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On March 10 2013 04:08 Yuljan wrote:


Dont worry. We would not support the US against China anyway. We only honor alliances if it doenst cost us much nowadays.

On March 10 2013 03:16 Xenocide_Knight wrote:

I don't think nuclear weapons are quite that powerful

On March 09 2013 08:00 Lucumo wrote:

They didn't start WW1, so it doesn't really matter.

On March 10 2013 04:23 kafkaesque wrote:



In a way, they did.

Wilhelm II. pretty much pushed Austria-Hungary to attack Serbia.

Obviously it's much more complex than that and most of Europe was poised for war, but Germany was very directly responsible for the initiation of WWI.

On March 10 2013 04:16 kafkaesque wrote:


Either way, we would lose quality of life.

America is our greatest cultural influence (shut up, you know it's true) and China builds our stuff.

Also, war in general sucks.

On March 10 2013 04:00 grush57 wrote:

the nuke they tested in 2009(?) was 5kt which would make a blast of like 1-2km, which would kill not even a hundred thousand(tho obviously more after radiation but it wouldnt even destroy all of seoul)

On March 10 2013 04:25 Blezza wrote:


I thought it originated from some guy getting assassinated, surely its the Killers fault

On March 10 2013 04:38 KwarK wrote:
Sorry but this needs to be said because it's been getting repeated for pages and a lot of the people repeating it are native English speakers.
habitable = people can live there
inhabitable = people can live there
uninhabitable = people cannot live there

:English:

You aren't confusing "it would destroy both koreas" with "it would make them inhabitable", are you? It wouldn't even need to kill anyone directly. How much fallout do you think an "only 1-2km blast" nuclear bomb would have?

On March 09 2013 23:48 Shikyo wrote:
It's not Starcraft. 1 nuke would make both koreas inhabitable.

On March 10 2013 04:25 Blezza wrote:


I thought it originated from some guy getting assassinated, surely its the Killers fault

On March 10 2013 04:38 KwarK wrote:
Sorry but this needs to be said because it's been getting repeated for pages and a lot of the people repeating it are native English speakers.
habitable = people can live there
inhabitable = people can live there
uninhabitable = people cannot live there

:English:

paper: shit
paper: flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?!
paper: shit i gotta warn bob

On March 09 2013 23:35 NerdFace wrote:
South Korea gots 3/3 upgrades + all other upgrades and North Korea is not upgraded and don't even got combat shields or stim and they are supply capped. I don't see how North Korea makes a chance.

On March 10 2013 05:56 YumYumGranola wrote:
If there's any people from South Korea here, I was wondering what the general feelings were surrounding the recent North Korea proclamation that the armistice doesn't apply anymore. It sounds like the same threats have been made before, but I guess now that the boy's it's not as clear whether he's playing the same game as his father or is actually crazy. Is the feeling around South Korea any different this time, or is it just business as usual?

On March 10 2013 06:08 ItanoCircus wrote:
KwarK, thank you for saving me the trouble of making the same correction.

The United States and other nations have the capability to render North Korea's military components extinct with minimal casualties without relying on nuclear weaponry. The only reason it has yet to be done is that it's not politically feasible. The United States hasn't waged all-out war for one reason or another since World War II and instead has decided to emphasize precision attacks. I believe that this reduces the horror of war (or in some cases during the Cold War, incalculably raises it) and that this is NOT to the benefit of global security and stability.

If countries such as North Korea understood and truly believed that countries they antagonized would mete out as vindictive and damaging a punishment as possible, they (North Korea and similar countries) would understand that war against a superior force isn't merely unlikely or unlikeable. War against a superior and merciless force would be UNTHINKABLE. War against or even statements hinting a future attack towards the United States and its allies would be so mind-bogglingly SCARY that any nation would do its level-best to ensure they were on their (antecedent problem) good sides.

Of course, I feel the majority of the posters on this thread have a flawed premise. I hear over and over that North Korea wouldn't attack the United States, South Korea, or any other countries because it would be suicide. I keep hearing that North Korea is merely blustering. What if North Korea decided that it didn't care about the consequences and that any risk was worth the reward?

Those on this site that talk about "only" hundreds of thousands of lives lost in a "small" hypothetical attack on Seoul... it must be nice to be so insular. After all, isolation has a proven record of successfully bringing peace on the international stage for the last several hundred years.