The fear of North Korea

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Re: The fear of North Korea

Post by FBM » Tue May 07, 2013 9:57 am

Yeah, and yesterday they announced that that American guy they sentenced to 15 years would not be used as a political bargaining chip, meaning, naturally, that they want to use him as a political bargaining chip.
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Re: The fear of North Korea

Post by klr » Tue May 07, 2013 9:59 am

FBM wrote:Yeah, and yesterday they announced that that American guy they sentenced to 15 years would not be used as a political bargaining chip, meaning, naturally, that they want to use him as a political bargaining chip.
But of course. :)

If I were on the American/SK side, my position would be "release him, then we'll talk".
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Post by FBM » Tue May 07, 2013 10:03 am

I heard that he was an evangelist. I would just say, 'Keep him.' :shifty:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue May 07, 2013 10:59 am

rEvolutionist wrote:We should bomb them now that they aren't ready! :evil:
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Re: The fear of North Korea

Post by MiM » Tue May 07, 2013 12:29 pm

But the US/South stopped their military exercise first, so technically the North won, didn't they :ask:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue May 07, 2013 1:12 pm

MiM wrote:But the US/South stopped their military exercise first, so technically the North won, didn't they :ask:
Not if we nuke them from orbit. :whisper:

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Post by pErvinalia » Tue May 07, 2013 1:19 pm

They'd still win, as lil'Kim is a god, so he'll scoop all his people up and take them to heaven with him.
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Re: The fear of North Korea

Post by FBM » Tue May 07, 2013 1:25 pm

MiM wrote:But the US/South stopped their military exercise first, so technically the North won, didn't they :ask:

As far as I know, they stopped on schedule, not early. And now they're getting ready to do some naval exercises that have already got Kim's knickers knotted. Nothing about USFK-ROK cancelling that due to threats...

Hmm. That story has already disappeared from the local news. I read it just yesterday.

Edit: Well, this alludes to it: http://english.chosun.com/site/data/htm ... 01215.html
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Re: The fear of North Korea

Post by FBM » Sat May 18, 2013 1:16 pm

Report: North Korea launches short-range missiles

3 of them, apparently. Let's see how China responds to that. :pop:
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Post by pErvinalia » Sun May 19, 2013 12:58 am

Are we at war yet? :bored:
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Re: The fear of North Korea

Post by JimC » Sun May 19, 2013 1:11 am

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Re: The fear of North Korea

Post by FBM » Tue Jun 04, 2013 3:38 am

North Korea Yongbyon reactor work ‘nearing completion’


North Korea is making "important" progress on reactivating facilities at its moth-balled Yongbyon nuclear reactor, a US think-tank says.

Start-up could be one to two months away, it said, but there was uncertainty over the availability of fuel rods to power the reactor.

North Korea announced in April that it planned to reactive the reactor, amid high tension on the peninsula.

The reactor at Yongbyon was closed in July 2007 as part of a disarmament-for-aid deal. The cooling tower at the facility was later destroyed, but then the disarmament deal stalled.

North Korea's decision to restart followed its third nuclear test on 12 February, which led to expanded UN sanctions.

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The information came from the 38 North website, which is part of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University in the US.

Its report said that recent satellite imagery showed that North Korea had "essentially finished repairing the cooling system necessary to restart and operate the reactor".

The cooling tower that was destroyed had not been repaired, but instead a secondary cooling system had been employed. Work was also ongoing at a spent fuel facility, it said.

Piles of construction materials were visible at the site and what could be a new drainage ditch for water from the reactor building was being dug, it said.

The reactor "may be one to two months from start-up. However, the availability of fresh fuel rods to power the reactor - a key factor that will determine when the North will restart the facility - remains unclear," it said.

One operational, the reactor could produce "approximately six kilograms of plutonium per year that can be used for manufacturing nuclear weapons", it added.

North Korea has conducted three nuclear tests since 2006.

After UN sanctions were expanded following the most recent test, in February, North Korea issued multiple threats against US and regional interests, vowed to reactivate Yongbyon and cut both official communications and key business ties with South Korea.

Operations at the jointly-run inter-Korean Kaesong industrial zone remain suspended - the first such stoppage since the project began.

But the threats have diminished in recent weeks and earlier this month, North Korea sent a top envoy to Beijing - its first such move since its nuclear test.

Later this week, the US and Chinese presidents meet in California for their first summit, with North Korea likely to be high on the agenda.
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So. In a few years, NK will have enough Pt for a no-shit genuine nuclear arsenal. SK is already starting to talk about getting or making their own. So is Japan. Yay. :ddpan:
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Re: The fear of North Korea

Post by pErvinalia » Tue Jun 04, 2013 3:51 am

Missile time.
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Re: The fear of North Korea

Post by rainbow » Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:08 am

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So. In a few years, NK will have enough Pt for a no-shit genuine nuclear arsenal. SK is already starting to talk about getting or making their own. So is Japan. Yay. :ddpan:

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