r/worldnews • u/mrtareq778 • Oct 28 '22
N Korea fires missiles toward sea as US warns over nukes North Korea
https://apnews.com/article/seoul-south-korea-north-joint-chiefs-of-staff-0a2f424e646b9d9a987e5f5e651891941.2k
u/Alwayslinfinite
Oct 28 '22
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40+ missies fired into the ocean this year, only one with enough sense and foresight to fight back against Mr. Nimbus.
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u/MediocreSkyscraper Oct 28 '22
Absolutely futile. He's Mr. Nimbus, he controls the police
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u/plataeng Oct 28 '22
that's why Kim is the only one who attacks. Nimbus can't control the police under his dictatorship.
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u/RAConteur76 Oct 29 '22
Then I feel his reputation as an ice cold dick killer is perhaps just ever so slightly...overstated.
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u/21_Golden_Guns Oct 28 '22
I’m waiting for Aquaman to just walk out of the beach with a net of 50 missiles like, “bro wtf! You tryna start something?”
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u/Zealeon Oct 28 '22
I was so ready to comment something about his ongoing feud with Mr.Nimbus. Glad I wasn't the only one thinking it. Haha
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u/ApokalypseCow Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22
Kim just hates fish, so he keeps trying to blow them up.
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u/Overlord2360 Oct 29 '22
Maybe Kim is mr nimbus and this is all a ruse.
I mean, it’s a police state…he controls the police
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u/Wigu90
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You know what would be cool, guys?
If in ten years or so we learned that North Korea was the only thing keeping Cthulhu from emerging from the depths all this time.
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Oct 28 '22
Yeah but what if it turns out everything we know about Cthulhu is actually propaganda and his return will bring about world peace and prosperity through non-destructive, non monkeys-paw irony sort of means?
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u/Canadian_CJ Oct 28 '22
Then I will think poorly of North Korea's continued attacks to our overlord in wait!
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u/zuzg Oct 28 '22
Cloverfield was true after all
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u/IX_LivesLost Oct 28 '22
Is it weird to say that that’s a comfort movie for me?
Like, younger me loved that movie so much lmao, I just HAVE to rewatch it every once in a while
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u/who_said_I_am_an_emu Oct 28 '22
Did you get into the whole mythos they built about it online?
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u/Dirtytusk Oct 28 '22
Oh man, GOOOOD times. I was in high school when it came out, and I remember afterwards finding out that all the characters in the movie had MySpace accounts that were created like a year or two before the movie, with random anecdotes and things that… may have been hints? May have been nothing? WHAT ABOUT THIS SLUSHIE COMPANY (or whatever it was)?! It was all so fun… reminded me of the notpr0n days.
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u/IX_LivesLost Oct 28 '22
Seeing as when it came out in 2008 I was a few months away from turning 6, no, not at the time
Only started looking deeper into it around the time 10 Cloverfield Lane was shown off, then some more when Paradox came out in 2018. Apparently they’re making a more direct sequel to the first movie though, so that’s cool lmao
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u/Evonos Oct 28 '22
If in ten years or so we learned that North Korea was the only thing keeping Cthulhu from emerging from the depths all this time.
Iam more of a Godzilla guy.
Godzilla is angry and wants to emerge from the deep seas and N Korea holds it down there.
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u/Magicspook Oct 28 '22
Let's start one of those ridiculous godzilla vs cthulhu debates.
I'll start. Godzilla is just some stupid lizard that was bitten by a radioactive spider. How can you weeaboos even imagine him winning vs an immortal great old one?
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Oct 28 '22
He has the power of friendship 🤷♂️
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u/sav33arthkillyos3lf Oct 28 '22
Godzillas friends with kong. Together they are a force that will never break. True power of friendship.
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u/Evonos Oct 28 '22
him winning vs an immortal great old one?
Honestly i dont , but i absolutely could imagine either one wrecking humanity.
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u/Dead_Kings Oct 28 '22
Eh, a giant lizard would easily be dealt with. I mean it's flesh and bone, afterall.
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u/Evonos Oct 28 '22
I mean it's flesh and bone, afterall.
i mean a few movies showed that you cant kill it , seems to be immortal too , and wont die of old age either.
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Oct 28 '22
What’s crazier is that Cthulhu is basically a little baby in HP mythology. He’s like that weird kid in the neighborhood that skins cats.
The rest of them are just like
“Where’s Cthulhu?”
“Oh gracious, that boy is back messing with humans again”
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u/Ihavelostmytowel Oct 28 '22
Once her eggs hatch we are in a world of hurt. Godzuki was just the beginning.
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u/para29 Oct 28 '22
Maybe it discovered the existence of Godzilla and just helping Japan keep it down.
