You're either a troll, or terrifying...
Originally posted by Concordia
They actually said during a press-announcement that if we even attempted to put sanctions on them, they would interpret it as a declaration of war! How the hell is the UN supposed to work if countries say they'll declare war on other countries if they attempt to lay sanctions on them? North Korea is out of their mind.
If their reasons for saying this don't make sense, your brain probably isn't working too hard... Korea doesn't want sanctions, therefore they threaten, as it's currently the only good bargaining chip they have. Threatening like this doesn't necessarily mean that they're internally contemplating actually going to war, it's more than possible they're just using the threat to try and motivate the rest of the world. It makes a large amount of sense from their position in the world right now. It'll be hard for them to lose any more people who would be on their side, and it gives them something to use to hold off things that would be economically devestating to their country.
There's also the fact that any sanctions would have to be backed up with a blockade, which is considered by most of the world to be an act of war. There may be things written into various UN treaties or precidents of various sorts, but even then, the legality's definitely arguable.
I don't particularly like what's going on, but it's definately not a sign that people are out of their minds.
In my opinion, the instant we found they were even planning on making nuclear weapons, we should have flown straight over Pyongyang, dropped a nuke and vaporized them all before they could even get a nuclear weapon BUILT! Some would say this is aggressive because it would kill innocent people. So? They'd kill us without hesitation, and I believe that it's okay to do whatever your enemy would do to you. They'd kill our people? We get to kill theirs.
Wow, I like how you can read people's minds and are willing to kill because of this...
Some would say "turn the other cheek". I don't play by that game, I play "you hit me, I kick your f*cking ass". After 9/11, I said in revenge for the terrorist attacks that we should have taken a 747, automated it like a drone, and fly it into Mecca. Kamikaze the Dome of the Rock and make it ascend just like Mohammed! Just like 'ole Hammurabi's code.
This is just insane... Your solution to terrorists is to destroy a religious site with a plane? Not only is a plane a stupid way to do it as even an incompitent air force can shoot a passenger plane down, but it doesn't accomplish anything. It both angers any muslim terrorists,
and pisses off every other muslim in the world along with anyone with an ounce of sense.
But we can't even let them hit us once! The price is too high. One hit with a nuke and we've just lost a whole city. We can't even let them develop the tools on WHICH to hit us with.
Although I can see where you're coming from, I'll have to question your reasoning. What you just said is like saying that when your neighbor tries to buy a gun, you should shoot him before he gets the weapons to do the same to you.
And let's be honest, it would be a quick death, one flash and they're all clouds. Sure, the ones that don't get cooked right away will die shortly later and those who survive will have 3 legs. Hey, look on the bright-side-- they might do good in the olympics!
Oh good, you killed a huge number of people... but it's OK! They died
quickly... except for those who died slowly and painfully, of course... oh yeah, and those other ones who get to live a long, painful life!
Now that we've allowed them to develop nuclear weapons, we're probably going to have to spend the next 40 years in an arms race with them and it's Cold War all over again.
First, the US doesn't need to race anyone... Korea's so far behind that it's not even funny. The US has many, many more nukes than are needed to wipe North Korea off the map. Secondly, the attempts to build a stupidly large number of nukes to use against the USSR wasn't necessary either... It ended up being a numbers game. Instead of looking at tactical realities, it became about who had more nukes (or, rather, who had more nukes than their intellegence reported the other had).
Even if somehow it became an arms race, because the US misplaced all it's weapons, or something, North Korea has only a small amount of the industrial and nuclear capacity of the US. North Korea would be racing, while the US would only need to walk slowly along to keep up.
