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U.S. flies supersonic bomber over S Korea in show of force against N Korea

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Cool plane. Why no pics?

I guess they're going to take fatty out. It probably wants doing but the casualties will be staggering.

Trump is weak and scandal embroiled, but the military are clearly in charge of this. I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or not.

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No way you "just take fatty out" without triggering WW3. Think Russia and China are just gonna stand back and the US carte blanche to upset the geopolitical balance to that degree? We are in very dangerous times, very dangerous...

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B-1B Lancer launching from RAF Fairford 04.09.16.........

Job done Madverts.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTE4kJ3Q2M

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No way you "just take fatty out" 

Sure they can. The regime would collapse within half an hour of the first bomb dropping. The Russians and Chinese helped create this nuclear obsessed monster, let them deal with the aftermath.

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Cheers Rock roll =)

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What this article fails to mention is that in response to this aerial exercise, China carried out a massive exercise of its own for the first time ever in the space closest to NK in a firm show of support and with a warning that further provocation of NK will not be tolerated. As such, there will be no war, and if there is, it's game over.

Madverts: "Sure they can. The regime would collapse within half an hour of the first bomb dropping."

That's narrow-minded to say the least. Yeah, NK would collapse, after SK was destroyed and likely portions of Japan and massive US casualties along with it. We'd see the worst humanitarian crisis in history, an economic crisis, and if WWIII didn't start outright China and Russia are more than ready to sweep in and take over the area, and that would provide ANOTHER chance for war when those forces met the US in the middle.

"The Russians and Chinese helped create this nuclear obsessed monster, let them deal with the aftermath."

Again, narrow-minded. The US and Japan had their hands in it just as much as those nations you mention, and Japan much moreso since if they had not colonised the nation to begin with it never would have been divided into North and South, same as Vietnam. If you want to place blame for something, place it on all involved, not just one side.

There's no good outcome for war, peeps. There are four possible, all terrible, outcomes.

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The DPRK needs to put another show of force against the US which will trigger another show of force from the US and on and on until we get what we want. War!

Am I right?

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This is certain to descalate the situation. A display of good old American resolve will put those commies in place. Right...?

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I guess they're going to take fatty out. 

Easier said than done. The U.S. tried to target Saddam and missed every time.

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Japan much moreso since if they had not colonised the nation to begin with it never would have been divided into North and South

When Korea was annexed by Japan, it was not divided North and South.  Korea was divided because Japan was destroyed and left.

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Those F-16s included some of the Misawa-based planes (WW), 13th Fighter Squadron Panthers with the red tail stripe.

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Viking,

I think it's pretty fair to say they eventually got Saddam. Insanity that it was but there you go.

It's an uncomfortable situation created entirely by the crackpot regime and its' enablers. Mostly China but the Russians use Norks as slave labour plus I'm sure their advances in missile technology come via Don Putin in his efforts to undermine the post WW2 world order.

Does the world really want to be held hostage by fatty? That's what comes next when they've perfected the payload delivery systems. This Elastoplast should have been ripped off the festering wound years ago. Every day counts....

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tinawatanabe: "When Korea was annexed by Japan, it was not divided North and South. Korea was divided because Japan was destroyed and left."

I never said it was divided BY Japan -- it was divided BECAUSE of Japan. Or was it divided before Japan got there?

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I never get why people focus on either tyrant's weight?

Unless one can make comparisons that both have grown stout as a result of feeding on their respective peoples?

Still, when the revolution comes, comrades...

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@Madverts

"It's an uncomfortable situation created entirely by the crackpot regime and its' enablers."

I take it that you mean the US, as they are the ones creating the situation.

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I never said it was divided BY Japan -- it was divided BECAUSE of Japan. Or was it divided before Japan got there

What makes you think Korea is divided because of Japan? Because that happened after colonization ended?

This timing is not the cause of today's division.

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Madverts: "I think it's pretty fair to say they eventually got Saddam. Insanity that it was but there you go."

A tyrant dead, at what cost in economy, human lives, and current situation? It's far worse now than when Saddam was in power, and from that vacuum and with Afghanistan -- also far worse -- came ISIS. It's insanity to think what exists now is "worth it". NK would be FAR worse, else the US would have attacked a LONG time ago.

"Does the world really want to be held hostage by fatty?"

Hang on... whom are we talking about. Last I checked Trump was roughly the same size. Abe's quite a bit thinner thanks to his crazy stomach conditions, though.

"It's an uncomfortable situation created entirely by the crackpot regime and its' enablers."

And the US, Japan, and other nations. Sorry, but you forgot the result is the way it is because of those nations, too. Blame everyone else all you want, but the decision and desire to go to war is yours.

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NK will be destroyed in days if the us takes actions. Unfortunately hundreds of thousands will die. What to do and how to do it?

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Ease off the beligerent and firery rhetoric - that goes for both warmongers and push for diplomacy.

