The scarey part is that the brick is radioactive.Can someone please explain the logic of putting aircraft on the ground in South Korea? It was over ten years ago a military analyst stated NK could fire over 100k rounds of cannon shells in the first minute of a new round of hostilities. This does not include rockets and missiles. Even if the jets sent to SK were on the ground with engines running and pilots sitting inside they would still have to get off of the ground and above a rain storm of incoming ordinance. While one hopes this is just NK screaming for attention. NK is like a rat in the corner surrounded by a horde of cats. The cats are overfed, not interested in the rat, and perfectly happy to just relax, but the rat is starving and ready to bite a cat just to get attention. I cannot believe China is not making stronger efforts to make their southern neighbor behave. Any radioactive clouds will likely effect them as well as the other countries in the region. Homo sapiens are not always rational, we need more Homo civilius. Civilized humans don’t behave the way they are in NK.Respectfully,C.
Also, the US military is easily intelligent enough to have a large percentage of its aircraft in the air at all times. The real problem lies in the fact that the capital of South Korea (Seoul) lies well within the range of North Korean artillery fire, and literally millions of South Koreans are therefore at extreme risk in the event that North Korea really goes totally crazy. But what many do not seem to realize is that South Korea has a large and very efficient military on its own (after all they have one of the greatest economies in Asia that is easily able to buy and even manufacture on its own truly excellent military equipment). Then there is the indisputable fact that the US has the ability of use more aircraft on its aircraft carrier groups than the total number of combat aircraft of North Korea. If North Korea does actually attack South Korea, then North Korea (and specifically its leaders) is simply committing suicide!!
one party rulealmost always ends badly. the GOP has been gerrymandering in blue states they are in ,control of and they admit the plan is to make it impossible for Democrats to ever win an election again! People who are gullible and watch fox “news” hear the most evil lies about our president.TKim Jung Un is a psychotic and a psychopath. N. Korea does not let it’s people know anything about what is really going on else where.I guess some people want to do a pre-emptive strike on them. That is what Bush did wrong when he tossed us into the Iraq war. We are still suffering over that war. The leaders are probably aware of things and will do that tho, when or if it is deemed necessary.
“We don’t have to worry. Obama told us that tiny countries were no threat to us in one of his campaign speeches. "Ariail shows a better grasp on the situation than you do. There’s a reason why he drew the guy getting hit with a brick as a South Korean, not an American.North Korea presents no threat to US territory. Unless they have China’s full support, any aggressive action they take would mean the end of Kim Jong-Un’s regime.I think it’s safe to assume China prefers selling more iPhones over backing Kim.
“Well here’s your problem. Someone left bricks in the cage.”
“Exactly. From 2000-2008, someone dropped the ball on convincing North Korea not to develop nuclear weapons. North Korea did not have it’s first successful nuclear test until 2009, (they had a partial ‘dud’ in 2006).”you’re not quite right uncle joe. “someone” didn’t drop the ball, someone intentionally dismantled our diplomatic corps and actively threw the ball away. Mr Bush, through his disastrous foreign policy changes encouraged North Korea to develop nukes.
“This bellicosity will also put additional pressure on Japan to go nuclear which they should have done years ago.”Japan has been nuclear. can you say fukushima? and in fact the fallout, or shall I say, the nuclear pollution has made it into the water supply throughout Japan.
chazandru about 11 years ago
The scarey part is that the brick is radioactive.Can someone please explain the logic of putting aircraft on the ground in South Korea? It was over ten years ago a military analyst stated NK could fire over 100k rounds of cannon shells in the first minute of a new round of hostilities. This does not include rockets and missiles. Even if the jets sent to SK were on the ground with engines running and pilots sitting inside they would still have to get off of the ground and above a rain storm of incoming ordinance. While one hopes this is just NK screaming for attention. NK is like a rat in the corner surrounded by a horde of cats. The cats are overfed, not interested in the rat, and perfectly happy to just relax, but the rat is starving and ready to bite a cat just to get attention. I cannot believe China is not making stronger efforts to make their southern neighbor behave. Any radioactive clouds will likely effect them as well as the other countries in the region. Homo sapiens are not always rational, we need more Homo civilius. Civilized humans don’t behave the way they are in NK.Respectfully,C.
ossiningaling about 11 years ago
Well here’s your problem. Someone left bricks in the cage.
stamps about 11 years ago
It’s a cage of their own making.
frodo1008 about 11 years ago
Also, the US military is easily intelligent enough to have a large percentage of its aircraft in the air at all times. The real problem lies in the fact that the capital of South Korea (Seoul) lies well within the range of North Korean artillery fire, and literally millions of South Koreans are therefore at extreme risk in the event that North Korea really goes totally crazy. But what many do not seem to realize is that South Korea has a large and very efficient military on its own (after all they have one of the greatest economies in Asia that is easily able to buy and even manufacture on its own truly excellent military equipment). Then there is the indisputable fact that the US has the ability of use more aircraft on its aircraft carrier groups than the total number of combat aircraft of North Korea. If North Korea does actually attack South Korea, then North Korea (and specifically its leaders) is simply committing suicide!!
pam Miner about 11 years ago
one party rulealmost always ends badly. the GOP has been gerrymandering in blue states they are in ,control of and they admit the plan is to make it impossible for Democrats to ever win an election again! People who are gullible and watch fox “news” hear the most evil lies about our president.TKim Jung Un is a psychotic and a psychopath. N. Korea does not let it’s people know anything about what is really going on else where.I guess some people want to do a pre-emptive strike on them. That is what Bush did wrong when he tossed us into the Iraq war. We are still suffering over that war. The leaders are probably aware of things and will do that tho, when or if it is deemed necessary.
Uncle Joe Premium Member about 11 years ago
“We don’t have to worry. Obama told us that tiny countries were no threat to us in one of his campaign speeches. "Ariail shows a better grasp on the situation than you do. There’s a reason why he drew the guy getting hit with a brick as a South Korean, not an American.North Korea presents no threat to US territory. Unless they have China’s full support, any aggressive action they take would mean the end of Kim Jong-Un’s regime.I think it’s safe to assume China prefers selling more iPhones over backing Kim.
dannysixpack about 11 years ago
Uncle Joe said, about 9 hours ago
@ossiningaling
“Well here’s your problem. Someone left bricks in the cage.”
“Exactly. From 2000-2008, someone dropped the ball on convincing North Korea not to develop nuclear weapons. North Korea did not have it’s first successful nuclear test until 2009, (they had a partial ‘dud’ in 2006).”you’re not quite right uncle joe. “someone” didn’t drop the ball, someone intentionally dismantled our diplomatic corps and actively threw the ball away. Mr Bush, through his disastrous foreign policy changes encouraged North Korea to develop nukes.
dannysixpack about 11 years ago
skipcarlsen said, about 23 hours ago
“This bellicosity will also put additional pressure on Japan to go nuclear which they should have done years ago.”Japan has been nuclear. can you say fukushima? and in fact the fallout, or shall I say, the nuclear pollution has made it into the water supply throughout Japan.