North Korea
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Rail008 wrote...
hell yeah alert status .... sighYeah great, Defcon 4. Should be fun to see how that affects travel. *sigh*
Ironically the last time the U.S. was at Defcon 4 was because of testing by North Korea three years ago. <.<
Vasuki wrote...
The big question is whether or not China would back N. Korea up if it came to that. I'm inclined to say no, given that China has steadily been growing as a world power, I doubt they'd want to risk war with the U.S. just to save a few billion dollars of business when they've got a good thing going. I'm sure a good war would be fairly costly. If there ISN'T war though, then China will no doubt support N. Korea against any diplomatic measures we or the U.N. try to take against them.
But, anything could happen. With the tiny number of people in N. Korea (Kim and whoever he trusts enough to spend more than an hour a day with) who hold any real power, all it could take is Kim getting a nosebleed one day and blaming it on S. Korean assassins, then the whole of east Asia could go straight into cluster-fuck mode.
China has already openly denounced North Korea's actions, mostly because they are probably just as concerned as the rest of the Asiatic regions.
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Tsurayu wrote...
Rail008 wrote...
hell yeah alert status .... sighYeah great, Defcon 4. Should be fun to see how that affects travel. *sigh*
Ironically the last time the U.S. was at Defcon 4 was because of testing by North Korea three years ago. <.<
Vasuki wrote...
The big question is whether or not China would back N. Korea up if it came to that. I'm inclined to say no, given that China has steadily been growing as a world power, I doubt they'd want to risk war with the U.S. just to save a few billion dollars of business when they've got a good thing going. I'm sure a good war would be fairly costly. If there ISN'T war though, then China will no doubt support N. Korea against any diplomatic measures we or the U.N. try to take against them.
But, anything could happen. With the tiny number of people in N. Korea (Kim and whoever he trusts enough to spend more than an hour a day with) who hold any real power, all it could take is Kim getting a nosebleed one day and blaming it on S. Korean assassins, then the whole of east Asia could go straight into cluster-fuck mode.
China has already openly denounced North Korea's actions, mostly because they are probably just as concerned as the rest of the Asiatic regions.
That makes sense, I honestly don't know that much about Asian politics, I just made the assumption from the fiery penguin of doom's post.
...Oh hell with it, I'll come clean, the only reason I even posted in this thread was so I could use that image about common sense.
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Well, I wouldn't have been surprised for China to side with North Korea if they had an open-door policy with each other, but North Korea hates the world, plus China is just as dependant on the U.S. as the U.S. is China.
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Damn I hope that this issue will be put in the new Call of Duty story (I wonder if that would happen.)
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North Korea (I think) is just bluffing so somebody will give them loads and loads of money to stop. They are one of the poorest countries in the world, after all. Don't listen to what the US has said, now: if North Korea does, indeed, attack South Korea and/or Japan, the US will intervene.
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Tsurayu wrote...
Well, I wouldn't have been surprised for China to side with North Korea if they had an open-door policy with each other, but North Korea hates the world, plus China is just as dependant on the U.S. as the U.S. is China.China relationship with NK is that of the annoying neighbor. He may get on your nerves but since he's right next to you, you have to act cordigal because it'll make your life a whole lot easier. Plus Kim Jong IL is a total looney one of his "national beautifacation projects" was ordering his people to shit in their front lawns to make the grass grow better, and those types of people it's best to make them think you actually like them and not piss them off.
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Now theyre kidnapping journalists to show that theyre still in command of bargaining. this reminds me of the 1970s Iranian hostage crisis. I wonder if theyre gonna send a special forces unit to rescue them? didnt work well last time i recalled.
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exterminatus wrote...
Now theyre kidnapping journalists to show that theyre still in command of bargaining. this reminds me of the 1970s Iranian hostage crisis. I wonder if theyre gonna send a special forces unit to rescue them? didnt work well last time i recalled.It is an effective bargaining chip. North Korea knows the United States would do almost anything in order to secure the freedom of confined U.S. citizens. Not to say that is a weakness, but it is easy enough to exploit.