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Heineken wrote:afromanGT wrote:Heineken wrote:The situation with North Korea is getting graver and graver with each passing day. Overnight, several things have happened:
- North Korea has formally approved a Nuclear Strike on the United States. - North Korea has closed the industrial plant just over the border in North Korea and stopped South Koreans from working there. - America is moving THAAD air-defence missiles into place in South Korea - America has sent two destroyers including the USS John McCain to Patrol S.Korean waters.
The next month is going to be very, very interesting. Given the speed of this arms race I'd say there will be some kind of instigation of conflict within a fortnight. The sooner this is over, the better. According to some reports it looks like North Korea are moving missile and launch parts to their East Coast. I was reading that on BBC last night. There are some reports that it may just be for a new test. That said, when they shut down Kaesong, it does set off alarm bells. You have to ask yourself; exactly how deranged IS Kim Jong Un that he thinks he can take on the entire world? When Fidel Castro is telling you to calm the fuck down, it's probably time to pack it in.
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Heineken
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afromanGT wrote:Heineken wrote:The situation with North Korea is getting graver and graver with each passing day. Overnight, several things have happened:
- North Korea has formally approved a Nuclear Strike on the United States. - North Korea has closed the industrial plant just over the border in North Korea and stopped South Koreans from working there. - America is moving THAAD air-defence missiles into place in South Korea - America has sent two destroyers including the USS John McCain to Patrol S.Korean waters.
The next month is going to be very, very interesting. Given the speed of this arms race I'd say there will be some kind of instigation of conflict within a fortnight. The sooner this is over, the better. According to some reports it looks like North Korea are moving missile and launch parts to their East Coast.
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Heineken wrote:The situation with North Korea is getting graver and graver with each passing day. Overnight, several things have happened:
- North Korea has formally approved a Nuclear Strike on the United States. - North Korea has closed the industrial plant just over the border in North Korea and stopped South Koreans from working there. - America is moving THAAD air-defence missiles into place in South Korea - America has sent two destroyers including the USS John McCain to Patrol S.Korean waters.
The next month is going to be very, very interesting. Given the speed of this arms race I'd say there will be some kind of instigation of conflict within a fortnight. The sooner this is over, the better. Quote:I think people overestimate the fanaticism of the North Korean populace/army. There's a pretty deep hierarchy going on in their leading figures. The fanaticism of the brainwashed masses there will inevitably see them support and die for whoever they're told to.
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I think people overestimate the fanaticism of the North Korean populace/army.
Once the hierarchy crumbles, I'd wager that the North Korean people will embrace liberation with open arms.
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The real problem is that North Korea have the worlds largest artillery force and well over 10,000 of them are aimed at Seoul which has a metro population of 25 million. Plus North have a million most likely fanatical soliders ready to come through war tunnels across the border.
Edited by aussie4ever4: 4/4/2013 04:33:10 PM
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Heineken wrote:The situation with North Korea is getting graver and graver with each passing day. Overnight, several things have happened:
- North Korea has formally approved a Nuclear Strike on the United States. - North Korea has closed the industrial plant just over the border in North Korea and stopped South Koreans from working there. - America is moving THAAD air-defence missiles into place in South Korea - America has sent two destroyers including the USS John McCain to Patrol S.Korean waters.
The next month is going to be very, very interesting. I don't think anyone can afford to take NK lightly but I still see the pattern continuing -NK pushing the West's buttons (with China's tacit approval) until they get what they want -ie, more money. It also must be remembered that the new NK leader is young and probably trying to big note himself as a serious player rather than a lightweight. It is terrible that Seoul is easily within missile range from NK but I don't think giving in once again is the way to go - NK needs to be put back in its box through further sanctions and pressure. US must not fire first but be ready to unleash hell if NK attack. I also hope SK has the kind of Iron Dome defence shield that helped Israel against the Arabs. NK's is a much bigger missile threat though.
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benelsmore wrote:notorganic wrote:benelsmore wrote:I'm sick of these fucking Islamic extremists. People wonder why Islamophobia is running rife throughout the western world. It's funny because there's been no confirmation that this threat came from Islamists at all. :roll: It was islamists. I've read 7 different news sources, all saying the threat came from an "anonymous source". Zero confirmation it was Islamists, as likely as it is that it was.
