How to best deal with North Korea

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  1. Toggle Almendro

    Toggle Almendro Well-Known Member

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    How do you explain their unprovoked aggressive attacks against other countries?


    And rightly so. We will defend against their aggression.


    The truth is propaganda now?


    We have the right to defend ourselves from their unprovoked aggressive attacks against us.

    Aside from that, the world community has a right to oppose grave violations of human rights. The idea that countries are free to commit atrocities went out of style by the end of 1945.


    If they stopped their rampant violations of international law the sanctions would be lifted.
     
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    Pakistan and Israel have the legal right to have nukes. Iraq, Iran, and North Korea have no such right.


    The entire world slammed Iran with crushing sanctions until they agreed to abandon their pursuit of nuclear weapons.

    The same crushing sanctions will remain on North Korea until they give up their illegal weapons.


    We did nothing to ask for this North Korean aggression, and if this progresses to the point where an American city is nuked we will be using our nuclear weapons to commit genocide against North Korea, and against any other country who gets in our way while we are doing it.


    Kadaffy didn't seem to understand that joining the civilized community meant no longer acting like a thug, at least pretending remorse over his past atrocities (and certainly not gloating about them), and not massacring peaceful civilians in his own country.


    We did not allow anything. Israel and Pakistan both acquired nuclear weapons against the will of the United States.

    Although I personally approve of Israeli nukes.


    We've tried diplomacy. Diplomacy has failed. The only option left is war.
     
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    We are not going to abandon our defense of South Korea in exchange for North Korea abandoning their illegal weapons. Russia should have known better than to propose such an absurdity.

    And the world will continue to crush North Korea with sanctions until they abandon their illegal weapons.

    If North Korea nukes an American city, we will use our nukes to commit genocide against them. If Russia knows what is good for them, they will keep quiet and stay out of our way until we are done.


    The people of Iraq and Libya were freed from tyranny.

    The genocide against the Syrian people is Russia's doing. When the Syrian people seek revenge for their slaughtered loved ones (much like the Chechens did), they won't be coming after America.

    We will do what is necessary to protect South Korea from aggression from North Korea. If North Korea nukes and American city, we will use our nuclear weapons to commit genocide against them and against anyone who tries to stop us.


    If North Korea continues to keep illegal weapons, the world will continue to crush them with sanctions.


    Rightly so. The sanctions will continue until North Korea gives up their illegal weapons.


    Hardly.


    To help protect South Korea from missile attack.


    To protect them from North Korean aggression.


    The bases are there to protect South Korea.


    No economic ties with North Korea until they give up their illegal weapons.
     
  4. Toggle Almendro

    Toggle Almendro Well-Known Member

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    To answer your question as you asked it: If we allow the NPT to end, nations around the world will develop nukes. Eventually there will be a terrible nuclear war that will kill most of the human race. Not good. That is why the entire world is slamming North Korea with sanctions until they abandon their illegal weapons. And it is why the world slammed Iran with sanctions until they changed course and abandoned their pursuit of nukes.

    I think though what you meant to ask was why we must prevent them from developing ICBMs. The reason why we oppose that is because as soon as Noth Korea develops ICBMs they will invade South Korea and try to destroy them, and when we help South Korea defend themselves, North Korea will nuke Los Angeles and Chicago.
     
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    Not at all. If they were to sell their treasury bonds, we would merely send the interest payments to the new owners.
     
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    Unfortunately not. North Korea intends to invade South Korea and nuke the US.


    Israel and India chose not to join the NPT. As such it is 100% legal for them to have nuclear weapons.

    There is no hypocrisy here. All countries have the right to choose which treaties they will join or not join. And those countries who joined the NPT and gave up the right to have nuclear weapons, all did so voluntarily.
     
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    The reason their nukes are currently not deliverable to the US has nothing to do with the size of their nukes. It is because their nukes are not capable of leaving the atmosphere, traveling through space, and reentering the atmosphere.
     
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    Whenever anyone makes a treaty with North Korea they take whatever people give them but then refuse to comply with their half of the treaty. It is certainly correct that we are no longer interested in playing that game, but it is a little odd to characterize that as "not allowing" a treaty. We certainly won't enter any such treaty ourselves, but if someone else is foolish enough to attempt a treaty with North Korea we will not prevent them from their folly.

    North Korea is not trying to defend themselves. The only danger they face from us is that we will defend against their aggression. North Korea is building up their arms because they intend to aggressively invade and destroy South Korea.
     
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    The war is coming whether we like it or not. North Korea is going to attack South Korea as soon as they gain the ability to nuke the US.


    Any country that attempts to posses illegal weapons will be crushed by worldwide sanctions.


    North Korea is being crushed with worldwide sanctions which will not be lifted until they give up their illegal weapons.

    Iran was convinced by worldwide sanctions to abandon their pursuit of illegal weapons.

    No one else seems interested in following that path.
     
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    No. We are not going to stop protecting South Korea from aggression from the North.


    They already have that. The only danger they face from us is that we will react to their aggression.


    Not until North Korea abandons their illegal weapons.


    North Korea intends to aggressively invade South Korea.


    We only invade rogue nations who won't stop attacking people. Any normal nation would simply stop attacking their neighbors so that we would not have to act against them.


    North Korea routinely launches unprovoked attacks against their neighbors several times a year. Check out the evening news.

    And maybe read up about a little event called the Korean War.


    Nope. North Korea are the invaders.
     
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    Risks to South Korea do need to be considered. But so do risks to American cities from North Korean ICBMs.
     
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    Not going to happen. We are going to continue to protect South Korea.

