North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims

As reported by Reuters, The New York Times, and Fox News, among others, North Korea's nuclear saber-rattling has reached a new peak. North Korean officials have made clear their intent to conduct a third nuclear test (earlier tests were in 2006 and 2009), as well as further rocket launches specifically designed to demonstrate missile reach extending to the U.S. From Reuters' story: "North Korea is not believed to have the technology to deliver a nuclear warhead capable of hitting the continental United States, although its December launch showed it had the capacity to deliver a rocket that could travel 10,000 km (6,200 miles), potentially putting San Francisco in range, according to an intelligence assessment by South Korea. 'We are not disguising the fact that the various satellites and long-range rockets that we will fire and the high-level nuclear test we will carry out are targeted at the United States,' North Korea's National Defence Commission said, according to state news agency KCNA."

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Re:A strange game....

[polar red]

Bombing would almost certainly destroy the world's economy.

FFTY

One of these things is not like the others

[ThatsNotPudding]

As reported by Reuters, The New York Times, and Fox News...

Seriously? You couldn't think of a third actual news source? Couldn't find a link to the National Enquirer, so you went with one of it's peers?

Re:Kill the Virus in Pyonyang

[Anonymous Coward]

You take out all observable rocket launch pads, factories, landing strips, bunkers, buildings of leadership...etc with nothing but cruise missiles. Lots of them!!! Then, you wait until the gigantic dust cloud that used to be Seoul settles down enough that you can see two feet in front of your own face, since the NK's started pounding it into the ground the moment your first missile landed. Then you keep on waiting, because you're DigiShaman and therefore apparently dumb enough to think that the enemy will just mindlessly charge what few remaining fortified positions you have left like they're the fucking Zerg or something. Eventually it dawns on you that you just got countless civilians killed for no good reason at all, essentially elevating incompetence to the level of a war crime.

There you go.

Re:A strange game....

[interval1066]

1) Because the UN would (or at least should) condemn it.

No one gives a damn what the UN thinks, least of all the US, and you're fooling yourself if you want to put your faith in the UN as the world's police force. After the travesties in Eastern Europe and Africa over the last 20 years its laughable to even consider that the UN is some kind of force for "good" in the world. At best they're a clown car crew.

2) Because all you'll succeed in doing is redoubling NK's efforts to create ICBM nukes to defend themselves.

FROM WHAT? THE US? 1) Believe me, we do not care what the hell they are up to, other than the stupid, niggling pain in the asses they are with regard to terrorism, which they love to commit all over the world. Other than that; do you really believe that being able to muster up one nuke test every few years can compare to the constant testing and planned deployment of THOUSANDS of nukes in over 40 years of the cold war makes any difference to Us? You're dreaming. This rhetoric is for their own people. The only thing they do externally is annoy the US, China, and Japan. As an external threat? Meaningless. The NK would be swapped like a bug in a hot war.