North Korea declares War on South Korea

[Yank2133]

This is one of the dumbest, most cowardly, shameful moves I've seen from our nation's leadership in history...

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/06/176455606/u-s-delays-missile-test-over-tension-with-north-korea

Delaying a missile test to "cool tensions" is ing moronic... as if the North Koreans are reasonable people who will then reciprocate. This shows weakness I haven't seen our nation display perhaps ever...

Soviets blockade Berlin- we airlift supplies
Soviet missiles in Cuba- we blockade
North Koreans threaten us with nuclear weapons- we cancel missile tests


I was very pleased and proud of our government's response to the crisis until now... Now, I am ashamed

It's because the North does not appear to be reasonable that the US does not want to give them an excuse. The Cuban blockade in 1962 came pretty close to triggering war as well.

Bingo.

This seems like a responsible thing to do.

[Yank2133]

BTW, comparing this to the Cuban Missile Crisis is laughable.

The Russians were putting nukes 90 miles off the coast of FL.......while NK is threatening us with antiques that chances are can't even hit us.

No need to go Defcon 2 on them.

[Yank2133]

Lets just remember, we are talking about a country that found a magical Unicorn lair.

Of course, the Western media proved their usual incompetence and desire to ridicule North Korea and didn't even try to understand what was going on, then peddled their ignorance to a blithely unaware public.

Exactly. The US media treats North Korea as some sort of minstrel show instead of the tragic fascist regime headed by a crazed lunatic with access to nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, which is what it is. We need to understand this regime, what drives it, and develop a clear strategy to respond to it.

They aren't as crazy as you think, they know where the line in the sand is drawn and how far they can go with this. NK cares about maintaining their regime and order at all cost and they know attacking Seoul or Japan would be basically be the end of their regime as they know it.

[Yank2133]

The South Koreans honestly make me sicker than anyone in this whole sad charade except for the North Koreans. It's their own damned country, and they've allowed this problem to fester for decades while (according to what I've read/heard anyway) coming up with airheaded excuses for the North's behavior. They've become a fat, complacent pig, who has been sitting next to a wolf for 50 years and because nothing's happened in 50 years, fat complacent pig has forgotten it's a wolf right next to her. Fat complacent pig didn't realize wolf as just waiting for pig to become fat and complacent enough, before eating her. Fat complacent pig would rather sent Psy to the U.S. to insult American troops, like a teenager lashing out at her parents who are the only ones holding the wolf at bay.

You think N.Korea is powerful wolf and S.Korea is fat pig?  That's not accurate at all.

and again, we can probably shoot down their missile(s).  As a percentage, it's got to be in the high 90s.  Obviously you don't want to be wherever it's aimed at....but....

Yeah, that is gross misrepresentation of the two countries.

Beet is seriously exaggerating the situation. NK can devastate Seoul and that is an issue......but they know if they touch Seoul then that is the end for the Kim Dynasty and NK as we know it. At the end of the day, they care about maintaining the status quo and they know going through with their threats would completely undermine that.

[Yank2133]

Beet, they have a new leader who is trying to make himself legitimate around his generals.....so them "escalating" the situation isn't that big of a surprise. They will push this as far as it can go without actually doing anything(likely the last step out of all this is a missile test).

I don't know why you think they are completely unhinged because they aren't. They know how far they can go with this and once they reach that line they will back down.