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North Korea fired a missile over Japan last night, officials said, as Tokyo warned citizens in the north of the country to take cover.

Japan's warning system kicked in, advising citizens on its northern Hokkaido island to take precautions, as the missile headed towards land in what was a significant escalation of Kim Jong-un's military posturing.

The missile later broke into three pieces and landed in the sea. It flew for around 1,700 miles, reaching a maximum altitude of 350 miles, South Korean officials said. The Pentagon confirmed the launch.

93henfan wrote:Not a damn thing anybody's going to do about until they're prepared to see Seoul leveled.

They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen ... he has been very threatening beyond a normal state. They will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.

Skjellyfetti wrote:Is Donny still sticking by this or what?

They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen ... he has been very threatening beyond a normal state. They will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.

CID1990 wrote:Remember when Trump was unbalanced and going to start WWIII?

I remember a lot of hand wringing over his mouthing off about NK

It's amazing what people choose to believe or disbelieve

Trump is either a windbag or Hitler - he can't be both

Chizzang wrote:

CID1990 wrote:Remember when Trump was unbalanced and going to start WWIII?

I remember a lot of hand wringing over his mouthing off about NK

It's amazing what people choose to believe or disbelieve

Trump is either a windbag or Hitler - he can't be both

Of course he can be both...
He's already established that he's a windbag / book it / done /

Now he just has to also hit the red button
of course nobody in the Military will do damn thing if he hits the button

Vidav wrote:

93henfan wrote:Not a damn thing anybody's going to do about until they're prepared to see Seoul leveled.

Yeah. But how far do they let North Korea push things before saying enough?

Reality

After five nuclear tests and two successful launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, most experts believe the opportunity to prevent North Korea from developing a nuclear weapon that could hit the United States has come and gone.

Attempts to take out weapons in North Korea -- where reliable intelligence is scarce -- could be incredibly risky.

"If you attack them after they have the nuclear weapons, it's not a preventive war. It's just a plain old nuclear war," Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies' James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said on a recent podcast.

Even if nuclear weapons aren't used, North Korea's huge artillery stocks could devastate the South Korean capital of Seoul and its surrounding areas. Japan's military likely does not have the capability to forcefully respond without US assistance, as it's a primarily defensive force.

Unconditional dialogue is one of the few remaining options that some North Korea watchers think should be tested.

The current process of clamping down on North Korea is what the country is used to, argues Delury of Yonsei University.

Punishing North Korea for its missile tests -- which the United Nations Security Council has barred it from conducting -- is "the logical counter-reaction but it doesn't change the outcome," Delury said. "You just continue along this trajectory."

"There's just really no good option," Robert Kelly, a professor of political sciences at South Korea's Pusan National University, told CNN.

"If there were, we wouldn't be talking about this every few months. No one knows what to do about North Korea."

Chizzang wrote:

CID1990 wrote:Remember when Trump was unbalanced and going to start WWIII?

I remember a lot of hand wringing over his mouthing off about NK

It's amazing what people choose to believe or disbelieve

Trump is either a windbag or Hitler - he can't be both

Of course he can be both...
He's already established that he's a windbag / book it / done /

Now he just has to also hit the red button
of course nobody in the Military will do damn thing if he hits the button

Rob Iola wrote:

Chizzang wrote:
Of course he can be both...
He's already established that he's a windbag / book it / done /

Now he just has to also hit the red button
of course nobody in the Military will do damn thing if he hits the button

Yeah, I've been wondering if someone in the military has actually disabled the football - would make sense...

andy7171 wrote:MOAB the living **** out of him.

ASUG8 wrote: The better option, if possible, is to remove Kim with a surgical special teams strike. Problem is, Kim is so paranoid they'd have to get around a half million armed troops just to get to him.

Skjellyfetti wrote:

ASUG8 wrote: The better option, if possible, is to remove Kim with a surgical special teams strike. Problem is, Kim is so paranoid they'd have to get around a half million armed troops just to get to him.

Seems like he has reason to be paranoid.