Not sure if it was covered on JT but the UN's Jeffrey Feltman is to pay a visit to the DPRK. There's always hope.

Oh and it's not just NK that will be destroyed. South Korea and Japan will see heavy and horrific casualties as well but the hawks in Washington care little about us here in the region.

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A bit confused. It seems like the same people here who blame the US for responding to NKs show of force (and threats), are the same ones who then defend the thieving NK pirates who drift over to Japan by boat, and loot the buildings of everything they can fit on their boat.

So responding to force with force is wrong, sanctions are wrong because our fault that the citizens there are now dirt poor and desperate (their leadership to blame). So the response should be just ignore NK, let the mod whatever they want to do?

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There will be no war. This is just Trump & company playing Kim's game. And about time too. I think Kim knows this as well so this could go on for a year or more. I hope not, but the military is getting some good training out of it.

I'm more concerned about what the Saudi criminal coalition will do now that Saleh has been rubbed out, as well as Israels BS attacks into Syria and targeting Hezbollah for removal.

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There will be no war. This is just Trump & company playing Kim's game.

A dangerous game to play.

The consequences of which could be unspeakable.

But yes, the situation in the Middle East is every bit as worrying.

Something's got to give.

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Yeah, that won't wind Kim up at all... honestly, is Trump TRYING to provoke Kim into doing something stupid and the world will painfully regret?

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Diplomacy has failed in a more abject manner here than the so-called "war on drugs". Or the so-called "war on terror".

Anyone thinking diplomacy will achieve anything believes in Santa Claus. In fact we may as well ask Santa to ditch the reindeer for a herd of unicorns and then head on to Norksville for negotiations. That's the only way I see diplomacy having a chance at working after decades of carrot and stick.

Their is no good or right solution to this regime. The best we can hope for is the the pressure getting to one of the Nork generals and them putting one through fatty's brain.

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There is dammit

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The best we can hope for is the the pressure getting to one of the Nork generals and them putting one through fatty's brain.

Which "fatty", though?

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lol

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I guess they're going to take fatty out. 

Easier said than done. The U.S. tried to target Saddam and missed every time.

Maybe they could try something more subtle this time. They tried to take Castro out with an exploding cigar. Maybe they can try an exploding doughnut this time. North Korea could respond by sending Trump an exploding p___y.

Two real peanut brains here. As Toasted Heretic said, give the U.N. a shot. Nothing to lose. There’s plenty to lose if we leave things to these clowns.

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Probably would have been appropriate for one of the Naval pilots who drew the Genitalia over Washington state with his Vapour trail, to have been shipped over to S.Korea to do the same in "plane" sight of the North... now that would be making a statement :-D

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WhoamI: "What makes you think Korea is divided because of Japan?"

Ummm... history? Ever read it outside of Japanese texts? The countries that were colonized by Japan at the time, save China, were divided into North and South once the Japanese were driven out, and both ended up becoming war zones during the cold war, the North supported by Communist nation and the South by the US. Again, are you saying it would have happened anyway if Japan had not colonized the nations to begin with?

"This timing is not the cause of today's division."

It is the root cause, yes. After that, what ensued in each country differs, but they were ultimately split apart at the beginning in agreement after driving Japan out. The same thing would have happened in Japan, too, had they surrendered to Russia and not rushed to do so with the US.

madverts: "Diplomacy has failed in a more abject manner here than the so-called "war on drugs". Or the so-called "war on terror"."

Both of these led by whom?

Andy: "A bit confused."

So's everyone who wants war and thinks these shows of force are anything but the same as NK is doing. You're not alone.

Jimizo: "Two real peanut brains here. As Toasted Heretic said, give the U.N. a shot. Nothing to lose. There’s plenty to lose if we leave things to these clowns."

Glad to see some voices of reason here in the crowd of warmongers and history deniers.

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Again, are you saying it would have happened anyway if Japan had not colonized the nations to begin with?

It would not have happened. But the agreement to divide Korea was one between the US and the Soviet Union without Japan being involved in that decision. That's why I can't follow your sentence "it was divided BECAUSE of Japan". It was divided by the US and the USSR after Japan had left.

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Why Korea was split - didn't take much hunting...

Korea was ruled by Imperial Japan from 1910 until the closing days of World War II.

In August 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Imperial Japan, as a result of an agreement with the United States, and liberated Korea north of the 38th parallel. U.S. forces subsequently moved into the south.

By 1948, as a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea was split into two regions, with separate governments. Both claimed to be the legitimate government of all of Korea, and neither accepted the border as permanent.

The conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces—supported by the Soviet Union and China—moved into the south on 25 June 1950. On 27 June, the United Nations Security Council authorized the formation and dispatch of UN forces to Korea to repel what was recognized as a North Korean invasion. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force, with the United States providing 88% of the UN's military personnel.

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Nearly here -- NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST, brought to you by Donald Trump. Fire and fury ... and a massive death toll.

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