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notorganic wrote:benelsmore wrote:I'm sick of these fucking Islamic extremists. People wonder why Islamophobia is running rife throughout the western world. It's funny because there's been no confirmation that this threat came from Islamists at all. :roll: It was islamists.
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The situation with North Korea is getting graver and graver with each passing day. Overnight, several things have happened: - North Korea has formally approved a Nuclear Strike on the United States. - North Korea has closed the industrial plant just over the border in North Korea and stopped South Koreans from working there. - America is moving THAAD air-defence missiles into place in South Korea - America has sent two destroyers including the USS John McCain to Patrol S.Korean waters. The next month is going to be very, very interesting.
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afromanGT wrote:Heineken wrote:It's not the first time there's been a threat to Paris in recent times from Islamic Extremists. Wouldn't be surprised if France is the next major European country hit with a massive Terroist Attack. France had become a relative safe-haven for muslims, but their involvement in the Malian uprising has made them a genuine target. That's like saying invading Iraq made the US a terror target. The French have always played footsies with the Arabs which is why they've been left unbombed. Good to see them grow some cojones and get rid of a regime that was torturing and killing people in Mali. It's very much unlike the French to give a hoot about someone else's misery. The last time they did that with any seriousness was in in the late 1700's, and even then they were helping the young US democracy largely for their own political gain.
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Heineken wrote:It's not the first time there's been a threat to Paris in recent times from Islamic Extremists. Wouldn't be surprised if France is the next major European country hit with a massive Terroist Attack. France had become a relative safe-haven for muslims, but their involvement in the Malian uprising has made them a genuine target.
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thupercoach wrote:notorganic wrote:benelsmore wrote:I'm sick of these fucking Islamic extremists. People wonder why Islamophobia is running rife throughout the western world. It's funny because there's been no confirmation that this threat came from Islamists at all. :lol: :lol: :lol: Yeah, because Islamists have monopoly on threats of bombing and violence.
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notorganic wrote:benelsmore wrote:I'm sick of these fucking Islamic extremists. People wonder why Islamophobia is running rife throughout the western world. It's funny because there's been no confirmation that this threat came from Islamists at all. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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benelsmore wrote:I'm sick of these fucking Islamic extremists. People wonder why Islamophobia is running rife throughout the western world. It's funny because there's been no confirmation that this threat came from Islamists at all.
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[youtube]mJcyOLwUmyI[/youtube] Al-Queda to take inspiration.
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I'm sick of these fucking Islamic extremists. People wonder why Islamophobia is running rife throughout the western world.
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Heineken wrote:It's not the first time there's been a threat to Paris in recent times from Islamic Extremists. Wouldn't be surprised if France is the next major European country hit with a massive Terroist Attack. Well they upset the Muslims after attacking the Al Qaida regime in Mali. They must be punished.
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It's not the first time there's been a threat to Paris in recent times from Islamic Extremists. Wouldn't be surprised if France is the next major European country hit with a massive Terroist Attack.
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Eiffel tower evacuated: 1,500 evacuated, ‘Hundreds forced to flee the tower’ EIFFEL TOWER EVACUATEDMARCH 31, 2013BY: TINA BURGESSSubscribe The Eiffel tower was evacuated shortly after 7.30 p.m. on Saturday and according to the below news video report, “hundreds [were] forced to flee the tower." Overall, 1,500 people including tourists and staff were escorted from France’s 1,050-foot-tall iron lattice tower that was built for the 1889 World’s Fair. The evacuation of the Eiffel tower occurred after police received an anonymous phone call from a phone booth in a Paris suburb, reported Mail Online on March 30, 2013. The anonymous terrorist phone call came after threats had been made previously by Al-Qaeda who swore to retaliate for France’s intervention and fight against Islamic terrorist groups in Mali, Africa. Eiffel tower evacuated: 1,500 evacuated, ‘Hundreds forced to flee the tower’ The anonymous phone call that prompted the evacuation of the Eiffel tower said that explosives had been placed around the tower and that the explosives would go off at 9:30 p.m. After the phone call, the Eiffel tower was immediately evacuated and trained bomb explosive sniffer dogs searched the Eiffel tower and the area surrounding it. When nothing had happened by 10 p.m., police thought the phone call might have been fake. As a matter of precaution, however, the Eiffel tower remains closed to the public and police officers are standing guard. No one is allowed in or near the Eiffel tower. The Eiffel tower “is the most visited paid-for monument in the world, with some 7million people a year going up it.” While the Eiffel tower is usually open on Easter weekend until midnight, it has not yet been determined when the Eiffel tower will reopen after Saturday’s evacuation. http://www.examiner.com/article/eiffel-tower-evacuated-1-500-evacuated-hundreds-forced-to-flee-the-tower?
