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Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by ny_rob, Mar 29, 2013.

  1. JMD

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    How this this start? NZ is upset that we are doing joint military exercises with SK and Japan.

    However NK shot a long range missile into the ocean near the Philippines that made us step up the training.

    Does NK think it can control American activities?
     
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    Well we all know who North Korea are now. If they'd just kept quiet nobody would be any the wiser.

    They're just attention seekers like the nut job who does something crazy just to appear on tv.

    Ignore them and they'll go away.
     
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    It's not like they really have any place to run to....... hope they can swim!
     
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    NZ? I know some people are accusing the Chinese of being allied with the North Koreans, but now the Kiwis as well?

    I've always thought you couldn't trust them. Shifty vowel-mangling cold-weather bungee-jumping jet-boating fush-and-chups-eating nice-wine-making heliskiiing wrong-coloured-stars-on-their-flag COMMIES, the lot of them.
     
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    We really don't know if the NK leaders are rational, but nasty....or believe that they can get want they want through a couple of aggressive acts. Torpedoing a ship and killing 46 of the crew may either be seen by the NK as an accident or a success. I don't have a clue which.
     
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    I recall hearing this man speak about his personal experiences during WW II in Europe. I was touched by his story. He was a business owner and married with 3 children. He had brothers and sisters in town, nieces and nephews. He was taken away and locked up for several years. When the allies freed him he weighed about 95 LBS all 5'5" of him. He walked back to his town several hundred miles away and there was another family occupying his home. He said this is my home, I'll walk to town and get a coffee, when I return tomorrow best you be gone to a man who was much taller and stronger. When he came back his home was vacated.

    His business was gone and he lost everything. The economy was gone, no one worked, and eating was all you can do if you can find food. Every day he walked to the town center where he left a paper message of his name and address asking for family and friends to contact him. Ther were several names on that board. His oldest daughter walked into the home one day is all he found. He said that was the happiest day of his life. Every one else perished in the war. They came to Los Angeles and he had to start over building a business, buy a home, remarried, etc. His daughter married and raised 2 children. People rebuild after war but the mental anguish will challange you.

    I meet this man, he had deep blue eyees and a hard grip, and an intensity rarely seen in people.

    I'm sure people in Japan can recall the ravishes of war.

    Kim he does not understand this I can guarantee it. I'd like to have a few war survivors meet with him and explain what war does to a generation and a country.
     
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    Now a contact will visit China next week to try and broker a understanding between the Koreans.
     
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    They need to take care of him now before he does something stupid.
     
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    My hope is Russia, China and the US work together to stop this before it gets out of control.
     
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    ^^^

    China is moving assets to the border of NK.
     
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    For or against is the question.
     
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    Careful what you wish for, his replacement may be crazier and more competent.
     
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    Where have we seen this before...oops.
     
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    Just boost cell signal/data towers near the parallel and sneak a few thousand cell phones inside NK. Sit back and wait....*Asian Spring*?
     
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    I'm fairly confident it's to keep the fleeing hoards in NK and/or to grab a hunk of real estate as a buffer if NK falls. Both options are against NK.
     
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    Do NOT trust the Chins... they play both sides to get what they want in the end, and don't GAF...
     
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    This is now very serious. War is very close. He gave foreign embassies until April 10 to evacuate.

    He moved a second long range missle and SK moved it's navy to the area near missles

    John Kerry is in route to China and the Pres is not in Washington possibly for security.

    Guam is hunkered down now.
     
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    Poppycock. It's all a load of bluff.
     
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