Korean Peninsula news and discussion

[Koshinn]

12 April - China stopping import of DPRK coal
http://www.businessinsider.com/china...imports-2017-4

15 April - DPRK tests missile, explodes just after takeoff
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/north-...cenario-fears/

20 April - ROK military ready for "immediate response"
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/nati...04900315F.html

22 April - DPRK threatens Australia with nuclear strike
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/0...g-to-australia

23 April - UK freezes assets of DPRK company based in south London
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...uclear-weapons

23 April - DPRK threatens to sink USS Carl Vinson
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04...rys-force.html
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...he-Carl-Vinson

24 April - DPRK detains US Citizen (total is now 3 US citizens held)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39689559

25 April - USS Michigan (Ohio-class) docks in ROK
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-no...-idUSKBN17Q06N

25 April - Chinese state-run newspaper: China would not engage militarily if US conducts surgical strikes on DPRK nuclear facilities
http://www.atimes.com/article/global...e-north-korea/

26 April - THAAD to be online within days in ROK
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...a-admiral-says

26 April - China launches first domestically-produced carrier; IOC expected in 2020
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39715228

26 April - Senators arrive at White House for briefing on DPRK
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-no...-idUSKBN17Q1LR

26 April - Chinese troops at DPRK border on high alert
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/...042601025.html

27 April - DPRK agrees to first ever UN rights expert visit
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/w...w/58398992.cms

27 April - China continues to tighten sanctions on DPRK
http://www.voanews.com/a/china-eyes-...n/3827848.html

27 April - DPRK elites think KJU is weak and if he died, would choose a non-Kim successor
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/26/north...tudy-says.html

28 April - SecState Tillerson talks to UN Security Council: failure to act on DPRK nuke/missile developments could be "catastrophic"; Russia disagrees
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tillerson...050305257.html

28 April - Trump considers DPRK #1 nat'l sec priority
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/nort...000200315.html

28 April - Trump calling for diplomatic tact but sees possibility for military action (chuckman)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN17U04E

28 April - DPRK getting "antsy" (chuckman)
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/343694...ling-gangster/

28 April - DPRK launches probable KN-17 MRBM (SCUD variant) 25 miles
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04...c-missile.html

1 May - China looking for Korean translators near DPRK border (Outlander Systems)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nati...03_228584.html

1 May - US may pay DPRK to hold talks
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/engli...ea/793033.html

2 May - Failed DPRK missile on 28 April was headed for Russia and was intentionally detonated
http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/fa...1f3a124938370d

2 May - THAAD operational in ROK
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/w...efense-us.html

2 May - DPRK possibly accelerating SLBM test program (Outlander Systems)
http://38north.org/2017/05/nampo050117/

3 May - China issues final warning to DPRK regarding nuclear weapons
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nati...03_228717.html

3 May - DPRK says nuclear program will continue regardless of China's warning
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/w...ons-china.html

4 May - US House almost unanimously approves more sanctions on DPRK
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-no...-idUSKBN1802HB

4 May - USSOCOM commander says they're ready for counter-nuclear action
http://tribunist.com/news/us-special...-to-commander/

5 May - DPRK claims CIA and IS (ROK's version of the CIA, not the Islamic State) tried to kill KJU with "biochemical substances"
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39815561

9 May - Moon Jae-in wins ROK election, favors talks with DPRK (pingdork)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39855956
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-so...-idUSKBN18425S

9 May - Japan wants Tomahawks and Aegis Ashore
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...-missile-sites

10 May - US and DPRK diplomats meet in Norway
https://www.yahoo.com/news/away-sabr...044522962.html

[Firefly]

Looks like people are sick of the BS.

[ABNAK]

I find it almost amusing that the sub docked at Pusan. That my friends is a display. If it was unseen (as in submerged) off the Nork coast then that is being in the batter's box. We're rattling sabers too. If nothing else fat-boy will get the message loud and clear that, as Firefly said, people are sick of his shit.

[pingdork]

I always figured a preemptive strike would be too politically risky considering all the dependents and civilian DoD in Seoul

Edit I'm hoping anyway

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[chuckman]

Best quote I read today, from CINCPAC, said we want to bring fat boy "to his senses, not to his knees." Great quote.

And yeah, we actually have to prove our subs are there by having them dock and have a photo op, otherwise they'd never know lol....

[Doc Safari]

Best quote I read today, from CINCPAC, said we want to bring fat boy "to his senses, not to his knees." Great quote.

And yeah, we actually have to prove our subs are there by having them dock and have a photo op, otherwise they'd never know lol....

I think that's a mistake. You can only warn a person so many times before it becomes ineffective. I think we passed that point years ago. Time to bite the bullet and at least interdict their infrastructure or something.

[chuckman]

I think that's a mistake. You can only warn a person so many times before it becomes ineffective. I think we passed that point years ago. Time to bite the bullet and at least interdict their infrastructure or something.

No, not a mistake, a perfect political statement. We can end that shrimp's life at any time. But the military is speaking out saying we are on record for trying to resolve it in non-military ways. What the Admiral said was part of building a case.

Now it may come to military intervention, and if it does, we can say, "well, we said we wanted to work it out."

[Koshinn]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/w...hina.html?_r=0

When reading this I could only think of: "A fully armed an operational battle station"

First post updated. In one of the new stories, DPRK agrees to UN rights expert visit. I think it's hilarious that she and/or the UN thinks that anything she sees won't be heavily staged or censored by the DPRK government.

[Mjolnir]

I think that's a mistake. You can only warn a person so many times before it becomes ineffective. I think we passed that point years ago. Time to bite the bullet and at least interdict their infrastructure or something.

And what would the response be?

Are you willing to risk a nuke exchange or WW III because someone just joined the ICBM Club?

I mean everyone on this website is armed and not everyone meets everyone else's level of "normal" yet we don't go threatening them.

We have more firepower; we are the stronger nation. We act as if we are weak - hyper-responsive.

Talk to the guy ( not AT him). Same with the other regional players because I doubt they'd allow someone from halfway round the world (AGAIN) start a war in their backyard. I sure as Hell would not - and neither would anyone here.


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[chuckman]

And what would the response be?

Are you willing to risk a nuke exchange or WW III because someone just joined the ICBM Club?

I mean everyone on this website is armed and not everyone meets everyone else's level of "normal" yet we don't go threatening them.

We have more firepower; we are the stronger nation. We act as if we are weak - hyper-responsive.

Talk to the guy ( not AT him). Same with the other regional players because I doubt they'd allow someone from halfway round the world (AGAIN) start a war in their backyard. I sure as Hell would not - and neither would anyone here.


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Seriously doubt there would be a nuke exchange. As for talking with him, he's irrational and unstable. You can't reason with people like that. We can't be Chamberlain to his Hitler. You are absolutely correct, though, in that the regional players need to step up because they have skin in the game.