I suspect that Rogue's assessment about what NK wants is correct but it's the last point that concerns me most...
this is a super sized military state ruled by a guy who is 30 +/- and believes that he is the latest in a line of air breathing deities... Can we be sure that he won't feel that he has to make the first strike to avoid loosing face by backing down....
anyone else remember what it was like to be 30? How many fights or arguments would you walk away from today whereas 10 / 15/ 20 / 25 / 30 years ago you just piled straight in and fuck the consequences!
A lot of this is just 'sabre rattling' from North Korea.
The statement about them being at war with South Korea is just words. Technically, the two countries have been at war for 60 years. There was no peace treaty ever signed at the end of the Korean War.
Yes, NK has nuclear weapons, but according to what I've read, they can just barely reach the West Coast of The US. Alaska has more chance of being hit than Washington and New York. If they try going towards Europe, they fall on Iran.
This is a link to a BBC map of the threat from NK's nukes.
There may be some truth in the rumour that because the US has been late for the last two World Wars, they are trying to make up for it by pre-empting the next. :scared:
When we were that age I suppose there was always the chance that you sized the other fella up and looked at your chances...The chances for NK to win are nil, all that will remain is a small passage in the history books. That is no reason to go to war.
Agreed Rogue.... but was always subject to how much i'd had to drink and how encouraging my mates were...
I suspect you are right ... i hope and pray you are right that this is just posturing by the young pretender... but i don't think i'd bet my last £1 on him having a really firm grasp of reality or a sense of perspective and NK's role (or lack thereof) on the World stage.
Jack