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u/Dironox Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22
Cthulhu, Godzilla, War on Atlantis, War with Bikini Bottom... this joke gets posted every time NK fires a missile. You'd think Kim is launching missiles into the sea just to make this joke to farm reddit karma.
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u/sessl Oct 28 '22
Turns out america was just cancelling people on twitter while NK was cancelling the apocalype
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u/PennywiseEsquire Oct 28 '22
No. That would not be cool. See, the existence of Cthulhu implies the existence of all of the Lovecraftian Old Ones. If Cthulhu is held at bay, where are the others?
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u/bkr1895 Oct 28 '22
Well then they truly are the villains for containing our dark lord and master Cthulhu in the sunken corpse city of R’lyeh
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u/Clever_Bee34919 Oct 28 '22
Every time the US does something, North Korea attacks the sea. The sea is innocent, please stop attacking it.
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u/GetTheSpermsOut Oct 28 '22
how ironic would it be if they hurt their local sea life off the coast, fish disappear and the opportunities at seafood sources.
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u/JSumerland Oct 28 '22
OMG Kim is still masturbating?
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u/Philo_T_Farnsworth Oct 28 '22
It's actually his sister that's the real problem KJU is basically just a figurehead at this point. This video is worth your time if you haven't seen it. She's the one we should worry about.
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u/Evonos Oct 28 '22
Kim is still masturbating?
He stopped masturbating a while ago.
His rockets get fired off when hes done with them
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u/whatifniki23 Oct 28 '22
Him, Putin, and Iran’s regime… all getting off on “evil”… when is this madness going to stop for all three of them?
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u/2L0ud Oct 28 '22
He really hate bikini bottom
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u/SIR_CUMS_A_LOT_779 Oct 28 '22
There's a theory that US atomic testing in Bikini Atoll created SpongeBob and the inhabitants of Bikini Bottom. I twinks this is a plausible theory.
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u/Dead_Kings Oct 28 '22
Did your phone auto correct think into twinks?
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u/orderofuhlrik Oct 28 '22
Why think when you have twinks? XD
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u/AdventureBum Oct 28 '22
Reminds me of PVP in WoW
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u/weenus420ne
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He's the only one in the world that takes the God zilla threat seriously...
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u/kenpublius Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22
I suspect these missile tests are messages to Xi. Xi has said he needs to test his military. I doubt he wants to test it against the US. He has said as much.
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u/rotten_lungs Oct 28 '22
Yep that would make sense, kim knows he has no chance against the US, like there's no way his missiles would reach mainland before being blown up into pieces, Beijing on the other hand is right next to them. Its just him saying "I can pull the dead man's switch if you dare to touch me" while screaming US bad at the top of his lungs to his people
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u/StudyoftheUnknown Oct 28 '22 •
This has nothing to do with threatening china and suggesting it does is very reddit. They lob a missile into the ocean every once in a while to get the us and Japan on a negotiation table for foreign aid so they don’t have half their country starve to death. They threaten to hit Japan and accompanying us bases which is basically the only reason this works
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u/Biffmcgee Oct 28 '22
They should just pick up the phone. Humans are fucking ridiculous.
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u/TB1971 Oct 29 '22
Bro they're under essentially a blockade by these countries. This is the only way to get them to answer the "phone" and come to any reasonable terms.
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u/Goliath1218 Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22
So, like, what if we set up a missle defense system in South Korea and Japan like what is in Israel, and then just said no?
Edit: really want to know, I'm not exactly knowledgeable in modern missle defense systems.
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u/EskimoeJoeYeeHaw Oct 28 '22
Both Japan and South Korea already have missile defense systems. Both home grown domestic ones as well as US ones. The one you're referring to in Israel is probably the iron dome which is meant more for smaller munitions like rockets and artillery. But the defense systems SK and Japan have are purposed for ballistic missiles.
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u/TheGrayBox Oct 28 '22
The Israeli missile defense system you’re referencing is for small and primitive surface-to-air missiles used by Hamas. ICBM’s are entirely different. It’s like comparing an RC car to a rocket ship.
But yes we absolutely do have a complex system of ballistic missile detection satellites and interception capabilities, both naval and land based. ICBM’s are complex though and generally use chaffe, so the intercept systems have to be extremely sophisticated and backed by super-computers calculating trajectory and finding the correct target within minutes. Realistically we could intercept NK missiles before they reached Hawaii or the US mainland, but there may not be enough time to intercept one over Japan. North Korea has no reason to use ICBM’s on South Korea, Seoul is literally 30 miles/50 km to the DMZ and only ~120 miles/193 km to Pyongyang. Literally any increase in hostilities results in Seoul being totally decimated by conventional artillery even with iron dome equivalents, even if the whole of the North Korean population is dead within the hour from nuclear annihilation. No one can prevent it. It’s why war in Korea simply cannot happen, there is no winning scenario.
