Nork Nukes Nearing Nuisance?

[Con]

A pretty insightful look at what would happen with a war with North Korea and that the aftermath is more Syria than post WWII Germany.  The cost in lives including US lives is going to be huge.  A little off topic my nephew is a captain in the army flying Blackhawks getting married in 6 days at the very young age of 23 since he is deploying to Korea in a month.  Its getting very real for some of us.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-korean-war-20170925-story.html

[BanzaiCat]

^ Nice that the idiots at the LA Times failed to mention anything about the South Korean military or its prowess. It comes across as a leftist propaganda piece.

That all said, I pray it doesn't come to an actual shooting war with them. With China nebulously on the sidelines, there's no telling how far south things could go.

[CptHowdy]

any chance of a military coup? gotta be a high ranking officer over there that will not want to commit suicide if lil kim gives the order to go to war.

[mirth]

It's more likely there'll be a coup here :P

[Con]

^ Nice that the idiots at the LA Times failed to mention anything about the South Korean military or its prowess. It comes across as a leftist propaganda piece.

That all said, I pray it doesn't come to an actual shooting war with them. With China nebulously on the sidelines, there's no telling how far south things could go.

I didnt read it that way at all.  My take was that there was very little wiggle room if any to prevent any escalation going to nuclear war.  Nothing leftist at all its about the outcome North Korea's destruction is not in doubt the calculus is at what cost in human lives including US and that its not going to be like Germany post WWII its going to be a morass of competing external factions pouring money into a radioactive hole.

[BanzaiCat]

Granted, Con. I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing that it's a news piece that's decidedly one-sided.

Not that South Korea's strength military-wise could mitigate that. I'm just making an observation. News stories should cover all angles, not just one.

[bayonetbrant]

http://tinyurl.com/unhead

[Sir Slash]

Kerry would've done Little Kim himself probably back then. Hey, he was doing the Iranians two at a time.

[OJsDad]

https://theintercept.com/2017/07/29/dan-coats-north-korea-nukes-nuclear-libya-regime-change/

One major difference between Libya and NK.  Libya didn't have a protected when their civil war started and NATO intervened.  Russia wasn't willing/able to come to Gaddafi's aid.

China will do everything in it's power to keep NK there as a buffer between them and a strong US ally. 

[bayonetbrant]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/sunday/nuclear-north-korea.html?_r=0

[mirth]

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15009/north-korean-hackers-stole-us-and-south-korea-decapitation-plans-months-ago

[RedArgo]

So just a general question related to this hacking, why are top secret military plans and critical infrastructure controls connected to the internet?  If it can be connected to it will be at some point.  Seems like a completely separate network for this type of stuff would be a good idea.

[Gusington]

^Yeah I don't really understand that either.

[jomni]

^Yeah I don't really understand that either.

It's a trap! Probably intentional.

[Airborne Rifles]

^Yeah I don't really understand that either.

Well, when you have very senior officials at, say, the State Department who decide to keep stuff like this on private servers in their home...