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North Korea says ready to strike U.S. aircraft carrier
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Team Alucard
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Send in Rogen and Franco
SolidChamp
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Impotent pricks. If you claim to be so hard why are you not fucking yet?
They got nothing. They know they'll get destroyed the minute they try it.
They got nothing. They know they'll get destroyed the minute they try it.
loaf of bread
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I don't really see how an internal NK propaganda newspaper saying this is supposed to be evidence of anything at all.
WhateverItTakes
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the_batman
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self defense from a democratic government maybe.
GrantDaNasty
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Doing so would be a direct act of war, no?
Not entirely sure NK would win that one, and I feel like China wouldn't save them if shit truly ever hit the fan, they've got far too much at stake to be at odds with the western hemisphere regarding such an action.
Not entirely sure NK would win that one, and I feel like China wouldn't save them if shit truly ever hit the fan, they've got far too much at stake to be at odds with the western hemisphere regarding such an action.
There are joint exercises going on in the area and NK being defiant against international finger wagging happens all the time. I know the natural assumption is "nothing will happen" and it's probably the case but that doesn't warrant ignoring the situation all the time.
Attacking US military ships or a country close by is not impossible, anyway.
ValkyrUser
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Razgriz-Specter
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Needed a good laugh.
They're not near Korea right now, but there are joint exercises starting today with the Japanese in the area.
Considering the carrier group was somewhere around the philipines on friday it should be within range for NK mid range missiles by now.
michaelius
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Hitler believed in victory even as a situation was getting more dire every day. Generals there might be feeding "dear leader" with same delusions as we see in their TV since I assume telling what is reality would get one labelled as traitor and swiftly executed.
What will happen?
The claim is that action against NK is unlikely because they will destroy Seoul if anyone does anything. Does that threat get ignored and Seoul sacrificed if a US ship is attacked, provided governments take that threat seriously?
It would be an act of war, of course there would be a military response. There is no way NK nukes a US carrier and walks away from it.
Last_colossi
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North Korea said:
Hesemonni
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I'm thinking the same thing :/
JordanN
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First rule of war: you don't announce your plans for war.
If a carrier went down, Pyongyang would be annihilated.
If a carrier went down, Pyongyang would be annihilated.
Razgriz-Specter
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If a carrier was destroyed and lost all its crew, that would be double 9/11 in a single attack.
A good portion of the public wouldn't stand for no retaliation regardless of other circumstances.
If NK was at that point, what stops them from destroying something else on a bad day.
Little Old Man
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newtypepilot
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They hate us cuz they ain't us!!
Bitch Pudding
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It would be the starting point of operation "parking lot"
and Seoul
And maybe Tokyo
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
All this North Korea and USA war mongering is all nonsense. Everyone here in Korea is chill af. I don't read these kinds of fearing propoganda articles in Korean media.
https://www.thenation.com/article/in-south-korea-war-hysteria-is-seen-as-an-american-problem/
Read that link and stop being brainwashed by American politics.
https://www.thenation.com/article/in-south-korea-war-hysteria-is-seen-as-an-american-problem/
Read that link and stop being brainwashed by American politics.
Atom Heart Mother
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What would've she done?
Last_colossi
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Exactly, if NK attempted a missile attack but just barely missed/failed then there would be instant war, if NK had a successful missile attack and killed any amount of U.S Navy personnel there wouldn't be a NK by the next day.
Who cares. If you believe GAF people would gladly sacrifice south korea to get some war started.
They've had to live with it for for over 50 years, I guess they're used to the ebb and flow of tensions. I really don't know how they do it. If I lived during the Cold War I probably would have lost my mind before I was 13.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Bad article. You're making an error if your think that the S. Korean sentiment is automatically what's "really" happening.
South Koreans are a poor sample of opinions to understand what's happening in the Koreas. They have 60 years of ignoring the problem and it going just fine for them. They're another kind of "brainwashed" as you crudely put it. They will ignore the NK situation no matter what happens... that's what they've been raised to do, sleeping next to the beast.
The S. Korean inutition will be increasingly inaccurate as NK approaches real nuclear launch capability. Some estimates say they will achieve this during Trump's first term. S. Koreans will ignore it far beyond the point when they should have taken it seriously.
That said, an American high on the NK-scare of the moment is also a dupe. Both S Korean "it's never anything" sentiment and scared American "Panic!" sentiment are two kinds of lies.
Nah, if NK is willing to destroy a US aircraft carrier, you will see B2 stealths take off from the US and all cruise missiles and slbms launch from subs near the aircraft carrier or near Okinawa and Guam and level most of Pyongyang and their major launch sites.
The entire point would be to anhilate NK leadership, their major launch sites and to prevent any retaliation against Seoul. The threat to SK only exists if NK attacks it first or US only does a precision strike on leadership. Attacking a carrier and killing thousands of US troops is grounds for all out war and destruction of most of NK.
Yay? The glee is gross.
Trump is defs not calling the shots here, hes barely in office.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Nah. There were real, palpable tensions in Korea a couple of years ago. Because things were real then https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...h-korea-border-attack-loudspeaker-retaliation
South Koreans don't ignore it. To an extent, sure. But today, it's just all this western media reporting is a complete distortion of reality. Certainly, something needs to be done about NK and soon, instead of ignoring them until it's too late. Today, though, it's mostly western propoganda. And based on what I'm reading on GAF, the fear mongering is working.
Razgriz-Specter
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The entire situation would suck because
1. US doesn't retaliate, NK has absolutely nothing to fear anymore besides destroying Seoul.
They can blackmail for stuff, start sinking more SK ships, they can attack other smaller cities or even try grabbing land.
2. US retaliates, NK is annihilated but SK is absolutely devastated.
Velcro Fly
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Probably not ratcheted up rhetoric on them to basically back them into a corner like this.
Meus Renaissance
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If the carrier group has entered their sovereign waters, then they are within their right to deem it as an act of aggression. Of course, the US can make the argument that they are responding to direct threats from Pyongyang - in which case, the two are formally at war (again).
The rhetoric is all talk and I don't think even they believe it. They is just NK being NK.
It hasn't reached the peninsula yet and it won't be entering their waters.
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