North Korea.

[Jacket_1985]

Sooooooo apparently today the nth Koreans think they are going to war with the states. . . . . LOL

The government has authorized a nuclear strike on america. . . . .
and the military has scrambled to get into gear to carry out the orders if given. . . . .

Only one small issue. . . . . they are about as prepared to deliver a nuclear weapon as me. it will fall in the drink a few miles offshore and sink. DO'H!

what a bunch of fruitloops. :icon_bonk:

[threedogs]

Yeah heard on the radio it might fall short. bring on TEAM AMERICA
I'm wonly so very wonly lol

[Alitis007]

Yeah heard on the radio it might fall short. bring on TEAM AMERICA
I'm wonly so very wonly lol

Your a classic John!! Lol

G hard derka derka !!! Rofl

[rottodiver]

I hope they are keeping a close eye on matt Damon!!!!

[NP99]

Their Sabre rattling always brings them $$$. This is just another example!

[rusty_nail]

Their Sabre rattling always brings them $$$. This is just another example!

thats an interesting statement. how does that work? im very curious to know what motivates such behaviour from nth Korea

[P4trol]

Well I doubt the US would be firing first without sound reason.

My uneducated guess is that they are making the threat, then watching the rest of the world to see how they react. Then when they are really serious, they can preempt some actions the US etc takes.

A bit like when kids push their parents buttons to see how far they can go - where is the line.

A bit like

[NP99]

thats an interesting statement. how does that work? im very curious to know what motivates such behaviour from nth Korea

In order to generate revenue for themselves, they rattle their sabres about going to war and to appease them the UN provides funding for food for the masses etc. Its a ploy they have used for years.

Remember too, the Korean war was never declared over, its just a cease fire......

We might see the North swallowed up by the South one day, depends on China. China doesnt want a war, they are winning the consumer war........much cheaper battle to be engaged in!

[rottodiver]

Correct me if I am wrong but the last time they agreed to destroy nuclear plants and cooling towers was to get international aid, are they going to cause the storm now and then defuse it in order to get more aid?
Scotty

[rottodiver]

Np99 ...... Snap......
Scotty

[NP99]

Correct me if I am wrong but the last time they agreed to destroy nuclear plants and cooling towers was to get international aid, are they going to cause the storm now and then defuse it in order to get more aid?
Scotty

Its' a common ploy.....

[NP99]

Np99 ...... Snap......
Scotty

???
..........

[rusty_nail]

In order to generate revenue for themselves, they rattle their sabres about going to war and to appease them the UN provides funding for food for the masses etc. Its a ploy they have used for years.

Remember too, the Korean war was never declared over, its just a cease fire......

We might see the North swallowed up by the South one day, depends on China. China doesnt want a war, they are winning the consumer war........much cheaper battle to be engaged in!

thanks that is good to know. i feel sorry for the people who live in Nth Korea, would be pretty bad, but i guess the blanket they have on censorship you wouldnt know any better

[NP99]

We are all blessed to live in Australia..........

[rottodiver]

Np99 "snap" kids card game with the same two cards placed, we gave pretty much the same reply at the same time...... No worries
Scotty

[NP99]

Np99 "snap" kids card game with the same two cards placed, we gave pretty much the same reply at the same time...... No worries
Scotty

:) Its been a while :)

[rusty_nail]

Np99 "snap" kids card game with the same two cards placed, we gave pretty much the same reply at the same time...... No worries
Scotty

said the one whos comment came in second. haha just yanking ya chain mate. thanks for all your responses, i am humbled before such immense knowledge =P

[Wine_maker]

Well I doubt the US would be firing first without sound reason.

.......

