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caraher

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6. I'll admit I'm confused by the whole thing

Reply to caraher (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2013, 01:37 PM

Apr 2013

I don't really think anyone is really itching for another war, but it does seem like there's more coverage of each North Korean act of bluster than the level of threat to the US really merits, given how predictably disastrous the consequences of following through on any of them would be. So I'm partly trying to figure out why that is so, and along the way just wondered "what if..."

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Response to bungled NK attack? [View all] caraher Apr 2013 OP

I don't think anyone is really "promoting" the threat. I don't think Obama or Congress or the TwilightGardener Apr 2013 #1

That's the part about nukes the NK leadership doesn't get. Ganja Ninja Apr 2013 #2

Add to this complexity the fact that we don't wnat to reveal the true capabilities of the ABM system leveymg Apr 2013 #3

If they launch at us, the military will respond I think, even if they miss Marrah_G Apr 2013 #4

Who is rooting this threat? nadinbrzezinski Apr 2013 #5

I'll admit I'm confused by the whole thing caraher Apr 2013 #6