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  1. silverbullet

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    I wouldn't take any notice of what anyone says including Trump. It's all planned. They are all friends at the highest levels.
     
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    North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan in a move Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an "unprecedented" threat to his country.

    The missile, launched early on Tuesday Korean time, flew over Hokkaido island before crashing into the sea.

    The UN Security Council is expected to hold an emergency meeting in response.

    North Korea has conducted a flurry of missile tests in recent months but firing projectiles over Japan is rare and sharply escalates tensions.

    On the two previous occasions North Korea fired rockets over Japan - in 1998 and 2009 - the North claimed they were for satellite launches, not weapons. North Korea fires missile over Japan in 'unprecedented threat' - BBC News
     
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    unprecedented
    ʌnˈprɛsɪdɛntɪd/
    adjective
    1. never done or known before.
    So not exactly "unprecedented". :wink:

    I think NK is giving a great opportunity to work on air-defense technology. If a missile flies into your airspace practice shooting that sh*t out of the sky.
     
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    Rye83, Aug 29, 2017
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    birdwatch, Aug 30, 2017
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    Of course they aren't. Nuclear weapons are the only way the regime will be able to ensure their survival.

    Look at what happened to every other dictator that put down their nuclear weapons programs and then look at what happened to every other dictator/rogue country that ignored the international community's cries for disarmament. If you are a dictator that wants to stick around you need nuclear weapons.
     
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    Keep watching Fox news.
     
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    silverbullet, Aug 31, 2017
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    Right now the world is faced with two unstable major players in this game of brinksmanship.
    Keep your fingers crossed folks.
     
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    Kiwi in negros, Sep 1, 2017
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    Japan did change its defence policy in 2015 party because of this threat and the fact it wanted to sell arms and weapon systems to other countries. Although still criticed for WWll they are and will be deciding factor in what happens.
     
    Hyaku, Sep 1, 2017
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    If you have gangrene in a leg, do you amputate the whole leg or wait until the body dies? If it is both legs? If it is all 4 limbs? I think most would agree with amputation as it gives hope of survival. So if NK continues its aggression and firing missiles over foreign countries (and what a risk of one tiny error causing it to land in that country) then it becomes 'a gangrene' too risky to leave and it should be decimated. As a person who highly respects most human and other life it seems callous to say that but do we choose 10 million to die now or 1 billion in the future? Some problems cannot be ignored and NK has been ignored for far too long. And I think it will send a message to other potential nuclear states.
     
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    Notmyrealname, Sep 1, 2017
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    The problem is that anything short of using nuclear weapons will not stop NK from firing back with whatever they choose (be it regular or chemical artillery shells, covert biological contamination or even the use of their own nuclear attack option).
    At the very least that will cause massive loss of life in South Korea even if the response is non nuclear.
    Moreover, a scenario similar to the 1950's might ensue, where the North Korean army overruns a big part of South Korea and pushing them back north will be a very costly and long term endeavour.
    I don't like any military option as it will cause endless suffering on both sides, plus, the odds on both parties refraining from pushing that red button in case of military conflict don't look encouraging at all.

    Moreover, please don't compare today's nuclear weapons to what was used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Nuclear bombs today are much more powerful, and the fall out effects will be traumatising for many nations. Keep in mind that after the accident in Tsernobyl, Ukraine (meltdown nuclear reactor, large clouds with fallout impacting much of Europe) in 1986, farmers as far away as Sweden and France were told to destroy their spinach crops, and the Bulgarian wine industry basically died.
    I don't even want to think about the implications if things would get completely out of hand this time around. Nuclear winter anyone?
     
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    Dutchie, Sep 1, 2017
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