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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=14626" target="_blank">North Korea is war inevitable now ?</a> (click to view)

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<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Stagger_Lee" target="_blank">Stagger_Lee</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2006-10-11 09:16:29

[Stagger_Lee]

N Korea was a threat long before GWB re-strarted Daddy's war, Iran, or even Afghanistan (Which I still think we had to do). If we are to judge the leader of the free world, GWB, 'imminent danger' and 'weapons of mass destruction', why did we commit 135,000 troops (we meaning the free world) to avenge Iraq (albeit it a dictatorship of torture, but I can name you at least 15 others), and not centre on the real threat to North American security, at THAT time and now.... North Korea...

[Riyko]

Here's an article about it from Japan Times Online as well (I thought i'd post it so you'd get an idea of what other countries news papers are saying about it.) http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20061012a1.html (it's near the end of the article)

Anyways, I think that if North Korea agrees to the UN Security Counsels Sanctions then there isn't anything to worry about, but since North Korea won't because they don't like anything that is being put against them I expect in about a week or two their'll be a war with North Korea and the US will be sending troops over there or maybe even reinstating the draft to have enough people in the military to go over to N.K.

[Stagger_Lee]

Riyko. it seems every time the Noth Korean treasury runs dry, they either are developing, testing, or contemplating nuclear weapons technology... when are we going to stop being paying protection money to the bully?

[USCAdad]

If the US moves against NK they'll just bomb it flat. There's not enough patience or juice left in the machine for half measures.

[Stagger_Lee]

Don't get me wrong, I respect your position... but do you see mine?

[Stagger_Lee]

Think MacArthur had the right idea in '51, USC?

[brotha]

GWB bomb NK? He doesn't have the guts or the balls for that, swating flies (Afghanistan, Iraq) is about all hes up for, the US government are cowards at the end of the day. I hate neo-cons anyway, but if they had real guts, I could atleast respect them.

[Stagger_Lee]

I think we should've finished the job in Afhanistan, caught Bin-Laden, then gon after those other bastards... just my opinion

[USCAdad]

Stagger_Lee Stagger_Lee:

Think MacArthur had the right idea in '51, USC?

Perhaps, we'll have to see. If LA goes up in smoke then hind sight might say something different. I know I don't agree with overextending in Iraq.

There are big differences between NK and Afganistan. NK doesn't have anything that anyone else needs or relies on. They don't have a whole bunch of friends that are already itchin' to go on jihad. China, for as much as it tries to get away with, thus far hasn't been beligerent (like the US.) NK also doesn't have the reputation of chewing up every army that's gone in to tame it over the last few centuries.

[ridenrain]

It's the opinion of North Korea that the war really isn't over yet. They still think that a unified south is in the works. Ever since the shooting stopped, they've been this freaky paranoid hermet who keeps digging and building defences instead of farms. One way or another, when that wall comes down, the surviving North Koreans are going to confront a world that's a decade where they left off.

Interesting write up on the Korean DMZ:
http://s94883248.onlinehome.us/thepouya ... A6465.html

[Stagger_Lee]

Your forgetting the Korean Conflict, and the fact that the war never ended, there was just a truce signed... it is still the only active war between UN forces and another power in the las 50 years.... a DMZ was set up, not a peace treaty

Unlike other nuclear poers that have warred, like India, China & Pakistan, there was a treaty... with N Korea, there wasn't.

I'm not saying MacArthur was right, I'm not even saying hindsight is right, but I think they're a bigger threat than anything this world has right now...

[USCAdad]

I remember that it's still there. I'd be more concerned with Pakistan than NK. They're not even sure the recent test was nuclear or if it was that it was a success.

[Stagger_Lee]

You have a good point... it's harder to err on the side of wrong....

but I still think they shouldl've been before Iraq

[Indelible]

$1:

There are big differences between NK and Afganistan. NK doesn't have anything that anyone else needs or relies on.

then where am i going to get my kimchi soup?

but on a more serious note, that would explain why NK is posturing the way it is. i would call kim jong-il's bluff if i were the president, i don't think that it'll amount to anything more than that.

from what i understand, the test that was conducted wasn't a stellar success, so i don't think he has the means yet to threaten anyone for real.