SPARK COULD SET OFF NUCLEAR WAR IN NORTH KOREA

here's the story:

UNITED NATIONS — A North Korean minister says the Korean peninsula has become the world's most dangerous hotspot where a spark could set off a nuclear war.

Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon lashed out at the United States in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Monday, blaming Washington's "hostile" policy toward North Korea for a "vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation" that has brought the peninsula close to a nuclear conflict.

Pak also accused the U.S. of seeking to occupy the entire Korean peninsula by force and "use it as a stepping stone for realizing its strategy of dominating the whole of Asia."

He said the United States has finalized scenarios for a new Korean War and is waiting to implement them but has been deterred by North Korea.

is this going to be another ww11 scenario-the u.s. is concentrating on the mideast while things reach boiling point in asia, just as the concentration on the european war allowed the pearl harbor sneak attack by japan? this is A LOT more frightening than iraq/israel/syria/yemen, to me.
By rae121452 | 10/01/2012 06:28 PM | 4 comments
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  • Time to go "liberate" the people of N. Korea? Maybe if Mittens becomes president, the world can expect some more liberation. Cause it worked so well for Vietnam and Afghanistan, and Iraq.

    (The US could probably inva.. err.. liberate South Korea as well, but their natural resource of WoW players might not be so useful after all..)

    All this, while actively paying off and supplying arms and ammunition to Pakistan, one of the major terrorist hotspots of the world. Cause what happened in Afghanistan during the Soviet War in Afghanistan in the 80s (helping the Mujahiddeen and training what was to later become the Al Qaeda) wasn't example enough.
    aliencubby 10/02/2012 01:14 AM
  • The world is very unsafe. There are numerous threats and the very nature of the threats are totally different than those we have ever faced in our nation's history. Terrorism has created new means of inflicting devastating damage on people (e. g., satchel-sized nuclearn weapons or chemicals and toxins that are horrific to contemplate).

    We cannot ignore what is happening in the world save at our peril. Those who advocate the position that what happens in other parts of the world (e. g., Syria or Iran) is not our business are foolish and irresponsible. Those who have not learned the lessons of history are doomed to repeat those expensive lessons.
    everysooften 10/01/2012 08:49 PM
  • And about North Korea... sure they have a couple of bombs, but they can't deliver. They'll probable self-destruct and kill a lot of their own population... better than trying to feed them.
    PDQuesnell 10/01/2012 07:42 PM
  • A nuclear war doesn't scare me as much as these never-ending conventional wars. We have enough boomer (submarines) out there the blow away any threat several times.

    Then again, that is one rationale for a huge military buildup... the longer a conventional war goes on, the less likely it is to go nuclear. When you (a country) runs out of conventional resources you last resort it nuclear.
    PDQuesnell 10/01/2012 07:40 PM