North Korea puts rockets on standby to 'mercilessly strike' the U.S.

[Vasconcelos]

Things can very easily get out of control. Officially the two countries are still at war, they never had a peace treaty.

Yes, but in practice they have been at peace for decades. NK leadership might be a tad bonkers, but not enough to iniciate an assault on SK, or throwing missiles at the US - that would be the end of the regime.

[Loki]

Yes, but in practice they have been at peace for decades. NK leadership might be a tad bonkers, but not enough to iniciate an assault on SK, or throwing missiles at the US - that would be the end of the regime.

Well let's hope so.

[Vesuvian Sky]

I doubt Russia, China, South Korea or even Japan would sit and watch America transform that region into a desert...

Japan, yes. It fears N. Korea and Koreans in general more then wide eyed devils from the west.

Russia and China would probably have much butt hurt over this though since the former receives a fair share of slave labor on its Siberian lumber yards from NK and China would loose a cheap source of minerals that are mined for its various industries.

S. Koreans would almost certainly have butt hurt over this based on racial/ethnic grounds not to mention proximity to it all though I doubt they'd want to come under any type of regime like NK's.

[Vasconcelos]

Well let's hope so.

Yes, the upside is that lives will be spared..the downside is that millions of people will still live in the Dark Ages, with "a boot stamping on their faces - forever".

[Damião de Góis]

Japan, yes. It fears N. Korea and Koreans in general more then wide eyed devils from the west.

Russia and China would probably have much butt hurt over this though since the former receives a fair share of slave labor on its Siberian lumber yards from NK and China would loose a cheap source of minerals that are mined for its various industries.

S. Koreans would almost certainly have butt hurt over this based on racial/ethnic grounds not to mention proximity to it all though I doubt they'd want to come under any type of regime like NK's.

I don't think you got what i was saying. A nuclear attack on North Korea would mean a nuclear attack on nearby regions as well due to the small size of North Korea. And North Korea's neighbours are:

[Vesuvian Sky]

I don't think you got what i was saying. A nuclear attack on North Korea would mean a nuclear attack on nearby regions as well due to the small size of North Korea. And North Korea's neighbours are:

I don't see how you were even remotely implying that from your original post but anyway...

Japan is essentially defended by the US and quite honestly they know that fatso and company have no love loss for them. So I don't see at all how nuking NK would bother Japan and if its nuclear fall out you're worried about, well the Japanese have lived with it to varying degrees already.

Russia wouldn't be happy but its not like they're hurt for space. Only thing that would really bother them is what I stated previously. There really is no ideological connection to Russia and NK anymore whatsoever.

China would really be the only country to give a significant damn about a nuclear strike against Korea (regardless of nuclear fall out concerns) but they too are a tad tiresome of the regime and don't have much in common with them ideologically anymore either.

[Tyfani]

North Korea has the largest amount of highly trained special forces in the world. I think something like 90,000.

+they are asians i think they act like machines

[Loki]

+they are asians i think they act like machines

My impression as well

[kabeiros]

North Koreans are fuckin' lunatics. I once watched a documentary about North Korea and there was a protest against the visit of some forreigner (politician, maybe South Korean but I'm not sure)... this crazy dudes cut their fingers, put them in envelopes and sent them to the government to show their anger

[Vasconcelos]

By the way, it's worth noting that NK would be fighting an army of generals, SK are the absolutely best SC2 players in the world! Any random SK private is possibly better than any NK general at strategy