North Korea Threteans Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike Against South Korea And U.S. - Polidicks

[quote]North Korea has warned of "indiscriminate" nuclear strikes on the US and South Korea as the two begin their largest ever military drills. The exercises, Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, are an annual event and always generate tension. The order for a "pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice" was made in a statement put out by Pyongyang. Such rhetoric is not uncommon, and experts doubt the North's ability to put nuclear warheads on its missiles. North Korea says it sees the annual US-South Korean war games as a rehearsal for invasion. Last year, it threatened to turn Washington into a "sea of fire". Approximately 17,000 US forces are participating in the exercises, alongside around 300,000 South Korean troops - both significant increases on 2015's numbers.[/quote] [quote](CNN)North Korea warned it would make a "preemptive and offensive nuclear strike" in response to joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises that began Monday. The news was announced in a statement by the National Defense Commission of North Korea and published in the state-run Korean Central News Agency. "As the joint military exercises to be staged by the enemies are regarded as the most undisguised nuclear war drills aimed to infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK, its military counteraction will be more preemptive and offensive nuclear strike to cope with them," the statement read. The bellicose words are typical around the time of annual military exercises, according to CNN's Paula Hancocks. "They (North Korea) have threatened this before, and these kinds of threats are to be expected this time of year," she said. [/quote] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/06/asia/north-korea-preemptive-nuclear-strike-threat[/url] [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35741936[/url] Guess it's that time of the year again.

I'll go get the popcorn and watch as nothing happens.

I wonder what the toll of being perpetually on stand-by, always on the "brink of war" is on North Korean soldiers. Does it make them less efficient should they actually be standing by for a potential war when by now, most DPRK's soldiers are now desensitized to these contingency actions when the real one actually comes?

Read the fucking title as "launches preemptive strike." Jesus motherfucking christ, my heart.

You're late by a few yea.. Oh wait, never mind, they're just repeating themselves again.

North Korea has been real rowdy lately.

Kim needs a spanking

go pho it

I know the usual response to this is "ha ha right" but do we have any experts or people on the know how saying that this is nothing more than the usual North Korean bullshit?

[QUOTE=Zuimzado;49883767]I know the usual response to this is "ha ha right" but do we have any experts or people on the know how saying that this is nothing more than the usual North Korean bullshit?[/QUOTE] Not sure if this particular article quoted any, but North Korean-experts tend to agree that NK does not have the technological capacity to miniaturize their nuclear devices such that they could be fitted on a missile.

"I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna launch them! I'll seriously do it!" ("... I wont do it.") [editline]7th March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Im Crimson;49883795]Not sure if this particular article quoted any, but North Korean-experts tend to agree that NK does not have the technological capacity to miniaturize their nuclear devices such that they could be fitted on a missile.[/QUOTE] Why do you think they keep shooting small fries at the ocean? (fish n' chips)

Well, If they ever did fire on Korea its like fallout is raining down on our country and its killing everyone. Still Fallout: Korea?

I don't know this time, between this and China militarizing the Paracel Islands.

A threat like this isn't any joke anymore and shouldn't be taken lightly, NK or not. If this would be any other country making a threat like this they'd be in shit deep up to their knees.A counter threat for once would put them back in their place and maybe realize to keep their mouths fucking shut.

People should remember that the last time NK attacked SK it was during military drills and they had threatened the attack in advance.

[QUOTE=GravyKing;49883904]I don't know this time, between this and China militarizing the Paracel Islands.[/QUOTE] Though China has nothing to do with this, they've only been trying to get more and more distance to NK. Because NK has become more of a liability rather than important buffer ally to them.

north korea will never go as far as launching nukes as a preemptive attack because they know the moment the nukes go off there won't be anything remaining of them afterwards. this is just them doing their annual dickwaving to establish themselves and avoid being forgotten entirely.

It's p. strange because they've been observing how we've handled Iraq, Libya and Syria and are aware that we do plan to eventually bring their regime down, and that the military drills are to prepare for that event or similar. We just hope he doesn't nuke us beforehand. Either these military drills shouldn't happen or (which I believe) they are more necessary than ever.

