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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 09:08 PM Sep 2015

Trump is right about North Korea, why the silence on North Korea's nuclear direct threat?

They spent so much time threatening Iran.


North Korea warns U.S. it's ready to use nuclear weapons 'any time'

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/asia/north-korea-nuclear-program/


(CNN)In its latest bout of saber rattling, North Korea says it is ready to use nuclear weapons against the United States and other foes if they pursue "their reckless hostile policy" toward Kim Jong Un's regime.

In a statement carried by the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday, an atomic energy official said Pyongyang is improving its nuclear weapons arsenal "in quality and quantity."

"If the U.S. and other hostile forces persistently seek their reckless hostile policy towards the DPRK and behave mischievously, the DPRK is fully ready to cope with them with nuclear weapons any time," the director of the North Korean Atomic Energy Institute said, using an abbreviation of the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

North Korea's main nuclear complex at Yongbyon, which includes a uranium enrichment plant and a plutonium production reactor, is operating normally, the official told the news agency.


** No inspections for NK ?**

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Trump is right about North Korea, why the silence on North Korea's nuclear direct threat? (Original Post) SummerSnow Sep 2015 OP
They aren't Muslims TheCowsCameHome Sep 2015 #1
Yep and Hayduke Bomgarte Sep 2015 #3
If he's crazy enough to attack the US Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2015 #2
True we have more nukes,but in that kind of conflict , no one wins :( SummerSnow Sep 2015 #4
Nuclear powers don't attack one another. Garrett78 Sep 2015 #6
well I hope not SummerSnow Sep 2015 #7
Exactly. We attacked Iraq because they had no WMDs, much less viable Navy, Air Force, Army, etc. Hoyt Sep 2015 #8
And Obama has not taken this up as a visible issue. nt kelliekat44 Sep 2015 #5
Better to deal with Kim quietly through diplomacy Depaysement Sep 2015 #9

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. If he's crazy enough to attack the US
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 09:12 PM
Sep 2015

Kim Jung Un will become a glowing outline on a melted piece of concrete. We've got a hell of a lot more nukes.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
8. Exactly. We attacked Iraq because they had no WMDs, much less viable Navy, Air Force, Army, etc.
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 09:29 PM
Sep 2015

If I were Iran, I'd want a nuke too.

Depaysement

(1,835 posts)
9. Better to deal with Kim quietly through diplomacy
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 09:31 PM
Sep 2015

Less of a chance of accidental war. There is too little diplomacy in the world as it is.

Beside, NK is probably close to possessing the ability to fire a few crude nuclear missiles at its neighbors.

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