Posted on 09/24/2004 2:16:05 AM PDT by BigDoom
Friday, September 24, 2004 at 07:16 JST
SEOUL — North Korea threatened Thursday to turn Japan into a "nuclear sea of fire" if the United States attacks it with nuclear weapons, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported, quoting a North Korean newspaper report.
Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of North Korea's Workers Party of Korea, said U.S. military bases in Japan would come under its attack in the event of a nuclear war.
"If the United States ignites a nuclear war, the U.S. military bases in Japan would serve as a detonating fuse to turn Japan into a nuclear sea of fire," the paper said in an article, according to Yonhap. .......... (snip)
Japan can thank America's first black president if they become incinerated.
Good answer, Daughter! from Momxxx
That's why we should take them seriously and, unfortunately for those who do not revere their stupid leader, incinerate N. Korea.
I'm not prepared to accept this view as doctrine. It won't be long before there are a preponderance of countries that have nukes.
They'll use our doctrine of not attacking a nuclear armed foe against us by threatening one of their neighbors with overwhelming conventional force, then defy us to do something about it.
Ballistic missile defense is something we have to do at this point, and we are.
I think that our future strategic defense policy has to assume that the foe WILL be nuclear capable, and devise their plans accordingly.
Now that, I agree with.
Good point. At this point, we (civilians outside the Pentagon) just don't know -- but a comforting thought, if true.
Oh. The ol' "you slap me, I'll slap him" deal. Well, one Kim Il best be careful about who he "slaps" at.
I have no idea how I managed to replace "good" with "could"... Sorry...
I have read that NK has mostly outdated artillery pieces, 25 MiGs and older issue AK's, T-34/54/55/62 tanks the newest of them dating back to the '60s. The soviets supposedly sold them an entire WWII-ear artillery production factory that is actually still in operation today! Not much upgrading since the '80s. A modernized SK military could probably defeat them without our assistance.
Atomic Weapons and the Means to deliver them are the international, universal Ace Card.
The Means may be the key if we have to. We can park a couple of attack subs 100 miles off shore (and I'll bet there are a couple there right now). How owuld they know they are coming? I can't imagine they have the same "net" we do or that USSR had, but I don't know.
Like a cancer, we have to make sure to get it all.
Oh, shucks! I forgot Bill CLinton was once President. They probably have anything they ever wanted.
Japan should probably consider putting the technology they have into action building number of nuclear bombs deliverable by balistic or cruise missiles. They need their own deterrent I think
Amen, brother. Have a list of a dozen we need to quit feeding.
We can't match NK's "river-damming" technological abilities with our conventional weapons?
(did you see the article I'm referring to?)
No doubt that we need to take out that little freak of nature, Kim Jung Il -- and a few of his kim jung ilk!
A little lunatic like that is a bigger danger than most realize. The only reason there are so many parades in his honor is that the NKs are too stupid, brainwashed and scared to refuse.
Only the liberals would get upset if we undertook a clandestine assassination -- which is how I gauge when an action is good. They hate it - it MUST be good - let it be done!
I think you mean "Godzirra".
SK probably wouldn't have much trouble defeating NK's outdated armed forces. The problem is the massive civilian casualties and economic destruction that would be caused by an NK artillery attack on Seoul. In just a couple of days, NK artillery could inflict enormous damage on SK. This is KJL's ace in the hole that keeps him in power. But you never know, some day we may invent a way to shut down his artillery in 10-15 minutes and then he'll have to do what we tell him or be gone.
LETS MAKE KIM JONG IL A MARTYR !
LETS KILL THIS FOTHER MUCKER !
Back during the Cold War I used to think that rearming Japan would be a good idea (I mean, we rearmed Germany, didn't we?). But over the years I've come to have one problem with it. Unlike Germany, Japan has never come completely clean about their World War II era record. I don't think the Japanese are inherently cruel or ihuman--in fact, in the "1870's" they adopted a humanitarian code for treating prisoners-of-war and in World War I they were indeed humane to their German prisoners. But if they rearm without facing their past with total honesty, will it reawaken the World War II-era ideology? No, it wasn't Communism, but it was a Very Bad Thing.
I'm all for Japan rearming if we can be sure they won't go rogue. But if we can't then I'm not so sure about it--especially since there are still groups in Japan espousing the old WWII ideology and that, as "people of color," they don't attract the ire of the "politically correct" crowd in the same way that German neo-Nazis do.
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