Your move, North Korea.

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U.S. Says It Sent B-2 Stealth Bombers Over South Korea

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(CNN) — The United States said Thursday it sent stealth bombers to South Korea to participate in annual military exercises amid spiking tensions with North Korea.

The B-2 Spirit bombers flew more than 6,500 miles from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to South Korea, dropping inert munitions there as part of the exercises, before returning to the U.S. mainland, the U.S Forces in Korea said in a statement.

The mission by the planes, which can carry both conventional and nuclear weapons, “demonstrates the United States’ ability to conduct long range, precision strikes quickly and at will,” the statement said.

The U.S. military’s announcement earlier this month that it was flying B-52 bombers over South Korea to participate in the routine exercises prompted an angry reaction from the North, which has unleashed a torrent of threats in the past few weeks.

There was no immediate reaction to the U.S. statement Thursday from the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency.

The disclosure of the B-2 flights comes a day after North Korea said it was cutting off military communications with South Korea, provoking fresh expressions of concern from U.S. officials about Pyongyang’s recent rhetoric.

 

[CGI_Ram]

I'm not in support of another war.

But those North Koreans are being lead by an absolute whack job. It wouldn't upset me if they did something stupid just to give the US a reason to take his ass out.

 

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Kim Jong-un just doesn't give a fuck. He doesn't care if he dies.
I think this dude is looking to make as much noise as he can because he's DYING to use those nukes.
I mean, he wants to launch those fuckers really, really bad. And he wants to launch them our way.

 

[bluecoconuts]

Kim Jong-un just doesn't give a fuck. He doesn't care if he dies.
I think this dude is looking to make as much noise as he can because he's DYING to use those nukes.
I mean, he wants to launch those fuckers really, really bad. And he wants to launch them our way.

Couldn't reach us anyway. He'd have to get SK.

 

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Kim Jong-un just doesn't give a fuck. He doesn't care if he dies.
I think this dude is looking to make as much noise as he can because he's DYING to use those nukes.
I mean, he wants to launch those fuckers really, really bad. And he wants to launch them our way.

Couldn't reach us anyway. He'd have to get SK.

I thought I read that they had (not perfected yet) long-range missile capabilities to at least reach the West Coast of the United States. Is that not the case? I mean, what would be the point of nuking SK? Wouldn't nuclear fall-out pretty much fuck up his own Country as well?

 

[bluecoconuts]

Kim Jong-un just doesn't give a fuck. He doesn't care if he dies.
I think this dude is looking to make as much noise as he can because he's DYING to use those nukes.
I mean, he wants to launch those fuckers really, really bad. And he wants to launch them our way.

Couldn't reach us anyway. He'd have to get SK.

I thought I read that they had (not perfected yet) long-range missile capabilities to at least reach the West Coast of the United States. Is that not the case? I mean, what would be the point of nuking SK? Wouldn't nuclear fall-out pretty much fuck up his own Country as well?

Not that I know of. The nukes he has tested are pretty small as well, so he should be fine. He could hit Americans troops station in South Korea though. They're just kind of road bumps anyway.

 

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Oh, okay. I knew I read it somewhere though, and evidently, it's only a 'claim' at this point.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57576264/n-korea-claims-long-range-missiles-aimed-at-bases-on-u.s-mainland-hawaii/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-575 ... nd-hawaii/</a>

 

[Psycho_X]

Don't want a war either but kinda hope he does something really stupid to piss us off as well as China and Japan at the same time. Guy won't last long if he takes it to far.

It would be a fascinating thing to see the North Korean people free and exposed to the outside world. Would be some awesome studies in that country from a social perspective detailing how such a isolated people in this day and age would react to all the information in the world given to them one day.

 

[bluecoconuts]

Honestly, I think he's a lot of talk. When China is telling you to knock your shit off, it means shut up and sit down.

 

[Selassie I]

And of course there's this...

WARNING... Bad Fucking Language

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOEIruwzf54[/youtube]

 

[CGI_Ram]

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's latest threat to "settle accounts with the U.S." -- while displaying a "strike plan" that shows missiles tracking toward American cities -- was widely seen as another example of the young leader's erratic bluster. 

The threat to lob long-range nuclear-tipped missiles at central U.S. cities is, in the opinion of most expert observers, overblown. But while making progress on its missile capability, the regime has other ways to wreak havoc, and this is what has officials and analysts increasingly worried. 

"You only need to be wrong once," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said, in discussing assessments of North Korea. "I don't know what president or what chairman or what secretary of Defense wants to be wrong once when it comes to nuclear threats." 

Officials are concerned that with the rising threats, Kim is backing his regime into a corner where it may be compelled to act in order to save face. And in the near-term, the regime has plenty of ways to do that. 

It can continue to proliferate dangerous weapons to places like Iran and Syria. And, as it has repeatedly demonstrated, the regime can attack and provoke South Korea -- the scenario many are worried about. 

"We're one dead fisherman away from something that could escalate quite quickly," said Jim Walsh, an international security expert and research associate at MIT. "That's the one I worry about." 