    And the worldwide sanctions against North Korea are going to continue until they give up their illegal nukes.
     
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    Then S. Korea doesn't have 15 American bases, and the US isn't installing Thaads there as well... to the chagrin of most of the S. Korean residents who want peace with N. Korea rather than be blown to bits to make Wall Street and the US military industries happy. But then again what they want doesn't matter now does it?
     
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    What nation did North Korea invade and when? I can list you though the nations the US invaded:

    Serbia - When the US illegally bombed Belgrade under a pretense of genocide and supported the KLA Albanian terrorists when there was no genocide.

    Iraq - When the US illegally invaded Iraq under a pretext of Saddam Hussein having weapons of destruction, when there were no weapons.

    Ukraine - When the US overthrew the legally elected president and installed Yatsenuk as president ...as per the telephone call between Victoria Nuland and Ambassador Pyatt.

    Syria - When the US entered the country illegally under the pretext of fighting terrorists, when in reality they were supporting the terrorists to overthrow the legally elected president.

    Libya - When the US asked the UN for a no fly zone and then proceeded to bomb Libya to support ISIS.

    So guess again who the rogue nation is, and stop believing everything the propaganda networks tell you.


     
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    What other country has the United States threatened to kill millions of their citizens for the sake of killing them with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons?
     
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    N. Korea will never give up the nuclear weapons Bill Clinton gave them - and the money to build them with.
     
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    We will continue to protect South Korea from North Korean aggression.

    If North Korea nukes a US city, we will use our nuclear weapons to commit genocide against them.


    We're going to defend South Korea from North Korean aggression. Deal with it.


    We aren't going to let North Korea invade and destroy South Korea. Sorry.
     
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    Of course they do. Of course we are. That will help to defend South Korea from North Korean aggression.


    North Korea will attack and try to destroy South Korea no matter what the South Koreans want.


    South Korea in the 1950s.



    We needed to stop the war before it spread and engulfed Greece and Turkey in on opposite sides.

    It was wrong of us to disregard the Serbians' rights under international law when it came to sovereignty over Kosovo though. And our doing so gave Russia all the justification they needed for their invasions of Georgia and Ukraine.


    We felt like smashing something after 9/11.

    (Stay out of our way for awhile if North Korea nukes us; we'll be looking for more countries to smash.)


    Hardly an invasion. Russia invaded Ukraine however.


    No, we entered Syria to fight terrorists and it was lawful for us to do so.

    The fact that Russia refers to Syrian civilians as terrorists in an attempted justification of the genocide that they are perpetrating against the Syrian people doesn't mean those civilians actually are terrorists.

    Of course, Chechnya showed that when Russia commits genocide, grieving widows can resort to terrorism. Maybe soon some Syrian widows will follow that example.


    No. We bombed Libya to prevent Kadaffy from massacring innocent people.


    North Korea is the rogue nation.
     
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    Then North Korea will never escape the harsh sanctions that the world has placed against them.
     
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    Have you noticed that the less Trump Haters know about something the more they want to argue about it?

    Their drivel reminds me of high school when the dozers would say something idiotic over and over again like:

    "So what if the teacher is right, man,. he's still not cool."

    Sheesh
     
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    Man you are so full of....disinformation. NK invaded SK crossing the 38th parallel on Jun 25, 1950. Japan occupied Korea until the end of WWII. Soviets set up NK after declaring war on Japan toward the end of the war. That was not a declared war by all occupants so it was a police action and remains the longest 'cease fire' or whatever you wish to call it. NK has plans to invade the South even now. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...Korea-invasion-plan-South-Korea-USA-Japan-DMZ Books have been written on the subject.

    A coalition of countries invaded Iraq twice. Don't say we unilaterally went in because that's total untruth. WMDs were wrong all around not just USA.

    Serbia-NATO led coalition if you're talking about Croatian-Bosnian-Serbian conflicts 90s. No invasion but I get the point.

    Ukraine-#1 or #2?? and you left off the European coalition which decided what to do after the internal revolution. More disingenuous disinformation to be nice about it. No invasion.

    Libya-was a CF produced by HRC (and Obama) who managed to muck it all up. Allowing them to take out Kaddafi was monumentally stupid as was much of the planning or lack of it to be precise. There was no invasion per se. In fact Iraq is the only country truly invaded.

    Your conspiracy theories are not even well thought out although that's par for most.
     
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    If you have no bidders the cost of the new debt goes higher. Many feel the bond market is in a bubble right now and could come crashing down soon. When the bond market goes it will take the stock market with it.
     
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    I wouldn't equate the entire bond market with treasury bonds. I don't know many think the bond market (minus treasury bonds) will collapse.
     
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    Nothing really goes to zero. Always nice to have a little cash available to take advantage of any panic. Diversity helps to get through the rough patches. I like to listen to the voices in the wilderness as the thundering herd is running towards the cliffs.
     
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    Sorry, Toggle, but I aint gonna regress back to the simplistic, convenient, WASP-fed, elementary school propaganda about the atomic bombings (or anything), that is totally severed from reality as well as common knowledge, and that you swallow completely. In fact it's insulting. Besides, there ain't nothing I didn't already wrote.

    Your argumentation, it pains me to say, is puerile, and dotted with holes, lies, half-truths and logic dead drops, but at least it is comforting to those who think like you. I hope it prevents your conscience from inflicting you harm, at least (assuming that you are from the country that starts illegal, useless wars complete with eternal occupation every year worldwide and still practices extra-judicial torture).

    PS: And no, Putin is no idiot. In fact, if he were your President, I'd bet you would lose control of your sphincters with joy and pride.
     
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