OT: North Korea Missile Tests

[Renegade 13]

I think North Korea has the right to do whatever military tests they feel like doing. What country has the right to prevent another sovereign nation from developing weaponry that most of the world already possesses? It doesn't matter if that nation is unpalatable to the rest of the world, as long as they don't interfere with the affairs of another nation. The state of mind and mindset of their leadership is irrelevant.

I say ignore them completely. They are no threat currently, and they will not use nuclear weapons unless they're invaded. After all, if they were stupid enough to nuke someone in North America, they have to know their entire nation would be blown back to the stone age.

I also think they're doing it simply for leverage in future negotiations. Every time they restart their nuclear efforts, or launch an intercontinental missile, the world freaks out, and tries to get them to stop. They only stop when concessions are made to them, usually in the form of international aid. Either way, they win...unless you pay them no attention.

[ToddT]

Norht korean has south korea as a hostage. Technically US and Nk still at war. there was never a treaty signed.

[Atrocities]

North Korea? You mean too tell me that there is still a North Korea controlled by a dictator with ICBM's, a million man army, and a nuke, bent upon being a a dick to the rest of the world? Hum, sounds more like a 007 bad guy than a real dictator of a real country to me. They no scare me, let China deal with them.

[Colonel]

bah! Either have China annex North Korea or the US should turn the country into a nice parking lot with convential bombs.

[TerranC]

Colonel said:
bah! Either have China annex North Korea or the US should turn the country into a nice parking lot with convential bombs.

And people wonder why the younger generation in South Korea has turned so Anti-American.

The only solution to all this is hope nothing bad happens until Kim Jong-Il dies.

After that, who knows what might happen. China could occupy North Korea and turn it into Chaoxian province; whoever takes over could choose to reunify with the south peacefully; whoever takes over chooses to go nuts and reinstigate the Korean War and get promptly killed (but not before taking a lot of people with him); or something else we've not contemplated.