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North Korea and United States War?

Gamburd

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Do you think there will be war between North Korea and the United States and South Korea?


On the one hand, I thought if North Korea was going to invade South Korea, it would just do it and not tip everyone off about its plans.


On the other hand, I think the United States wants to take out some of North Korea's nuclear weapons manufacturing infrastructure and would like to do so before North Korea is capable of developing long range nukes that can strike the Continental U.S.A.


So, I think a war will happen but it will be a limited war (i.e., border incursions and bombing; China will stay out of it because of its strong economic ties to the U.S. and the West as long as the U.S. doesn't try to invade North Korea.
 
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There will be no war, atleast not this year (and If it happens it'll be over within a week). NK pulls this "hurr durr we will 0wn if you don't spend moneZ 4 our poor peeps, so we haz moar money 4 military, YOLO" **** every year. The young dude overdid it a bit but I think he just wants to show the world (and his generals..) how much of a bad-*** he is so they don't think it might be nicer without him.
 
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What about other possibilities?

Kim J Un, the hero of democracy, pushing for a war he hopes to lose, so he can topple the regime the generals would otherwise not allow him to topple?

Or:

A man comes into my house and spits into my soup. He does that several times, in fact. I beg your pardon, but no matter how the f polite and well-mannered I am, I'm going to lose temper eventually and lash out at him, even if I'm a skinny intellectual and he's a mountain of muscle. (Did I mention that that mountain of muscle is the only source of information about me to the outside world, because my neighbours won't listen to a silly skinny pete?)

Discuss.
 
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What about other possibilities?

Kim J Un, the hero of democracy, pushing for a war he hopes to lose, so he can topple the regime the generals would otherwise not allow him to topple?

I've been thinking along the same lines actually, though I think if the generals are the ones actually in control (which I think), they also would not allow such a war to happen. They know they will be crushed by the combined forces of the South, the US and the UN.

In any case if such a war happens it will cause horrible loss of lives, the arsenal of both sides, just non-nuclear, is so immense you will have thousands of civilian dead in a few hours.
 
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I've been thinking along the same lines actually, though I think if the generals are the ones actually in control (which I think), they also would not allow such a war to happen. They know they will be crushed by the combined forces of the South, the US and the UN.

In any case if such a war happens it will cause horrible loss of lives, the arsenal of both sides, just non-nuclear, is so immense you will have thousands of civilian dead in a few hours.
Hitler thought he could handle all major countries with italy and japan..
loss of reality is a big problem for demagogues these days :rolleyes:
 
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A man comes into my house and spits into my soup. He does that several times, in fact. I beg your pardon, but no matter how the f polite and well-mannered I am, I'm going to lose temper eventually and lash out at him, even if I'm a skinny intellectual and he's a mountain of muscle. (Did I mention that that mountain of muscle is the only source of information about me to the outside world, because my neighbours won't listen to a silly skinny pete?)

Discuss.

nice metaphor. for those who have a hard time deciphering its meaning (we should never underestimate the power of mainstream brainwashing mechanisms), here's an excellent summarized approach regarding this issue:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/10/north-koreas-justifiable-anger/
 
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Remind me again why the wording "collateral damage" was established...

to alleviate guilt from someone whose actions might be considered criminal? to justify what is essentially unjustifiable (aggression, double-standards, unilateralist disregard for international law, enormous loss of civilian lives and their livelihoods as a direct consequence of the aforementioned elements)?
 
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Its a shame that history is lost upon today's youth. But then, I guess that has been the case since the dawn of man.

Its also a shame that wisdom is wasted upon the aged. Wouldn't it be nice if we all asked Granddad his views before contemplating our next move?

Its also a shame that articles are written as fact when (clearly) assumption and innuendo are at the basis. "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see." (Courtesy of Ben Franklin)

Its also a shame when one's own personal agenda(s) blind one's perspective to reality. But then, everyone has their own pair of rose colored glasses through which their paradigm of life is reflected.

If I really cared to inform misguided good intentions, I'd ask a friend to upload and post a recent segment of a "news" event broadcast to the citizens of N. Korea he surreptitiously brought back with him. But alas it would fall upon deaf ears and I'd just as soon bang my head against a brick wall.....
 