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Aussie4ever4 wrote:afromanGT wrote:Joffa wrote:Technically they've been at war for the last 60 or so years I was just thinking "they were never not at war". Quote:To be honest, Israel has been in positions to take large amounts of land from the arabs and even gave Egypt back the Sinai. That was mostly because they couldn't fight Egypt, Sudan AND Jordan at the same time. They handed back Sinai during "peacetime" after defeating Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq a few years before in the yom kippur war. In return Egypt signed a peace treaty. Edited by aussie4ever4: 31/3/2013 01:36:36 PM This
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afromanGT wrote:Joffa wrote:Technically they've been at war for the last 60 or so years I was just thinking "they were never not at war". Quote:To be honest, Israel has been in positions to take large amounts of land from the arabs and even gave Egypt back the Sinai. That was mostly because they couldn't fight Egypt, Sudan AND Jordan at the same time. They handed back Sinai during "peacetime" after defeating Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq a few years before in the yom kippur war. In return Egypt signed a peace treaty. Edited by aussie4ever4: 31/3/2013 01:36:36 PM
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Quote:Leader of the brat pack? George W. Bush had probably forgotten he'd named North Korea as part of the axis of evil. He wouldn't be giving North Korea much thought at all, busy as he is throwing horseshoes and whatnot. The world's leaders are scratching their heads because Pyongyang is threatening to nuke Texas. Analysis of North Korea's US Strike Plan indicates that Mr Bush's ranch in Crawford lies close to the projected line of fire. What's Kim Jong-un really up to? It's 11,000 kilometres from Pyongyang to Austin. North Korea's longest-range missiles are said to have a working range of 3900 kilometres, and would run out of gas a third of the way into the trip to Texas. Hence, this is nothing but classic attention-seeking behaviour. Kim Jong-un is essentially asking George W. the saddest question of all: "Remember me?" Advertisement The answer has been: "Well, yeah, but who cares?" Texans don't. "Was it me?" chortled Karl Rove, Mr Bush's former aide and fellow Texan. Others have joked - or rather engaged in wishful thinking - that Mr Kim is actually targeting Austin's dope-smoking hippie enclave. When Mr Kim was pictured working at an Apple iMac, one local resident suggested that he was the "ultimate Apple fanboy" and was planning to "nuke Dell", the PC company located nearby. All of which means Texans aren't talking about North Korea at all - they are, as usual, talking about themselves. None of this will relieve Mr Kim's abandonment issues. This talk that he is in "a state of war" with South Korea is akin to a sibling rivalry tantrum. China and Russia are standing by, shaking their heads, like awkward parents on the sideline of a particularly embarrassing soccer game that's on the verge of a brawl. Mr Kim's problem, as the archetypal outsider weirdo child, is he can't get a game. Still, weirdo children are dangerous and, in their own way, wily. So the question remains, what is Mr Kim really up to? Is he truly seeking revenge for international isolation and crippling trade sanctions - he's not legally entitled to own that Apple computer, by the way - or is this fit of pique of a more personal nature? The useless threats against Texas suggest the latter. And yet it's a ruse. A white paper found that his longest-range missiles could be tricked out to make 6400 kilometres. Some analysts note this puts Alaska in range of a nuclear strike. Alaska, however, isn't the target. Mr Kim is after Canada. Lonely weirdos hate being misunderstood - but they hate even more when someone truly understands their frailty. In 2004, Canadian Trey Parker wrote and directed a movie called Team America, in which Mr Kim's father, Kim Jong-il, made an appearance singing the family song: "I'm so ronery, so very ronery." We all laughed. And now we must pay. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/kim-wants-to-be-remembered-for--anything-20130330-2h08f.html#ixzz2P1SUIrvS
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Joffa wrote:Technically they've been at war for the last 60 or so years I was just thinking "they were never not at war". Quote:To be honest, Israel has been in positions to take large amounts of land from the arabs and even gave Egypt back the Sinai. That was mostly because they couldn't fight Egypt, Sudan AND Jordan at the same time.
