North Korea

[Kaizer]

how about a precision strike right on top of that missile next time it pokes out? i'd say about 15 seconds after it comes out would do the trick.

Nice in theory, but somehow I don't think China will be on board with that just yet.

It's unfortunate that we will need to wait for them to actually do something in order to respond because of China.

uh, i was kidding.

[shafnutz05]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-north-korea-video-photos-1826234

[llipgh2]

The bigger threat - the cyberwar is ramping up between North and South Korea:

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2013/04/05/ns-lah-korea-hack-attack.cnn#/video/tech/2013/04/05/ns-lah-korea-hack-attack.cnn

[count2infinity]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/ ... 6X20130413

we'll see how this goes.

[Pucks_and_Pols]

my company does some business with south korea, so i have some email contacts with a few folks over there. these people have no special "insider" information and are just finance plugs like myself. their take on this whole situation over the past few weeks has been very calm tho. they seem to feel this is just part of normal life next door to the hermit kingdom and that china can resolve this behind the scenes by just upping some food shipments. there is no panic in seoul what so ever.

[doublem]

who would ever wanted to be protected from a nuke? Who would ever drop a nuke on someone? oh wait..

El oh el... yes, please equate North Korea 2013 with USA 1945

that wasn't my point. my point was the U.S. bombs more countries around the world than anyone else, why are we telling others what to do?

[thepittman]

who would ever wanted to be protected from a nuke? Who would ever drop a nuke on someone? oh wait..

El oh el... yes, please equate North Korea 2013 with USA 1945

that wasn't my point. my point was the U.S. bombs more countries around the world than anyone else, why are we telling others what to do?

Because we want to maintain our dominance. I personally don't want to go back to living in stick huts and no internet.

[ExPatriatePen]

[Gaucho]

who would ever wanted to be protected from a nuke? Who would ever drop a nuke on someone? oh wait..

El oh el... yes, please equate North Korea 2013 with USA 1945

that wasn't my point. my point was the U.S. bombs more countries around the world than anyone else, why are we telling others what to do?

Because we want to maintain our dominance. I personally don't want to go back to living in stick huts and no internet.

Not sure if serious?

[thepittman]

who would ever wanted to be protected from a nuke? Who would ever drop a nuke on someone? oh wait..

El oh el... yes, please equate North Korea 2013 with USA 1945

that wasn't my point. my point was the U.S. bombs more countries around the world than anyone else, why are we telling others what to do?

Because we want to maintain our dominance. I personally don't want to go back to living in stick huts and no internet.

Not sure if serious?

I'm totally serious about not wanting to allow other nations to come into a power conflict with the US or laying down to take it in the rear

[thepittman]

That said, I don't take NK seriously and this is a non-issue.

[ExPatriatePen]

"North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'" –Conan O'Brien

"Japan and South Korea are on high alert after North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket. Both countries are surprised by North Korea's successful launch, but definitely not as surprised as North Korea." –Jimmy Fallon

[doublem]

who would ever wanted to be protected from a nuke? Who would ever drop a nuke on someone? oh wait..

El oh el... yes, please equate North Korea 2013 with USA 1945

that wasn't my point. my point was the U.S. bombs more countries around the world than anyone else, why are we telling others what to do?

Because we want to maintain our dominance. I personally don't want to go back to living in stick huts and no internet.

how would that happen?

[Kovy27]

There's a lot of dongs in this picture.

[Godric]

Rock meet paper.

Spoiler:

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

Kim Jung Un would meet one these if that would ever happen.

Spoiler:

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

[Avyran]

Today (it's currently April 15 in Korea) will likely be the day that something happens, if anything does occur. Celebration of Kim Il Sung's 101st birthday, always accompanied by a lot of military shows and such.

[thepittman]

who would ever wanted to be protected from a nuke? Who would ever drop a nuke on someone? oh wait..

El oh el... yes, please equate North Korea 2013 with USA 1945

that wasn't my point. my point was the U.S. bombs more countries around the world than anyone else, why are we telling others what to do?

Because we want to maintain our dominance. I personally don't want to go back to living in stick huts and no internet.

how would that happen?

Just a general statement on maintaining military/economic dominance across the globe.

[count2infinity]

what do you think would happen if we didn't maintain military dominance in the world?

[thepittman]

what do you think would happen if we didn't maintain military dominance in the world?

Someone would fill the void

References- The entire history of humanity

[count2infinity]

would that necessarily be a bad thing?

[thepittman]

would that necessarily be a bad thing?

[MRandall25]

would that necessarily be a bad thing?

It depends on who else took the spot and what their intentions would be.

[thepittman]

would that necessarily be a bad thing?

It depends on who else took the spot and what their intentions would be.

You won't have a choice

[Gaucho]

Maybe pittman is afraid "they" will make him eat with chopsticks or something.

[Rylan]

Gaucho, were you West or East German?