North Korea prepares for war

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9917155/North-Korea-says-prepare-for-war-following-fresh-UN-sanctions.html

Who wants to bet on how long they last if they actually start a war. I give them three days before they're utterly annihilated.

[VuBawlsClock]

Il fucking fix the shit out of their fucking  computers

[PhantomCatClock]

Best Korea rips up a peace pact with South Korea, threatens to nuke the US, and it makes the news? Must've been a slow day. I can't wait until Kimmy gets tired of his new toys

[PolyhedronClock]

wasn't another potential successor to the throne an anime weeabo that was shamed from his family?

[buttplug]

It's saber rattling. The Koreas are always prepared for war. South Korea rates statements from North Korea on a scale of 1-5 on how serious it is, they still rate everything NK says at a 3 currently.

No war is going to happen.

Western media loves to sensationalize things about North Korea because it makes them mad amounts of money.

[EnglishClock]

Western media loves to sensationalize things about North Korea because it makes them mad amounts of money.

could you elaborate on this

[PhantomCatClock]

More viewers = more ads/more readers = more newspapers sold, etc. Boring news doesn't do that

There's an ancient Chinese curse, "may you live in interesting times," that comes to mind now.

[d u m p y]

ooh i'm shaking in my boots ooh ooh

[buttplug]

could you elaborate on this

They work like any other TV station or website.

[Slurpee]

New topic: At what point, exactly, will this whole North Korea thing stop being funny?

My vote is after it collapses and we discover all the atrocities they're currently committing on their own people.

[buttplug]

New topic: At what point, exactly, will this whole North Korea thing stop being funny?

My vote is after it collapses and we discover all the atrocities they're currently committing on their own people.

Like gassing whole families to death while scientists watch and observe through an overhead window.

[DurianClock]

Inviting Dennis Rodman to 10 course meals while the rest of the people of North Korea starve to the point they turn cannibal and start eating their children.

[PhantomCatClock]

There's "Camp 14"

Some guy who escaped from there was saying he was actually born there. When someone gets sent there, they punish him and his descendants for three generations, according to him. Saw it on the news a while ago

[AstronautClock]

New topic: At what point, exactly, will this whole North Korea thing stop being funny?

My vote is after it collapses and we discover all the atrocities they're currently committing on their own people.

I like that piratebay servers are now based in north korea

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I like that piratebay servers are now based in north korea

That was a joke

[Thor]

North Korea has been preparing for war since 1953. To spite that, however, their military is still laughably outdated and ineffectual. The only relevant armament they possess is a huge amount of artillery and infantry. In a modern war, that is useless. Neither will help them when America comes in with complete air and naval superiority. To make matters worse for best korea, their greatest (and only) ally, China, has been distancing themselves from N. Korea for some time now. China is realizing that if they went to war with America their export based economy would collapse like a house of cards. They have everything to lose from supporting North Korea and nothing to gain. China has even gone so far as to support sanctions against N. Korea when it acts out.


So you may be thinking now "why does North Korea keep acting out if they can't actually go to war?" There are two reasons. First and foremost, the keep their populace under control with fear of the outside, like in 1984. The other reason is because they sometimes get sent aid such as food thanks to their empty threats.

[buttplug]

The thing is even with how ineffectual the NK army is, Seoul would still get fucked by artillery fire and probably tens of thousands of South Koreans would die. It's such a shitty situation.

[AstronautClock]

That was a joke

oh okay