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BritishinSuwon



Joined: 17 May 2008
Location: No longer in Suwon! Now kicking it in Shanghai

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 1:49 am    Post subject: Here we go again Reply with quote

So 4 military tests in the span of a day? I'm not normally an alarmist, but I'm thinking that North Korea is upto something beyond their normal bluster and postering.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090525/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear
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Robot_Teacher



Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 2:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Their nuclear program does not have military aims � their only aim is to frighten the U.S. and receive more humanitarian aid as a result," said Sergeyev, 24.

I didn't know the USA was financing this axis of evil, but it's long known South Korea does. Most Koreans think it's only about money, but I find it hard to believe that's only what is going on. I think the NORKS are sadistically wanting war and have been preparing for decades in developing their military machine with the pinnacle of that power being nuclear bombs to back the 1 million man army. A regime like North Korea very well could have 10 million soldiers and much more hardware than anyone thinks. It's possible to have a tiny country as powerful as a large superpower from a military capacity perspective.

I feel America would had been right to invade them instead of Iraq, but there's no valuables such as oil and gold in it to subsidize the American empire. America is chasing oil; not terrorists.
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Joe666



Joined: 19 Nov 2008
Location: Jesus it's hot down here!

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 2:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe nuclear armaments and mutually assured destruction are a joke! No one will ever use that power as a weapon again. N.Korea knows as do most other countries that you use one, you get one. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first and last time good sized warheads will ever be used.

The only real possibility might be Isreal using one on Iran. Even if this were to occur, it would be a small warhead. I believe the Isrealies feel they have nothing to lose. The U.S. would also back them on this decision.
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superacidjax



Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joe666 wrote:
The only real possibility might be Isreal using one on Iran. Even if this were to occur, it would be a small warhead. I believe the Isrealies feel they have nothing to lose.


The reverse is also true. The Iranian President routinely calls for the annihilation of Israel. Israel hasn't called for the destruction of any specific country, although Israel always finds itself in the crosshairs. Rocket attacks from the Syrian border are a daily thing.. The thing "saving" Israel right now is the proximity of the Palestinians. Of course the Arab world doesn't give a rat's backside for the Palestinians.. or else they'd welcome Palestinian refugees with open arms, which they don't the Palestinians are the blacks of the Arab (and Persian) world.
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kg2095



Joined: 23 May 2009
Location: Hwaseong City

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joe666 wrote:
I believe nuclear armaments and mutually assured destruction are a joke! No one will ever use that power as a weapon again. N.Korea knows as do most other countries that you use one, you get one.
I think that logic only applies when the leaders of each nuclear state are sane. I'm not 100% convinced that the NK leader is actually sane.
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Joe666



Joined: 19 Nov 2008
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PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My thinking was that Isreal would only use a small warhead to eliminate the start of any Irianian program and send a clear message. I am not even convinced this would really happen.
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travelingfool



Joined: 10 Mar 2008
Location: Parents' basement

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joe666 wrote:
I believe nuclear armaments and mutually assured destruction are a joke! No one will ever use that power as a weapon again. N.Korea knows as do most other countries that you use one, you get one. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first and last time good sized warheads will ever be used.

The only real possibility might be Isreal using one on Iran. Even if this were to occur, it would be a small warhead. I believe the Isrealies feel they have nothing to lose. The U.S. would also back them on this decision.


The dear leader and president of Iran are stupid enough to unleash a bomb. Those guys are megalomaniacs and don't live in reality. I just read that KJI has a $800,000 budget for Cognac! These guys are much like Hitler in that they would rather see their countries go up in flames than admit defeat. The Japanese were the same way, and don't even start with the whole "we didn't need to use to bomb" nonsense! I mean, why did it take two bombs for them to surrender? They knew they were beat yet fought on anyways costing hundreds of thousands of lives. These guys don't care about anything but themselves. While his people are dying of hunger, the dear leader spends 800,000 grand on Cognac? Sounds like a stable guy to me.
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PK



Joined: 25 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

'Threads' - 1984

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.

Shocked
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PK



Joined: 25 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

'Le temps du loup' (Time of the Wolf) - 2003

French Subtitled
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