Korean Peninsula news and discussion

**LowSpeed_HighDrag** · 04-26-17, 23:05

The one thing I find terrifying about Kim Jong Un is his utter disregard for his people. The war of attrition that would occur in order to bring NorK to it's knees/senses would result in terrific losses of civilian life.

**Koshinn** · 04-26-17, 23:08

One of my co-workers with some insight into the South Korean mind set said many of them don't want to pass down an impending war to their children, and as time goes on, that war looks like it will cost more and more lives in the process.

**SteyrAUG** · 04-26-17, 23:58

Originally Posted by LowSpeed_HighDrag

The one thing I find terrifying about Kim Jong Un is his utter disregard for his people. The war of attrition that would occur in order to bring NorK to it's knees/senses would result in terrific losses of civilian life.

Mao did it with the cultural revolution, Stalin did it with Ukraine, seems to be pretty SOP for communists.

**chuckman** · 04-27-17, 08:03

Originally Posted by Doc Glockster

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** · 04-27-17, 10:09

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.

**chuckman** · 04-27-17, 10:27

Originally Posted by Koshinn

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.

Like what happened with Iraq and Iran.....

**Koshinn** · 04-27-17, 13:04

Minor article, nothing really new: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-no...-idUSKBN17T0AW

Some quotes:

China on Thursday welcomed an apparently softer tone by the United States on the North Korean nuclear and missile crisis but stressed its opposition to a U.S. missile defence system being deployed in South Korea.

South Korea and the United States agreed on Thursday on "swift punitive measures" against North Korea in the event of further provocation.

"The deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea damages the regional strategic balance and stability. The Chinese side is resolutely opposed to this," Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told reporters.

"As long as America continues its hostile acts of aggression, we will never stop nuclear and missile tests," said Sok Chol Won, director of the North's Institute of Human Rights at the Academy of Social Sciences.