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afromanGT wrote:benelsmore wrote:afromanGT wrote:Israel is a country who is currently at war with an ethnicity of people PURELY because of their religion. This is NOT 'secular'. To be fair it's not as if they're going out of their way to fight. If they really wanted to, they could annihilate everyone around them. :lol: If they showed any significant aggression towards neighbouring countries they'd be wiped off the map faster than you can say "What do you mean antisemitic?" To be honest, Israel has been in positions to take large amounts of land from the arabs and even gave Egypt back the Sinai. Not to mention at times it has fought off multiple nations at once.
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^this, dont remember the other ronery guy barking this hard before.
Doubt anything will happen unless like Heineken said the guy is actually stupid enough to try something.
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Technically they've been at war for the last 60 or so years
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Surely Kim Jong-Un isn't stupid enough to realize that by declaring actual war against South Korea and the United States would just equal suicide. It's worrying that he's more of a fucking lunatic than his father, who we all know was just a 'widdle bit wonery'.
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NKorea says it is at war with South 30 MAR 2013, 12:06 PM - SOURCE: AAP Observers note a statement from North Korea is far from the first time it has announced the demise of the armistice with South Korea. North Korea says it has formally entered a "state of war" with South Korea and warns that any provocation will swiftly escalate into a nuclear conflict. "As of now, inter-Korea relations enter a state of war and all matters between the two Koreas will be handled according to wartime protocol," the North said in a statement on Saturday attributed to all government bodies and institutions. It is the latest in a string of dire threats from Pyongyang that have been matched by tough warnings from South Korea and the United States, fuelling international concerns that the situation is spiralling out of control. "The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over," said the statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The two Koreas have always technically remained at war because the 1950-53 Korean War concluded with an armistice rather than a peace treaty. The North had announced earlier this month that it was ripping up the armistice and other bilateral peace pacts signed with Seoul in protest against South Korea-US joint military exercises. "This is not really a new threat - just part of a series of provocative threats," the South's Unification Ministry said in a statement. The defence ministry added that no particular troop movement had been observed along the border. Voiding the ceasefire theoretically opened the way to a resumption of hostilities, although observers noted it was far from the first time that North Korea had announced the demise of the armistice. The armistice was approved by the UN General Assembly, and both the United Nations and South Korea have repudiated the North's unilateral withdrawal. Saturday's statement warned that any military provocation near the North-South land or sea border would result "in a full-scale conflict and a nuclear war". Most observers still believe this will remain a rhetorical rather than a physical battle, but the situation has now become so volatile that any slight miscalculation carries the potential for rapid escalation. Both China and Russia asked for all sides to co-operate to prevent the situation worsening on Friday, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voicing particular concern. "We can simply see the situation getting out of control, it would spiral down into a vicious circle," Lavrov told reporters. His warning came after North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered missile units to prepare to strike US mainland and military bases, vowing to "settle accounts" after US stealth bombers flew over South Korea. US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel stressed that Washington would not be cowed by Pyongyang's bellicose threats and stood ready to respond to "any eventuality". The high-stakes standoff has its roots in North Korea's successful long-range rocket launch in December and the third nuclear test it carried out in February. Both events drew UN sanctions that incensed Pyongyang, which then switched the focus of its anger to the annual joint South Korea-US military drills. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1751656/NKorea-says-it-is-at-war-with-South?
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