The entire Senate is being summoned to the White House tomorrow for a briefing on North Korea. This seems unprecedented, doesn't it?

I don't know what this is for, but I can't imagine any of it is good.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north ... SKBN17Q1LR

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Bomb 'em to kingdom come.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

You realize North Korea has the artillery to flatten Seoul minutes after a war starts, right?

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I don't live in Seoul.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

North Korea isn't shit. The fear mongering by the Trump admin over this is ridiculous.

I would say we shouldn't be getting involved, but there is a legitimate thread there and a limited window to act (I think we shouldn't act).

Basically experts say there is only a 4-5 year window before NK gets small enough 2 stage devices that can fit within an ICBM that can reliably hit the Continental US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/worl ... ogram.html

Once again, I'd pull out of the DMZ and tell Japan and S Korea it's their problem, but our government foolishly feels the need to play world policeman.

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A trade, economic incentives for ditching the nuclear program can be achieved. Bill Clinton almost had it solved. And then "Axis of Evil" came along.

It's been going on for decades now. They are not a threat. They can't even keep the damn lights on in their own country.

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If they can figure out their missiles and shrink their warheads (something we could do with 1950s tech) then yes they become a threat. If we could do it in the 1950s, then it isn't inconceivable North Korea can accomplish that.

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Fucking guy

This country would be a better place if we left McCain to the fucking Vietnamese.

Oh and Lindsey Graham is a burrito who rattles the saber every so often to feel like a real man.

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If they haven't done this by now, I am not sure they will ever be able to. They might be a thread to South Korea, but they really are not a thread to the US Mainland.

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And in the event one of their bottle rockets, maybe, maybe, can hit Seattle, they have no motivation to launch. Their entire country would be gone in five minutes.

It's not the most difficult thing to do. Many believe the only reason they haven't been able to get their missiles to work is the result of sabotage efforts, which given how Stuxnet worked is in very much possible.

They will have an operational ICBM in the next decade

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

The great thing about the Soviets was that they could be counted on to act as rational actors. Can you count on the Kims to be rational?

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They are an agnostic nation. I think any country devoid of religion can eventually be reasoned with.

In situation like North Korea the threat is not the same as Russia, China or the other nuked up countries. They understand the deterrent of mutually assured destruction. Crazy ass dictators do not or at least give off the idea that they do not care. The thinking is they would rather go out in a fireball than lose their status.

As far as the not feeding people or having all the roads paved and lights on this is likely also common for a dictator led communist regime. It is not that they do not have the resources or technology to get a working ICBM or other weapons. They would actually deprive their people of basic needs in order to have a big military and massive weaponry.

Lastly, I do not want to start any shit with them for several reasons but since before Clinton and including him no talking has worked to make any change there worth noting. You can talk partisan stuff all you like but no US administration has made meaningful progress since before I was in high school.

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Is North Korea really devoid of religion? They sure as hell have a religion and that religion is worship of the state and its leaders. They built a religion around Kim Il Sung as their deity.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

If you want to let those zipper heads terrify you, fine. So be it.

Once again, I'm saying we shouldn't even be involved. Let South korea or Japan deal with it. However, an ICBM in the hands of a literal madman is a legitimate existential threat. All the more reason to let the rest of the world handle it.

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I could see Trump making Rodman the ambassador to North Korea and flying over with him to work shit out. Wasn't Rodman on The Apprentice?

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We have about 30,000 troops in South Korea. Why do you hate America?

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<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

They already do. Sort of -

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/advice/a22948/north-korea-icbm-range-united-states/

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You know me like that.

Crossing over from the 'CFMB Golf Faction,' I say we get a group together and take this title back to the US!

http://www.northkoreanopen.com/course1.html

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

also a good number of your electronic devices come from there... as do 10,000,000 people. That would devastate the global economy.

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