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North Korea bluffing? Who can afford to risk it? (“This is a crisis from hell.”)
The Australian ^
| February 11, 2005
| Greg Sheridan
Posted on 02/10/2005 6:51:04 AM PST by dead
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posted on
02/10/2005 6:51:05 AM PST
by
dead
To: dead
If NK weren't so close to South Korea's population centers, I would say do this:
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posted on
02/10/2005 6:53:19 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(It's NOT too early to start talking about 2006...or 2008.)
To: dead
If NK doesn't have them, we could give them some. The B2 crews are just itching to deliver a few nukes to NK.
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posted on
02/10/2005 6:53:26 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional. Fireproof taglines available.)
To: dead
"I say we take off and nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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posted on
02/10/2005 6:54:55 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: dead
Their leader should be in a insane asylum.
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posted on
02/10/2005 6:55:45 AM PST
by
Piquaboy
(22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
To: dead
of course they're bluffing. osama's ilk have them thinking they can provoke us into a first strike. when dealing with idiots, try to think like an idiot.
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posted on
02/10/2005 6:55:50 AM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
("remember, from ashes you came, to ashes you will return.")
To: Conspiracy Guy
Or the fact that we have Ohio-class submarines roaming the Pacific armed with 24 Trident II missiles per submarine, each missile with up to 10 warheads per missile.
To: RockinRight
If NK weren't so close to South Korea's population centers,...
And our own troops, tens of thousands of them.
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posted on
02/10/2005 6:56:24 AM PST
by
BikerNYC
To: Conspiracy Guy
If NK doesn't have them, we could give them some.To borrow a line from Crocodile Dundee:
"You call that a nuclear weapon? THIS is a nuclear weapon."
To: RayChuang88
We could deliver those faster. Tell them to go ahead and deliver a half dozen. My treat!
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posted on
02/10/2005 6:57:16 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional. Fireproof taglines available.)
To: Semper Paratus
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posted on
02/10/2005 6:58:21 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional. Fireproof taglines available.)
To: ClearCase_guy
""I say we take off and nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Game over, man....game over.
(although in this case, nerve-gassing the whole nest might actually work!)
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posted on
02/10/2005 7:00:01 AM PST
by
Blzbba
(Don't hate the player - hate the game!)
To: dead
This loon is unpredictable, but his neighbors may reign him in.
Japan has said that if North Korea goes nuclear, they will too, in self defense.
China goes into meltdown at the thought of a nuclear Japan. They remember WWII.
China has complete control of North Korea if they chose to use it. If China closes the border, The lights go off in North Korea, the vehicles stop moving, and everyone starves to death within a few weeks.
I think China likes to see the West squirm as long as possible, but in the end, they will squash Kim one way or the other.
So9
To: dead
Let these guys battle it out.
To: dead
I think the ones that should be shaking in their boots are the South Koreans!! They're the ones who need to take out NK WITHOUT the help of the USA!
To: RockinRight
If NK weren't so close to South Korea's population centers... And Japan and Russia and China. Nuking North Korea could result in radioactive fallout that could de-populate whole parts of any one of those countries. And don't think that the North Koreans don't know that.
To: BikerNYC
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posted on
02/10/2005 7:04:18 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(It's NOT too early to start talking about 2006...or 2008.)
To: BikerNYC
Well-my thought would have been that we could relocate our troops if that were what we were going to do. But then again I'm no military strategerist.
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posted on
02/10/2005 7:05:00 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(It's NOT too early to start talking about 2006...or 2008.)
To: dead
"one or perhaps two crude nuclear devices" "Hey baby, what's your isotope? That lead housing can't hide your radiation. I can tell you're hot for my electrodes. Wanna go thermonuclear in my rocket?"
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posted on
02/10/2005 7:05:05 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Democrat Obstructionists will be Daschled!)
To: dead
Since there is no one for them to use nuclear weapons against but South Korea maybe the time has come for the South Koreans to start their own nuclear weapons program... if they haven't already. The NK nuclear blackmail gambit might then be neutered... so to speak
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