N. Korea Successfully Tests Nuke Warhead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090525/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear

With the addition of a capable warhead delivery system (ie short or long range missile, which N. Korea is also testing), N. Korea could have 'first strike' capability to deliver a crippling blow to anywhere within range of their weapons platform. Multiply this effect by the amount of warheads they create and missiles in stock, and this could turn into a nightmare.

Even the red Chinese are condemning them.

As for us invading a country with REAL weapons of mass destruction...

I don't think so..

would give proof that sometimes we're just the biggest bully on the block, looking to pick on the small guy, and leave equally scary bullies alone.



oh and yeah, if we went into N. Korea, there WOULD be a draft

or we may as well not start a war with them to begin with

 

N.K. likes to push everybody's red button to getting us storm off to stop them from doing anything that could threatening our peace here on the earth. Hell, N.K. does very good job to getting us very angry today. Today, U.N. are setting up a emergency meeting on what to do with North Korea.

To me, that evil country must be punished for their actions when we told them not to launch the rockets while President Obama went on his trip to Europe. Answer this question, how come their actions has gone unpunished? Like they're getting away so easily and that proven very difficult to punish their actions. Now I'm very concern that it will threatening to our very peace that we hold very dear to our hearts. We will have to working our asses off so harder to get nuclear weapons off the world for good. It won't be easy, but we must do it in the best interests of earth citizens.

 

I don't agree with what North Korea did, but who are we to punish them? In theory, just because America told them not to do something, they don't have to obey, you know.
I agree with you that nuclear weapons won't bring any good to anyone but still, America (or any other Western power) doesn't actually have the right to punish North Korea but that's another issue altogether.

 

Much like the Germans during ww2, with respect to the Geneva Convention, N.K doesn't give a rats ass about the UN or their counsel. Therein lies the problem. There are no winners of nuclear wars, so I really hope nothing jumps off. Even if you strike first and prioritize the immediate decapitation of their nuclear power, you still run the risk of some being unaccounted for, which will explode in your backyard or South Korea. All we can do is try to talk them down, and hope they don't launch missiles across the DMZ.

 

More sabre-rattling from North Korea. It seems we cannot starve them out of their impudence, so we may have to fuck them up. Either way, they cannot be allowed to manufacture nuclear weapons. End of story.

 

We need a missile defense system that works and we need to use it or let the other side know we will use it.

 

well the missile defense program has been put in place, as a result of the previous Bush administration. The goal was to protect us AND our allies, by having missile defense platforms, stationed throughout the globe. Although this would be a purely defensive measure, other countries that would not be covered under the defense policy, feel threatened that a MDP would greenlight more conventional (or nuclear for that matter) wars, without fear of nuclear retaliation. It would be like fighting with one arm, tied behind your back.

As for the effectiveness of our program, last time I checked, it was not reliable enough to warrant true safety. However, as with any advanced weapons which initially have rocky starts (using the Aim-7 Sidewinder missile for example, which was used extensively in Vietnam to poor effect initially; only to become vastly improved over the years, to the point where it can make 90 degree turns on a button and had much better kill ratios), progress will be made over time, which will increase its effectiveness.

One overlooked aspect of nuclear warfare, is the weaponization of a nuclear warhead within a ground-mobile bomb. While a missile defense 'shield' would effectively protect against airborne nukes, it would not do piss against a detonated bomb, with the same effective warhead found in a missile, 'able to level a city and far more,' as directed by yahoo news.

 

the missile defense system will not work...according to several scientists, the system can't work due to certain logistic problems like "hitting a bullet with a bullet"....

for almost 20 years, starting with the reagan adminstration, has experimented with various missile defense systems and all of them have failed....

and if oreobama continues bush's policy of having missile defense, we know billions of people will die.............

 

oreobama

that's a new one

at least they're trying to come up with ways, to protect us against missile strikes

 

To say missile defense cannot work is just like many who once said that developing an intercontinental ballistic missiles cannot work either. Missile defense can work if there is a will behind it like when nuclear weapons were first developed. I predict the Japanese will go nuclear to protect themselves from North Korea and they will develop an effective ballistic missile defense system. They have the will and know how if the Americans do not.

 

N.Korea does not have the adequate technology to advance their nuclear ambitions. They, like Iran, right now are all bark and no bite.

 

Hitler was onced laugh at as being a crazy lunatic with no bite prior to the Second World War. Never underestimate a potential enemy. This is a lesson we black men must learn.

 

I wouldn't worry about North Korea. The Chinese will probably force regime change on them in a little while anyways

 

Had to correct myself, in case anyone was actually holding me accountable, to the very letter.



I should know these things, because i'm a pc flight simulator buff

 

They may not have the technology for long-range accuracy, but they can make nuke missiles. That alone is a threat, especially since they are known to support terrorist organizations.

A nuclear warhead in the hands of terrorists = nightmare scenario.

That is also an answer to from russia's question. It is the interest of our own national security to prevent them (known supporters of terrorists) from proliferating WMD.

Consequently, we are well within our rights to smack dat ass. :smt021

 

Are you just trying to agitate people? Is this an honest belief of yours?
Seriously? This type of opinion bothers me more than North Korea having weapons.

 

Please.

Let the nukes drop...

...it's about time this dirtball was wiped clean.

 

Well FEHG, I have to say you are extremely pacifist on this issue, and I have to say, IMO, naive. You act as if there are no good guys and bad guys. There are. I may have a brash way of stating what I did, but I don't think I am out of line in my assessment:

"North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs pose a grave threat to the peace and security of the world, and I strongly condemn their reckless action," Obama said at the White House. "The United States and the international community must take action in response,."

Germany, France, Britain, the EU, Canada and South Africa were among those condemning Pyongyang's act. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...hoped the council would take "necessary measures corresponding to the seriousness of this situation."

It was also bound to raise concerns about proliferation, a major worry of the United States which has in the past accused Pyongyang of trying to sell its nuclear know-how to states such as Syria.

NATO called for North Korea to refrain from raising tensions further. "These irresponsible actions by Pyongyang pose a serious challenge to peace, security and stability in the Asia-Pacific region"

http://www.canada.com/news/condemns+North+Korea+nuclear+test/1626582/story.html

 

Yes, I am extremely pacifist. Perhaps you and I are on either end of the spectrum? I just don't see what right anyone has to tell another nation what they should or shouldn't do? Especially when the USA itself probably has more weapons than any other country. IMO, it's an extreme case of pot-kettle.

This type of talk might be popular in the USA, but (as I can only assume you are aware), it makes no friends with many other nations.

Perhaps I should change my screen-name to Switzerland?

 

It's a very American outlook though, don't you think? I'm not anti America or anything, but the USA always feels the need to get involved, always. It's this whole 'well, we own the world, we're better than you' attitude that America seems to have.
Like I said before, I never, ever agreed with what North Korea did. I just don't think that America has the right to sort them out or whatever the fuck they're planning to do. America doesn't own the rest of the world, just in case ya'll have forgotten :smt102