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In reply to the discussion: Ok, this s the most tense I remember things [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)12. What happens if North Korea collapses? By Harold Maass | The Week – Wed, Mar 27, 2013
North Korea shut down its last military hotline to South Korea on Wednesday, warning that nuclear war was imminent. The threat was the latest in a series of increasingly belligerent statements made by the Hermit Kingdom since world leaders imposed sanctions as punishment for the communist regime's recent missile and nuclear tests. Pyongyang has threatened to nuke both South Korea and the U.S
On the bright side, security experts say North Korea doesn't have the ability to strike the U.S., and war on the Korean Peninsula is far from inevitable. "The North's wild gesticulations are unsettling," but "this is the seventh time Pyongyang has renounced the 1953 ceasefire" with the South, Doug Bandow points out at The American Spectator. "War has yet to erupt." One can't take anything for granted, but there's little reason to believe that North Korea's untested young leader, Kim Jong Un, "and those around him have turned suicidal after the death of his father."
http://news.yahoo.com/happens-north-korea-collapses-154000983.html
We have speculated that this is likely what is going on. Though we have considered the fact that the generals want it.
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Yeah, sure. "Iran is gonna get nukes" kind of lost it's edge. Lets try "NK is gonna attack US!"
idwiyo
Mar 2013
#5
Well...they DID actually say they were going to nuke us pre-emptively. I'm not sure
TwilightGardener
Mar 2013
#7
Are they suicidal? Doubt THAT very much. As in: no fucking way. Posturing for sure, so what?
idwiyo
Mar 2013
#16
What usual suspects? I don't think our administration is lying like the last one did.
TwilightGardener
Mar 2013
#17
If you think for a second your administration is NOT lying to you... FFS, look who is running CIA,
idwiyo
Mar 2013
#19
Brennan is questionable to boot with his links to torture. Hagel at least has some cred.
idwiyo
Mar 2013
#28
They might have a nuke if Russia ever gave them one. Doubt it, but lets say they do.
idwiyo
Mar 2013
#18
USSR wasn't Russia of today. Even though I doubt they did give one to NK. About the only
idwiyo
Mar 2013
#26
To piss off US, for starters. everyone keeps forgetting how close the relationship between
idwiyo
Mar 2013
#24
It's more "astoundingly ignorant assertions deserve dismissive responses." (nt)
Posteritatis
Mar 2013
#34
In your case its: "can't really say anything better than "your don't know what your talkin 'bout"
idwiyo
Mar 2013
#35
I'm old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, having even gotten a call from D.C.
indepat
Mar 2013
#8
No one could know how this would play out and very little playing chicken had thereafter
indepat
Mar 2013
#30
What happens if North Korea collapses? By Harold Maass | The Week – Wed, Mar 27, 2013
nadinbrzezinski
Mar 2013
#12