N Korea threatens 'war' if satellite is shot down

Monday 09th March, 10:55 AM JST

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alphawolf at 09:58 PM JST - 9th March

Shooting down someones missle, whether it's a test missle or a satelite rocket is an act of war against any country isn't it? What is someone a Japanese or US or Austrailian, Chinese or British missle?
likeitis at 10:31 PM JST - 9th March

Who say's they have only one nuke?

Who is to say they have even one nuke?

Look, you really need to ditch some of your doomsday scenarios. You are going give yourself a bad heart...for nothing.

If the North Koreans wanted to commit suicide by proxy, they would have done it by now. No need to go lobbing nukes at America. None at all.

Frankly, I am more worried about America sparking a new war on the peninsula, as America has attacked more countries and been in involved in way more violent conflicts that NK since NK was born. Plus America has the capability to make good on its "warnings" to NK, no doubt in anybody's mind about that.
Molenir at 10:35 PM JST - 9th March

Shooting down someones missle, whether it's a test missle or a satelite rocket is an act of war against any country isn't it? What is someone a Japanese or US or Austrailian, Chinese or British missle?

So is firing the missile, if its in the direction of your country or your countries assets.
smithinjapan at 11:48 PM JST - 9th March

kanadamanada: I hope you're right, my friend. I do. I won't be able to say 'I told you so' if you're not.

tclh: He won't really have much of a life to lose if he's about to die, and I think you overestimate how much the guy cares about his family. He might, genuinely so, but I tend to think that evil, selfish men such as himself really don't care about much other than themselves.
SuperLib at 12:13 AM JST - 10th March

smithinjapan: If you choose to see it as such, yes. Will it make NKorea go 180 on it's current threats? I don't believe 180, but I believe they'll slowly backtrack on some of the threats they're making instead of going forward as they have been, and thinks can go back to negotiation over the table instead of via threats of force.

I just don't see how giving in to a bully is going to make him less likely to be a bully in the future. If anything it just encourages their behavior by rewarding it. You'll also be encouraging other nations to take the same path if they see the payoff.

And North Korea has shown in the past that no matter what talk is going back and forth they end up doing what they want to do whether they smile at you or hurl threats. They smiled at Clinton while they secretly built nukes, and they blasted Bush while they openly built nukes. With both approaches the result was the same...they advanced their nuclear technology. The "he's bound to change at some point" doesn't won't work on North Korea anymore than it works on abusive husbands.

smithinjapan: Look, SuperLib, all the calls for people on this site to 'blast NK out of the water!' etc. have led to where things are now. Don't think I'm saying NK has no active part in the deterioration of relations, but it takes TWO to tango, and ever since the 'axis of evil' label and since Lee came in with a similar hard line as Bush had, things have clearly gotten much, much worse. That's fact.

Once again I see you're responding to my posts by referencing what others have said. Really, that has got to stop. Throwing "it takes two to tango" catchphrases at the situation isn't going to help, either. Bush showed progress with getting the North to dismantle some of their facilities long after the Axis of Evil speech that you constantly reference as if it was last week. He even took them off of the State Sponsor of Terrorism list. And Kim's position is simply to question giving free aid while North Korea refuses to soften their stance and give absolutely nothing in return. At some point someone was going to have to bring up that logical conclusion. Just because KJI "got mad" doesn't mean those two are responsible. He's an irrational human being.
SuperLib at 12:17 AM JST - 10th March

likeitis: If the North Koreans wanted to commit suicide by proxy, they would have done it by now.

The North Koreans already are committing suicide. Just check out any news report that talks about life in their country. The question is whether or not they're going to take us with them.
ca1ic0cat at 02:51 AM JST - 10th March

I think Alpha is on to something. All we are doing by giving NK any aid is helping them divert budget from food to missiles and nukes. If NK has the money for rockets they should have plenty for food too. It's time to stop propping up the dear little warmonger. Talk is useless with this lot. They are only blackmailing people to keep themselves in power. Time to pull the plug.
70x4060d at 05:38 AM JST - 10th March

Shooting down someones missle, whether it's a test missle or a satelite rocket is an act of war against any country isn't it?

Yup. Let's see what they have to fight back there with there guy.
Helter_Skelter at 06:18 AM JST - 10th March

it will retaliate against anyone seeking to block its planned satellite launch

NK needn't worry about retaliation for anything it does. Perhaps they don't realize that Obama is Commander-in-Chief of the US military forces.
likeitis at 09:47 AM JST - 10th March

The North Koreans already are committing suicide.

Cutting off the caveat "by proxy", is neither clever nor helpful in your response to me.
likeitis at 09:52 AM JST - 10th March

So is firing the missile, if its in the direction of your country or your countries assets.

No Molenir, it isn't. There is no direction a missile can be pointed anywhere on the Earth without having a great potential of being pointed in such a direction. The only exception is straight up, but as soon as the missile starts coming back down, it is going to point at another country again.

Your definition has every country that ever fired a missile guilty of an act of war to at least one other country.
likeitis at 09:53 AM JST - 10th March

Yup. Let's see what they have to fight back there with there guy.

Might makes right, or so a caveman once told me.
SuperLib at 12:54 AM JST - 11th March

likeitis: Might makes right, or so a caveman once told me.

The weaker party is never wrong, or so a member of the radical left once told me.
YuriOtani at 02:56 AM JST - 11th March

China and North Korea both tougher STUPID. Both made such progress and both are going to throw it all away. This is like a Greek tragedy, you can see the fall coming but can not stop it!
OssanAmerica at 01:48 AM JST - 14th March

Shoot it down. They don't have permission from China to start any "war". It's all empty talk as usual.