North Korea Threat

[crummybuttons]

I am wondering what peoples response is to the Nuclear threat North Korea is saying. Do you think the U.S. should take this threat seriously and if so how should we respond to this?

[2BNTV]

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[George Bieniaszek]

Isn't Dennis Rodman handling relations between the US and North Korea!! HA HA HA

[2BNTV]

Isn't Dennis Rodman handling relations between the US and North Korea!! HA HA HA

:1rotfl: Good one!!!

[JoeC1947]

I think we should take his threat very, very seriously and I'm sure we do. It reminds me of the story of the little boy that cried wolf. Sooner or later N.K.
is going to make good on their threat and then it will be too late for us.

[Monkei]

I don't think there is much more we can do to North Korea that we are not already doing.

[billethkid]

keep an open mind in this day and age....his striking at the USA could be/mean many different "things" VS the traditional missle strike.

Terrorism with dirty bombs?
Striking USA does not have to mean the continental USA.
PRNK will sell nuclear material to eneimies of the USA who will carry out the task?

Typically all these wanna be power mongers like PRNK and Iran, et al. All they have is two things. One is the threat of having or doing something. Rwo they have the main stream media helping give them credibility by pumping up the threat and making it more real to the gullible listeners.

What to do? When they step over the line 1/2 of an inch, cut em off at the knees. Emasculate the wannabes in the eyes of the world. Make it impossible for them to attain/obtain the capability they flaunt.

Sanction and words have been proven over and over again to mean nothing.

Just look at the absence of regard for their own peoples to see if one thinks they care one single bit about humanity.

Stop them in their tracks so that other soon to be wannabes think twice about it.

btk

[Monkei]

Unfortunately sanctions are all that can be done against rogue nations thu the UN.

[Ragman]

I think it is time to tel Mr. Kim any nuclear incident on the US or US forces will be considered an act of war by the PRK precipitating a full retaliatory response by the US without waiting to prove the source. He and his generals will NOT survive. Therefor he had better make sure none of his terrorist buddies act out.

Reason doesn't work with these guys. All they understand is the willingness to apply overwhelming brute force.

:boom:

[gomoho]

He'll probably shoot the missle and weapon up and it will come right back down on top of him and his poor people. What a pathetic little man trying to flex his muscles.

[rubicon]

Should we take North Korea Threat seriously. Judging from the mass murders, beatings and every other human right violations by Kim and his gang the answer is a firm refrain of unfortunately.

[ugotme]

I think it is time to tel Mr. Kim any nuclear incident on the US or US forces will be considered an act of war by the PRK precipitating a full retaliatory response by the US without waiting to prove the source. He and his generals will NOT survive. Therefor he had better make sure none of his terrorist buddies act out.

Reason doesn't work with these guys. All they understand is the willingness to apply overwhelming brute force.

:boom:

You are SOOOOOO RIGHT !
Could not have said it better !

Just one change . . .

DOUBLE :boom:

[JP]

Send some drones over N Korea

[batman911]

The best response is to ignore them. Does anyone think they would be broadcasting their intentions if they were really going to do it? I can assure you that we have systems in place capable of taking down any missile North Korea can send our way. I also doubt, given their past performance, that anything they launch would hit a target or work at all for that matter. North Korea has not proven that they can manufacture a missile with a nuclear war head and hit a target.

U.S. zaps target in high-stakes missile shield test | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/us-missile-usa-raytheon-idUSBRE85Q0KF20120627)

[Bavarian]

North Korea needs to be taken seriously. The Dear Leader is young and inexperienced and just might launch a nuke whereas his father and grandfather would just saber rattle. Don't forget the damage caused by an Electro-magnetic Pulse, EMP. As a retired EE with the DOD, I am familiar with these. an atom bomb detonated in the sky, sets off and EMP, and knocks aout all electrical and electronic devices. We are so dependent on computers, planes would fall from the sky, cars would stop driving and there would be no lights, no phones, no motorcars.

[kbace6]

Saber rattling I suspect. It did happen right before a UN vote. Hmmmmm.

[billethkid]

I recall being at a military might seminar (several years ago) and a general presenting made mention that as long as there were grey headed military in charge there would not be a nuclear war as they understaood the impact and devastation. And that as these grey haired leaders continued to be replaced by younger and younger generations who never spent a day in their lives at war, the more likely there would be one to push the button. And now with more than one generation of youngsters coming of age who know NOTHING of war exept on their game boy or 'X' box, war, specifically nuclear war becomes more likely)

Add to the above a a couple of generations of wacko like the North Koreans have had and now one that only has no idea what war is all about, the fact they have no regard for human life what so ever, with the world as his stage, with his imbicillyc rhetoric trumpeted around the world by the lame scream media......he certainly is stupid enough to believe what he says.....because the gray haired mentors who knew and understood even in North Korea are gone.

Yes he is likely to TRY what he says and will have his moment of fame only to join the masses he will have killed before he is eradicated.

btk