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North Korea warns of 'overwhelming nuclear force' to counter U.S.

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By KIM TONG-HYUNG

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I was wondering where all this blustery weather was coming from - north Korea

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Just for fun, maybe ROK should declare DPRK a renegade province and any contact with DPRK by other nations a gross violation of its internal affairs. Then make plans for unification by force if necessary. And hear the hypocritical howls begin.

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Blow me (a kiss as your leaving Kim-boi).

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Fun Fact: The last time the US wanted to send a message to the DORKs, with the B-1, it had to publicize the fact that it had taken part becuase their garbage radars had not detected it. They didn't know that it was flying up and down the coast off shore until they learned about it from US press releases.

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North Korea said Thursday it's prepared to counter U.S. military moves with the "most overwhelming nuclear force" as it warned that the expansion of the United States' combined military exercises with rival South Korea is pushing tensions to an "extreme red line."

Holes all over that statement.

NK does not posses "most overwhelming nuclear force" it may have a few warheads at its disposal but no guarantees they would all work as hoped.

Exercises are a normal part of standard military options for all nations, including NK itself.

Allies will have exercises to integrate abilities, that is not unusual. What is unusual is threatening others for holding drills and exercises. Quite rude of them.

Meet the boy who cried wolf, over and over again. Mr Kim, you will again be ignored.

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*Exercises are a normal part of standard military operations for all nations, including NK itself.

7 ( +8 / -1 )

No one is listening to you anymore. [Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry] We stopped listening to you about eight years ago.

Now, you are just background noise.

2 ( +7 / -5 )

Dear Little kim, Bring It On.

6 ( +10 / -4 )

there must be some confusion between - exercise , military operations , and a show of strength

Nope, not at all.

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What will Little kim do when the day comes where he pushes all his nuke buttons and NOTHING happens, LOL

2 ( +5 / -3 )

Waxing nostalgic for the olden days of US power:

“Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

-5 ( +2 / -7 )

Fat boi likes his food, booze and Western goods too much to start a war.

His cray-cray sister on the other hand.....

That woman is plainly nuts.

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Even an intercepted nuclear detonation over or near south Korea would be catastrophic

A missile successfully intercepted would not spontaneously detonate. Even the DORKS are not that stupid.

They only go boom when they are supposed to go boom.

Face palm indeed........

3 ( +4 / -1 )

Peter14,do not rely on American,rely on your own country ineffective response

-7 ( +0 / -7 )

USA dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki in 1945.

Now... North Korea will drop its FAT MAN on the USA.

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@blacklable Waxing nostalgic for the olden days of US power:

But now to satisfy far rightist's warmongering they can continue to support Russia and its partners Iran, North Korea and China, while opposing the US and its partners.

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far rightist's warmongering

Isnt the far left in charge of US foreign policy right now?

aren’t they fully funding and supplying arms for a war, right low?

-5 ( +2 / -7 )

What’s Kimmoi smoking seems highly dangerously out of mind

5 ( +5 / -0 )

Now... North Korea will drop its FAT MAN on the USA.

HOW DARE YOU insult the Dear Leader!

5 ( +5 / -0 )

Unfortunately for dump (but fortunately for the world), the Joint Chiefs told him it was the nuclear button but it just brought I’m diet cokes and 2 scoops of ice cream.

Maybe that’s why they “fell in love.”…

3 ( +3 / -0 )

Uh oh! Lil Kim is gonna write an angry letter and may even send a nasty email. Then he is gonna stroke his missile.

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One of the problems with having a dictator is that they can say whatever nonsense they feel like saying, and no one is going to call them on it, at least no one in the country that the dictator controls. North Korea, China, and Russia are all examples of countries where the dictator says whatever nonsense they want, without fear of contradiction.

Trump talked lots of insane nonsense, but at least he was called on it.

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Trump talked lots of insane nonsense, but at least he was called on it.

It helped that there was no way the Joint Service Chiefs were going to let him blow up the world because he got his undies in a bunch.

I have no such confidence in the Kim Clan.

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Unfortunately for dump (but fortunately for the world), the Joint Chiefs told him it was the nuclear button but it just brought I’m diet cokes and 2 scoops of ice cream.

Maybe that’s why they “fell in love.”…

trump fell in love with lil Kim because trump had a large loan with a North Korean backed corporation.

The loan has already been verified, and trump kept it secret, before and while he was president!

The Manchurian candidate that just kept on giving to all the Middle Eastern, Eastern European, and East Asian dictators!

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Chin,the US can hit NK 5 times with one single missile,it obviously Kim advisor have not told him that

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Sigh. More chest thumping and Tarzan noises from Pyongyang :/

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Fun Fact: The last time the US wanted to send a message to the DORKs, with the B-1, it had to publicize the fact that it had taken part becuase their garbage radars had not detected it. They didn't know that it was flying up and down the coast off shore until they learned about it from US press releases.

Fun fantasy. DPRK has modern radars and air defense systems at least equivalent to S-300 and early versions of HQ-9. These systems were first publicly displayed in a 2010 parade. The Norks probably can't track something like a B-2, F-22 or F-35 but a BONE, while having some RCS reduction features, is very far from all aspect L-O.

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Even an intercepted nuclear detonation over or near south Korea would be catastrophic

It doesn't work that way. For a nuclear weapon to detonate in the way necessary to create a nuclear vs a simple conventional HE explosion, a whole series of things have to occur in a very precise order and where the timing of the events is crucial. Read up on how nuclear weapons actually work. If the warhead is hit by a defensive weapon before that series of events is initiated, the worst you have is conventional explosion in the atmosphere that scatters nuclear material around, a dirty bomb. There won't be a nuclear detonation.

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Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD! However, unlike Middle East terrorists, they do not practice suicide bombing.

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DT,an explosion lens detonate a nuclear bomb, similar to the one the Rosenberg gave to Russia Google Rosenberg Implosion Lens

Duh. But if a missile hits the nuclear weapon before the chain of events that lead to a nuclear explosion happens, the weapon and those lenses are scattered so a nuclear explosion is not possible.

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Good old US provoking more wars for its geopolitic convenience..

This is new!!..

-3 ( +0 / -3 )

If there were ever two people I'd love to see a public flogging and humiliating of it's the Kim brother and sister duo.

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Good old US provoking more wars for its geopolitic convenience..

What? SK didn't invade NK. It was a tactical mistake for China to encourage NK in their civil war, but THEY started it, not the US.

China wanted to expand communism to the entire Korean Peninsula, but the US saw it coming faster than they expected and moved to counteract that invasion, before it happened.. Their civil war has never officially ended, so NK really is an outlaw province to SK. Of course, NK might make the same claim about SK.

NK is a vassal state of China. Without Chinese support, they'd have lost and all of Korea would be more like SK, Japan, and Taiwan today. I bet NK people would rather have that political and economic system.

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@Awa no Gaijin So NK lobbing bombs over isn't considered provocative or its just range practice?

United States flew B-1B bombers and F-22 and F-35 fighter jets in an exercise with South Korean fighters on Wednesday above South Korea's western waters in their latest show of strength.

So...more of a provocation than an actual exercise then !

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The baby Panda has too much air under his pants. If one of those bombs he has mistakenly hit or hit SK, or JP his reign of fatness is over!!!

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@theFu

It was a tactical mistake for China to encourage NK in their civil war

China had nothing to do with starting Korean War. Kim was a Soviet Army officer installed by Stalin, and discussed and obtained the approval of his invasion plan from Stalin, not Mao.

China only intervened when the war was about to spill into their border, but China had nothing to do with the start of Korean War.

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