Will North Korea launch nuclear missiles towards the U.S.A

Yankee go home. Now you stay in north america and everything is fine, no problems.

Just bribe them, give them some food, and don’t forget the expensive French wines and cognac.

But don’t forget to tell the American people that you see north Korea as a real problem.

some Arabians talk of us westerners as decadents, but have any of you read the reports on how the north Korean leaders are excessively mismanaging their own country mainly b/c the use drugs, whores and alcohol?? Lolz

Only by accident.

No.  We’ve been very compliant with them, all they have to do is threaten and we’ll give them the bank.

I think they’ll launch on Japan though.

@Cmdr:

I think they’ll launch on Japan though.

In which case, the US would have to punch their ticket.
Preferably with conventional arms.

Let South Korea and Japan deal with North Korea.

I don’t see the need to threaten.  That would make us worse than Kim - I haven’t heard ANY explicit threats from the horse’s mouth.  It’s just tards trying to cry that sky is falling.

They were far more cooperative during Clinton’s terms when aid was being given to them and we weren’t taking this ridiculous faux-macho stance.

The key is to fostering a democratic process once Kim is gone.  His health is failing and it won’t take forever.  We just need to quit talking like we only want to bomb the hell out of a desolate near-wasteland.  There is no point.

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China owns too much US debt. They need us. I’d think in the short term at least till China can diversify and grow its stockpiles of raw materials they’ll keep NK on a short leash.

@allboxcars:

@Cmdr:

I think they’ll launch on Japan though.

In which case, the US would have to punch their ticket.
Preferably with conventional arms.

Not to get political, but I just don’t see the current crop of leaders, who ran and got elected on the message of peace at all costs, doing anything to N. Korea if they launch on Japan.

If they hit Hawaii and took out their favorite hotel, perhaps.  But maybe not even then.

@zerohour49:

Ok so your saying we need to wait it out ignore their threats and treat them like some dude from a mental house threating to kill the president …. North Korea is a country with nucs and when they threat our country we should take it serously… not like a stupid fool from a mental house… Remember North Korea is a communist country and china basically raised them and made them into it… (if you remember korean war)… and believe me im almost for certain that if north korea invades so will china and yes we may have uk and japan and south korea and france with us but think do you really think any country would join us escpeciallyt when the economy is low and america is getting close to bankruptsy and if there was a war this would cost lots of money and with the economy low if i was japan south korea or uk, i would tell usa to tuf it out because if i was the leader of those countrys i would think its not worth my people and my money to enter a fight that was not meant for me… but on youtube there is a speech that gen patton gives about war on terror or something like that some1 made it up but its really good you should see it… but im nervous about our country’s future we need to survive as a freedom based country! but thx every1 lets keep this going and i would still like to know what you would think
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do you really believe all of this?  ( edit: to remove flame)

@Cmdr:

@allboxcars:

@Cmdr:

I think they’ll launch on Japan though.

In which case, the US would have to punch their ticket.
Preferably with conventional arms.

Not to get political, but I just don’t see the current crop of leaders, who ran and got elected on the message of peace at all costs, doing anything to N. Korea if they launch on Japan.

If they hit Hawaii and took out their favorite hotel, perhaps.  But maybe not even then.

That was not the message.  They most certainly would do something.  If anything, it would be a reason to end all concern about a backwards country that is failing its people.

Since the U.S has large amounts of troops on two fronts already, I would not support getting involved in a Korean War.

I believe Japan would jump at the chance to flex it’s military power. South Korea is no push over. A 1970-80 soviet era North Korean Army would get destroyed in a future war. Although Seoul would no doubt lay in rubble if war showed its ugly face.

The missle launches are complete propaganda. Not only is it unlikly that North Korea would start a war, but if a war started they probably would never use them. Not only are they not relible, but they are not effeicent. North Korea has a number submarines that fire topedos that can have nulcear warheads. With these they could destory large parts of the Japanese coastal Cities, and although Japan has a fair navy with good ASW, with enough time and planning the North Korea will fined a way to get by it.

The US also keeps improving anti-missle weaponry every few years and as long as the US keeps its R&D funding it will have defences that can completly shield our allies and certainly any of our cities.  I am not worried at all about  nukes being fired at the United States and i dont see why anyone esle should be.

In my opinion this whole North Korean nukes issue will defuse when either, Kims son becomes in charge in which case he might not be as insane as his father and instead open North Korean up to the rest of the world, the Military leaders or whatever other political leaders in North Korea get sick of the mismangement and have a coup putting them in charge and then ending the nuke porgram and again opening the country to the rest of the world, or the Chinese might have support a coup inside that country so they can control what happens.

@Cmdr:

Not to get political, but I just don’t see the current crop of leaders, who ran and got elected on the message of peace at all costs, doing anything to N. Korea if they launch on Japan.

If they hit Hawaii and took out their favorite hotel, perhaps.  But maybe not even then.

Your elected leaders would have no alternative. Nobody outside the G7 gets to commit an act of war against the G7 with impunity.
Especially nuclear powers.

@ABWorsham:

Since the U.S has large amounts of troops on two fronts already, I would not support getting involved in a Korean War.

