How should the U.S resond if NK launches...

[preslove]

And Kim Jong-il can cure blindness. You're no better than he is, using magical fairy tales to portray your own greatness. I see why you don't like my plan; you wish to succeed Kim Jong-il as the next Supreme Leader of a population. In a way, I can't blame you. Those of times long past lived when all leaders were gods, or at least, appointed by gods. As mankind has evolved these silly superstitions have been uprooted from their inherently wicked foundations and replaced with increasingly fairer and more secular leaders. Only the Koreans lack the intellect to believe in such silliness, and thus killing them will ensure that you will never have a legion of pitiful apes to declare dominion over.

You underestimate my Smelly Sorcery, my friend. I just need to eat beans for a week, while China is building the wall. Then, I will get the queen of England to pull my finger, sending me on a fart fueled ballistic trajectory to Pyongyang. When I get there I'll engulf the area with a methane fog and sweep away the Chinese hoard.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Heathen, you can never destroy the illustrious Chinese military! Its numbers are great and its solidarity greater! The time of the Magic Age has long since passed modernity, and your hocus-pocus will not stand up to ten million mass-produced bayonets.

 

[preslove]

Heathen, you can never destroy the illustrious Chinese military! Its numbers are great and its solidarity greater! The time of the Magic Age has long since passed modernity, and your hocus-pocus will not stand up to ten million mass-produced bayonets.

The chinaman's one weakness is that he never eats beans. This leaves him fatally vulnerable to the Musical Fruit Attack!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Psshaw, rice is the ultimate staple crop and everyone still in the 21st century (i.e. non-Koreans) knows full and well that flatulence only gives away one's position by alerting both the ears and the olfactory glands, following which a beautiful display of hammers and sickles will crush you.

 

[preslove]

Dude, I've poisoned 36 Asians with one SBD. Put a week's worth of beans through me and I can take on several divisions. My magic ass is a WMD.

 

[FelixDeCat]

 

[pcgeek11]

The NK can't even feed themselves, their education system is centered around pleasing one dude (the supreme leader), and everything is crumbling in that country. Taking it over would mean taking on a net loss.

China's only interest in NK is preventing a mass refugee problem. That's why they prop them up. Having to deal with millions of ignorant, poor brainwashed peasants is a horrifying prospect.

Sort of like us having to deal with Mexico.... Hmmmm.

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

We'd go to the UN and tell them. They'd do what they always do, come up with an excuse as to why nobody but the US can help, and we'll just back down and do whatever they ask of us.

"Hey, North Korea just attacked us."

"Yeah uh, we'd help, but like uhhh... we got no gas in our tank. So like, we'd have to drive all the way to the gas station before we went to North Korea, so let's just take your army."

"Well... we sorta helped you guys out a lot in the past. We hoped you'd help."

"Yeah well uh, we appreciate that and all. Hey while you're at World War 3, can you pick us up a pack of smokes?"

 

[Locut0s]

If they actually launched a missile? Well that's a tough one since you can't tell a nuke from a comventional warhead in flight. I think they would attempt to take it out before it struck. I don't think they would be stupid enough to launch a retaliatory nuke strike before seeing if the missile NK launched was a nuke or not, at least I hope they wouldn't do this.

If the missile struck and killed people, and was not a nuke then the most likely outcome would probably be air-strikes taking out just about every government and military facility they know about. This would then probably be followed by embargoes and sanctions with UN support.

They might even invade NK with South Korean and UN support.

 

[Locut0s]

no ones gonna do shit, because the last thing america wants is another landwar with a modernized chinese army, and the last thing kim jong wants is that same army on north korean land

Hard to say. The thing China wants ABOVE ALL ELSE is to keep on prospering. They certainly support NK because both are communist states. However China is currently tied to the US like mother and child via an economic umbilical. They don't much like each other but they NEED each other. NK on the other had doesn't want or need anyone and is so insular and far out there that they are lucky to have even China's support. China knows this. My bet is that China would say all kinds of nasty stuff to the US up to an impending invasion of NK but push come to shove they wouldn't cross the border to aid NK. They would drop NK like a hot potato if things got that bad.

