Korean Denuclearization?

[Hubbell]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/19/us.north.korea.richardson/index.html

"Our policy toward North Korea remains today as it has been -- calling for the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," one of the administration officials said Wednesday.



Then why has there been a US Special Forces contingent based in South Korea guarding a stash of nuclear weapons for use in the event of a Northern invasion of South Korea since around the end of the Korean War?

[Forgin]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/19/us.north.korea.richardson/index.html

"Our policy toward North Korea remains today as it has been -- calling for the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," one of the administration officials said Wednesday.



Then why has there been a US Special Forces contingent based in South Korea guarding a stash of nuclear weapons for use in the event of a Northern invasion of South Korea since around the end of the Korean War?

For the same reasons the USA doesn't destroy all their nukes and then asks Russia to do the same.

[Sqarak]

Because Rambo said that nuclear missiles can only be de-constructed by making more of them.

[88Chaz88]

America believe they have a right to nuclear weaponry and are able to use them responsibly.

Funnily enough North Korea thinks the same.

[dinkfall]

People in the Pentagon sit calculating what would be the best way to ensure that nobody hits US with a nuke and they came up with the idea that if the US holds so many nukes that any attack against the US would provoke a counter attack that would destroy your whole country, then people would have sufficient incentive never to nuke the US.

[Hubbell]

People in the Pentagon sit calculating what would be the best way to ensure that nobody hits US with a nuke and they came up with the idea that if the US holds so many nukes that any attack against the US would provoke a counter attack that would destroy your whole country, then people would have sufficient incentive never to nuke the US.

People in the pentagon? Try anyone with an ounce of common sense. It's called Mutually Assured Destruction and it's what kept the Russians from first striking us numerous times.

[88Chaz88]

People in the Pentagon sit calculating what would be the best way to ensure that nobody hits US with a nuke and they came up with the idea that if the US holds so many nukes that any attack against the US would provoke a counter attack that would destroy your whole country, then people would have sufficient incentive never to nuke the US.

Untill you get a mad man nearing the end of his life with nothing to lose. Hmmm sounds like someone already.

[Aacevedo]

Untill you get a mad man nearing the end of his life with nothing to lose. Hmmm sounds like someone already.

I would nuke everyone If I could, anyone has some spare nukes?

[Fro]

People in the pentagon? Try anyone with an ounce of common sense. It's called Mutually Assured Destruction and it's what kept the Russians from first striking us numerous times.

Or you from striking them, lets not forget the U.S.A is the only country to attack another with nuclear weaponry. This is why Russia got so pissy when america wanted to install missile defence systems in eastern europe. As soon as somebody comes up with a reliable countermessure to nuclear weapons the whole balance of power is shifted dramatcily.

[NarutoAngel221]

I have heard that North Korea asked US not to take part into doing something for South Korea but I wish for denuclearization since I wanted peace in this world

[StrawberryClock]

I have heard that North Korea asked US not to take part into doing something for South Korea but I wish for denuclearization since I wanted peace in this world

Peace?

The faux-libertarians and neoconservatives on here do not understand that concept.

[Sharuk]

I have heard that North Korea asked US not to take part into doing something for South Korea but I wish for denuclearization since I wanted peace in this world

War Is Peace



But really anyone who thinks global peace could ever happen is living in a dream world...

[GRCPan]

War Is Peace



But really anyone who thinks global peace could ever happen is living in a dream world...

As long as there are big companies that make money from wars, there will never be peace.
So there will never be peace.

[Sharuk]

As long as there are big companies that make money from wars, there will never be peace.
So there will never be peace.

As long as people dont like people there will never be peace :bang:

[Teth]

As long as there are big companies that make money from wars, there will never be peace.
So there will never be peace.
Actually, there has been less high-intensity violence in the world ever since international corporations really started stepping up the game. The world is actually becoming a less violent place over time and has been doing so ever since the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Dunno if you've ever read the history of the Greek city-states or the Roman republic, but those were days well before the establishment of autonomous commercial enterprises. And you know what happened back then? Perpetual, set-your-calendar-to-its-regularity state-on-state warfare.

Sure, there's still endemic low-key violence going on around the world, but there always has been and always will be that, especially in the absence of strong central authorities (sup most of the third world). The international violence rate in the first and second world has gone through the fucking floor comparatively speaking to the rest of history in the last 200-ish years, as long as we are going by frequency rather than intensity.