Debate on North Korea.

[Aloofi]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Debate on North Korea.

Personally, I think this is a job for the Chicoms. It is their client and their front yard. They are best positioned to handle the situation. .

Maybe NK is actually doing what the Chinesse wants them to do?

[Perrin]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Maybe NK is actually doing what the Chinesse wants them to do?

This may be true. However my impression of the Chinese is that they would rather be left alone. I don't think China would want North Korea to stir things up so that the attention of the US gets focused on that part of the world.

[Aloofi]

Originally posted by Perrin:
This may be true. However my impression of the Chinese is that they would rather be left alone. .

Maybe that's the impression they want to give.

[Foiden]

I don't know. I think it is a lot of adieu to make weapons in which it is stupid to use, in the first place. Oooh, nuclear weapons, when the very people they are trying to threaten with them is too close. It's amazing how people will repeat the same mistakes because they can't learn until they do it themselves. We already learned quickly about the futility and self-damaging effects of nuclear weapons, but some people don't realize that by far nukes are a double-edged sword, except worse. Imagine the double blade also being the handle. Its use is like some desperation act of taking your enemies out along with yourselves.

The weapons they want are not surgical with harmful effects that not only carry in wind, water, and soil, but possibly have half-lifes. And if they do use them, the effects will probably bleed into their own country and kill their own people off.

Or they just want some trophies to sit by doing nothing, but costing them loads of money to make, just to have a local health hazard, with hopes that nothing leaks into their water or other supply lines. I don't know. It sounds like somebody declaring to the world that they wanna commit suicide. Like the above poster said, it's like wanting a grenade when everybody is in the telephone booth with you.

[Aloofi]

But the world is such a big bad phone booth that some tiny countries need to threat their enemies to blow themselves up with them to keep them from invading.
You gotta be realistic. Only a nuclear power can deterrence conventional war.

[gregebowman]

After spending a year in South Korea courtesy of Uncle Sam, I wouldn't mind seeing both Koreas get bLasted into nothingness. That was the worst year of my life. But realistically, I think it will take the intervention of both the U.S. and China to see this one resolved. Who knows, after seeing "Shock and Awe" taking place in Iraq, maybe the North Koreans will see the ligth of reason

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
After spending a year in South Korea courtesy of Uncle Sam, I wouldn't mind seeing both Koreas get bLasted into nothingness. That was the worst year of my life. But realistically, I think it will take the intervention of both the U.S. and China to see this one resolved. Who knows, after seeing "Shock and Awe" taking place in Iraq, maybe the North Koreans will see the ligth of reason

What was your unit?

[gregebowman]

I don't remember my unit number now, but I was stationed at Kunsan AB (airbase) in the southern part of S. Korea. I was attached to the medical unit there. I was there from June 87 to June 88. Just missed my chance to see the 88 Olympics in Seoul.

[Wardad]

Technically,
Iraq conditionally surrendered and they did not honor the surrender conditions. That can be used by some to justify the invasion and claim it is different than a war of aggression.

North Korea is not in the same boat. Their natinal soveriegnty is not compromised the way Iraqs is (was).

[TerranC]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
After spending a year in South Korea courtesy of Uncle Sam, I wouldn't mind seeing both Koreas get bLasted into nothingness.

Gee, thanks.