Trump by name......

Where are you guys getting the idea that we don't know for sure he has a nuclear weapon?

Regional Seismic Characteristics of the 9 October 2006 North Korean Nuclear TestRegional Seismic Characteristics of the 9 October 2006 North Korean Nuclear Test | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | GeoScienceWorld

 

Re difficulties creating a icbm

also issue isn't really what happens if NK hits mainland America with a ICBM, its what happens when Korea is in itself wiped out, and Japan etc is hit, and what happens as a result of this, millions will die, and they'll be a new arms race.

This is not thinking long term.

 

I am totally floored and astounded by this attitude. North Korea is a small dictatorship run by a megalomaniac whose path to holding power is based upon his rhetoric and defiance of everyone. The United States of America is arguably the largest superpower on the planet, and is expected to provide leadership to the world. Yet here you are, saying that it isn't fair for people to expect the President of the U.S.A. to think and act more diplomatically than a third world dictator such as Kim Jong-un? How in the world can you possibly justify that thinking? I am absolutely baffled as to why you don't expect our leadership to be more competent and knowledgeable than North Korea's leadership.

 

This is a fun watch!

 

They don't have to launch it very far to kill a lot of people. Do they have the amount of technology to hit New York City? I doubt it. Seoul? Tokyo? Yeah, I could see that.

 

Did i miss the part where north korea has been building a nuclear warhead despite being told to stop?

 

Another issue is the mountain that they are using to do the testing is suitable for nuclear tests and they are using horizontal bore shafts, which is further putting the risk of collapsing the mountain in on itself.

 

After Libya, Iraq, and Iran that seems like a rational course of action on their part. :[

 

CAPABILITY and AMOUNT. Thank you very much, never said he never had nukes. Just so im not put in with them.

If North Kroea dies as a result of nuking what ever (even though there are anti balsicitc missile systems in the south Korea area), there would be no arms race for Japan if its hit past to lift some of its ungodly red tape on the military and South Korea doesnt have that anyway and is ina arms race with the North all ready. Korea itself has the ability to be wiped out in a conventional war, war is needed sometimes.


Im going with no matter the result it will become yesterdays news and fast. Unless New york is hit by a nuke transported via a balloon. XP

(and it will all be trumps fault because he is in fact the anti christ )

 

Two posters above my post questioned whether DPRK had viable nukes. It's not all about you...

A group of dudes flying a series of planes into buildings has dominated the US's international and domestic policy for the past 16 years or so. If you think we as a nation would just say "Hey, at least we're getting humanitarian aid!" or "Well, it happened in Japan, no way could it happen here!" you're dreaming.

 

I find that silly and some of the policies taken are stupid. To second part, no. I wouldnt expect Japan to go and make nukes in response however. (not that it could)

 

Since japan has a very long experience with nuclear power, there are no immediate technological reasons why it cant, hell if Iran can, japan can definitely can, and thus a new arms race has begun.

 

It would have political reasons as to why it cannot make nukes. It doesn't have anyone to have a arms race in that area with and it would be culled before it took off. China would have to fight the U.S if it attacked Japan and they could conventionally ballistic missile the hell out of Japan as Japan could if it had a large stockpile of them.

Plus the U.S also has some of the best tech for shooting nukes down to begin with and has the economic base to use them.

 

And yet that's what happened, whether you find it silly or not. To think that a nuclear strike on US soil wouldn't dramatically shape our country's direction is, well, it ain't realistic. Whether Japan would make nukes or not is immaterial; the event would have significant ramifications in international relations for years to come.

These sorts of beliefs are dangerous.

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These don't sound like good odds.

 

Politics change all the time, especially. When you have trump telling the UN it's every country for itself, and telling NATO it can no longer automatically rely on America to fight there battles.

Trump is literally destabilising the world in exchange for boosting his own self esteem.

Dotard is quite an apt word-

dotard
ˈdəʊtəd/
noun

1. an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile.