North Korea vs USA

[SWP's back]

eventually after lots of threats Libya stopped and yet they still got invaded and Gadaffi was overthrown.

Who invaded?

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Who invaded?

The Lybian opposition with lots of help from us.

 

[SWP's back]

The Lybian opposition with lots of help from us.

So no one invaded then?

 

[inchy14]

I didn't know they'd found oil in NK not that I'm a cynic ;-)

$13 trillion dollars worth of minerals un-mined due to poor infrastructure in NK by all accounts, not like the yanks to turn their noses up at that, Venezuela next....

To be fair to NK, with China on one side of the country and the Yanks on the other in SK I'm not surprised they want a nuclear weapon for self preservation.

 

[west didsblue]

I do agree.

But on the other hand, playing devil's advocate, it's no deterrent at all if everyone believes there's only a 1 in a million chance of the weapons being used. Doubtless NK would still like the whole of the Korean peninsular under their control and given their vast conventional armed forces, and the west's great reluctance to deploy again the sorts of numbers of troops needed to defend any attack, it's imperative that the western nuclear threat is credible.

It's still a deterrent if they know it could be used if they attacked the US which means they'll stick to firing missiles into the sea and setting of a few H bombs in their own country, which they know they can away with.

 

[Chippy_boy]

It's still a deterrent if they know it could be used if they attacked the US which means they'll stick to firing missiles into the sea and setting of a few H bombs in their own country, which they know they can away with.

Which is pretty much where we are at, isn't it.

 

[west didsblue]

Which is pretty much where we are at, isn't it.

Exactly. And however much Trump promises fire and fury or boasts about the strength of the US nuclear forces or tells us about weapons being locked and loaded and that talking is pointless, we know it's all hot air.

 

[TheBlueDune]

What channel and time is the game on? Should be a corker although N Korea haven't really done much since the 1966 World Cup.

How many subs allowed seeing as unlikely to be a friendly?

Or relying on strong midfield with hard tackling destroyer.

 

[SWP's back]

How many subs allowed seeing as unlikely to be a friendly?

Or relying on strong minefield with hard tackling destroyer.

Edited for you

 

[Blue Hefner]