The North Korea Juche Songun Anti-Imperialist Megathread

[Wee Rare Beings]

I'm unable to take North Korea seriously so the answer would be no.

[Free Detroit]

No.

I am, however, taking the possibility of unprovoked hostile actions by the US very seriously.

Who has the track record of unwarranted military action against sovereign nations here? C'mon...

There's a difference between joint military exercises with another nation and saying "I'm gonna nuke you to oblivion!"

I'm not talking about clearly toothless threats. DPRK is great at those, much better than the US in fact...

I'm talking about actual actions. The DPRK has engaged in hostile military action... oh a couple tiny times against the South (sinking a fishing boat here and there, etc)...

The US has intervened or invaded other countries without provocation how many times? Just sayin'. We don't threaten to bomb the innocent populations of foreign countries that offer no real threat to our national security whatsoever... we just do it.

[Great Nepal]

Its north Korea... so no.
Words "North Korea" and "Seriously" doesn't belong in same sentence without word "Not" in same sentence.

[Cameroi]

"Yes" shouldn't even have 2 votes unless people are being sarcastic...

I think any threat to use nuclear weapons should be taken seriously. Just like anything that increases the chance a war will happen should be taken seriously.

more humans are going to die in the next 20 to 50 years, from famine, disease, old age and birth defects, many of these (other then old age of course) as a direct or indirect result of global climate change, then will as a direct or even indirect result of armed conflict, criminal acts or acts of terrorism, with or without the involvement of nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction. automobile accidents will also continue to account for a large portion of the remainder, until depletion of resources renders the private passenger automobile no longer practical as a primary means of transportation.

[Quintium]

I'm trying to, but I find myself unable to. I do hope they try to launch a nuclear missile, considering the mixed results of their first half a dozen attempts. I think they have a better chance of hitting Pyongyang than they do of hitting Seoul, let alone the United States. In addition, a man who had fled the country by boat once said North Korea's navy spends a lot of time sailing because of fuel shortages. North Korea has fuel shortages, food shortages, electricity shortages and old military equipment that's barely working anymore, and it hasn't even attacked yet.

[Paceablaya]

no

[Gandoor]

No.

North Korea is basically those kids in the Nerf fight who have the cheap dollar store knock-offs that fires like one at a time and has to be reloaded every time and everyone else has one of those Nerf guns that fire like 30 at a time and can hold like 150 darts or whatever.

[Defensor]

Well, everyone can say no now, and that's fine.

But what if they DID do what they say the would do and we weren't proactive based on their threats?

Boy, America would sure look stupid...

[Veceria]

I wouldn't even take NK seriously if they somehow bombed the whole world.

[Page]

Well, everyone can say no now, and that's fine.

But what if they DID do what they say the would do and we weren't proactive based on their threats?

Boy, America would sure look stupid...

But North Korea is basically the most isolated country in the world and the USA has giant military bases right under them, how much more proactive could we really be?

[Belrussia]

Definently not. Its a pattern that they are using to get money and attention. They should be monitered, but probably nothing will happen.

[Cabra West]

Not really.

Their political elite is simply doing what every politician does when there are problems at home they don't want to deal with (such as people starving and freezing), they focus on an external "enemy".

Nothing much ever comes of it, the only two countries where such re-focusing is actually worrying and scary when it happens are the US and Israel.

[Cabra West]

Well, everyone can say no now, and that's fine.

But what if they DID do what they say the would do and we weren't proactive based on their threats?

Boy, America would sure look stupid...

More stupid than when they pro-actively went to look for WMD in Iraq?

[Vitaphone Racing]

I'm putting the finishing touches on my bomb shelter.

[Immoren]

Excuse me, have you ever been in a tunnel?
It's like a horizontal hole.
It's dark and long and scary.
You can't nuke a tunnel so we could only use useless Mini guns and grnades and sheit

No, but you can use bunker busters on them.

Or better yet. Nuclear bunker busters.

[Herador]

No, but you can use bunker busters on them.

Or better yet. Nuclear bunker busters.

I have no idea if that would work, but it sounds too awesome to not try at least once.

[Immoren]

Or better yet. Nuclear bunker busters.

I have no idea if that would work, but it sounds too awesome to not try at least once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_bunker_buster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb

[Amaterasu]

I wouldn't like to think I take anything North Korea does or says seriously. I would be more threatened by a child on a homemade raft telling me he's a pirate, because I would at least know he has some raft-making skills.

And I would like to think that a possible event that could take hundreds of thousands of lives should be taken seriously.

War will likely only start through American aggression. North Korea's leadership is well aware that such a war would be quite suicidal, especially for them, and detrimental towards all of Korea. South Korea wouldn't start it as it'd greatly hurt their economy and the global world economy, as well as war inevitably causing numerous civilian deaths. There would also be the problem of trying to integrate North Korea into the South in the case of reunification.

[Amaterasu]

I have no idea if that would work, but it sounds too awesome to not try at least once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_bunker_buster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb

Oh man, weapons are really starting to scare me more now... either that or I'm tired. Probably both.

[Herador]

I have no idea if that would work, but it sounds too awesome to not try at least once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_bunker_buster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb

Well, you learn something terrifying every day.

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

I thought that there was no official peace treaty, just a ceasefire...I was wrong, thanks Kim jong un.

[Amaterasu]

I thought that there was no official peace treaty, just a ceasefire...I was wrong, thanks Kim jong un.

No, I'm pretty sure you were right in that. North and South Korea were technically at war before this statement, and they are still technically at war. South Korea never signed the ceasefire either.

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

I thought that there was no official peace treaty, just a ceasefire...I was wrong, thanks Kim jong un.

No, I'm pretty sure you were right in that. North and South Korea were technically at war before this statement, and they are still technically at war. South Korea never signed the ceasefire either.

So, Kim Jong-Un declared war while at war with the same nation? That seems confusing.

[Curiosityness]

hopefully North Korea doesn't start a war with the US...

Even if they did NK wouldn't stand a chance

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

hopefully North Korea doesn't start a war with the US...

Even if they did NK wouldn't stand a chance

But, if the US attacks first wouldn't China be obliged to help because of the Mutual Protection treaty that is yet to expire on 2020?