Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 7:14 am  

sally cinnamon wrote: What - incidents like torpedoing a ship? Yes. 1967 saw an artillery attack on a South Korean patrol boat. Boat sunk and 39 dead. I would say this is similar to the recent attack. Of course then we have had NK commandos attempting to assassinate the president, then an NK secret agent trying again and killing the president's wife in the process. Bombs in hotels and on aircrafts and hijacks etc. You can inform yourself here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_p ... 130248.stm

sally cinnamon wrote: What - incidents like torpedoing a ship? Yes. 1967 saw an artillery attack on a South Korean patrol boat. Boat sunk and 39 dead. I would say this is similar to the recent attack. Of course then we have had NK commandos attempting to assassinate the president, then an NK secret agent trying again and killing the president's wife in the process. Bombs in hotels and on aircrafts and hijacks etc. You can inform yourself here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_p ... 130248.stm

Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 7:21 am  

Wires71 wrote:

There have been incidents like this over the last 30 years. Neither side will do anything as China has given them a warning.

'You two had better behave! DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE!!!'

Can't Alex Balwdwin and Matt Damon sort out North Korea again?

Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 7:24 am  

lock it

Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 7:46 am  

stubblesteve wrote:

lock it

why?

its an informative thread..... I have already learnt about north koreas 1967 activities.

Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 7:49 am  

Ian 77 Redux wrote:

'You two had better behave! DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE!!!'

Can't Alex Balwdwin and Matt Damon sort out North Korea again?

LOL.

Maternal China wrote:

Be quiet the pair of you or I will knock your heads together!

Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 7:51 am  

North Korea is the country (along with Iran) that really scares the US & UN due to the nuclear capabilities & unbalanced nature of the ruler. That is why they do nothing about those two countries and tolerate their sabre rattling. At the same time Kim Jong Il & the Iranian chap will not do anything seriously to upset the superpowers of USA or China as they are fully aware that they will be wiped off the face of the earth, along with most of the rest of the planet.

Such is the international game of brinksmanship & is paradoxically the reason why nuclear deterrants are necessary...

Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 7:53 am  

magic piano wrote:

North Korea is the country (along with Iran) that really scares the US & UN due to the nuclear capabilities & unbalanced nature of the ruler. That is why they do nothing about those two countries and tolerate their sabre rattling. At the same time Kim Jong Il & the Iranian chap will not do anything seriously to upset the superpowers of USA or China as they are fully aware that they will be wiped off the face of the earth, along with most of the rest of the planet.

Such is the international game of brinksmanship & is paradoxically the reason why nuclear deterrants are necessary...

I'd add Pakistan to the list also

Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 7:54 am  

magic piano wrote:

Such is the international game of brinksmanship & is paradoxically the reason why nuclear deterrants are necessary...

So why all the uproar about Iran's nuclear programme? If deterrents are necessary for us they are much more necessary for Iran.

Our argument for spending billions of taxpayers money on Trident is that 'we don't know what could potentially happen in the future with North Korea or China'. I would think Iran has much more risk of being attacked by Israel or the USA than we do by North Korea or China.

Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 7:56 am  

magic piano wrote:

North Korea is the country (along with Iran) that really scares the US & UN due to the nuclear capabilities & unbalanced nature of the ruler.

There's nothing worse than religious zealots in charge of a nuclear state who God talks to and tells them to go to war. We had enough of this with Bush and Blair.

No doubt when Ahmedinijad starts taking action against Israel on the grounds of them having weapons of mass destruction which could be a threat to Iran within 45 minutes, he will tell everybody "he didn't do it because it was popular, he did it because it was the right thing to do"

Re: O/T North Korea V South Korea : Fri May 21, 2010 8:00 am  

What about attacking their own citizens with chemical weapons? Just turn a blind eye, eh?