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Seniors. What are your thoughts?

on the North Korea missile test?

It's worrying isn't it?

An unstable country with a new despotic child-dictator who is flexing his military muscles and defying UN resolutions, with the tacit blessings of their Communist superpower ally, China.

We've put a satellite into orbit they boast.

Yes. But here a satellite goes today, a warhead can go tomorrow. We still do not know anything about their nuclear capabilities.

If there is to be a worldwide nuclear armageddon, my money's on North Korea starting the whole catastrophic process.

Update:

Sausage. I don't know how old you are but you sound about 15. You are young enough to have to live with the consequences of a nuclear war, if you survive it. Me, I'm at the end of my life anyway. Of the two of us, you've got more to lose. I'd start worrying if I were you

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    All the talking in the world will not do any good, just enjoy life while we can!..

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yes North Korea is a problem. You have summed it all up very well its not left me a lot to say. I understand America and Britain is still technically still at war with North Korea because after the Korean war the fighting stopped before there could be a peace treaty.

    I see the North Korean Ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office in London today for a ticking off !

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It is very concerning. Difficult to know what to do about it though as that country is willing to starve it's own people in order to enhance their military. Hopefully China will exert some positive influence but it is so easy for things to go bad quickly. I recall, as a child, the constant fear of nuclear war with Russia and was so amazed when the cold war was over --was proof to me that some things can change for the better too.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    I am not worried at all. North Korea has been doing things to get the world talking about something they did every now and then just to get attention. If one of their missiles struck the USA or an ally of the USA they know that they would be wiped off the map.

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  • 8 years ago

    In my opinion catastrophic events are manipulated. There are powers who outrank governments and they may very well use some sort of event to bring their own answer of a one world government under the guise of safety and protection.

    Peace where there is no peace.

    These same families who have over the centuries dominated the banking systems and other organisations. The connections are all there in History. History that is little encouraged these days. Why?

  • 8 years ago

    I'm right next door to Point Mugu.

    If they, North Korea, launched a missile we even thought was headed this way we'd shoot it down into the Pacific ocean before it reached our shore.

    If I were to worry I'd worry about the country that has already used nuclear weapons.

    I do not worry.

  • 8 years ago

    Don't worry too much about it, I am positive the western countries like the US, UK,Germany and others have this covered.

    My husband used to work all the time making parts for the US military, even have a odd piece that he rejected in my storage unit that was a valve for a nuclear sub.( Why am I paying to store that?)

    One of our friends in the US is still making by hand tiny very specialized ball bearings for the US Air Force that fit into the night visions systems on jet fighters.

    All of these talented people were trained in former communist eastern Europe although they are all now US citizens.

    I don't think even these madmen in N.Korea have a death wish.

    We really do have technology that is way beyond what they public is aware of, they can't do much to us, it is mostly scare tactics for us to keep on shelling out funds for military spending and to keep the war machine going, someone is making allot of money off of our fears.

    If we really want to stop communist China from supporting N. Korea, then we should boycott buying products from them, with all of their new wealth they can afford to help them out.

    I still remember having to duck under the tables in the 60's in school, practice in case the Soviets hit us, never happened and never was going to happen.

    Same thing here, money and fear is what all the news media is trying to get out of us with this propaganda.

    We knew the husband of a women who was working for Momar Kadaffe in the 1980's.

    She was a chemist on contract work for him in Africa.

    Hungary was still communist then but her husband took a short vacation to the US where we met him through other friends.

    He said it was all a joke because the media had us all so afraid of him but in reality it was all a mess over there.

    His wife wanted to come home to HU but her contract wasn't up, their son was hurt and she had a hard time getting home to care for him.

    Funny how I just a housewife from S. Cal. ran into this odd group of people.

    In any case just remember fear= money to someone.

  • 8 years ago

    For me it`s fearful that the two silent giants on either side of N.Korea will spring to action and help and protect the reclusive country from any actions taken against it when the time comes to act. Russia and China will probably do in N. Korea what they`ve been doing in Syria. Obstructing any sort of corrective measures from happening.

  • 8 years ago

    Well said. If they were to launch a missile, it would likely be shot down. If it got through and hit another country with nuclear weapons, whoo! Retaliation in spades! Goodbye, N. Korea! And maybe ... goodbye, world, if cooler heads didn't prevail quickly.

  • 8 years ago

    Like Iran, they have been inbreeding too long and are beginning to believe they are invincible --- It will be a mess for awhile, if they start anything. We can send both countries back to the stone ages without Nuclear bombs or boots on the ground --- they just don't get it, and that's the scary part.

  • 8 years ago

    I think this was eventually expected by all, but we should be more worried about that whack job in Iran, that's where we have more at stake and I think he is more dangerous to us than North Korea at this time, although that could change.

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