North korea threatens sacred war

[melthebell]

5 seems quite reasonable...

 

maybe we should do it anyway, without france there would be no need to keep or replace trident

well i meant 5 could indeed happen, but the ones after are proper tinfoil hat stuff lol

[Forumosaurus]

Yeah I think we'll look back at this in a few years time and think, wow this is where world war 3 started.

 

Think SK have been really patient. First NK sink they ship, then they shell they island, it's not on really.

 

Can't see NK lasting long though, China/Russia/SK seem up for world peace but theres only so far you can be pushed.

 

As troops start to leave Afghanistan they'll be pumped into SK near the border I'll bet.

 

No one likes NK, they the forgotten country. No one would miss it if it was wiped out.

 

It's they loose fitting military uniforms that annoy me.

 

Half the country wear some sort of military uniform, you'd have thought they would have found a decent tailor by now.

[MadnBad]

No one is going to mess with north korea as long as china has their back!, but china is more interested in economic dominance than military so is unlikely to allow war.

But should the war actually happen and china backs north korea and the united nations backs the south and it all kicks off again then who knows what could happen.

[Forumosaurus]

No one is going to mess with north korea as long as china has their back!, but china is more interested in economic dominance than military so is unlikely to allow war.

But should the war actually happen and china backs north korea and the united nations backs the south and it all kicks off again then who knows what could happen.

 

Aye, to be fair, if it weren't for China NK would be screwed, they're completely dependent on them.

 

If NK started **** and China backed them, the US would sanction the hell out of China which would be bad for their economy.

 

Can't see it kicking off to be fair because of this, but if it does...can't see China giving much support.

 

China are beginning to realise more and more than NK is a bad egg.

 

Look at the recent cables that got released.

[Harleyman]

A lot of the recent saber rattling can be traced to the loony Kim IL Jong preparing to hand over power to his equally unbalanced son. He's giviing him lessons in brinkmanship.

 

The onus is on China to keep them in check but the Chinese may come unstuck if they dont handle the situation with care. It suits them to have a communist country on their border but they're terrified also of a war breaking out between both Koreas and millions of North Korean refugees streaming across their border.

In short they have a tiger by the tail

[medusa]

I don't understand how they can call any war 'sacred' since North Korea is officially an atheist state. What is sacred about killing people?

[MadnBad]

Aye, to be fair, if it weren't for China NK would be screwed, they're completely dependent on them.

 

If NK started **** and China backed them, the US would sanction the hell out of China which would be bad for their economy.

 

Can't see it kicking off to be fair because of this, but if it does...can't see China giving much support.

 

China are beginning to realise more and more than NK is a bad egg.

 

Look at the recent cables that got released.

 

The US has no ability to sanction china since china is about the only thing keeping the US economy afloat otherwise you guys would be in the financial ****. On the other hand the US is chinas biggest foreign investment and they are unlikely to want to sour relations too much, which i think is possibly why china is seeking better links with india to reduce their possible losses if the US goes belly up.

[roger_pearse]

Rather funny for an atheist state to threaten sacred war.

 

But actually it's just a feudal despotism, as we all know.

 

Did you know that Hitler's puppets in the Sudetenland used to behave in exactly the same way when trying to break up Czechoslovakia? All the violent language and threats etc -- all dictated from Berlin. The North Koreans are just doing what the Chinese want.

[sccsux]

I don't understand how they can call any war 'sacred' since North Korea is officially an atheist state. What is sacred about killing people?

 

Sacred has another meaning other than the religious:

 

sacred /"seIkrId/

· adj.

1 connected with a deity and so deserving veneration; holy. Ø (of writing or text) embodying the doctrines of a religion. sacrosanct

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sacrosanct /"sakr@(U)saN(k)t, "seIk-/

· adj. regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with.

 

Sacred also means important.

[roger_pearse]

Sacred has another meaning other than the religious: ... Sacred also means important.

 

Only if the word theist also means "someone who does not believe in a god".

 

We must always resist the sort of person who tries to misapply language in just this way, because it makes it mor difficult for us all to communicate.