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Originally Posted by jorgelito
I disagree. North Korea is a "hermit Kingdom". Really, who would be an aggressor to them? China? nope. Japan? Nope. South Korea? Nope, that's a "family" squabble, none of our business. So then, defense against whom?
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You probably know what I'm going to say here. I'll just come out and say it. It is possible that the United States will decide again to do a preemptive strike to try and diram them and remove their hostile government. It's happaned before. Whether it's likely in reality or not is debatable, but I'm sure they see it as a huge risk. While the Second Gulf war is far from a success, we were very good at removing the governmental officials in the Ba'ath Party from power, or their lives, when we invaded Iraq. If we did invade NK the way we did in Iraq, Kim Jong and most of his budddies will either be dead or imprisoned as a result. That is the worst possible scenereo for them. In order to deter us, they decided to go the Cold War route and use perliforation. It's possible. Not probable, but possible.
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Originally Posted by jorgelito
I believe they're just trying to blackmail the world for concessions. It's time we draw a line in the sand here.
I'm only concerned that there isn't anything we can do about it. For the first time in my life, I have doubts about our own military capability.
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You believe, but there seriosuly is no way to be 100% sure. That was kinda my point. It's all speculation until something happens.
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Originally Posted by jorgelito
Oddly, I agree with the Bush naysayers (from previous thread) about "why didn't we invade Iran, N. Korea, why Iraq etc..." but for entirely different reasons.
Iran, N. Korea definitely are real threats to our security (and the world too). It kind of sucks to be called out and unable to do anything about it. Apparently, we lack the man power etc. Both Iran and N. Korea need to be "relieved" of their nuclear capability.
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Everyone should be relieved of nuclear capability , imho. The world would be a lot safer without them. Too bad it's too late for that.