I doubt we'll see even tactical nukes put into action, we have infinitely more efficient weapons use that would cause far less political backlash. However a carrier battle group sitting off the cost of your country is still a terrifying thing and N. Korea definitely doesn't have the ability to go toe-to-toe with the U.S. on a technological level. Even more so if the U.S. plays strictly defensive.
Never heard of escalation? just because America might not use nukes doesn't mean that North Korea won't. A country doesn't need to be on the same technological level in order to make sure that nobody wins, look at how much damage terrorists did to the financial world and to the American people, from a terrorist point of view it was a hugely successful mission, not only did it disrupt the economy it scared the hell out of a huge portion of Americans.
I would assume that doing this is more of a showing of strength tactic than anything else but the thing that's worrying is regardless how large an animal a cornered mouse is up against, if it feels desperate enough it'll give a best ditch effort and attack.
[MENTION=751]Peppermint[/MENTION];
I agree, that is definitely how America appears in many countries but you have to keep in mind, they're the one nation under god
My time living over there was....more than scary, the news is horrifically close to propaganda and a large portion of Americans I've met.....although they have an awareness of other countries they just seem to see them as "them" and that America knows best which is kind of strange, they'll demonstrate consideration for other countries but when given a problem or a question they seem to go to some sort of american default setting lol, though to be fair I have met some great people in America, very intelligent and so forth, it's just a shame they seemed quite few and far between. I don't think the American competitive mentality helps, there seems to be a sort of tunnel vision and a lot of focus on ones social status which is unfortunate.
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I would agree, there isn't really a lot of fact behind this article but the website is supposed to be quite reputable and the timing makes sense given the recent events between North Korea and South Korea.
[MENTION=2443]DoveAlexa[/MENTION];
Sorry, I forgot, I use chrome so when I go to a site like that I get a little translate button. Here is a link to the translated page:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=no&u=http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php%3Fartid%3D10011879&ei=M_HuTJ6MHMyAhAfu48nJDA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php%253Fartid%253D10011879%26hl%3Den%26prmd%3Div
S. Korea has been our ally for quite some time, why should we not come to their aid when they need it if we are both capable and willing?.
Barely capable and willing anymore given recent events, the American economy is shot, going to war again would be foolish and put America in a deeper hole that before, coming to another countries aid? more "why shouldn't we go to war with our allies?" war should never be glorified and it should
never be trivial, it should always be the last resort or very close to last. A country should think of itself yes but also on a global scale, as I said it would put America in a deeper financial hole and it would also affect other countries financially because of this.