North Korea News

[TheReal_ND]

[The Conservative]

Saddam Hussein seems like a more apt comparison to me too.

Except Saddam Hussein wasn't suicidal, even after the fact.

Neither is Fat Boy Kim. Reports of him being crazy have been greatly exaggerated by media hype, not buying the irrational actor theory.

Oh I don't know... his father wasn't exactly stable either.

[The Conservative]

I like the "Everyone is a little bit racist" skit... it's better suited.

[Speaker to Animals]

Saddam Hussein seems like a more apt comparison to me too.

Except Saddam Hussein wasn't suicidal, even after the fact.

Neither is Fat Boy Kim. Reports of him being crazy have been greatly exaggerated by media hype, not buying the irrational actor theory.

He's not irrational, but he has few choices. If he is faced between death, death, and death after shutting down the United States.. what do you think he might choose?

[TheReal_ND]

In the article I linked the other day from the Chinese military site they seem to imply as long as he hangs on to nukes he has no options. Without them they imply he can maintain security.

[StCapps]

He's not irrational, but he has few choices. If he is faced between death, death, and death after shutting down the United States.. what do you think he might choose?

Right now you have the luxury of being able to preemptively take out their nukes should they want to go down that road. If I were the US, I wouldn't force the issue on the assumption that he's already in a corner where his only choice is death, especially when you have that preemptive strike luxury in your back pocket for the foreseeable future.

[The Conservative]

He's not irrational, but he has few choices. If he is faced between death, death, and death after shutting down the United States.. what do you think he might choose?

Right now you have the luxury of being able to preemptively take out their nukes should they want to go down that road. If I were the US, I wouldn't force the issue on the assumption that he's already in a corner where his only choice is death, especially when you have that preemptive strike luxury in your back pocket for the foreseeable future.

Actually even if he wanted to strike with nukes, unless he wants to do it on ground, and not via missile, it would be the only way he'd get one off. The US has the ability to shoot them down quite easily right now aboard a few of their ships.

[Speaker to Animals]

The US has the ability to shoot them down quite easily right now aboard a few of their ships.

Maybe. Maybe not.

Seems to me, if it were possible, we'd already shoot down every missile they shoot over Japan.

[TheReal_ND]

North Korean officers and soldiers suspected of slandering Kim Jong Un are under investigation.

Members of North Korea's second army corps have been placed under arrest for mocking the North Korean dictator, a source in the country's South Hwanghae Province told Radio Free Asia. News of cadres of the second army corps slandering Kim Jong Un reached all the way to the People's Army's General Political Bureau, and the arrested cadres are to be severely punished," the source said.

The group had "compared Kim Jong Un to a kindergartner," a joke that began to spread covertly across the military unit, according to the source.

Other soldiers referred to Kim as a mentally ill patient in their jokes, the source said.
Kim is so unpopular among the cadres that another joke, suggesting the North Korean leader is more outrageous than his father Kim Jong Il and grandfather Kim Il Sung combined, refers to him as "Kim squared."

A second source in Yanggang Province said the crackdown began in the second army corps, but other units are becoming nervous.

Soldiers across the military are afraid they may be scapegoated or be targeted in a wave of crackdowns and are staying "prepared for censorship," the source said.

Kim is increasingly unpopular in the country.
In December, anti-Kim propaganda leaflets that read, "Let us overthrow Kim Jong Un" were found in the city of Pochonbo.

The state ordered a crackdown, and conducted handwriting tests while searching homes in order to find the suspects.

Anti-Kim graffiti was also found in the city of Chongjin in December.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/ ... 492181723/

[StCapps]

The US has the ability to shoot them down quite easily right now aboard a few of their ships.

Maybe. Maybe not.

Seems to me, if it were possible, we'd already shoot down every missile they shoot over Japan.

It's easier to hit them before they are launched, while they are still on the ground preparing to launch.