North Korea threatens nuclear attack on US

[Turborama]

Source: The Independent

North Korea has threatened to attack the US with nuclear weapons if the country “forces it to do so”.

Park Yong-Chol, the deputy director of the North Korean think tank the Institute for Research into National Reunification, gave a rare two-hour interview with CNN on Thursday.

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In it, he escalated Pyongyang's fiery rhetoric by claiming North Korea was nuclear-capable and equipped with long-range missiles he warned could reach mainland US.

“We are equipped with nuclear arsenals,” Park reiterated. “We may use them if we are forced by the US to do so.”

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-threatens-nuclear-attack-on-us-10232383.html

[cilla4progress]

1. Only a matter of time.

Pandora's Box....

[gordianot]

2. .

[Archae]

3. Again?

The actual people in power in N Korea know damn well if they even TRY launching a missile towards the US, and if it actually makes it without blowing up en route, that country will be glass.

They just like to talk "tuff," to keep distracting from all the failures.

[newthinking]

8. This kind of thing is usually rhetoric, but the press likes to create emotions

so they will make it sound like an official immediate threat.

These are troubling times, but the media abuses and seems to be in permanent "scare the shit our of everyone if it sells views" mode.

[cstanleytech]

13. Not to mention China is at risk as well because

the prevailing winds will dump atleast some of the radiation from any retaliatory strike onto them.

[Myrina]

22. It's their annual threat.

That and their war games to intimidate South Korea.

[matt819]

4. Ho hum

Must be a slow news day in Pyongyang.

These guys need better PR.

[ZM90]

5. I think these guys are really big fans of Fallout because they want it to happen. n/t.

[Liberalagogo]

6. That's nice, dear.

n/t

[Jesus Malverde]

24. Exactly...nt

[DonViejo]

7. North Korean leadership must be feeling neglected so,...

they beat their chests and the world responds.

[rtracey]

9. So?

So if NKorea says this, can this be considered a threat, and we can take preemptive measures?.....

[jeff47]

10. Yes, but there's two downsides

First, Seoul is within artillery range of North Korea. Any war would be very devastating to Seoul.

Second, after such a war, we'd own North Korea. No one wants to own North Korea. That's why it still exists as a separate nation.

[iandhr]

11. Exactly

It's the old you break it you buy it

[Lionel Mandrake]

23. Nonsense, Texaco wants to own N. Korea

Just look at their logo.

[L0oniX]

15. The ol ...We're fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here.

We now have huge bombs that have eliminated 97% of the fallout.

[PeoViejo]

16. Even without any Fallout

The Firestorms created by the burning cities will throw enough particulate matter into the Atmosphere to block a good percentage of Sunlight for Years. Nuclear Winter is a much bigger problem than Fallout.

[jeff47]

27. Depends on who's shooting. North Korea doesn't have that many nukes.

And it wouldn't take many in a retaliatory strike - there are not that many cities in North Korea.

It isn't a US vs USSR scale situation.

No more than ten to twenty million killed, tops!

[L0oniX]

12. Does he know that Midway is not the US mainland?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. Will someone PLEASE swat that mosquito?

That constant whining noise has become really annoying.

[Xithras]

17. In context. "forces it to do so"

I'm pretty sure the U.S. would retaliate with a nuclear strike too, if it were attacked or invaded by another nuclear power. I'm no fan of NK, but that doesn't sound like much of a threat to me. It's more of a reiteration of a situation that we're all already aware of. Nuclear nations invading and attacking other nuclear nations leads to nuclear war.

CNN Reporter: "Does North Korea have a long range missile capable of hitting the mainland U.S.?"

Korean Puppet: "Yes, of course."

CNN Reporter: "Would North Korea ever consider using that weapon?"

Korean Puppet: "We may use that weapon if we are forced by the U.S. to do so."


Calling that a "threat" is a bit of a stretch.

[okaawhatever]

30. He didn't say that invasion or an attack was what he meant by "forced by the US to do so"

For Kim Jong Un it could be new sanctions, support for South Korea or just a bad hair day. KIm Jong Un isn't the most stable dictator on the planet.

[Snow Leopard]

18. I miss Baghdad Bob!

he was more eloquent.

[freshwest]

35. Damn, I do too. I really liked that man.

[geomon666]

19. Hmm, must be Thursday.

We're threatened with annihilation again.

[Angleae]

31. I thought Tuesday was nutty North Korea day.

Shouldn't there have been a memo of the change of days.

[jtuck004]

20. Intercontinental Ballistic 5 O'Clock Charlie. Don't tell Frank. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

21. Oh, great...

Here's a verbal selfie:

Self 1: Do you think they really mean it?

Self 2: Naw, they just got a burr up their ass about U.S. "free trade for the rich" maybe, don't want to compete with China for the cheapest labor on earth, or maybe the Pentagon is doing "maneuvers" somewhere nearby and they feel obliged to shake their spears...

Self 1: We live in California, next target after Hawaii. I feel a twinge of worry and I feel somewhat grateful for the horrible Pentagon's anti-missile system. They still have one, right? Would they defend Democratic states?

Self 2: North Korea is an incompetent powermonger; they're missiles won't even make it to Hawaii.

Self 1: Knock on wood.

Self 2: What makes you think the Pentagon didn't pay them to issue a threat, to get more trillions of our tax dollars? This is the most tiresome bullshit.

Self 1: Knock on wood.

Self 2: We're in more danger from Japan's nukes than North Korea's!

Self 1: Knock on wood.

Self 2: Immediate threat of deadly radiation pouring into the ocean. Really, that's more dangerous to Pacific coast dwellers than nuclear weapons, cuz nobody, not even North Korea, would fire off nuclear weapons on purpose. They and theirs would be annihilated in response.

Self 1: What ever happened to banning all nuclear weapons worldwide?

Self 2: They assassinated that president. Next question.

[bigdarryl]

25. They are delusional we could destroy North Korea 40 timesover with our

Nuclear arsenal

[LiberalElite]

26. Oh yeah this will keep me up at night...nt

[longship]

28. And all their underground tests have apparently fizzled.

They do not have an actual A-bomb. They still haven't worked out the key element, the initiator. And nobody is mad enough to share it with them. No initiator? No big boom! Hell, they probably haven't even solved the fast assembly problem yet.

At least that's my reading of it.

[NobodyHere]

29. Just give Kim a block of cheese.

It'll calm him down.

[greyl]

32. That headline is fucking ridiculous. nt

[olddots]

33. refer to the movie The Mouse That Roared

or maybe the mouse that bored .

[freshwest]

34. OMG! If the USA didn't exist, they'd have to pick another proto-bully to blame for everything.

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Can't stand the suspense! Bombs away!