[Newsbot]

Title: Fears of war, NKorea meltdown cloud options for response to South Korean ship sinking
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-05-19 18:03:39

[saturn_656]

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While a military response from either the United States or South Korea is unlikely, U.S. officials say they are considering a variety of options, ranging from U.N. Security Council action to additional U.S. penalties

Anything less than a military solution is too lenient.

Sanctions have not done jack to resolve this problem. Time to take it to the next level.

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There is also concern an aggressive response could trigger the collapse of what is arguably the world's most isolated and authoritarian regime, U.S. officials said.

And their collapse would be... bad?

[Gunnair]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

$1:

While a military response from either the United States or South Korea is unlikely, U.S. officials say they are considering a variety of options, ranging from U.N. Security Council action to additional U.S. penalties

Anything less than a military solution is too lenient.

Sanctions have not done jack to resolve this problem. Time to take it to the next level.

$1:

There is also concern an aggressive response could trigger the collapse of what is arguably the world's most isolated and authoritarian regime, U.S. officials said.

And their collapse would be... bad?

Civil War with nukes - a Crimson Tide scenario, I think.

[KorbenDeck]

I'd just carpet bomb them and get control of the nukes as fast as possible

[Proculation]

Better: nuke the nukes

[Thanos]

This could be a classic paper tiger scenario where a terminally weak opponent is hiding behind an intense propaganda bombardment and behind really lazy Western media reporting that doesn't bother to go to the depths of any issue anymore. If a small economic nidge from South Korea is allegedly all that it would take to topple this sickening regime then this whole situation looks more and more like the same one that existed in Romania back in 1989.

[Lemmy]

Rattlesnakes don't rattle when they attack.

[Hyack]

Proculation Proculation:

Better: nuke the nukes

Great freaking idea, do you have any idea where all that radioactive fallout would end up?

[Dragom]

All I wanna know is how China is going to react. Will they defend NK? Discipline NK? Disavow their action?

[Public_Domain]

[Arctic_Menace]

If it is a paper tiger, then good. But what if it isn't? We can't know for sure and I'm sure it's wise to risk it. Also, if the armistice is broken, then Canada is obligated to come to South Korea's defense(we promised them that in '51) and that means more death overseas which I'm not sure the public can handle right now.

If it ISN'T a paper tiger, well...The result isn't pretty for the Korean peninsula, let alone the rest of the world. I'm not sure military action would be the best thing to consider unless China openly says it doesn't give a crap what anyone does to North Korea.

[martin14]

Thanos Thanos:

This could be a classic paper tiger scenario where a terminally weak opponent is hiding behind an intense propaganda bombardment and behind really lazy Western media reporting that doesn't bother to go to the depths of any issue anymore. If a small economic nidge from South Korea is allegedly all that it would take to topple this sickening regime then this whole situation looks more and more like the same one that existed in Romania back in 1989.

Maybe a better example would be Germany.

The West Germans have spent billions fixing the East, and they're not done yet.


The South will be paying for decades.




I'm not sure the Chinese will be game for this though.

[Scape]

Dragom Dragom:

All I wanna know is how China is going to react. Will they defend NK? Discipline NK? Disavow their action?

China HATES NK but sees them as a useful idiot when dealing with the US. Like Italy got Germany into wars it couldn't handle in the Balkans and Ethiopia so too will NK drag China into wars with the US and Japan by proxy. China does not want a multi-million refuge problem on its boarder and would rather the Koreas kill each other in a non-nuclear war and if they can sell weapons to both sides while doing is even better.

[ShepherdsDog]

Actually China sees the two Koreas as traditional vassals of the Middle Kingdom.

[Scape]

Vassals would infer that the Koreas would owe China a tithe but in fact the reverse is true. Like a screaming baby with a full diaper it's easier to just change it then to ignore it. The last train China sent to NK with aid was stripped down to its axels and sold for scrap.