Breaking: North Korean Photo Reveals ‘U.S. Mainland Strike Plan’ | |
Rajiv (OP) User ID: 37068669 India 03/28/2013 11:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As US hardens line on North Korea, South may pay Washington's decision to fly B-52 and stealth bomber missions over Korea this week in a warning to Pyongyang risks pushing the North into staging an attack on the South just as its threats may have been on the cusp of dying down. New leaders in Seoul, Beijing and most importantly, an untested 30-year-old in Pyongyang who has to prove he is capable of facing down a perceived threat from the United States, have raised the stakes in a month-long standoff that risks flaring into a conflict. "It seems that Kim Jong-un is in the driving seat of a train that has been taken on a joyride," said Lee Min-yong, North Korea expert at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul. With the looming April 15 celebrations to commemorate the birthday of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of the current ruler, and large chunks of North Korea's peasant army due to head to farms for spring planting, the crisis may have been lurching to a close before the American bombers' flights on Thursday. Instead, pictures of Kim Jong-un released by the state-owned KCNA news agency showed him sketching out a response to the stealth bomber flights and depicted the possible paths of North Korean missile attacks on US bases in the Pacific and on the United States itself. The missile threat to U.S. bases in the Pacific and certainly to the continental United States may be overstated, given the untested nature of North Korea's longer-range missiles. But the risk to South Korea is real. Seoul is just over 40 km (25 miles) from the massed artillery and battle-proven short-range Scud missiles placed north of the demilitarised zone that separates the two sides. And North Korea has proved, as recently as 2010, that it is capable of launching strikes on the South. In that year, it was charged with sinking a South Korean naval vessel and shelled an island close to the maritime border. |
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Citizenperth
User ID: 36740537 Australia 03/28/2013 11:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they just had two nuke-capable b2's fly over in SK as a 'practice'..... Kim is all rhetoric..... musta shit himself fat-boy that he is...... It's life as we know it, but only just. [link to citizenperth.wordpress.com] sic ut vos es vos should exsisto , denego alius vicis facio vos change , exsisto youself , proprie |
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User ID: 1151446 United States 03/28/2013 11:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | All this talk about North Korea, please review who they blamed for the Jericho nukes!!! Season 2 ep 1 = North Korea and Iran! Just sayin... |
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User ID: 28319578 United States 03/29/2013 12:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Where did the guys in the funny freaking hats get all those medals if they haven't fought anyone in over sixty years? Do they hand out medals for having the best cleaned room? Maybe it's a medal for every time you shine your shoes..wtf? saltyone USMC 0341/0331 |
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User ID: 36740537 Australia 03/29/2013 12:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | fuku would be top of mine...... It's life as we know it, but only just. [link to citizenperth.wordpress.com] sic ut vos es vos should exsisto , denego alius vicis facio vos change , exsisto youself , proprie |
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User ID: 31953397 Canada 03/29/2013 12:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "In a photo published in the Korea Worker’s Party (KWP) paper the Rodong, plans for a strike on the U.S. mainland are clearly –and therefore probably deliberately– visible. The newspaper is widely distributed in cities, and often displayed in public places for easy viewing..." Quoting: Rajiv 37068669 [link to www.freerepublic.com] Owwwwwww you stealll my tread and get pin filst? Death to yew. Ohhh must be dear readah. Thread: Did North Korea mistakenly send out this photo? |
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User ID: 32853457 United States 03/29/2013 12:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Given that the photo will have primarily been intended for a domestic audience, it will most likely have already served its purpose of demonstrating North Korean military capabilities internally. Most analysts agree North Korea would not be able to hit any U.S. mainland targets." Oh, so you mean they are telling their citizens what they want them to believe, whether it's true or not... ...sounds like another country I know. Until someone actually flips a switch and blows something up, all these are, are governing bodies playing a game of "who's dick is bigger?" When something actually blows up, you know the "game" is over... Last Edited by Naptown Neanderthal on 03/29/2013 12:29 AM "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 34377436 Australia 03/29/2013 12:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm sorry, but I kinda hope America eats it for all the tyranny and destruction they have created on this planet, through military means and financial gain. the poverty, the lack of concern for anyone but themselves. if its not NK, one day America will be caught with the skirts down |
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