NK can't really nuke SK without potentially damaging themselves. That's not really an option.

You'd have thought hackers around the world could interrupt their television service to send a message to the people.

[Niall]

Well technically both sides have been at war since the ceasefire at the end of the Korean War, but this is still pretty scary. Hopefully this is just a threat and nothing more.

[Nedusa]

This is the same old game of threats for food, NK busters and blusters and eventually the US says OK we'll give you some more food aid, lessen the sanctions and you in return will be good little commies and stop trying to make the big bomb.

Only this approach is not working as they will not stop making the big bomb and their bellicose rhetoric is getting worse. I guess the US will now say nothing and wait for NK to actually try and walk the walk instead of talking the talk.

This could all so end badly for Kim Jong un....!!!

[Roy Mars III]

Everyone should read this article, I think:


http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...gin_redirect=0

[arista]

Yes NK is a mess.

So long as they do not bomb the Samsung South Korea Factory
as New 3-D LED TV's are being made there.

[Iceman]

North Korea says it has "ratified" a nuclear strike against the United States.
The state news agency carried a statement from an army spokesman, saying a "merciless" attack against the US had been approved, potentially involving a "diversified nuclear strike."
The announcement came after the US said it will send a missile defense system to Guam to defend it from North Korea.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel described the situation as a "real and clear danger" from Pyongyang.
North Korea has threatened a nuclear strike on the US and missile attacks on its Pacific bases, including in Guam, a US territory in the Pacific.
New UN sanctions were imposed over the country's third nuclear weapons test in February.
Yesterday, North Korea said it would revive a mothballed nuclear reactor able to produce bomb-grade plutonium.
"Some of the actions they've taken over the last few weeks, present a real and clear danger," Mr Hagel told an audience at the National Defense University in Washington.
He said he had to take the threats seriously, language he has used in recent weeks as the United States revamped its missile defence plans and positioned two guided-missile destroyers in the western Pacific to bolster missile defence.
The United States has also flexed its muscle during military drills with South Korea last week, flying two bat-winged stealth bombers on a first-of-its-kind practice bombing run over South Korea.
North Korea this morning closed access to a joint factory zone that earns €1.6bn a year in trade for the impoverished state.
However, more than 30 South Koreans returned home in the evening, relieving fears they could have been held hostage.
Factories in the Kaesong Industrial Park are still believed to be operating, but North Korea's decision to block entry is a further sign of the growing tension on the Korean peninsula.
Yesterday, North Korea said it would restart a nuclear reactor that had been shut down in 2007.
The industrial park has not formally stopped operations since it was inaugurated in August 2000 as part of efforts to improve ties between the two Koreas.
South Korean companies pay a total of more than €62m a year in wages to workers in the zone.
It houses 123 companies and is staffed by 50,000 North Koreans and hundreds of South Korean business owners and managers.
More than 800 South Koreans had stayed overnight in the park, just north of the world's most heavily armed border.
South Korea's Unification Ministry demanded the park be opened.
North Korea has threatened a nuclear strike on the United States and missile attacks on its Pacific bases after fresh UN sanctions were imposed for the country's third nuclear weapons test in February.
The government has also said it is in a state of war with South Korea.

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[Smithy]

Tbh I don't think it's a coincidence that NK started all this around he same time Gaga was put into a wheelchair :/ NK is obviously pissed at the idea of ARTPOP being pushed back

[GypsyGoth]

I don't think they are stupid enough to start a war.

Originally Posted by Smithy

Tbh I don't think it's a coincidence that NK started all this around he same time Gaga was put into a wheelchair :/ NK is obviously pissed at the idea of ARTPOP being pushed back

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Tbh I don't think it's a coincidence that NK started all this around he same time Gaga was put into a wheelchair :/ NK is obviously pissed at the idea of ARTPOP being pushed back

You know I was thinking this too....

[AnnieK]

Holy crap....this sounds quite serious now...

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by anniek76

Holy crap....this sounds quite serious now...

Yes ,I hate scarey stuff like this as we are powerless

[Shaun]

I can't see North Korea existing at the end of 2013 at this rate.

[Smithy]

should put that on my deathlist

[King Gizzard]

Granted approval by who? Just trying to push US into tearing up the sanctions

[BBfanUSA]

They're just doing this for attention/hope the US/UN remove sanctions.

I'm shocked that there hasn't been a major uprising in that country to be honest.

[Roy Mars III]

Originally Posted by BBfanUSA

They're just doing this for attention/hope the US/UN remove sanctions.

I'm shocked that there hasn't been a major uprising in that country to be honest.

there are many reports that there was an assassination attempt on Kim Jon Un in early March

[Niall]

The shutdown of Kaesong to me is more worrying than all the other rhetoric spouted by the DPRK as of late. That industrial zone brings in billions of much needed revenue to the impoverished nation, and for them to suddenly be willing to cut it off? Well I think that speaks volumes. I'd like to think that Kim Jong-Un is trying to push for concessions from international powers, but then again if he wanted that, he could of achieved that some time ago now, couldn't he? I get the feeling more and more that he's being belligerent and hostile to prove himself to his country, without care as to the results it produces.

Either way though, if this does lead to war then there is one major positive that I see: the North Korean people will be free. I mean, they've lived under a regime which is in many ways, the closest real life thing to Oceania from 1984. After living under that for 70 years, it's them more than anyone else who deserves freedom imo.

[Novo]

https://twitter.com/kim_tastiic/stat...88114240778240

5* Tweet

[Marc]

-gets in bunker and waits-

[Novo]

https://twitter.com/kim_tastiic/stat...88114240778240

Niall is getting treble teamed now

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Novo

https://twitter.com/kim_tastiic/stat...88114240778240

Niall is getting treble teamed now

[Novo]

But yeah they haven't threatened war on the rest of the World they have threatened War on Countries they feel they have to defend themselves against.. if you read more about the 2010 attack on South Korea you will find that South Korea were doing Military Drills on the Border and if another country is flying nuclear capable planes nearby your going to be pissed off.. and there just two of the main incidents we know about.. there is certainty a lot more we don't know about, I don't really agree with the way either side are handling the Situation though

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Novo

But yeah they haven't threatened war on the rest of the World they have threatened War on Countries they feel they have to defend themselves against.. if you read more about the 2010 attack on South Korea you will find that South Korea were doing Military Drills on the Border and if another country is flying nuclear capable planes nearby your going to be pissed off.. and there just two of the main incidents we know about.. there is certainty a lot more we don't know about, I don't really agree with the way either side are handling the Situation though

I didn't mean the world anyway, I meant South Korea/America/Japan but I couldn't say all that because of Twitter's dumb character limit.

I don't know too much about the incident with that island so I can't really comment, but about these military drills this year, well the DPRK has never really offered such a strong reaction to them before.

Like I was saying on Twitter, I think this reaction to it all is just the ruling elite fearing their own overthrowing of power in North Korea. The fact that it's a small group of people making all these decisions to safeguard their own cushy lives is a lot more sinister to me than what the US/South Korea are doing - i.e trying to deter any attacks on their population through provocative displays of their power.

[BBfanUSA]

You do realize that NK has kind of brought this incident on themselves. They cut off the lines to South Korea so there's no diplomatic contact. I'm sure US has tried to reason with NK but NK has said nope. US set up the missile system as a precaution.

[arista]

Originally Posted by BBfanUSA

You do realize that NK has kind of brought this incident on themselves. They cut off the lines to South Korea so there's no diplomatic contact. I'm sure US has tried to reason with NK but NK has said nope. US set up the missile system as a precaution.

What if America makes a error
and starts WW3