North Korea says missiles ‘aimed at’ US

Not much North Korea could do to the US with its military, but it makes perfect sense for it to gear its military to fight the US. The US is the country that keeps threatening it, no?
 
[h=2]S. Korea warns of pre-emptive strike against North over nuclear tests[/h]
South Korea will launch a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang if the antagonist to its north moves to test a nuclear weapon. Seoul said a first strike would be preferable to North Korea getting an atomic weapon, even if it risked open war.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Jung Seung-jo said Seoul would take action even if it meant risking war with its northern neighbor. Pyongyang recently announced it will conduct a nuclear bomb test in the near future, raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
General Seung-jo maintained it would be better to risk open war with Pyongyang than have it strike first. Describing a pre-emptive attack as a necessary defense tactic, he went on to say it was paramount that the North does not manage to develop a nuclear weapon.

"If [the North] shows a clear intent to use a nuclear weapon, it is better to get rid of it and go to war, rather than being attacked," said the general, addressing the Joint Chiefs. He added that ''a pre-emptive attack against the North trying to use nuclear weapons does not require consultation with the United States and it is the right of self-defense.”
The DPRK was quick to react to Seoul’s comments, condemning them as “warmongering.”
"They do not know what a real war is like and they would shudder after experiencing our military's spirit to attack in a single breath," wrote North Korean news site Uriminzokkiri, calling the South “vicious traitors of the nation.”
North Korea has stepped up its aggressive rhetoric against Seoul recently, following a UN Security Council resolution in January that approved new sanctions against the rogue state. Pyongyong was enraged by the financial penalties and pledged to take “measures to boost and strengthen our defensive military power including nuclear deterrence.”
Following the announcement of the sanctions North Korea announced it would conduct its third nuclear weapons test, stressing that targeting the US and South Korea was not out of bounds.
"We are not disguising the fact that the various satellites and long-range rockets that we will fire and the high-level nuclear test we will carry out are aimed at the United States," North Korea's National Defense Commission says.
Pyongyang successfully conducted a ballistic missile test back in December, demonstrating that it has the potential to launch long-range rockets. North Korea claimed the December launch was to put a satellite into orbit, while it was perceived by the international community as a veiled attempt at testing Pyongyang’s missile capabilities.
International fears center around Pyongyang’s ability to construct a nuclear warhead small enough to be carried on a missile. UN inspectors believe North Korea does not possess the adequate technology, but Seoul maintains it is getting dangerously close.

http://rt.com/news/south-korea-first-strike-806/
 
Jedi_Mindset said:
[h=2]North Korea nuke test: LIVE UPDATES[/h]
http://rt.com/news/korea-north-nuclear-test-989/
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It does not seem China is very happy with North Korea over this

From the Link

17:00 GMT: China, a permanent member of the Security Council, supported international condemnation of North Korea’s nuclear test and urged Pyongyang to "stop any rhetoric or acts that could worsen situations and return to the right course of dialogue and consultation as soon as possible".
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12:00 GMT: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has summoned the North Korean ambassador to the country, saying he was "strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed" to the test. The top official also urged the DPRK to "stop any rhetoric or acts that could worsen situations and return to the right course of dialogue and consultation as soon as possible," Reuters reported.
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Iceee said:
So is the U.S.
Back your statement up with facts please.

Salaam.
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Salaam,

It's his opinion. If you believe North Korea is a beautiful country, then you should move. I would prefer to live in America than in North Korea. Oh before you tell others to back up their statements, you should do the same too.
 
Iceee said:
So is the U.S.
Back your statement up with facts please.

Salaam.
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I can give you a advice like this : go to Goggle , type North Korea hunger , watch all the pictures appear , do you know that many parents in North Korea become crazy when they don't have anything to eat , do you know what they do ? They eat human meat , their children when they alive , or corps of them when their children die . A lot of news a bout this problem . Have you ever see their things in USA , do you know at least USA send first aid to many country around the world ? USA sometime are bad , but not a lot of country in this world can do like them , even your country .
 
C'mon if we know history then we know this a classic Cold War tactics. The bigger the deterrent for war the less likely war is to happen. The media likes to portray DPRK as a bunch of crazy people but they know exactly what they are doing.
They have the right to advanced technology. Period.
 
Dburzon said:
C'mon if we know history then we know this a classic Cold War tactics. The bigger the deterrent for war the less likely war is to happen. The media likes to portray DPRK as a bunch of crazy people but they know exactly what they are doing.
They have the right to advanced technology. Period.
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Yes, they're crazy people .:raging:
 
iRock said:
Yes, they're crazy people .:raging:
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The millions of families that work hard every day to raise a family and have the same troubles as you and me are ALL crazy. ?

I really hope you don't believe that.
 
Dburzon said:
The millions of families that work hard every day to raise a family and have the same troubles as you and me are ALL crazy. ?

I really hope you don't believe that.
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Obviously not all the population, but the government is. If you have ever read George Orwell's book '1984', this is the living example of it. Who knows what the people actually believe because the government controls everything that they see, and has a spy in every household. They have created the illusion of perpetual war in order to retain control.

They are dangerous because even the leadership may start to believe in their own paranoid propaganda. They are exactly the kind of state that is likely to actually use nuclear weapons because they are mad enough not to care about the consequences.
 