[QUOTE=Lamarr;49883963]A threat like this isn't any joke anymore and shouldn't be taken lightly, NK or not. If this would be any other country making a threat like this they'd be in shit deep up to their knees.A counter threat for once would put them back in their place and maybe realize to keep their mouths fucking shut.[/QUOTE] A counter-threat would just prove NK right and escalate things further, especially if it's done with the intention of "putting them in place". This is exactly the kind of attitude NK has been calling the "imperialists" out on for ages. While threats like this are no "joke" you have to evaluate their weight in the proper context. NK is indeed a special case, we can't get upset just because they're running their mouths. Everyone including NK themselves knows what the situation is and how any further aggression is likely to play out in reality.

North Korea launches even a single nuke, Uncle Sam would be the least of their worries because they would have entire U.N on their ass because if anything will actually push the U.N to actually doing anything outside of angry letters, it would be a nuclear attack even if their nukes are shot down before they can hit their targets. But then again knowing North Korea this is how a nuclear attack would go for them: [video=youtube;ba97uvWmhEc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba97uvWmhEc[/video]

I'm wondering when one of these days where there threat will actually be credible and they go through with it. They know the US will fuck them up if they do anything, especially if they even touch SK at this point. Like, what do they think will happen, they'll manage to get away with it like nothing ever happened? So confused about what they honestly think will happen.

It would probably bring the world back together again if NK nuked anybody.

[QUOTE=Cypher_09;49884251]It would probably bring the world back together again if NK nuked anybody.[/QUOTE] Are you implying that terrorists would begin attacking North Korea? Instead of the entire world.

[QUOTE=Im Crimson;49884187]A counter-threat would just prove NK right and escalate things further, especially if it's done with the intention of "putting them in place". This is exactly the kind of attitude NK has been calling the "imperialists" out on for ages. While threats like this are no "joke" you have to evaluate their weight in the proper context. NK is indeed a special case, we can't get upset just because they're running their mouths. Everyone including NK themselves knows what the situation is and how any further aggression is likely to play out in reality.[/QUOTE] After the number of threats they've made that were ignored it's way beyond any point for them to prove anything, not atleast to the rest of the world anyway which knows they're fucking nuts already. Nor would it matter to their people because they're already hopelessly brainwashed into believing it anyway, and quite frankly, who cares.

[QUOTE=Passing;49884337]Are you implying that terrorists would begin attacking North Korea? Instead of the entire world.[/QUOTE] I'm talking about NATO resolve and common purpose (Opinions conflict about ISIS/Syria/Assad, the North Korea 'crisis' doesn't carry with it the same weight), not ISIS stopping everything and walking to North Korea so I'm not sure why you took that from my post.

[QUOTE=MissingGlitch;49883616]North Korea has been real rowdy lately.[/QUOTE] They always pull this shit in February/March/April. I'm not sure why these specific months, but every year around this time the number of NK threats and threads in FP about it spike.

[QUOTE=Lamarr;49884348]After the number of threats they've made that were ignored it's way beyond any point for them to prove anything, not atleast to the rest of the world anyway which knows they're fucking nuts already. Nor would it matter to their people because they're already hopelessly brainwashed into believing it anyway, and quite frankly, who cares.[/QUOTE] By the same token we don't need to be concerned with whether the rest of the world lets NK get away with talking smack or not either. This has been going on for so long that anything coming out of the regime's mouth is essentially meaningless, and dignifying their threats with a verbal response will just raise the tensions further which nobody (except maybe NK) wants.

Assuming thier missiles don't break apart and fall into the ocean seconds into flight.

[QUOTE=Starpluck;49883555]I wonder what the toll of being perpetually on stand-by, always on the "brink of war" is on North Korean soldiers. Does it make them less efficient should they actually be standing by for a potential war when by now, most DPRK's soldiers are now desensitized to these contingency actions when the real one actually comes?[/QUOTE] I just recently watched the Deadliest Warrior episode on the North Korean military and if that's any kind of reliable source of information, the military is under constant drills to ensure loyalty and readiness. As far as they're concerned, they're on the brink of war at all times. The simulation even ranked them on par with the US Army Rangers in terms of effectiveness in training.

In what ways can the US protect itself from a nuclear attack? Do we have anything like an iron dome? I've never researched it but what's the likelihood that the nuclear weapon would reach US soil? This is assuming that the North Korean's had the capability. I wonder what our response would be to such a thing? I'm genuinely curious as to how safe we actually are.