A bit like

Agree, but under another souse. They will, but it will be something like this:

Q: Daddy.. why did we attack Iraq?
A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction,
honey.
Q: But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass
destruction.
A: That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.
Q: And that's why we invaded Iraq?
A: Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.
Q: But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any
weapons of mass destruction, did we?
A: That's because the weapons are so well hidden.
Don't worry, we'll find something, probably right
before the 2004 election.
Q: Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass
destruction?
A: To use them in a war, silly.
Q: I'm confused. If they had all those weapons that
they planned to use in a war, then why didn't they use
any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A: Well, obviously they didn't want anyone to know
they had those weapons, so they chose to die by the
thousands rather than defend themselves.
Q: That doesn't make sense Daddy. Why would they
choose to die if they had all those big weapons to
fight us back with?
A: It's a different culture. It's not supposed to make
sense.
Q: I don't know about you, but I don't think they had
any of those weapons our government said they did.
A: Well, you know, it doesn't matter whether or not
they had those weapons. We had another good reason to
invade them anyway.
Q: And what was that?
A: Even if Iraq didn't have weapons of mass
destruction, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator,
which is another good reason to invade another
country.
Q: Why? What does a cruel dictator do that makes it OK
to invade his country?
A: Well, for one thing, he tortured his own people.
Q: Kind of like what they do in China?
A: Don't go comparing China to Iraq. China is a good
economic competitor, where millions of people work for
slave wages in sweatshops to make U. S. corporations
richer.
Q: So if a country lets its people be exploited for
American corporate gain, it's a good country, even if
that country tortures people?
A: Right.
Q: Why were people in Iraq being tortured?
A: For political crimes, mostly, like criticizing the
government. People who criticized the government in
Iraq were sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Isn't that exactly what happens in China?
A: I told you, China is different.
Q: What's the difference between China and Iraq?
A: Well, for one thing, Iraq was ruled by the Ba'ath
party, while China is Communist.
Q: Didn't you once tell me Communists were bad?
A: No, just Cuban Communists are bad.
Q: How are the Cuban Communists bad?
A: Well, for one thing, people who criticize the
government in Cuba are sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Like in Iraq?
A: Exactly.
Q: And like in China, too?
A: I told you, China's a good economic competitor.
Cuba, on the other hand, is not.
Q: How come Cuba isn't a good economic competitor?
A: Well, you see, back in the early 1960s, our
government passed some laws that made it illegal for
Americans to trade or do any business with Cuba until
they stopped being Communists and started being
capitalists like us.
Q: But if we got rid of those laws, opened up trade
with Cuba, and started doing business with them,
wouldn't that help the Cubans become capitalists?
A: Don't be a smart-ass.
Q: I didn't think I was being one.
A: Well, anyway, they also don't have freedom of
religion in Cuba.
Q: Kind of like China and the @! #$ movement?
A: I told you, stop saying bad things about China.

to be continued ...
I'll post it if you want.

[Wine_maker]

A: Anyway, Saddam Hussein came to power through a
military coup, so he's not really a legitimate leader
anyway.
Q: What's a military coup?
A: That's when a military general takes over the
government of a country by force, instead of holding
free elections like we do in the United States.
Q: Didn't the ruler of Pakistan come to power by a
military coup?
A: You mean General Pervez Musharraf? Uh, yeah, he
did, but Pakistan is our friend.
Q: Why is Pakistan our friend if their leader is
illegitimate?
A: I never said Pervez Musharraf was illegitimate.
Q: Didn't you just say a military general who comes to
power by forcibly overthrowing the legitimate
government of a nation is an illegitimate leader?
A: Only Saddam Hussein. Pervez Musharraf is our
friend, because he helped us invade Afghanistan.
Q: Why did we invade Afghanistan?
A: Because of what they did to us on September 11th.
Q: What did Afghanistan do to us on September 11th?
A: Well, on September 11th, nineteen men, fifteen of
them Saudi Arabians, hijacked four airplanes and flew
three of them into buildings,killing over 3,000
Americans.
Q: So how did Afghanistan figure into all that?
A: Afghanistan was where those bad men trained, under
the oppressive rule of the Taliban.
Q: Aren't the Taliban those bad radical Islamics who
chopped off people's heads and hands?
A: Yes, that's exactly who they were. Not only did
they chop off people's heads and hands, but they
oppressed women, too.
Q: Didn't the Bush administration give the Taliban 43
million dollars back in May of 2001?
A: Yes, but that money was a reward because they did
such a good job fighting drugs.
Q: Fighting drugs?
A: Yes, the Taliban were very helpful in stopping
people from growing opium poppies.
Q: How did they do such a good job?
A: Simple. If people were caught growing opium
poppies, the Taliban would have their hands and heads
cut off.
Q: So, when the Taliban cut off people's heads and
hands for growing flowers, that was OK, but not if
they cut people's heads and hands off for other
reasons?
A: Yes. It's OK with us if radical Islamic
fundamentalists cut off people's hands for growing
flowers, but it's cruel if they cut off people's hands
for stealing bread.
Q: Don't they also cut off people's hands and heads in
Saudi Arabia?
A: That's different. Afghanistan was ruled by a
tyrannical patriarchy that oppressed women and forced
them to wear burqas whenever they were in public, with
death by stoning as the penalty for women who did not
comply.
Q: Don't Saudi women have to wear burqas in public,
too?
A: No, Saudi women merely wear a traditional Islamic
body covering.
Q: What's the difference?
A: The traditional Islamic covering worn by Saudi
women is a modest yet fashionable garment that covers
all of a woman's body except for her eyes and fingers.
The burqa, on the other hand, is an evil tool of
patriarchal oppression that covers all of a woman's
body except for her eyes and fingers.
Q: It sounds like the same thing with a different
name.
A: Now, don't go comparing Afghanistan and Saudi
Arabia. The Saudis are our friends.
Q: But I thought you said 15 of the 19 hijackers on
September 11th were from Saudi Arabia.
A: Yes, but they trained in Afghanistan.
Q: Who trained them?
A: A very bad man named Osama bin Laden.
Q: Was he from Afghanistan?
A: Uh, no, he was from Saudi Arabia too. But he was a
bad man, a very bad man.
Q: I seem to recall he was our friend once.

