I'm not sure if there are any red lines left.
There is doubt about whether NK have the technology to shield a missile from re-entry on an ICBM. The only way we will know that is when it happens!
Posts by cofty
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114Breaking News - NK Missile Overflies Japan
by cofty instory breaking on reuters here.... kim jong-un seems determined to start a war.
nk is a national cult of personality.
hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith..
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Breaking News - NK Missile Overflies Japan
by cofty instory breaking on reuters here.... kim jong-un seems determined to start a war.
nk is a national cult of personality.
hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith..
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cofty
North Korea has passed another important landmark today with the successful test of a Hydrogen bomb.
"The US Geological Survey and China’s Earthquake Administration said they had detected a suspected explosion that caused a 6.3-magnitude earthquake."
It would be difficult to exaggerate how significant this development is...
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Breaking News - NK Missile Overflies Japan
by cofty instory breaking on reuters here.... kim jong-un seems determined to start a war.
nk is a national cult of personality.
hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith..
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cofty
Truman was decisive when NK invaded South Korea in June 1950. By October a UN force led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur had pushed NK back to the 38th parallel. He gambled that China would not enter the war and took a decision to push on to the Yalu River.
MacArthur was wrong. Mao committed millions of troops to retake NK. America had no military intelligence about what was going on in China and was totally taken by surprise. Hundreds of thousands of PLA troops attacked under cover of darkness forcing the UN army into retreat. It has been described as "the largest ambush in the era of modern warfare". The Chinese army were only stopped by a failure of logistics. They were fighting in temperatures of -30 and lacked the ability to supply the soldiers.
MacArthur proposed using nuclear weapons and even wanted to invade China. He was sacked by Truman and replaced by General Matthew Ridgway. He fought and brilliant campaign and imposed massive losses on the PLA but he was unwilling to take the battle north of the 38th parallel.
Stalin and Mao dragged their feet in the armistice talks extending the war by a further pointless two years. Stalin was happy to see the USA stuck in a costly war. The millions of troops Mao was continuing to send to NK were mostly Nationalists who had previously fought under Chiang Kai-shek against the PLA in the civil war.
An armistice was not signed until the death of Stalin in 1953 by which time 400,000 Chinese troops were dead and Mao was a Socialist hero.
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Breaking News - NK Missile Overflies Japan
by cofty instory breaking on reuters here.... kim jong-un seems determined to start a war.
nk is a national cult of personality.
hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith..
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cofty
There was a point in Korean War when the US and SK pushed all the way to the Chinese border. Mao hit back with a vengeance. After that the US military were unwilling to take the war north of the 38th parallel.
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Breaking News - NK Missile Overflies Japan
by cofty instory breaking on reuters here.... kim jong-un seems determined to start a war.
nk is a national cult of personality.
hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith..
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cofty
The way Japanese soldiers raped and murdered their way through north east China during WWII defies description. It is no wonder they are hated in China.
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Breaking News - NK Missile Overflies Japan
by cofty instory breaking on reuters here.... kim jong-un seems determined to start a war.
nk is a national cult of personality.
hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith..
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cofty
Military experts predict hundreds of thousands of deaths in South Korea in the event of a conventional attack by NK.
Hothead might not give a fuck about them but most people recognize that this risk cannot be so blithely dismissed.
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Breaking News - NK Missile Overflies Japan
by cofty instory breaking on reuters here.... kim jong-un seems determined to start a war.
nk is a national cult of personality.
hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith..
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Breaking News - NK Missile Overflies Japan
by cofty instory breaking on reuters here.... kim jong-un seems determined to start a war.
nk is a national cult of personality.
hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith..
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cofty
No doubt Trump will be Tweeting threats any minute now.
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Breaking News - NK Missile Overflies Japan
by cofty instory breaking on reuters here.... kim jong-un seems determined to start a war.
nk is a national cult of personality.
hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith..
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cofty
Story breaking on Reuters here...
Kim Jong-un seems determined to start a war. NK is a national cult of personality. Hating the rest of the world is the first tenet of faith.
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Let's talk about Blood again....
by stuckinarut2 ini know we have all talked about this topic before, but for some new ones on the forum, or to refresh ourselves, i wanted to start this thread.. the society likes to go on about the sacredness of blood, and how it should not be transfused etc.. they liken it to a symbol of life itself.
something that should be respected and therefore not transfused.. but, what is more important: real life, or a symbol of life?.
an illustration came to mind.. if we give a bunch of flowers to a loved one as a symbol of our love for them, are those flowers more important than the love itself?
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cofty
You are too dumb to even understand the question.
People sacrifice their children on the orders of men no more intelligent than you.