Edit: you might find this infographic video interesting https://youtu.be/3E17wr77ffM
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u/Goliath1218 Oct 28 '22
Hmm, interesting. I figured north Korean ICBMs weren't nearly up to snuff and could be targeted decently by our defenses. Good post!
With that being said, wouldn't war with Japan essentially be the same was war with South Korea? It would essentially be the same no-winning scenario, so why not just call the bluff for what it is?
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u/Wowimatard Oct 28 '22
Honestly i think NK can survive a nuke far better than any other country.
They have tunnels all over the country which is designed to survive blasts and war. Literally all over the country.
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u/Monkey9191 Oct 28 '22
Probably more about infrastructure destruction than people. What kind of world would they be exiting the tunnels to?
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u/camM651 Oct 28 '22
You know those aren’t 100% effective I think 90% or something on the high end. That is not worth risking civilian lives for
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u/kenpublius Oct 28 '22
Well North Koreans have been starving.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/rail_trade-09272022164556.html/ampRFA
And China is who feeds them. Furthermore China knows any war between the north and south will instantly cause a wave of Northern refugees that they don’t want. They will be forced to occupy anyway. The real question is….would the US do anything at all if China did invade North Korea. I suspect not. Depending on the long term strategy you prefer answers whether that is the correct action. I think US should be focused on the Americas and let China, India and Russia work out the face of Asia. But if you want to stay involved you attack when China thinks they have conquered NK.
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u/rotten_lungs Oct 28 '22
Not threatening, it'd say "reminding" is more accurate, yes this way they get Japan and US to the negotiating table, but China is very anti war when it comes to Ukraine, guess who on the other hand has been playing buddies with pootin
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u/dacjames Oct 28 '22
China is definitely not anti-war. The 20th congress of the CCP just completed and their messaging shifted substantially toward emphasizing security. The promoted hawkish figures in their military. Most commentators believe that they're accelerating the time table for military conflict with Taiwan.
They have taken a more ambiguous position regarding Russia following the Ukraine invasion. The reason for that is that Russia is performing so poorly in said war. Aside from oil and gas, military support was supposed to be the main thing that Russia brought to the partnership. So they're backing off while it's unclear what Russia can offer China.
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u/kenpublius Oct 28 '22
As recent history has proven. And I’m sure China studies geo-politics. Sometimes the bad guy you support doesn’t really like being a puppet. See Khaddafi or Hussein for example.
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u/CMDR_Sunless Oct 28 '22
NK is China’s pet. If Kim tried to intimidate Xi, he’d be deposed in a coup the following day.
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u/autotldr BOT Oct 28 '22
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Friday in its first ballistic weapons launches in two weeks, as the U.S. military warned the North that the use of nuclear weapons "Will result in the end of that regime."
Since late September, North Korea has launched a barrage of missiles toward the sea in what it called simulated tests of tactical nuclear weapons systems designed to attack South Korean and U.S. targets.
ADVERTISEMENT. South Korea and the United States have strongly warned North Korea against using its nuclear weapons preemptively.
Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Korea#1 North#2 South#3 nuclear#4 launch#5
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u/Slayers_Picks Oct 28 '22
My big question is...
What's Russia's stance on this? Russia is currently America's biggest enemy, if NK launches a nuke, detonates a nuke, will that be condoned by Russia, especially if the US start attacking NK?
I truly believe NK will detonate something, regardless of where.
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u/m4lmaster Oct 28 '22
theyve already destroyed one of their own cities by accident, the most theyre probably doing is launching duds and telling their people that theyre protecting them from the evil western world.
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u/igankcheetos Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 30 '22
The U.S. does not have to attack NK. If NK launches a nuke, UN security policies go into effect. NK will have to deal with more than just the U.S. So Kim will just threaten and bluster and shake his fat little fist ineffectually while firing impotent rockets into the ocean. I wouldn't even classify Russia as the U.S.'s enemy because their Army sucks, so they could not invade the U.S. let alone a country right next door, and they can't really play their nuke card without Mutually Assured Destruction going into effect. So they are pretty neutered on all fronts. Their tech sucks, their logistics sucks, they have no air, space, or seas superiority, No carriers to project power, even their first strike capabilities are questionable after seeing the obvious maintenance shortcomings of their military equipment on the battlefield including the Moskova, their "flagship" turned unmanned submarine: https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/uk4iuw/alleged_leaked_moskva_readiness_report_dated_two/
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u/Thorgen Oct 28 '22
You're overestimating the current relationship between NK and China.
There has been absolutely no plans to deploy US nukes to Finland. Clickbait journalists speculating about nukes being in Finland doesn't equal planning.
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u/tiempo90 Oct 28 '22 •
You're overestimating the current relationship between NK and China.
You're underestimating why North Korea exists - solely to act as a buffer against a US-allied democracy.
This is why China fought with North Korea in the Korean war.
This is why China continues to support and prop up North Korea.
This is why China will never condemn North Korea, and always veto a UN resolution against North Korea (and blame everyone else, or just tell everyone to 'keep calm').
China feels threatened by neighbouring democracies. Democracy is the antithesis of CCP's existence, so it must be minimised. Thus, good bye Hong Kong's democracy, why Taiwan must be absorbed, and why North Korea must exist as a buffer state against South Korea / the US / Japan.
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u/Thorgen Oct 28 '22
I've actually read that article before. If you scroll down you'll find the list of countries involved. Nowhere in the article is Finland even mentioned.
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u/zipmcjingles Oct 28 '22
Best thing to do is ignore them. They kick off whenever they stop getting attention.
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u/Cutegun Oct 28 '22
As we watch Ukraine over take Russia using western arms, does North Korea really think it stands a chance fighting literally any western ally? Or is it one of those situations where this farce is for their own people who they've kept in the dark?
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u/purpleWheelChair Oct 28 '22
This guys looks like someone manscape one of their balls and it had a face.
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u/CantaloupeMoney9906 Oct 28 '22
as the U.S. military warned the North that the use of nuclear weapons “will result in the end of that regime.”
That's a pretty cold blooded threat directly to KJ.
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u/JohnGB Oct 28 '22
Imagine being the only fat dude in your entire country. That has to cause some psychological issues that can only be taken out by firing missiles at the sea.
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u/CrimeCoder Oct 28 '22
I wonder how much labor, money, and time went into making those missiles.
Like... Could he have invested that same effort into making some sandwiches?
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u/hackenclaw Oct 28 '22
This is just fish bombing, why are the rest of the world make a huge fuss about fish bombing?
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u/Whaler_Moon Oct 28 '22
N. Korea usually fires missiles like this when they want something from S.Korea or the US. This is what they consider "negotiations."
Just ignore their tantrum.
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u/Mibientus Oct 28 '22
Wtf this the fish and Atlanteans did to trigger him? Let the fish and sea creatures live in peace!
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u/HolesAreHoles Oct 28 '22
Reminds me of that story about the Roman emperor that declared war on Poseidon so he marched his soldiers to the water and had them spear it for awhile
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u/theycameinpeace7 Oct 28 '22
I feel like this dude would actually be cool if he relaxed a bit, and stopped being so crazy.
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u/Loading_pleaase_wait Oct 28 '22
I don't know if you know this but whatever country you're from has no authority over other countries
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u/tiempo90 Oct 28 '22
Why do we let Terrorists like Kim Junk Muk and the Russian Self-Hating-Homo Putin continue to run debunked nations?
China / WW3.
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u/Professional-Gas1591 Oct 28 '22
Man. Its wild to me that the world powers just let these guys live and fester. I dont know what the solution is but it would at the very least be satisfying to "pop" each of these fascist boils. "Pop" the leader, and another shitty lieader steps in to take his pla- "pop" ohp, okay, anyone else wanna take his place and do fascist shit? Yeah? Okay, stand up her- "pop" oh! Woops! Alright, anyone else? Wash rinse repeat until a leader that actually gives a shit stands up.
Im not saying this is the answer, a good answer or a morally just answer, but goddamn would it be satisfying.
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u/Nakama4L Oct 28 '22
I would never justify preemptive murder but I do understand your viewpoint and I definitely wouldn't protest if it happened
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u/ableseacat14 Oct 28 '22
They sure do like firing rockets into the sea. It's a weird hobby
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u/MANBURGARLAR Oct 28 '22
You think there would be some sort of UN littering fine they could hit Kim with for every dolphin missile he deploys?
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u/TheLionOfJudah1 Oct 28 '22
The U.S sounds like that one guy who talks shit but gets really quite when they get confronted in person.
All bark and no bite
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u/megaplex00 Oct 28 '22
The U.S sounds like that one guy who talks shit but gets really quite when they get confronted in person.
Tell that to Japan and Germany bub..
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u/APsWhoopinRoom Oct 28 '22
Lmao no bite? Every war we've "lost" came at the cost of hundreds of thousands, if not millions dead in those countries. The US never backs down without one hell of a fight and an astronomical body count on the other side
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u/Waffleman75 Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22
Man, North Korea really hates the Sea