North Korea Stages Underground Nuclear Test

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NK is a bully state waiting to happen. Same with Iran.

Eventually (or rather hopefully) China will back off when they realise that their psychopathic son has grown up and need a barrel of anti-psychotics on IV. Their leader is mentally unstable, that + nukes is a BAD combination.

KJ Ill is sort of like a political version of an internet troll...

we're kinda backed up on wars right now. Could he take a number?...

First the Colonial white gods, then the Japanese, for a long time, then the Americans, they all killed Koreans.

Nam is saving up for a bomb, get used to people who hate you being armed, we taught them.

No one is going to bomb a little country which borders Russia, China, South Korea, a few miles from Japan.

As for conventional war, the UN lost there. Just like Nam.

If you would have stayed in Europe none of this would have happened.

America has kept an army on their southern border threating to invade for fifty years.

Now you are suprised they worked on defense?

South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are the last European outposts in the East.

They threaten China.

Invade them?
I can't see that happening with the current administration (maybe not the last administration, either).
We'll probably just pay N.K. billions of dollars in the hopes that they'll start being nice.

Our president is too weak to take any firm action against North Korea.

North Korea's conventional capabilities are so severe that the nukes don't change the picture much.

Their leader's a nutcase, but unfortunately a nutcase leader doesn't always mean an incompetent military.

That little podunk country has the fourth largest army in the world, highly trained and disciplined.

Some US general, a former commander of US forces in South Korea, told congress that North Korea has more special operations soldiers than any country in the world.

Lots of artillery too, dug into deep caves along the DMZ, and Seoul is only 35 miles from the DMZ, well within range.

I found this hard to believe, but I read that they could hit Seoul with half a million artillery rounds and rockets per hour.

We've found quite a few tunnels running under the border and coming out south of the DMZ. Not little tunnels, tunnels you can drive tanks and vehicles through or transfer huge masses of infantry behind enemy lines.

You gotta wonder how many tunnels we haven't found.

I'm sure the people who run the country are very well protected in bombproof bunkers, so massive airstrikes or even nukes would probably just kill a bunch of peasants whose only crime is trying to get enough to eat and stay out of a prison camp.

All that, and the country's mountainous, which always increases the defender's advantage and makes things much tougher for the invader.

War with North Korea wouldn't be an easy cakewalk like uhh... Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm not sure what military options we have.