Posted on 11/27/2010 5:36:01 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Countdown to Oblivion: North Korea artillery strike - the Start of the First Nuclear War?
By Tom Cain
At the time, people called it the Third World War. Now though, we refer to the terrible events of late 2010 in a different way. We call this the First Nuclear War.
It began on November 23, 2010, when North Korean artillery bombarded the small island of Yeonpyeong, which lies in the Yellow Sea, just south of the maritime border between the two Koreas.
More than 60 properties were set ablaze and four people were killed. South Korea’s staunch ally President Barack Obama immediately dispatched an aircraft carrier to take part in exercises with the South Korean Navy in the Yellow Sea.
Meanwhile, China — a traditional supporter of North Korea — remained ominously silent, pointedly refusing to join in the chorus of international criticism that had followed the shelling. In the South Korean capital Seoul, President Lee Myung-bak called for restraint. But it was a lone voice of peace.
Meanwhile, the official North Korean news agency declared that: ‘North Korea will wage second and even third rounds of attacks without any hesitation, if warmongers in South Korea make reckless military provocations again.’
Inexorably, the rhetoric on both sides became ever more heated. Now, two of the most militarised nations on earth — North Korea had the world’s fourth-largest army, South Korea the sixth — found themselves trapped aboard a runaway political train.
Its momentum was unstoppable. And its destination was war.
The two nations faced one another across a border that ran across the Korean peninsula, roughly along the line of the 38th parallel
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(Rolls eyes) Yea right.
Mike
Really? The George Washington will be here tomorrow (Korea time).
not a bad story. probably already been written as a book.
One wonders if the US will even respond with force if one of our warships is attacked.
Pretty close scenario was the theme of this book which was released in 2003.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Third-World-War-Humphrey-Hawksley/dp/0330492497
Totally not gonna happen. Worry about something else like Oblahblah getting re-elected in 2012. Now thats a scary scenario.
Except the parts where Obama takes decisive action on behalf of the USA. Pure fiction that.
I guess Hiroshima and Nagasaki don’t fall into the category of nuclear war
I’m sure The Won will send them a sternly worded email from his Blackberry and everything will be fine.
Image stolen.
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He is fighting us[Conservatives, Christians, and other freedom loving responsible individuals]. He can afford to wasrt his time and talents over there.
As much as I hate to admit it, in his fight aginst us, I think that the bastard is winning.
MacArthur was right. Truman was Wrong.
He will send a sternly worded letter, billions in aid and go for "Diplomacy" and "negotiations".
We know how that will go...
I was trying to be open minded about the piece, until I saw the words “nuclear winter,” and I realized that the author is stuck in 1983.
One wonders if the US will even respond with force if one of our warships is attacked.
this is one of many scenario’s that out of mist of the morning fog, off the coast of NK, the battleship New Jersey shows up.......
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