I believe Japan would jump at the chance to flex it’s military power. South Korea is no push over. A 1970-80 soviet era North Korean Army would get destroyed in a future war. Although Seoul would no doubt lay in rubble if war showed its ugly face.

Using my much-fractured and foggy cystal ball, I’m thinking a whack of ROK and Japanese ground forces to keep a Pacific Rim face on things but you’d need US airpower, ALCMs, logistics etc. and some ground troops.  (So where’s the 10th Mountain nowadays? Somebody send Korean-English dictionaries to Fort Drum…)
And of course a sprinking of other nations to keep it PC.

China would probably sit on their hands. There’s a line you draw when your “ally” is unreasonably dangerous and they’d probably prefer a unified ROK with strong economic ties to China than a hot war to restore what?.. the current instability with a dysfunctional puppet south of the Yalu?

@Emperor_Taiki:

The missle launches are complete propaganda. Not only is it unlikly that North Korea would start a war, but if a war started they probably would never use them. Not only are they not relible, but they are not effeicent.

I agree with everything except for the belief that the missiles’ reliability and inefficiency would prevent the North Koreans from using them. I think their “wonder weapon” status would make them tempting.

@Emperor_Taiki:

In my opinion this whole North Korean nukes issue will defuse when either, Kims son becomes in charge in which case he might not be as insane as his father and instead open North Korean up to the rest of the world, the Military leaders or whatever other political leaders in North Korea get sick of the mismangement and have a coup putting them in charge and then ending the nuke porgram and again opening the country to the rest of the world, or the Chinese might have support a coup inside that country so they can control what happens.

Yeah. Agreed.

@allboxcars:

the current instability with a dysfunctional puppet south of the Yalu?

That probably sounds better to the Chinese than the 10th Mountain. At least it did 59 years ago.

It’s not a question of North Korea to launch nukes against anyone or anything, their goals is to let the US and Japan, and also China to let them live their life with the booze and whores, and lots of cash and such, while the NC leadership let a substantial number of their own people starve to death.

Even if I live in Europe and not in the US, I would not feel threatened by Kim Jung IL /NC if I was a US citizen.
Some people are more stable with booze than anti psychotics, and Kim Jung il would not follow any advise other than his own, anyway.  :roll: :evil: :lol:

Lets hope that Kim Jung iL drinks himself to death pretty soon, but this can take several years, imo, and hopefully/probably his successor will probably be at least slightly more sensible and rational, both in behavior and in the political/diplomatically ways.

A few points.

1. Currently N. Korea does not have the means to deliver a nuke to America. Hawaii possibly but that is a small target at the max range of what they supposedly have.

2. Kim is crazy but I don’t think he is THAT crazy. Launching a nuke at the US would be suicide. Keep in mind no other nation has EVER used a nuclear device in war except the US.

3. I don’t think China would really back N. Korea all that far if push came to shove. China seems more interested in returning to what they consider their rightful place as one of the world leaders and less in the whole Communist world revelation. Simply put, they would rather sell goods to the US and Europe than back a bunch of nut jobs whom they gain nothing from.

@zerohour49:

Well if there was a war Japan and South Korea vs North KOrea we know japan and south korea would prob own on North Korea but i think if japan and south korea started to push out north korea and start to threatin china territoryy china would no doubt get involved… then usa would more than likely get along…

As stated, China has more interest in trading with the US than supporting a pint sized dictator with nothing to offer.  I think we all learned from Korea/Vietnam.  Or at least hope so.

but we all remember the vietnam conflict our soilders basically had to fight with thier hands tied behind their backs….

The means to the end you desire from that conflict are not worth it, nor would the result be favorable.  Winning, if even possible, would have invalidated everything we are supposed to stand for.

and if america got involved i think the un would keep usa fighting with our hands tied behind our back…

The UN disproved of our last venture into Iraq, but it didn’t amount to much.

Because people now think that we shouldnt elimmentate socialism or communism we should just put a leash on it….

Uh…those are not crimes.  There is no reason to eliminate them.  And if you think you can anyway, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

To bring up a new topic if there was another war  what countries would be on america, japan, and south korea who would be on that side and who would be on china and north korea’s side….

I don’t see any reason to believe a World War is at hand, or that the lines would be drawn as you imagine.

@Jermofoot:

but we all remember the vietnam conflict our soilders basically had to fight with thier hands tied behind their backs….

The means to the end you desire from that conflict are not worth it, nor would the result be favorable.  Winning, if even possible, would have invalidated everything we are supposed to stand for.

Winning was possible if we our people and government would have been willing to invade North Veitnam. That should have been the policy starting in 56 when the North Veitamese began their attacks southward. By 69 we had killed all the south veitnamese communists and it probalby would have been still practical to carry the war north if it wernt for the politicians/voters/cronkite. Instead we egaged in useless operation in Cambodia, stratigic bombing of the North, and veitnamization. For almost two years it semi-worked after we pulled out but then the south got major blitzkreiged.

If you think the Chinese done as it did in Korea if we went north, I am sure that move would have pissed off the soveits, plus we had really great tech and the narrowness of much of the Northern and central terrain in veitnam would have prevented as succseful chinese counter-attack or swarm tactics.