The mouse that roared in North Korea?

[5129frederick]

Is this guy on the level, threatening America?  It's tantamount to a three year-old kid kicking me in the shins.  At first you ignore it, but after a while it becomes positively annoying.  Detente between the East and the West hit an all time low back in '63 with the Cuban crisis, but this is such a tin pot nation, at first I laughed, until I realised the true implications.  The trouble is, little people have a bad habit of getting big on the backs of people not taking the situation seriously.  Look at Hitler, just a straight corporal.  Thank God Idi Amin didn't have access to nuclear warheads - he would loved to have gone out in a blaze of glory, starting WW3.  It's no good talking about sanctions and embargoes being taken out.  Kennedy was taken out - this guy's next on the list unless he tows the line.

[cee-dee]

Sorry, I mean #14.

[spawnjohnuk]

you know cd,its time the whole nuclear thing was dropped and something was used to replace energy,surely they have the means noe with wind and solar...money cant be a be all end all when it comes to how dangerous this stuff is to the planet.

ps is 16 +14 = 3244 lol

[cee-dee]

The answer to everything is 42.

[spawnjohnuk]

I thought it were 32 lol

[spawnjohnuk]

seriously though,other sources of energy are available and when nutters like this apply to have nuclear on the grounds of economic energy supplies..surely they should say no but you can have wind at low cost.

[blackburn_stevie]

CD ... It may well have been North Korea that did the actual invading but only after Syngman Rhee boasted that he was going to attack North Korea.

[cee-dee]

It was an empty threat, they had nothing in the way of any substantial weaponry because the USA made sure the South couldn't attack the North.

That backfired when the North attacked and took over most of the country.

[renomarvinm]

A fundamental military axium suggests that you should not prepare for what you think the enemy will do, but rather prepare for what they CAN do.  In this case, they can detonate a bomb.  Where they can put it, how how it will get there are the fundamental questions.

It would be a serious mistake to suggest that the leadership of that country is sane - for they are not!  Ragged fanaticism would destroy the world in order to achieve their ends.  Please do not forget that this thing was created as a stalinist regime, and it's only gone downhill since then.

[treefrog6352]

South Korea is trchnologically far superior to N Korea militarily, and with the US backing should degrade N Korea to the stone age in less than 10 days, the nuclear bombs the North have detonated are about the size of a double decker bus, hardly manouverable or usable as a weapon.

[cee-dee]

They're mad, quite mad:-

http://news.sky.com/story/1067695/north-korea-issues-fresh-threat-to-america

[cee-dee]

More mad threats?

http://news.sky.com/story/1069789/north-korea-rocket-strike-threat-targets-us

[blackburn_stevie]

It must be bad if even the Russians are saying that the situation looks iffy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21974381

[Anonymous]

is this what the nutter wants for his country...............................

well..............does any NK want to reply?

as for the size of the bomb or its effectiveness, its the threat of using one being so close to SK that causes mass panic.

[cee-dee]

If they don't watch out, that's exactly what they're gonna get:-

http://news.sky.com/story/1071635/north-korea-says-we-are-at-war-with-south

You can bet there's already dozens of Cruise Missiles programmed for sites in North Korea just in case the fools start something.

[tommy.irene]

This nutcase wants to start world war 3.. I hope China and Russia dont back him..

[Anonymous]

as once said in the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, so long and thanks for all the fish.

as for Armageddon, who actually wins?...............nobody.

[cee-dee]

Armageddon eh?

In a way, those at war who believe that theirs is "the way" and think they should use every means and weapon at their disposal to achieve that aim even if it means total destruction for everyone are like spoiled children who, when they can't get everyone else to play "their way" would rather smash all the toys so no-one could play...........

[5129frederick]

Pray this little big man doesn't get a bad cup of coffee in the morning, or all will know about it!:^O

[5129frederick]

Although these seem to be empty ravings and threats, just how seriously should we be taking things from the crackpot?  Anybody got relatives in either NK or SK?  How genuine is the threat?  I ask that, because I'm beginning to get anxious.  This man claims he has the ability to reach Hawaii, so on that basis he could certainly reach Europe and the UK is just 20 miles further!

[cee-dee]

They can't get this far:-