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i wonder what the news segments on american networks would look like if the u.s. lost 1/3 of its citizens in a war against a foreign invader that divided the country and which still lurks around the corner, holding joint military maneuvers close to the dmz involving, among others, b2's and b52's. which are capable of carrying nuclear armament. you see, these month-long maneuvers (they call 'em "games") are what fueled these (recent) tensions in the first place. but they tend to pass relatively unnoticed by our media in order to build a story of their liking.


http://youtu.be/njz_uc61KVE?t=5m1s

(...) what happens in the western media is that the first half of the sentence is dropped.
 
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ofc media is posting what we like to hear (atleast most of us). I'm sure its the same in NK.
And living conditions in NK are terrible, guess who pumps ~48% of the income on the military instead of spending it on food to feed his volk.
20% killed? A quote from a random guy? Heck I would say NK is not real if someone pays me too, or whatever his reasons were..
can anyone provide a proper source for that "mass-murdering"/*insert something you like to hear more* 1/4 of the population?
 
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ofc media is posting what we like to hear (atleast most of us). I'm sure its the same in NK.
And living conditions in NK are terrible, guess who pumps ~48% of the income on the military instead of spending it on food to feed his volk.
20% killed? A quote from a random guy? Heck I would say NK is not real if someone pays me too, or whatever his reasons were..
can anyone provide a proper source for that "mass-murdering"/*insert something you like to hear more* 1/4 of the population?

living conditions in north korea are determined by the economic sanctions imposed on that country and the constant military threat by the u.s. surrounding its territorial waters with established bases south of the dmz.

considering the past history between these two parties, it would be surprising to see north koreans NOT concentrate their resources on defense. nuclear armament is their main deterrent and it would be insane to give it up. the only way north korea could redirect these resources into the neglected civilian sectors would be if the u.s. finally stopped threatening them with war. which they've been doing for the last half a century.

and if you think curtis lemay was just a random guy, then i really am speechless.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/know-t...as-a-result-of-us-bombings-in-the-1950s/22131

http://necrometrics.com/20c1m.htm

sources are cited in the links above.
 
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Alleged atrocities by USA/ROK:

The sources...

Some guy on Internet


Some other guy on Internet

WTF??? :rolleyes:

i never said it was a scientific article. but the sources are there, if you choose to look the right way:

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are you really trying to say that the death-toll resulting from the korean war wasn't immense and practically one-sided? here's another anticommunist which admits that it was:

War, of course, always exacts a heavy toll on civilians. But the impact of the Korean War on the civilian population was especially dramatic. Korean civilian casualties -- dead, wounded and missing -- totaled between three and four million during the three years of war (1950-1953).
http://www.calvin.edu/news/2001-02/korea.htm

i have to react to something real quick:

The soldiers, AP said, were unprepared for war, "teenagers who viewed unarmed farmers as enemies, led by officers who had never commanded men in battle. And the Koreans were peasant families trapped in their ancestral valley between the North Korean invaders and the American intervention force."
invaders, eh? imagine texas being overrun by mexico. would you call the u.s. forces trying to retake it invaders or liberators? double-standards much? in fact, imagine texas being overrun by someone living half-way across the globe. say, korea. wtf are they doing there in the first place? this would be the equivalent of american involvement in asia. or the middle-east. or even south/central america (monroe doctrine).

here's another one:

The Korean War finally ended in July 1953. Left in its wake were four million military and civilian casualties, including 33,600 American, 16,000 UN allied, 415,000 South Korean, and 520,000 North Korean dead. There were also an estimated 900,000 Chinese casualties. Half of Korea's industry was destroyed and a third of all homes. The disruption of civilian life was almost complete.
http://ete.cet.edu/modules/korea/kwar.html

these numbers, of course, differ depending on the source they're using. but the main point is clear: korea (north and south) was practically purged of its citizens during this war.
 
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invaders, eh? imagine texas being overrun by mexico. would you call the u.s. forces trying to retake it invaders or liberators? double-standards much? in fact, imagine texas being overrun by someone living half-way across the globe. say, korea. wtf are they doing there in the first place? this would be the equivalent of american involvement in asia. or the middle-east. or even south/central america (monroe doctrine).

Ok, going with that, just remind me so I have this clear.

Who invaded who starting the Korean War?

You know what, never mind. You just don't get it :rolleyes:
 
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