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.

[5129frederick]

Yippee - things are hotting up!:^O :^O :^O  Cameron CLAIMSNorth Korea have the ability to reach the UKm if not, at least Europe.  Blair MkII.  Blair has more blood on his hands than anyone I know - weapons of mass destruction my ?!2$*!  Our man Cameron is paying this boy soldier an absurd flattery.  How long before he and Uncle Sam get together, and send even more of our boys into peril although hopefully - no, prayerfully Obama has more sense tham Bush and Blair put together.  Korea also talk of hitting U.S. bases in Japan.  Yeah - Japan's going to love all the extra activity on it's back doorstep if America take an active interest in protecting it's bases on that side!  NK is no more a threat to Europe than kids letting off fireworks in a crowded shopping centre - annoying, but I won't be losing any sleep over it - not yet, anyway! 😉

[ronnie-dog]

Ha.

They better watch out, or we'll be forced to impose Llap Goch on them !!!!

innit now.

look yer.

boyo

[flower-buds]

Yup, hes a sandwich short of a picnic alright and I wish he would stop his wicked thoughts, he's giving me the heebie jeebies so I dread to think what the innocent people in South Korea are going through

[blackburn_stevie]

A man once said .....

WW1 was fought with rifles and machine guns.

WW2 was fought with the Atomic bomb.

WW3 will be fought with weapons unknown.

WW4 will be fought using sticks and stones.

[*.*..lola..*.*]

When I was little, I remember being absolutely petrified of 'The Russians' - I imagined the iron curtain as a real curtain made of iron like one of those accordian style sliding doors covered in big rusty bolts LOL

Now it's the North Koreans I'm scared of - someone needs to put a stop to this lunatic NOW  :_| 

[mitzigirl_123]

This nation of people are literally starving and are desperate to draw attention to their plight and this is the only language they know - terrifying but true.

Lola - I am so glad you said that, I used to think it was a literal "iron curtain" too! :^O

[*.*..lola..*.*]

#45 Mitzi, not just me then...phew LOL

[mitzigirl_123]

It took me a wee while to understand what a "glass ceiling" was too!  

[Anonymous]

this nk idiot must know his country will be made into waste if he continues, i think leaflets should be dropped stating the next drop will be for real.  

[blackburn_stevie]

Has anybody else noticed that newsreel of North Korean troop marches that more or less copy the old Russian May Day parades have one thing missing? The troops are not armed. There could be a simple reason for this. Maybe the powers that be within the North Korean military have decided that it is pointless buying rifles, ammo and all kinds of ancillary stuff when half a dozen Atom bombs will negate the need for such man on man weapons.

It may also be the case that the bosses don't want to arm the individual soldiers for fear that the soldiers would turn round and shoot the leaders.

[welsh.goddess]

this nk idiot must know his country will be made into waste if he continues, i think leaflets should be dropped stating the next drop will be for real.  

I'm really not sure that he does., and I don't think the general population are aware of it.

The country is so cut off from the rest of the world, and is managed by fear and brainwashing. Many really do believe their won rhetoric that the world is out to get them.

It had, until recently, started to open up a little towards the south, with the workers and trade zone. Sadly that has now been closed 😞

[renomarvinm]

Up above a little bit, someone asked "Is this guy on the level, threatening America?"  

There was a time when that question was valid, but I'm not sure it is any more.  During the days of the British Empire, it was understood by one and all that if some tiny pocket "king" in Africa, the Middle East, or some place threatened or killed British subjects there would be a retaliation.  Napier's expedition into Abbysinia in the late 1860's, for instance - to crush the mad King Twedrodos (Theodore), and to successfully rescue prisoners comes to mind.

The problem with us, under this current Jimmy Carteresque administration is that we have the ability, but do we have the WILL to actually "offend" anybody.   I don't know, and neither do the citizens of this country and, more importantly, neither do the people in the rest of the world.   And that fact alone makes the world more dangerous.

Personally, I think it's the communist Chinese who are going to decide this one.  If they become too upset with that north korean fatso, they will crush him, and there could be nukes in play before it ends.

[treefrog6352]

North Korea do not have the ability to deliver nukes, they are years away from being able to mount them on missiles, all that is happening is postureing, the NK's just want to sit down and talk with the US and others, they want it to seem like a big victory for themselves.

[upthecreekyetagain]

We know that - do we?

How hard would it be to put one on a plane?

How long did it take the allies from their first successful nuclear test to having a bomb that could fit in a WWII bomber?

[stryver-1]

We know that - do we?

How hard would it be to put one on a plane?

How long did it take the allies from their first successful nuclear test to having a bomb that could fit in a WWII bomber?

The allies had the best brains (many had fled to the U.S. to escape persecution from the nazis) and the wherewithal ( it cost about 2 billion dollars! between 1939-45 - a staggering amount!) to develop the nuclear bomb.

Has N. korea the technology, the scientists and more importantly the money and the desire to build a nuclear bomb of any significance? And could they do it without the U.S. and its allies finding out?  Somehow I doubt it.

[salfordmarinade]

How hard would it be to put one on a plane

Would it go 1st or economy class I wonder?:|

Send Osborne with it, and they could just pay economy whilst traveling 1st class.

[upthecreekyetagain]

The allies had the best brains (many had fled to the U.S. to escape persecution from the nazis) and the wherewithal ( it cost about 2 billion dollars! between 1939-45 - a staggering amount!) to develop the nuclear bomb.

Has N. korea the technology, the scientists and more importantly the money and the desire to build a nuclear bomb of any significance? And could they do it without the U.S. and its allies finding out?  Somehow I doubt it.

I was under the impression that they have already managed the difficult part and demonstrated that they have a nuclear capability.  The only question would seem to be whether or not they can put that capability in a format that can be transported either by plane or rocket.

It took the allies just 24 days to redesign their first test device into a bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.

[stryver-1]

I was under the impression that they have already managed the difficult part and demonstrated that they have a nuclear capability.  The only question would seem to be whether or not they can put that capability in a format that can be transported either by plane or rocket.

All bluster and fantasy! And if they did try anything aggressive, against anyone, the threat would be neutralised almost immediately.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/05/us-korea-north-usa-capabilities-idUKBRE9331A920130405

[joe_bloggs*]

Wonder what would happen if the situation was reversed,say Mexico and Russia were conducting live fire operations off the coast of the USA simulating nuclear strikes and invasion and occupation? I think slightly annoyed would be an understatement,but this is what North Korea has had to endure for years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPLAN_5029

[treefrog6352]

We know that - do we?

How hard would it be to put one on a plane?

How long did it take the allies from their first successful nuclear test to having a bomb that could fit in a WWII bomber?

The North Korean Nuclear bomb is about the size of a double decker bus, very crude 500 kilotons, similar to the Russian 500 megaton bomb which was the size of a 3 storey block of flats, made a big bang in tests but hardly a deliverable weapon.