North Korea - what the hell is happening?

[Flosshilde]

I guess so, if you're going to believe Cameron's fantastic assertion that DPRK is able to drop nuclear weapons on the UK.

Not to make any excuses for KJU's regime, it might not be irrelevant that his current bellicose rhetoric began round about the time when the USA and South Korea began joint military exercises, using military hardware that the US explicitly stated was able to carry out "long-range, precision strikes quickly and at will". There's another load of "militarised human robots (...) capable of doing some very mad things", as we saw in Abu Ghraib, Fallujah and elsewhere.

Quite, & then they accuse N. Korea of being provocative!

[Thropplenoggin]

There's so much love in the room right now. It's like watching an Oprah Winfrey show. It'll be group hugs and prayer circles next. After thousands of hours of war and strife, is world peace finally about to break out on For3?!

Let's hope the US and Kim Jong are watching...this is how it's done, folks. Mwah! Mwah!

[teamsaint]

There's so much love in the room right now. It's like watching an Oprah Winfrey show. It'll be group hugs and prayer circles next. After thousands of hours of war and strife, is world peace finally about to break out on For3?!

Let's hope the US and Kim Jong are watching...this is how it's done, folks. Mwah! Mwah!

What is that like throbbo? do they show it in France? is it fun?!

[Thropplenoggin]

What is that like throbbo? do they show it in France? is it fun?!

I used to watch it in Vietnam. It's an unintentionally entertaining, morally disconcerting mix of decadence and evangelical Christianity. One minute, baby showers where she buys ever audience member a car. The next, it's prayer circles, miracles, and other hokum 'spirituality'.

[Resurrection Man]

Too much money spent on arms, rather than social needs? Leaders with no real work experience who bluster, and provoke in a nationalistic way?
all sounds horribly familiar....

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[Resurrection Man]

so why wouldn't he be loving it then, Scotty?
Its just what he needs.plus it distracts from tax giveaways to the rich, benefits being cut, etc etc.

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[Resurrection Man]

Oh Gosh Richard Barrett,
I love your Marxism, and alll that stuff, it's quite thrilling. But, quite honestly, sort of old-school Socialist type of justifying stuff, innit? Which, UK socialists, like T. Blair and his, how many million pounds portfolio he has, ditto G. Brown - deserted the Party for the lecture tour and the millions - How, honestly, can you expect anyone to believe in Socialism? When the aim of last labour government was to line their boots with profits?

Succinctly and delightfully put, m'lady :ok:

[Barbirollians]

Has anyone else noticed the striking resemblance between the young North Korean leader and Boris Yeltsin when pissed ?

[teamsaint]

Has anyone else noticed the striking resemblance between the young North Korean leader and Boris Yeltsin when pissed ?

Can't say I have,but I do think think you should ease off on the hard stuff Barbi !! !

[teamsaint]

http://decadesinadigitalworld.files....65491332td.jpg

Don't let me try to stop you, RM. Maybe afterwards you could come up with a response!

In the meantime, perhaps we should spend more money on arms? is that the answer to the Korean problem?
Perhaps next time we should all vote for somebody with even less real work experience than Cameron? Oh...........

[Flosshilde]

Quite, & then they accuse N. Korea of being provocative!

Apparently the USA have realised that their actions might have seemed a tiny bit threatening to North Korea, & have scaled back a bit.

[An_Inspector_Calls]

So what did Cameron actually say? The following, in the Telegraph:
Last year North Korea unveiled a long-range ballistic missile which it claims can reach the whole of the United States. If this became a reality it would also affect the whole of Europe, including the UK. Can you be certain how that regime, or indeed any other nuclear armed regime, will develop? Can we be sure that it won’t share more of its technology or even its weapons with other countries? With these questions in mind, does anyone seriously argue that it would be wise for Britain, faced with this evolving threat today, to surrender our deterrent?
A pretty clear connection made between the Korean standoff and the Trident programme there, no?

Yes, a clear link to support for Trident. And yes, seems like a very good reason not to abandon Trident.

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And I keep recalling that film The Bedford Incident . . . Worrying.

[BBMmk2]

Yes, a clear link to support for Trident. And yes, seems like a very good reason not to abandon Trident.

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And I keep recalling that film The Bedford Incident . . . Worrying.

Makes it aq good reason to have somesort of deterrant.

[MrGongGong]

Yes, a clear link to support for Trident. And yes, seems like a very good reason not to abandon Trident.

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Does it ?
So countries with nuclear weapons are never attacked by ones without ?

Israel for example ?

[An_Inspector_Calls]

Does it ?
So countries with nuclear weapons are never attacked by ones without ?

Israel for example ?

I can't recall when Israel was suffered a nuclear attack.