Walsh said despite the rhetoric, the "war fundamentals" have not changed. North Korea would be obliterated by South Korea in the event of a war, with or without U.S. military support -- and the North Koreans know that. 

But he said the "accidental war" -- the provocation that goes too far and spirals into all-out conflict -- is the real worry. 

"The whole system is set up like a deck of cards right now," Walsh said. 

North Korea is infamous for testing and prodding South Korea. In 2010, under the current leader's late father Kim Jong Il, North Korea was blamed for sinking a South Korean ship and killing 46 sailors, though North Korea denied it. That time, there were no serious repercussions for the North.   

Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, suggested South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, would not let such an attack slide. 

"If that were to happen again or something like it, I believe it could lead to war," O'Hanlon said. 

Walsh said that while North Korea would fall, in the best-case scenario "you still get ... 1,000 artillery shells landing on Seoul." 

O'Hanlon described a scenario where South Korea retaliates and North Korea escalates -- and eventually the U.S. would be faced with the question of how to get involved militarily. 

Hagel said Thursday that the U.S. "will unequivocally defend and we are unequivocally committed to that alliance with South Korea." 

Back in 1984, the U.S. prepared a campaign plan that would have made possible the destruction of the entire North Korean air force in 100 hours. Retired U.S. Air Force generals say the military could do it even faster today. 

The Pentagon made clear this week that it is taking the threat seriously. It flew B-2 bombers 13,000 miles to a South Korean island where they dropped inert bombs. It is the first time the U.S. has ever sent B-2 bombers to the Korean Peninsula. A tweet from the U.S. embassy in Seoul said the bombers were "demonstrating the US's ability to conduct precision strikes at will." 

Christian Whiton, a former State Department official now with the D.C. International Advisory, told Fox News that the major threat from North Korea is that "it's proliferated virtually every weapon system it's ever produced." 

"There's a real threat that North Korea will continue to do what it does best, which is to profit off of proliferating the world's most dangerous weapons to some of the world's most odious people," he said.  

Despite repeated nuclear and missile tests, it is believed North Korea is still years away from being able hit the U.S. with a nuclear-tipped missile. 

The Council on Foreign Relations projects that only North Korea's Taepodong-2 missile could reach America. But that missile could only go as far as Alaska and has not yet been successfully tested. Its other rockets have a considerably shorter range. 

While having made progress in their ballistic missile program, the North Koreans still have not mastered the technology of delivering a nuclear device by a long-range missile. 

"If they ever do it, it's going to be a while," Walsh said of any effort to develop a missile capable of hitting the continental U.S. 

Walsh also said it's unlikely North Korea would ever send out a suicide bomber -- equipped with a radioactive "dirty bomb" or some similar device -- describing the move as too risky without much payoff for Pyongyang.   

FoxNews.com's Judson Berger and Fox News'

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[libertadrocks]

Honestly, I think he's a lot of talk. When China is telling you to knock your shit off, it means shut up and sit down.

China is the wild card. If North Korea does something stupid, who do they support?

If they stay neutral or side with us then North Korea falls and a US sponsored state or allie, if SK takes control, is boardering China. Something they do not want. That's why they have sponsored North Koorea for so long. Keep the failed state on life support.

If the oppose us.... it's it WWIII.

Obviously the smart thing to do would be option A.

I laughed out loud when I saw North Korea's "strike plan". Really??? Austin, Texas. There is no strategic value behind targeting Austin on an initial attack. Im pretty sure they just read an alphabetical list of major US cities and pick the first one. lol

 

[bluecoconuts]

Honestly, I think he's a lot of talk. When China is telling you to knock your shit off, it means shut up and sit down.

China is the wild card. If North Korea does something stupid, who do they support?

If they stay neutral or side with us then North Korea falls and a US sponsored state or allie, if SK takes control, is boardering China. Something they do not want. That's why they have sponsored North Koorea for so long. Keep the failed state on life support.

If the oppose us.... it's it WWIII.

Obviously the smart thing to do would be option A.

I laughed out loud when I saw North Korea's "strike plan". Really??? Austin, Texas. There is no strategic value behind targeting Austin on an initial attack. Im pretty sure they just read an alphabetical list of major US cities and pick the first one. lol

There's no way China will back NK and go to war with the US over this. The US and China rely on each other far too much economically to go to war. China knows the only way to become a Super Power is to play ball and gain power the right way. Going to arms will just destroy any aspirations of that. So to go to war over something this stupid would just be..... Well stupid. They'll probably even side with the US, or at the very least stay quiet over it... At most it'll be a proxy war. Honestly I don't think much comes of this in terms of direct US combat. Maybe a few air strikes on facilities, and JSOC raids. But I'm not even sure how likely that is. I feel he just wants attention to be honest. He's a spoiled little chubby kid who's upset mommy and daddy aren't paying attention to him so he's breaking toys and drawing on the walls.

 

[CGI_Ram]

This was on Leno the other night...

The US Military Command Center:

The North Korea Military Command Center:

 

[RhodyRams]

:lmao:

 

[CGI_Ram]

:lmao:

NICE!!