North Korea launches long range missiles...

[LewisD]

BBC news

CNN report

Wewps... i'll get white washing me windows i reckon... wonder if i still have any cans of beans to last me a good 15 years

[colin1]

ambitious but the missiles failed so we dont have a lot to worry about

it always seem daft to me that america take the moral high ground about nuclear weapons when they have more than anyone else and are the only country to have used them.

but admittedly north korea really shd be spending its money on feeding its people
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[stinkwheel]

North Korea has a long history of sabre rattling. They periodically carry out some sort of test or military manouver designed to draw world (and particularly U.S.) attention to them.

They do this knowing full well that the only power likely to take serious action about it are the USA and they wont touch the Korean situation with a barge pole, having effectively been handed their arse on a plate the last time they tried.

So, they rattle their sabres, the US demands they desist and the Koreans say "What's it worth to me?".

Politics then takes over and the Koreans win more favourable trading conditions in return for abandoning whatever the new weapons programme was this time, which is what they wanted in the first place.

[Paul@125power]

I think the Koreans are trying to start a war so it will boost their economy just like the USA did with Vietnam.
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[colin1]

no, wars are a drain on the economy unless you seize lots of assetts ( Iraq was meant to be a goldmine/oil-field)

i dont believe that vietnam helped americas economy

and i agree with stink that korea is trying to get more stuff to make it be good

its like the naughty kids at school who keep being appeased by getting to go on trips and such, if they stopped being naughty, they wdnt get to go on the trips
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[Paul@125power]

[colin1]

this may come as news to you, but many conspiracy theories are complete bollocks, and movies are made to entertain, not to inform

although i almost believe this bit

JFK didn't want the troops in Vietnam, the pentagon did, he was shot, new president (LBJ), he allowed it.
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[TOM M]

Speaking sense tonight colin
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[Black Knight]

Nice one Korea.

It annoys me that the Americans think they rule the world. Who are they to say who can and can't have weapons. If anybody I would say they are the most dangerous people of all.
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[colin1]

[Itchy]

as Stink says its just sabre rattling , AND hyperbole ,

hyperbole the US and UK governments want to keep their people scared and thus more willing to accept bad laws did somebody say ID cards? (which conviently the government has REFUSED the freedom of information act detailing the costs) ,


truth be told a couple of AEGIS cruisers parked in the Sea of Japan would generally nullify this so called threat , as you can bet they are probably just direct desendants of the V2 , unlike the Sunburn russian missile which was designed to sink carriers and get through defences.
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[king kong]

[thinkingabout...]

42 seconds in the air. I could call it a glorified firework, except that a firework would probably do better. It seems more on the level of those Qassams that Hamas use to burn some blades of grass in Israel.

Em, wars are good for an economy. The massive growth in government spending and employment is good at some cost later in terms of debt. Also it allows officers (like for the US in Iraq) to get some solid combat experience and a break from desk work. Nazi Germany was economically empowered simply by spending on guns and roads. Presumably some unfortunate slave in eastern Europe would work off the debt.