[Wine_maker]

A: Only when we helped him and the mujahadeen repel
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back in the 1980s.
Q: Who are the Soviets? Was that the Evil Communist
Empire Ronald Reagan talked about?
A: There are no more Soviets. The Soviet Union broke
up in 1990 or thereabouts, and now they have elections
and capitalism like us. We call them Russians now.
Q: So the Soviets, I mean, the Russians, are now our
friends?
A: Well, not really. You see, they were our friends
for many years after they stopped being Soviets, but
then they decided not to support our invasion of Iraq,
so we're mad at them now. We're also mad at the French
and the Germans because they didn't help us invade
Iraq either.
Q: So the French and Germans are evil, too?
A: Not exactly evil, but just bad enough that we had
to rename French fries and French toast to Freedom
Fries and Freedom Toast.
Q: Do we always rename foods whenever another country
doesn't do what we want them to do?
A: No, we just do that to our friends. Our enemies, we
invade.
Q: But wasn't Iraq one of our friends back in the
1980s?
A: Well, yeah. For a while.
Q: Was Saddam Hussein ruler of Iraq back then?
A: Yes, but at the time he was fighting against Iran,
which made him our friend, temporarily.
Q: Why did that make him our friend?
A: Because at that time, Iran was our enemy.
Q: Isn't that when he gassed the Kurds?
A: Yeah, but since he was fighting against Iran at the
time, we looked the other way, to show him we were his
friend.
Q: So anyone who fights against one of our enemies
automatically becomes our friend?
A: Most of the time, yes.
Q: And anyone who fights against one of our friends is
automatically an enemy?
A: Sometimes that's true, too. However, if American
corporations can profit by selling weapons to both
sides at the same time, all the better.
Q: Why?
A: Because war is good for the economy, which means
war is good for America. Also, since God is on
America's side, anyone who opposes war is a godless
un-American Communist. Do you understand now why we
attacked Iraq?
Q: I think so. We attacked them because God wanted us
to, right?
A: Yes.
Q: But how did we know God wanted us to attack Iraq?
A: Well, you see, God personally speaks to George W.
Bush and tells him what to do.
Q: So basically, what you're saying is that we
attacked Iraq because George W. Bush hears voices in
his head?
A. Yes! You finally understand how the world works.
Now close your eyes, make yourself comfortable, and go
to sleep. Good night.
Q: Good night, Daddy.


Thank you.
Sorry for long post.

[Jacket_1985]

"we are going to kill people with a nuclear weapon"

doesnt that kind of direct public threat make you a terrorist? why pander to it?

[Bloodyaussie]

I marched in the 70's for ban the bomb.... I was only a little boy but back then it was a real threat and would hate to think it was ever an option in this day and age... I want my kids to grow up free of fear from these rogue countries..

I cant see what is to gain to be honest????? no one wins????

