Nth & South Korea - Artillary fire exchanged
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Gold & Silver up sharply straight away - $AUD to fall?
Japan & China's stockmarkets likely to drop sharply...... and who knows if it get out of hand what will happen.
Japan & China's stockmarkets likely to drop sharply...... and who knows if it get out of hand what will happen.
It won't get out of hand.
South Korea will stamp their left foot and say don't do it again.
The world will comdem and threaten sanctions which russia and china won't follow.
Will be forgotten by next week.
Personally I'm waiting for the aid request their drum beating usually preludes - however this is more than the usual nuclear or missile test.
it's okay - half the US troops are alrady deployed to Asia. it's just a short boat ride across to NK border.
maybe a good excuse to get out of Afghanistan - a new nuclear missile crisis.
Now your slandering one eyed bandicoots! shame on you.
morning trading was a worry but the market picked up and closed only 4 points lower.
if US troops are to be deployed to South Korea, it'll be new troops deployment. it is easier to train new troops for South Korea to eat kim chi than train existing troops in Afghan to kim chi from curry.
if US troops are to be deployed to South Korea, it'll be new troops deployment. it is easier to train new troops for South Korea to eat kim chi than train existing troops in Afghan to kim chi from curry.
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I just hope that the high end that are in control in Nth Korea read the
US papers and know about this little peacemaker at mach .."6"....
..X15A Waverider..
oooooooooooooo that's a bomb......
New troops? You mean the guys who are between deployments. I'm sure they would love to have returned home from 12 months in Afghanistan to get a call up for Korea
Heard the Nth have an army of 10 million this morning! Is that correct!?! Alarming.
At least Rudd can feel important again now he's back in his Asian niche.
Kim jong-il is a worry though. Saw a doco ages ago how he banned porn (& pretty much everything else) in his country but yet has a whole room dedicated to porn tapes/dvds in his palace. Hypocritical?
I find him loony but how to depose a leader who's clearly unbalanced when his people & the rest of the world seem somehow afraid of doing anything to antagonise him?
I'm really concerned about their nuclear program that apparently hasn't been monitored for ages so we have no idea if/how many nuclear warheads they have. (I guess this could apply to many countries).
Only time will tell, but it feels like crazy times are ahead while he's in power.
At least Rudd can feel important again now he's back in his Asian niche.
Kim jong-il is a worry though. Saw a doco ages ago how he banned porn (& pretty much everything else) in his country but yet has a whole room dedicated to porn tapes/dvds in his palace. Hypocritical?
I find him loony but how to depose a leader who's clearly unbalanced when his people & the rest of the world seem somehow afraid of doing anything to antagonise him?
I'm really concerned about their nuclear program that apparently hasn't been monitored for ages so we have no idea if/how many nuclear warheads they have. (I guess this could apply to many countries).
Only time will tell, but it feels like crazy times are ahead while he's in power.
They have 1.1 million troops, around 8.2 million reservists.
Man power these days does not equate to much, it is equipment, logistics, skills, training. As much as N.K wishes it could bayonet rush to victory.
In regards to the Nuclear program, Meh. Last testing wasn't very successful, with estimated yields being quite low, being around the same size of the man portable recoilless rifle Nukes of the mid 20th century.
Man power these days does not equate to much, it is equipment, logistics, skills, training. As much as N.K wishes it could bayonet rush to victory.
In regards to the Nuclear program, Meh. Last testing wasn't very successful, with estimated yields being quite low, being around the same size of the man portable recoilless rifle Nukes of the mid 20th century.
two or three fly-bys with olskool napalm or white phosphorous woud wipe out any manned front line.
i think witht he technology the rest of the world has developed for shooting down missiles, well, Jong-Il has 3/5 of fug-all chance of getting a nuke out of NK.
still, now they're on high alert so any missle coming out of NK will more than likely be shot down. i'm just glad they didn't launch nukes FIRST.
i think witht he technology the rest of the world has developed for shooting down missiles, well, Jong-Il has 3/5 of fug-all chance of getting a nuke out of NK.
still, now they're on high alert so any missle coming out of NK will more than likely be shot down. i'm just glad they didn't launch nukes FIRST.
You would not be here if a full scale Nuclear War had taken place..
Yes we would - I doubt anyone has nukes aimed @ oz.... we simply arn't a military threat for invasion purposes and don't have nukes to threaten them with (they all have far bigger fish to fry).
Alot of the rest of the world would probably be fragged though.
Now now we can't deploy those weapons against troops, most uncivilised.
You can however mark targets with white phosphorous.. that may happen to be in close proximity to enemy troop formations.
That border has been manned since 1953, I think the 10 000 reported artillery pieces that North Korea has on the border would be in hardened positions or highly mobile.
I am guessing that, despite being an industrial age military, their leaders might have considered a possible threat from South Korean or US air assets and maybe even planned accordingly. Napalm didn't get the Japs to give up Iwo Jimo nor forced the NVA to surrender. White Phosphorous is used to mark targets or obscure vision on the battlefield as it provides a lot of white smoke. Using it against personnel is not legal and it is deemed a chemical weapon.
Re: the anti missile defences. The Patriot Batteries deployed in the first Gulf War were incapable of downing a SCUD and were just deployed for psychological value - both for the bad guys and the civilians they were supposed to be protecting
If there is a renewal of the War (The Korean War wasn't ended in 53) then I have no doubt that the South Korean forces would win but it won't be the 100 hour war that forced Iraq out of Kuwait.
The key to this flashpoint is China. They are North Korea's only real ally and even that support is weaker now than ever. With US and China relations being at an all time high I don't believe they will support any North Korean aggression.
Sabre rattling, brinkmanship, call it what you will. But I believe that recent attacks are about North Korea's internal politics and carefully judged to not provoke major retaliation.