Dburzon said:
The millions of families that work hard every day to raise a family and have the same troubles as you and me are ALL crazy. ?

I really hope you don't believe that.
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I meant NKorea leaders , they're crazy , if you see animal in NKorea zoo , zoo can can see they're fatter than citizens in NKorea :exhausted
 
We can agree the government is dangerous and paranoid.
BUT
They have a nuclear deterrent now which makes them untouchable militarily.

So what is the realistic next step?

It falls on China to contain and transition reformation over time. China stands the most to lose in a regional war. Well besides South Korea and Japan.

I think as China rises they won't want a unstable nuclear armed country on their southern border.
 
Dburzon said:
I think as China rises they won't want a unstable nuclear armed country on their southern border
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Yes - however, NK is China's stooge and would not exist without them. China has prevented the world from tightening the screws on NK economically.

However, just like some of the US's satellites, NK doesn't always do what it's told. China is no more keen than the US on more and more states joining the nuclear club.
 
See that's the thing. China is keeping them in power and aiding them economically.

I think China has more control inside NK then we know. Otherwise they wouldn't have let them go this far.

China needs allies in the region and when pushed they can't stand alone against Japan and South Korea.

I see this as pure smoke from the Chinese. A gamble yes but it's a gamble they have to live with.

I don't see the U.S ever being in danger from a DPRK rocket.


Pakistan is the real danger in my opinion.
As we speak nobody on earth is building more nukes.
I think NK is stable compared to Pakistan.
 
Dburzon said:
I don't see the U.S ever being in danger from a DPRK rocket.


Pakistan is the real danger in my opinion.
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NK needs to do more work on its long range missile systems to hit the US - but they'll get there one day.

I agree Pakistan is also a major danger because the government is very unstable. But India is more likely to be their first target.

Also Israel might be tempted to first use if it felt it was in danger of extinction.

The ironic thing is that countries who go to such lengths to develop nuclear weapons - as Iran is doing now - in fact place themselves in far greater danger of a pre-emptive strike. Far from making them more secure, it makes it more likely that they will be attacked.

There is almost no chance that the superpowers will start nuclear wars with each other, but the smaller, maverick states are another matter.
 
Independent said:
NK needs to do more work on its long range missile systems to hit the US - but they'll get there one day.
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It is simply not in their interest to attack the U.S though.
What is in their intrest is having a deterrent and capability to.

Also you said that countries that develope nukes are opening themselves to attack.
It goes both ways though.

If Saddam had a nuclear detterent there is no way they would be invaded.

North Korea is now untouchable.

Iran is open to attack only until they test a bomb. Then they are untouchable.


I think nuclear armed countries know the consequences of ever using them. I think the biggest danger is a weaker nuclear country like Pakistan getting overthrown and becoming a failed state.

Thank god Syria doesn't have nuclear weapons but they have Chemical weapons and still don't use them. Even during a brutal civil war they know the consequences of using chemical arms.
 
[h=1]N. Korea vows to scrap ceasefire if South, US continue military drill[/h]
North Korea has threatened to scrap the armistice which ended the 1950-53 Korean War if the South and US continue with an ongoing military drill.
"We will completely nullify the Korean armistice," the North's KCNA news agency said, quoting the Korean People's Army (KPA) Supreme Command spokesman.
Pyongyang warned it will cancel the Korean War ceasefire agreement on March 11 if the US and its "puppet South Korea" do not halt their joint drills.

"We will be suspending the activities of the KPA representative office at Panmunjom (truce village) that had been tentatively operated by our army as the negotiating body to establish a peace regime on the Korean peninsula," KCNA quoted the spokesman as saying.

The announcement from Pyongyang comes as South Korean and US troops launched their annual joint military drills on Friday. Some 10,000 US troops and 200,000 South Korean soldiers are currently taking part in the exercises.

North Korea had previously warned the US commander in South Korea of “miserable destruction” if the US military went ahead with the two-month-long exercise, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.

The North and South are still technically at war after the civil conflict ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.

Pyongyang's threat follows reports that Washington and Beijing have drafted a series of sanctions to be circulated among UN Security Council members in the wake of North Korea’s third nuclear test last month. Details of the tentative sanctions remained murky, with UN diplomats telling Reuters on condition of anonymity they hoped to receive the draft resolution at Tuesday’s Security Council session.

The United States and other members of the international community have viewed North Korea’s third nuclear test as putting the isolated state one step closer towards developing a nuclear weapon which can target America.

North Korea has framed its nuclear weapon's program as a counter to US aggression which dates back to the 1950s war.

In February, a source close to the highest levels of government in Pyongyang told Reuters that “a fourth and fifth nuclear test and a rocket launch could be conducted soon, possibly this year." The source continued that the fourth test would be much larger than the third, with an equivalent of 10 kilotons of TNT.

http://rt.com/news/north-korea-ceasefire-drills-850/
 
War is a good way of keeping the population down. Where ever there is a high population there is a war. The world is too over populated, we need WW3 now. Or would you prefer slow death in a totalitarian state? I suppose people have been controlled for so long that they have forgotten what freedom is and cling on to their oppressed controlled lives. Only the 1% live, we just exist to serve their interests.
 

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