Nagants, and even RPG 2's!

*This is obviously not what the average North Korean is armed with. If I remember correctly, these guys are the equivalent of our National Guard, aka soldiers who are merely there to hold down the fort while the main army attacks South Korea. Still, if those firearms they're holding are real, some of them could probably be sold off to get them some modern weapons easy

Also, on the "USA is going to get a token city nuked", there's no way they'll pull it off with a balistic missile. Why? We've had systems and protocol in place to shoot down HUNDREDS of ICBM's from back in the cold war days. A handful of missiles from North Korea wouldn't make it over the pacific before they were shot down or disabled by the US government.

However, they could easily nuke Japan or South Korea. If I remember right they hate the Japanese right? I could see them nuking Japan before they nuke South Korea or the US.

Oh, not nuclear bombs. Just giant bombs

 Frazzled wrote:
Here's an interesting scenario.
NK launches missile capable of reaching the US.
1. NK then tells the US it has 90 days to leave SK or it will fire its vast horde of nukes at San Francisco (I'd say hllywood but too many people would volunteer to push the button). What do you do?

Call Whitman AFB and tell them to get the B-2s ready for action. Then tell NK that if they do we erase their country with our own nuclear arsenal, in standing with our 60-year old policy involving the use of WMD against us.

2. NK invades South Korea. NK says stay out or we'll nuke you, or nuke your ships. What do you do?

Looks like the cease-fire is off and America's longest continuous war is hot again. Given that we still have troops on the ground on the border, a NK invasion of SK is going to kill Amercian soldiers - so we're already at war so we CAN'T stay out. So we fight the war, and if remind Kim about our existing policy about the use of WMD against us.

3 NK invades SK. NK nukes a city in SK, and says if the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

Again, given that any significant action by NK against SK will kill America troops, we enforce our existing policy about the use of WMD agaisnt us. NK ceases to exist.

4. NK nukes Seoul. NK says it the US retaliates it will nuke the US.

Just a variation on #3. Only this time we lost a LOT more troops in the initial strike.

We wouldn't have to nuke 'em.... just bomb the gak out of them via the B-2 and sub-launched cruise missiles.

How many targets are there? Pyongyang and the military installations on the DMZ sites?

After NK is dealt with, the biggest concern is the aftermath... we'd need to be prepared along with SK, Japan and China for the influx of refugees.