 

[Wheezer]

Hard to say. The thing China wants ABOVE ALL ELSE is to keep on prospering. They certainly support NK because both are communist states. However China is currently tied to the US like mother and child via an economic umbilical. They don't much like each other but they NEED each other. NK on the other had doesn't want or need anyone and is so insular and far out there that they are lucky to have even China's support. China knows this. My bet is that China would say all kinds of nasty stuff to the US up to an impending invasion of NK but push come to shove they wouldn't cross the border to aid NK. They would drop NK like a hot potato if things got that bad.

money means more to them than some half-assed relationship with a retard, and we send a lot of cash their way for their cheap garbage....they won't want to give that up.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Given the recent developments with NK sinking a SK ship. Lets say NK decides to show off, and show that it can strike a major U.S city. I assume the closes major city is Anchorage. How should the U.S react if NK launches a missle at Anchorage, AK. Not a nuclear missle, but a one with a conventional warhead. Lets say 5-10 people are killed or injured and a building is heavily damaged or destroyed. What should they U.S do in response.

Let's see, the last time things escalated the North Korean government threatened to missile Japan over something that didn't involve Japan. I say we threaten to nuke China if NK doesn't shut-up and play nice in the playground.

Bunch of jealous, misled, fools.

 

[Greenman]

We'd probably blame Bush, apologize, and send them some money?

This

 

[Anubis]

I say rush with Thors after they zerg rushed the south.

micro managing thors with drops ships is the key to victory

 

[Fayd]

The continent? Surely just the Korean peninsula will suffice.

glassing the continent solves other minor issues.

 

[sandorski]

An intentional strike on U.S. soil like that would be an act of war. We should first call the PRC up and tell them to stay the hell out of our way as we discipline their out of control step-child since they obviously failed to do so.

We should level all of NK's military bases and any factory producing war materials with air strikes and institute a full naval blockade. Get the U.N. to slap a full embargo on them.

But, I know some will come in here saying that the NK people should not suffer for the crimes of their leaders. There might come a point when we cannot allow them to hide behind their brainwashed human shields any longer.

If NK attacked the US, China just might volunteer to kick NK's ass. China doesn't need/want that kind of shit going on next door.

 

[BoomerD]

I'm willing to go out on a limb here but it doesn't sound good...

Possibly something involving Sarah Palin and a hockey stick?

Now you're talking...can we have pics?

 

[dfuze]

I think if NK attacked, our troops from the middle east would be pulled almost if not immediately and redeployed, either in SK or nearby.

 

[EagleKeeper]

An intentional strike on U.S. soil like that would be an act of war. We should first call the PRC up and tell them to stay the hell out of our way as we discipline their out of control step-child since they obviously failed to do so.

We should level all of NK's military bases and any factory producing war materials with air strikes and institute a full naval blockade. Get the U.N. to slap a full embargo on them.

But, I know some will come in here saying that the NK people should not suffer for the crimes of their leaders. There might come a point when we cannot allow them to hide behind their brainwashed human shields any longer.

NK has consistently demonstrated that they do not have the technology capable of reaching the US (Mainland/Hawaii or Alaska).

The threat that they pose to US troops, is in SK via land and/or Japan via short range missles.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

We'd probably hit them pretty hard with some B-2s and then release a statement claiming that we retaliated for their attack and plan no further action unless they act first.

This way we send a message, but don't do it in such a way that it leads to all out war.

OMG, I am agreeing with ProfJohn on something!

But something along those lines would happen. Probably surgical (or as close as possible, no nukes or anything) strikes on whatever launched the missile, as well as any other possible launchers.

And to all the blood-thirsty kids here that blindly make posts about full scale war, please note that real war is very messy, and kills a lot of innocent people. During the Cold War, the USSR shot down plenty of US military planes, and we never invaded and nuked them. Hundreds of US military died during the Cold War, and we still didn't attack/invade/nuke them. Please grow up and realize that war is a nasty thing, and not one you take lightly.

 

[BoberFett]

we'd probably blame bush, apologize, and send them some money?

lol

 

[Possessed Freak]

I just hope it involves this

 

[nageov3t]

if North Korea fired on an American city, we should turn Pyongyang into a parking lot and stick a McDonalds in the center of it.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

We'd probably blame Bush, apologize, and send them some money?

Fool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

Bush wrote a letter apologizing, and paid China $34,000 to get our flight crew back.

Of course, I would say that is a pretty good deal, getting all of our men and women back, but I guess you would rather have started a war, or left them to rot without apologizing.

So what were you saying about Obama apologizing and paying NK?

 

[nageov3t]

Fool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

Bush wrote a letter apologizing, and paid China $34,000 to get our flight crew back.

Of course, I would say that is a pretty good deal, getting all of our men and women back, but I guess you would rather have started a war, or left them to rot without apologizing.

So what were you saying about Obama apologizing and paying NK?

I don't get the parallels that you're trying to draw.