"Since the US is about to ignite a nuclear war...Follow

Even China is backing away very, very carefully from the crazy that has built up in North Korea under new military dictator Kim Jong-un. Up until now China has stuck to North Korea through thick and thin... but not when they pull out this:

"Since the US is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exerting our right to pre-emptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest." ~ NK Foreign Ministry message read out on NK nightly news.

Now, everyone is pretty sure that NK missiles can't reach America. But they DO have enough fissile material for dirty bombs. And the state daily lies to its people about what goes on outside of NK. It likes to rant about Sought Korean and USA hostility and aggression towards the NK people almost nightly on the news. It's a bit dangerous when a nation of starving and oppressed people get pointed at a common enemy outside themselves, as WW2 in Europe demonstrates. I'm not worried about the situation in Iran. Up to now nobody has been insane enough to wage an overt fissile nuclear war. But I'm really worried that Kim Jong-un doens't know how dangerous nuclear fire is to play with. If the worst comes to the worst, Russia and China may agree with the UN and USA that NK needs to be turned into glass, for the safety of the rest of the world.

I'm starting to play with the idea that the means of one lone assassin may justify the ends.

I'm so tired of this world. One moment it's religious fanatics who blame everyone else for the troubles they put themselves in; the next it's a crazy manchild dictator with daddy issues in control of a brainwashed country. All we need now is some evil mastermind who decides to hold the world ransom because money.

***** it, I'm going to buy a piece of land outside the city. On that land, I'll build an elevator shaft that will lead down to an underground world, safe from nuclear blasts and radioactive fallout. The underground facility will be financed partly by acting as a testing facility for the development of biological weaponry. And I'll put an advanced artificial intelligence in control of everything, including containment protocols.

I don't even know where I get these ideas from, but they're fantastic!

Anyway, the biggest risk here is Japan. North Korea tends to hate them even more than they hate us, and they're definitely within range. Plus, their population density ensures that a missile blast anywhere near them would be devastating.

If NK does something stupid China drops them in a heart beat. Why risk all out war with your biggest trading partners over some minor state that does nothing but mooch off of you and cause diplomatic headaches. NK is a convenient cushion and that's about it.

I laughed way too hard at this and now people in the library are looking at me...

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Edited, Mar 11th 2013 11:42am by Nilatai

Don't quote me (or do quote me, see if I care!) but I'm fairly sure the US has a defensive treaty with Japan as part of their whole post-WWII military draw down and US military base establishment.

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Definitely this. China has eclipsed the US as Japan's primary trading partner globally. Even if there's not a lot of cultural love there, there's a MASSIVE amount of economic love.

And then you add the US into the mix, and China has a VERY strong reason to do anything they can to keep the peace. It's more likely that they'd assist Japan and the US in a war against NK, because they'd be insane to do anything else.

But the other thing China absolutely doesn't want is a stronger American military presence in Asia, so they'll do everything they can to prevent anything actually aggressive from NK.

It matters because NK would never settle for one or two bombs. They're not terrorists hiding in a cave in a desert. If NK takes a shot at the US, it will be war. Nuclear war. Need ICBMs for that, which they probably already have. I mean, they almost sent a rocket into space a while back, and if they're really building the warheads right now then they've already got the delivery system.

Sure, they could try.



Assuming NK has anything that could actually get that far (unlikely, their stuff is from the 50s mostly), the US would get wind of it way before they got anywhere close to the continent. Boom, down goes the sub.



Ships coming from where? We have naval forces stationed all around NK, and we're not really trading with them right now. The nuke would have to come in on a SK or Chinese ship, and good luck getting it onto one of those undetected.



The point is, for anything naval, and I really do mean anything, the United States has that sh*t on lockdown. Quoth the Wiki about the US Navy: "It is the largest navy in the world, with a battle fleet tonnage that is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined."

There is almost nothing North Korea could do in a naval situation with any hope of succeeding.

Edited, Mar 11th 2013 3:28pm by IDrownFish

Ocean point drops via sail boat pleasure craft then. The US isn't in some impermeable bubble of instant eradication. Hell it's not even all that well guarded when it comes to small craft. It's a big coast. And those container ships wouldn't have to be NK or Chinese at all. You would want to smuggle them out of the country and take them from a different port for obvious reasons but that's certainly doable, particularly when you control one side of the border. Buy all the border guards and dock employees for a million each for the week, hell, shoot them on the way through and make it look like a terrorist attack. You're starting a nuclear war, cost isn't an issue, neither are repercussions since you'll be a glass parking lot soon anyway.

Again, I highly doubt that this is anything more than show. I'm confident that there are plenty of people in the political elite of NK who know how bad an idea it is to nuke anyone to make sure it never happens.

Smart people don't tend to run into wars that are pretty much guaranteed to end in a loss and take their lives in the progress.