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Edited by Hank Hill: 3/7/2013 12:17:15 PM
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North Korea threatens to nuke the U.S.

[quote]North Korea threatened to exercise its "right to pre-emptive nuclear attack" Thursday as Pyongyang ratcheted up its rhetoric ahead of a United Nations vote on new sanctions. "Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to pre-emptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest,'' the North's foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency. NBC News could not immediately confirm the statement. However, the remarks were also reported by media outlets including The Associated Press. On Wednesday, the South Korean military said it would strike back at North Korea and target its top leadership if Pyongyang attacks. Tensions have ratcheted higher across the Korean Peninsula since the North, under youthful leader Kim Jong Un who took office just over a year ago after the death of his father, launched a long-range rocket last December. He followed this with a third nuclear test on February 12, triggering the prospect of more U.N. sanctions that are due to be formally announced on Thursday after the United States and China, the North's one major diplomatic ally, struck a deal to punish Pyongyang. Earlier in the week, Pyongyang threatened to end the 60-year truce that ended the Korean war. Angus Walker, a Beijing-based correspondent with NBC News' partner ITV News, said the current consensus was that North Korea did not have a missile that was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. "There is always a lot of saber-rattling when the U.S. and South Korea stage large-scale military exercises," he said. The North does have smaller missiles, as seen during military parades, and South Korea's capital Seoul is within artillery range. While the North has in the past threatened to hit Seoul with a "rain of fire," claiming it can launch 250,000 artillery shells in an hour at the South Korean capital, the reality is that those artillery batteries could be destroyed very quickly, Walker said. War-game scenarios have suggested that a war on the peninsula would be over quickly, with the North under U.S. and South Korean control within 24 hours, Walker said. South Korea's new President Park Geun-hye recently promised to engage with the North if it dropped its nuclear ambitions. The U.N. Security Council measures expected to be approved later on Thursday would ban the sale of items coveted by North Korea's elite, like racing cars and yachts, a diplomat told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The new measures would hit North Korea's financial transactions, which often involve cash couriers that make them hard to trace, and its criminal activities such as drugs and counterfeiting.[/quote] Do you think they're actually going to go through with this? Discuss.

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  • I think people are over-inflating the extent to which the North Korean government is as a threat to regional peace. The North Koreans have threatened to end the armistice before, and have cut off the hotline twice. The regime, while not the most rational bunch in the world, bases all of it's actions around one thing: maintaining the power of the regime. Attacking their Southern neighbors will end their sovereignty, because it will result in an invasion by the United States. In this way, they're less of a nuclear threat than Iran If anything occurs, it will be aimed at undermining American and South Korean military and political power; the shelling of the border island or the sinking of Pohang class corvette are recent examples of this. The North Koreans think they can get away with more because our military budget is being cut, that's all. They're testing the waters, seeing how much they can get away with in a region where American hegemony is on the decline. This isn't to say that we shouldn't beef up regional security, the N Koreans aren't the apex of international rationality, and their actions can be hard to predict. Obviously, we should stay on high alert in case anything happens.

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  • They threaten to the nuke the west every 5 minutes. All bark and no bite.

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    • I've said it before and I'll say it again: if North Korea lobs a nuke at ANYBODY, they're going to be invaded by EVERYONE. Nobody wants to live in a world where one nation's angry government is refusing to cooperate with anybody and is constantly threatening every other nation around it. Can't we all just get along?

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      • This shit isn't even news anymore. I'm starting to want them to do it just so we can rid their shitty country of existence from this planet.

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      • HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Are they not aware that the US has thousands of warheads ready? I mean, how stupid are they?

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      • I really don't think they're actually crazy and stupid enough to do that.

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        • Picture of North Korea if they attack the US.

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            • I other news: Greeks fend off Persian invaders.

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            • Maybe I missed something, but at what point did they get the idea the US was planning to ignite a nuclear war? Are they trolling, or are they just [i]that[/i] stupid? You know, at this point I almost want them to try something. They're far too annoying for their own good; ultimately a confrontation is bound to happen. Might as well get it over with sooner while they're still relatively primitive to minimize the time it takes. NK won't survive, they're on a suicidal path.

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            • [quote] "Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to pre-emptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest,'' [/quote] ...What? This whole situation is stupid, but not exactly unexpected.

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            • NK threatens US? Shocking!!

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            • Edited by OverThrownBaby: 3/7/2013 12:54:36 PM
              I don't know if North Korea realizes this, but we seem to be watching at all times. If they launch a rocket we will know, and we will use whatever anti missile/nuke crap we have. I'm sure we some sort of defense in order to take down missiles and rockets. Similar to reactive armor, but around all of America. Plus, if they actually get a rocket and send it at as, it won't be good for them. I think we would literally destroy North Korea, and at this point I wouldn't really care. The only thing I see bad is that their are citizens there.

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            • They don't have the ability to nuke the US. South Korea? Sure. Japan? Probably. But not America.

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            • *Sigh* They just don't get it, do they?

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