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United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea
skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."
Can't we just measure Kim Jong-un and Obama's penises and get this whole thing over with already?
"North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' main land."
Given the success of their missile program so far, I think China should be more worried than the US - and that's assuming NK is aiming at the US.
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please deport the cute NK chicks b4 any war, kthxbye
Glorious Leader, I agree on a Single Nuclear Strike on US soil and only single strike, if it targets Jersey Shore.
Thank you.
North Korea is like the baby chihuahua barking at you from across the street, behind a 6 ft chain link fence, and tied to a tree. It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
That will only if everyone omits verbs.
Perhaps not; neither China, Japan, nor South Korea would appreciate the fallout. But turning every military base in NK into a firestorm with conventional weapons and sending conventional bunker-busters into every possible hiding place for NKs leadership wouldn't be out of the question.
You also have to consider a big difference between WW1 and WW2: fear of communism. While almost everyone in France was in a patriotic frenzy before WW1, there were a lot of people that did not want to fight Germany for WW2 because fascism was seen as a good protection against communism.
Germany, Italy, Spain had fascists regimes. France spared a fascist coup in 1934 just because different fascists leaders could not agree with each others. Some where hoping that a war defeat would bring to France what a coup missed to achieve.
KJ Un has no exit. NK old apparatus (tied with China) certainly doesn't want the country to join the "West" (and having most of the commanders to pay for their crimes), and China certainly doesn't want NK to merge with SK (ie having an immediate neighbor that joins the "West" club). KJ Un studied in Europe, he is far from being stupid, he likes life, good food, women ... in other words he is definitely not as crazy as his late father, KJ Il. ...? Un wants to end that. And he doesn't have much choice considering the political+geographical situation. He pushes the apparatus to their limits, high pressure, and hopes this will lead to an opening. Either the internal apparatus breaks down, Un seize the opportunity to instill a Gorbachev like coup. Or a (arranged) war will actually take place - just to allow the US and SK to take over (NK army (ie generals) will give up quickly).
So what do you think? You really think KJ Un wants a war? Or keep living with that level of UN penalties, poverty,
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And of course Eric Schmidt was in NK to talk about the Internet...
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
People who dislike confrontation tend to prefer methods of confrontation-mitigation that are themselves non-confrontational. Sometimes, this works....for example if you never provoke a confrontational person they often don't notice you and hence an unpleasant situation is avoided.
Obviously, the strategy stops working the moment you are noticed anyway. But people who have a distaste for confrontation convince themselves that they can end the situation by continuing to refuse to participate. Of course, in the real-world, this does not work, never can work, and never will work. Once a predator (of any species) has its eyes on you no amount of ignoring it will ever get it off your case. After that moment, your only option is to fight back (or at least credibly demonstrate that you are ready, willing, and able to do so).
The need to kill other people is unpleasant, and we are right to try and avoid it. But the cold-hard fact is that sometimes, those other people make that violence unavoidable. You and the innocent you protect will be a lot better off if you nip the problem in the bud, and that requires direct confrontation.
If they're stealth bombers, how will the North Koreans notice to get scared?
Creating military formations that put soldiers with boots in front
Shutting off nation’s 14 lights at night so country is much more difficult to see
North Korean malls playing instrumental version of “(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life” overdubbed with anti-U.S. lyrics
Strapping landmines to every North Korean citizen
Propaganda team Photoshopping an image of a muscular, shirtless Kim Jong-un putting the Statue of Liberty in a headlock
Mandating all citizens maintain a “victory dirt patch”
Reprinting every obituary published in American newspapers and adding at the end of each one, “We did this!”
Releasing several reports by the state news agency about how uneventful a day April 8 is going to be
http://www.theonion.com/articles/north-koreas-war-preparations,31794/
They’re rioting in Africa
They’re starving in Spain
There’re hurricanes in Florida
And Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls,
The French hate the Germans,
The Germans hate the Poles,
Italians hate Yugoslavs,
South Africans hate the Dutch,
(And I don’t like anybody very much!)
But we can be thankful, and tranquil, and proud
For Man’s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud,
And we know for certain that one lovely day,
Someone will set the spark off
And we will all be blown away.
