http://www.atsnn.com/story/136451.html North Korea warns UN Sanctions are declerations for war WWIII here we come.. I mean, come on, this is just stupid. In other news, my heart goes out to the victims of the train derailment in Japan. Pretty damn devastating.
NK isnt stupid enough to do shit. Yeah they may have nukes, but only because it makes the world listen to them in the first place. They want attention and this is giving it to them. Ohh Ahh, North Korea is sooo scary with their famine ridden population and 4th largest army in the world. Saddam had much the same when he got owned in the gulf war. I believe nukes are for protection more than for attacks. If NK actually attacked another country, I'm sure China wouldn't support them anymore and it would be the death nail for NK. They are a communist country, and this is what they do.
Indeed my friend, they are. They don't get much airtime in the US b/c 1: They're far away 2: They don't have oil 3: Their skin tone isn't quite dark enough to make Americans think they're evil-doers but make no mistake, Kim Jun Il is a sick fuck... and way more dangerous than Saddam could ever be. Do I think they'll nuke someone? No. But, they may do some dumb shit in the DMZ, and do a few "tests" in which they launch missiles over Japan and S. Korea.
Under the media mainstream they aren't getting attention but my sister who is in the National Guard got word that she might be sent out to SK in the next few months . She was sent to Iraq when we first invaded. So you know something will go down.
sent to NK and sent to korea are two different things. My dad had to serve one year over in south korea somewhere once too, doesnt mean he was out shooting at Kim Jong Il. NK just wants to feel loved. People only paid attention to dumbass things like a battle over building the biggest flagpole in the world for so long. Countries like Iran can stand up to the UN and the US because they supposedly have nukes. No one wants to be the next Iraq.
Yes, it's sad that Nuclear proliferation is pretty much beyond our control. The thing is like Jhonny said many little countries that don't have much of a military will actually seek the bomb because it gives you bargaining power when dealing with the big world powers like the U.S., China, or Europe. You're less likely to be invaded if you have nuclear weapons. The thing that people don't realize is that you don't have to have a nuclear bomb dropped on you to be killed by one, just the process of creating weapons grade plutionium means you have to have reactors that create waste. So for every pound of weapons grade plutonium you end up with a large amount of radioactive waste that has a half life of 3 billion years. What about the plutonium that doesn't get made into a bomb? One gram of that stuff is enough to give every living thing on Earth cancer. That's why people are so scared of terrorists getting thier hands on it and making a "dirty bomb." You could pack a teaspoon of plutonium in the tip of it and kill everyone in the United States, Canada, and problably Mexico too. But what do we do with this stuff that could potentially wipe out all life on Earth? We leave it sitting in rust barrels in wharehouses. At least if you make a bomb out of it then it's sitting in a silo somwhere and only the army people will get cancer. Here they want to take Yucca mountian in Neveda (about 90 miles away from Las Vegas,) hollow it out and store the country's atomic waste. There's concept drawings out on the net of what they're going to make the outside of the dump look like, big spikes, evil looking towers, skulls, like something out of Lord of the Rings, becasue they know the stuff is going to be active for half a billion years and they need to warn future civilizations that it's dangerous. But in the meantime all it will take is one good earthquake or flood and there goes Nevada. That's better than in the 1960s when the British government just dumped most of thier nuclear waste into Atlantic deep ocean trenches. Now we have a river of radioactive sludge running along the ocean Atlantic deep sea vents, possibly destroying the very places where life originated on this planet (and possibly the only life that would survive a full on nuclear war here on the surface, as those deep sea vents are thier own self contained ecosystems.) Plus creating god-knows-what deep sea nuclear mutants down there. So don't worry much about bombs, becasue if they don't kill us eventually the pollution will. It's already working it's way into the food chain. You know that every living organisim on Earth has traces of DDT in their bodies? One day we'll all have traces of Plutonium in our spinal collums too. If it were all made into bombs then at least maybe one day when mankind finally got a brain we could figure out a way to get rid of them all, maybe launch them into space or drop them in a volcano or something. But it's too late now. Eventually every living thing on Earth is going to pay for this.
Hawanja do you like Kraftwerk ? since the live intro of Radioactivity Tells about the some of the things you just said (not all but some of it) and the best way of getting the shit away from earth is relly putting it on a big rocket and send it to the sun and let it burn.
The big fear of this method is if there is a failure in the rocket and it explodes further up in our atmosphere spreading the waste all over the earth or whatever.
Well, it has to be gotten over with eventually, though it will be a rather messy affair. However, North Korea's military might be big, it is supposedly quite obsolete. Anyhow, I think *something* will happen in NK in the near future, this situation seems way too unstable.
eh...the u.s. has been launching crap into space with uranium and plutonium on board for awhile now. the cassini probe is carrying over 70 pounds of plutonium...i remember reading that durring one of the launch stages there was like a one and 4 chance the thing could have exploded in the earths atmosphere killing off a big chunk of the u.s. population. my view on north korea is that if everyone else has nukes why not let north korea have nukes as well...its not like bush is any more suited to the task or responsibility than kim jong. why single just him...its like beating up the retarded kid at school, its not fair. sort of off topic but did anyone check out the lucas arts game mercenaries...the north koreans never catch a brake. nor could you join the north koreans...its like wolfenstien and bionic comando and stuff.
Planetarian's world might not be just a story with the way things are going... Am I the only one that caught that? :smt043 :smt043
I kinda said it wrong about my sister being sent out. She might be sent out to South Korea, not North Korea. I think this is something China, Japan, and Russia can handle on their own as far as diplomacy works. It could be a good moral booster for the international community because for once, a war was avoided without the intervention of the US lol. But if NK is still acting like a pissant then the US will be sent in if it has to be sent in.
How about for starters that N. Korea tends to have a no questions asked policy when it comes to arms sales.
UK is just the same. It's perfectly legal to sell arms within the UK, provided the armaments don't enter the country ie: selling arms located in 1 country to a buyer in another, but as a dealer you're based in the UK. So I'm not really sure where you are going nwith that ... Anyhow I think North Korea are well within their rights to own, test and deploy nukes and if WWIII kicks off, it's not the end of the world.
By arms sales I don't mean a couple of crates of AK-47's. I mean stuff like the Taepodong-2 missile. Maybe the UK is a bit lenient with arms sales (I saw one of your aircraft carriers on Ebay) but I seriously doubt there would be no arrests or detainment if (as an example) some people from the middle east decided to broker a deal in London with a N. Korean agent for missiles. Product in country or not.
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