[NissanGQ4.2]

Obviously not that important here, our weather made 1st spot in the news headlines

[threedogs]

Must have been in a pram BA lol , but unfortunately war is now a part of everyday life for some.
Lets all pray or do what you do the keep this away from our shores, My father fought in Darwin in WW2
and I would hate to see it on our shores again
No one ever wins

[Wine_maker]

Agree. Nobody wins.
My grandad was pilot of transport aviation in 2 wars.
Hi is 90 years old now, but still have nightmares about those wars.

[macca86]

I'm 27 and not looking forward to conscription. Have been saying we are due for another world war humans need a culling but no one has had the balls/ stupidity to push the button until now

[Bloodyaussie]

We are not going to have a world war over something like this... there may be something in the next 50 years more to do with global business owning everything and more of a revolution???????

Who knows????

[macca86]

That's the thing we don't know but we are over due for a big one.

[P4trol]

I'm 27 and not looking forward to conscription.

Doubt there would be conscription again.

[NP99]

The losers become the winners in the end!!!

[the godfather]

I liked the USA response tonight. Directed directly at North Korea: "If you launch a missile in our general direction our response will be immediate and final!"

[NP99]

I liked the USA response tonight. Directed directly at North Korea: "If you launch a missile in our general direction our response will be immediate and final!"

I'd like to think China has them on a short leash......

[cgm]

I'd like to think China has them on a short leash......

I hope so. Other options are not good. :(

tapatalk on galaxy note

[Maxhead]

Oh no, its happening!!!!! :)

[Drew]

Oh no, its happening!!!!! :)

Cheese eating surrender monkeys LOL


“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.” - Albert Einstein

[NP99]

Little known fact, some French fought for the Germans during WW2. They wore German uniforms with French flag patches.

[Bloodyaussie]

Very well known..... Did you know the British Navy destroyed 3 huge French battleships off the coast of Africa with many lives lost!!!

Many French joined the German army instead of being sent to labour camps... " The forgotten soldier" is a brilliant book well worth a read.

[NP99]

This link
http://www.iiss.org/publications/strategic-dossiers/north-korean-dossier/north-koreas-weapons-programmes-a-net-asses/north-koreas-nuclear-weapons-programme/
Makes for good reading, bit long, go to the conclusion first.

[Blownlc]

You have a pretty smart kid there Wine_Maker!


LESS YAP YAP, MORE TAP TAP!!

[NP99]

That's the thing we don't know but we are over due for a big one.

It costs many $$$$$$$$$ to engage in modern warfare. Most of the big players are struggling with the cost of war. We will be in a peace time defence force for a while again.

[Wine_maker]

You have a pretty smart kid there Wine_Maker!


LOL! 2 years ago I found this text in the English teaching website in thread "Common dialogs".

[threedogs]

Good thing about modern warfare is I can set the timer to watch the start. Crack a can ,get hourly updates.
Plus can put a bet on at 2 to 1 that the USA will Finish it. CC to a friend and hard copy backup on USB
Thats modern warfare. Tried it with the Gulf war but took too many VCR tapes. lol

[NP99]

I had a shit head set his dog on me during the 1st gulf war, I was in uniform therefore personally responsible for the war!!!

[threedogs]

Good ols stormin Norman, Just missed out on Nasho back in 67. If good or bad not sure
. All I can say is war Is Bad, They dont solve anything
Dad was radio operator in Darwin at the 40 mile airfield on the Stuart HWY, 30th Squadrand.
Would like to think thats why we dont all dress the same like Nth Korea

[chester]

My theory is worry about it when or if it happens untill then its just a threat,If i worried about about every threat on my life when i was a bouncer i would be a nervous wreak lol.
Plus that little punked faced Nth korean dude needs a good smack and told to stop being a bully.

[threedogs]

Bring on TEAM AMERICA lol

[NP99]

My theory is worry about it when or if it happens untill then its just a threat,If i worried about about every threat on my life when i was a bouncer i would be a nervous wreak lol.
Plus that little punked faced Nth korean dude needs a good smack and told to stop being a bully.

As head of his armed forces he needs to impress his generals! Once done, he will settle back down.

[NP99]

More nonsence from old matey. They have now told embassies to evacuate!