They’re rioting in Africa,
There’s strife in Iran.
What Nature doesn’t do to us
Will be done by our fellow man.
-- Sheldon Harnick 1953
Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
F. U.
Tell it to the little kid that was me 35 years ago. Smartest kid in the class and chubby. It started in first grade when I whizzed through vocab. Scaled up to ostracism, getting chased, being beaten. Got jumped by guys with knives but luckily ran away.
The only thing that got people's attention was studying karate and breaking a big 6th grader's nose. Aside from that a glacier rock was my best friend at lunch hour. Sure I had some friends, other geeks. But it only really stopped after I got out of the public school system and commuted an hour away to a preppy private high school.
If you want to know why America sucks at least one reason is because of the utter wasteland of stupidity that is the public school and community of people going to it for 90% of the people, and the system refusing to beat down bullies while they're young. Law of the jungle? Gandhi? Fuck that. I still have trauma from when I was that little kid. Maybe you just didn't get bullied enough. Tell it to kids (not me thankfully) who have gotten rolled up in gym mats, suffocated and died.
I bet a huge proportion of slashdotters have been bullied like me. Fixing (neutering) bullies and rewarding fair play would do a lot towards fixing (neutering) our military-industrial complex and maybe even our money politics.
Like most things it's not that simple. At 13 I would've agreed with your final conclusion. Then I grew up and learned the world is more complicated than that. I've also worked with and taught HS kids, where I learned things get even more complicated when you know even more of the backstory. Bullying often stems from problems, many of them at home. Abusive parents, neglectful parents, absent parents, actual mental issues, economic problems, familial stress, physical injuries, drug and alcohol issues and many more things all can play a part.
Bullies are often not evil kids, and a countrywide reaction to bullies Hammurabi style would do an enormous amount of damage too, as would simply overlooking competence, however fair it seems. Yes, there are some kids who would stop bullying if they get punched in the nose but there are many more who stop bullying *you* and move on to a easier target, and that's obviously not an answer from a societal view of things, since not all those bullied can punch the bully in the nose. The best approach is not a blanket one, but one that would take bullies and send them social workers to figure out what the hell is going on to begin with.
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
That the Russians has a near unlimited supply of poor untrained peasants to fling at the enemy on mass does not say much for their strategy. If Germany had not made the bone headed move to invade Russia at the onset of one of the coldest winters in decades, the war would have turned out much differently. You also forget the AIR POWER that the Americans brought to bear on Germany's manufacturing cities and supply lines. Without manufacturing, the German war machine collapsed. It was American technological might that saved the world in WWII, not Russian brawn, which only resulted in millions more needless casualties on all sides.
The Germans were using a new tactic never before seen in modern war, the Blitzkrieg. It took a good long time for the French, English, and others to figure out a way to counter this.
Isn't listing both Dennis Rodman and Goofy redundant?
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
I've been to the Nuke museum in Hiroshima, Japan. They have USA DoD declassified documents from the time of WWII which discuss the decision to drop nukes on Japan. The US DoD state that Japan was on the verge of surrender to Russia, who was negotiating a conditional surrender at the time of the bombing. In the end, the nukes were dropped to force an unconditional surrender and to short circuit a Russian backed peace agreement. The American DoD documents from the highest officials are clear about this, despite the protest of many people in the gov at the time.
As an American that was an eye opener. We were always taught that it was done to save the lives of millions of Americans who would have died in a ground invasion of Japan. There was no mention of Japan being on the verge of surrendering to Russia at the time of the bombing.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
You post is incredibly inaccurate and shows you have a basic grasp of World War 2 history. The Soviet Union was only able to survive because of the other fronts Hitler had lost to the Allies. He had to refocus his defenses and this allowed the Soviet Union enough breathing room to regroup and counter. Also, the success of the Soviet Union in WW2 was mostly because of logistics. Their trains, trucks, and fuel all came from the United States and the UK. Without any of that, they would have lost. They had NO WAY to moving any equipment around their country at the time of Hitlers invasion. Also, you are so wrong about the Pacific front that it is not worth responding to you about.
In short, go read a history book.