Korea

[Rave]

I'm a drunken cynical old bastard so feel free to disregard this post. Personally I think the time has come to park Patriot missiles all along the DMZ, put Aegis cruisers all along the coastline*, and then invite North Korea to go and **** themselves. Why, in this day and age, are we giving the Stalinist government of their completely failed state the time of day? They've managed to set off a bomb of about 23kt underground. Big w00t. A single Minuteman-III could pretty much destroy their country, and the USA's had them since the 1960s.

I went on the anti-Iraq war march in 2003- I went because I don't like being lied to. I knew that the claim that Iraq could deploy WMDs in 45 minutes was a critical mass of bollocks- and I've yet to be proven wrong AFAIK? I am not, however, a pacifist. I was in favour of sorting out the Taliban in 1999, and suggested that an international brigade might be the right way to go about it. Nobody knew that that policy of appeasement would end up costing so dear- and fair enough I suppose. Who cares about a bunch of Afghan women who had to stay at home wearing a burkha rather than finishing their medical degrees, until their menfolk hijacked four planes?

I, as a die-hard liberal, am perfectly prepared to risk my life fighting for the freedom I wholeheartedly believe in. The fact that North Korea can apparently hold us all to ransom with a 1940s bomb offends me deeply.

*BTW, South Korea have a bunch of Aegis cruisers.

[Knoxville]

Welcome to the cold war mk.II, China likes having a buffer zone like Korea in place just like Russia did back in the day and seeing as nobody is gonna mess with China places like Korea and Burma can get away with pretty much what they like.

[Zadock]

I'm a drunken cynical old bastard so feel free to disregard this post. Personally I think the time has come to park Patriot missiles all along the DMZ, put Aegis cruisers all along the coastline*, and then invite North Korea to go and **** themselves. Why, in this day and age, are we giving the Stalinist government of their completely failed state the time of day? They've managed to set off a bomb of about 23kt underground. Big w00t. A single Minuteman-III could pretty much destroy their country, and the USA's had them since the 1960s.

I went on the anti-Iraq war march in 2003- I went because I don't like being lied to. I knew that the claim that Iraq could deploy WMDs in 45 minutes was a critical mass of bollocks- and I've yet to be proven wrong AFAIK? I am not, however, a pacifist. I was in favour of sorting out the Taliban in 1999, and suggested that an international brigade might be the right way to go about it. Nobody knew that that policy of appeasement would end up costing so dear- and fair enough I suppose. Who cares about a bunch of Afghan women who had to stay at home wearing a burkha rather than finishing their medical degrees, until their menfolk hijacked four planes?

I, as a die-hard liberal, am perfectly prepared to risk my life fighting for the freedom I wholeheartedly believe in. The fact that North Korea can apparently hold us all to ransom with a 1940s bomb offends me deeply.

*BTW, South Korea have a bunch of Aegis cruisers.

Spot on. Couldn't have put it better myself.

[Vetro]

Against a country with some semblence of nuclear capability which recieves also some support from two of the worlds three most powerful nuclear nations?

No, smackdown by the US is not a good plan. The US shouldn't really have anything to do with it - Russia and China need to solve this.

They shouldnt but i dont think Obama would miss the opportunity to at least be seen to do something about it.