Korean War?

After what's been going on between North and South Korea, do you think this is going to blow up into an all out war? perhaps a full blown world war? A lot of my friends seem to thing so, and I think if so it might just coincide with 2012...
what do you think? is this it?

 

I think we all might be fucked. We will just have to wait and see.

 

It would be suicidal for the north but they have a crazy man at the helm, - so if there is a war expect then to launch what nuclear capability they have.

But why 2012?

 

It's looking like it's a real possibility, which is scary with north korea in the picture. I sure hope not, though.

 

Neither side really wants war.
Seoul would be completely destroyed, but the South would win.
The North is doing their same bullshit, pushing to see how much leverage they have. This little skirmish also has a lot to do with the upcoming transference of power. To the people of North Korea, Kim Jong-il is like a God on Earth, it is a huge deal for his son to be taking over. They have to do something like this in order to show that he can jerk the international community around like his father did.

The international community definitely doesn't want a war, and China doesn't want to have to deal with the humanitarian crisis that will be knocking on their door when the North's regime is overthrown and millions of starving refugees are in an even worse situation than they are now.

It isn't WWIII.

 

No way, there will be no war soon.

 

I hope not.

 

Yeah, especially if it goes nuclear... then we're ALL fucked.

 

Well be fucked not by nuclear but by financial weapons of mass destruction (see currency war thread)

 

It's possible, but be rest assured: It won't be nuclear, It won't coincide with 2012 and it won't be a world war (we don't tend to have them nowadays).

 

oh cool my thread got turned into a poll and its all popular now yay

 

I don't think it'll be WWIII but a war will probably happen. We were watching the news and my dad said "if we get involved i'll bet they'll reenact the draft." That'd get people outta their seat.

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oh that would suck. I'd be the first person to encourage draft dodging.

 

even if there was a war, possibly a nuclear detonation upon Seoul .. the funny thing is, Americans would still go about their miserable lives like they do any other day.. Big deal it would be all over the news.. the theatrical events would be momentary just as they were during WWII. The bombing of Japan didnt effect a single soul in the heartland of America..

Many people like you and I, read about it in history books and the world is still here.... and so are you\ you will probably live 2o/40 years after a nuclear weapons attack unless you lived at GZ..

The thing about nuclear weapons owned by countries in development.. They have very little of them, and couldn't deploy many at all..

Strategically it wouldn't be a very good idea. The conventional weapons that will be unleashed upon a nation that used a nuclear weapon to instigate an attack would be phenomenal.

 

I doubt it.
The war in the Middle East is already incredibly unpopular, especially with the younger crowd. When speaking of the people the draft would affect the most (people in their 20s) you are talking about a largely liberal demographic, who was growing up during 9/11 and the wars in the Middle East, and has been severely affected by the economic crises, including wildly inflated tuition prices and the fucked up housing sector that basically makes financial stability impossible for anyone looking to get an education and their own home. Our entire generation is getting fucked over, we can't afford an education without incurring massive debt, we are forced to give up a conventional lifestyle and live with our parents longer in order to be able to afford said education, and those of us who DO make it through college usually find that employers are looking for older, experienced employees and we're forced to take menial jobs that we're overqualified for, jobs whose minimum wage pay hardly make a dent in the debt we owe to school loans. A draft for yet another war would I think really be the last straw. We're sick of war, we don't want war, and I think they'd have a terrible time forcing civilians to go to war. The draft would be outrageously unpopular to the point of civil unrest.

If the Korean peninsula erupts in war the U.S. will not get directly involved. We'll supply weapons and money to the South, but it's very unlikely that we will provide direct military support, and even more unlikely that we actually draft civilians.

 

N. Korea does this from time to time, and I thinks it's just to get attension. China is a bit irritated and is talking about unifying, and it's in their backyard. The sad part is that none of the big superpowers will ever learn that if you ignore these little blowhards, they'll go back to persecuting their own people

 

Sorry, Midgardsun, but it's London to a brick on America will have its war with China. It won't be long now before the Christo-capitalists press blares - "North Korean troops throw babies out of incubators.!...Kim Jong Il gasses his own people, puts opponents in giant paper shredder!!....North Koreans were the pilots of the 9/11 planes!!..... but worst still , NORTH KOREANS ARE ALL CHRIST DENYIN" COMMUNIST ATHEISTS, JUST LIKE THE EVIL CHICOMS!!

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Nobody cares about North Korea. There's not going to be a war when the leaked cables say China has already warmed up to the idea of Korea being united under South Korea in a passive alliance with the United States once the political system there falls apart.

 

If this is supposed to be a parody of sensationalist headlines, I'd just like to point out that North Korea really is a legitimate, dystopian shit-hole with a God-complex ridden misanthrope as dictator for life.

 

North Corea is a nice country and North Coreans are very fiendly people...