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Bane Necran
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Posted - 2013.02.05 18:17:00 -
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Showing a devastated New York with "We Are the World" muzak playing. This right before a scheduled nuclear missile"test" targeting the US.
Meanwhile the US is preoccupied with... whatever it is they're doing in the middle east. All this is clearly no cause for alarm.
Anyone able to translate?
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Posted - 2013.02.05 20:29:00 -
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Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:N. Korea acts in such an improvisational and spontaneous manner, there really is not much at all we can do, really. And that's not a failing on anyone's part.
We can only deal with the aftermath of their actions, whatever they may be.
That goes against the popular rationale for fighting terrorists in the middle east. We're told it's supposed to be about stopping them from carrying out attacks instead of waiting for them to attack. And they're way ahead of North Korea in terms of improvisation.
Here we have a country threatening the US in this manner, but the threats of small badly organized groups in the mid east is more dire somehow? We don't even know if any of them have nukes, but we're sure North Korea does.
It doesn't make a lick of sense.
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Posted - 2013.02.05 21:04:00 -
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silens vesica wrote:NK, OTOH, doesn't even follow it's own insane logic, and therefor cannot be easily predicted.
They've been promising revenge on America for splitting Korea in two, while building the second largest army in the world. You don't have to be Nostradamus to predict where this is probably going. All the threats and claims from the mid east are dubious, but here is a country which there is no doubt has the means to do what it claims it's going to do.
The only insane logic is what the NK government tells its citizens, who are severely neglected because as much money as possible goes towards building their war machine. It's unlikely they're just going to one day decide to forgive the US and disband that army.
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Posted - 2013.02.05 21:38:00 -
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silens vesica wrote:Yeah, cause pretty much every adult male who can draw breath and walk 100 yards is counted in those figures. Numbers, even huge numbers, do not a threat make. Remember the leader of Iraq (Curiously, the filters zap his name. Weird) and his four-and-a-half million man army? Beat by an effective force less than a fifth it's size. IOW: Numbers: Yawn.
Sources for the figures are all there, if you want to challenge those. The changes since i last checked could be updates.
Iran very likely could be faking things, because they have a history of photoshop use, but who knows. NK on the other hand actually does have pretty much every grown male in their military, so they wouldn't even have to count civilians to reach those numbers.
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Posted - 2013.02.05 23:32:00 -
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It turns out the footage of a devastated New York is from Modern Warfare 3. 
So that explains the copyright claim.
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Posted - 2013.02.05 23:54:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Call of Duty causes you to claim to be able to nuke countries 
Kim Jong-un is supposedly a big console gamer. Can you imagine the average x-box kid given a military with nuclear capabilities to do with as he pleases? 
Now that i've read the translation, they'd have to be pretty stupid to show their hand and talk like that if they truly intend to do something. If nothing happens in the next 24 hours, i'm calling their bluff.
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive." ~Kenneth Williams |
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