Japan and the United States cannot allow North Korea to possess nuclear weapons, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishia said Sunday after a meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry, according to Reuters.

Kerry is in Japan on a regional tour aimed at solidifying support for curbing North Korea's nuclear program.

Earlier, he was in Beijing – for the first time as secretary of state – where he sought to persuade President Xi Jinping to rein in North Korea, China's traditional ally, arguing that Pyongyang's erratic young leader, Kim Jong Un, is threatening the stability of the entire region.

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Ohhh shuurrrreeeeeee, and flying pigs are coming out of my ass, korea never had any nuclear weapons! let alone anything that can hurt america, this is just a bull shit story with no back bone.
Please dont beleave everything you hear/see on the internet/tv, there's a such thing as lies.
/sage

>>2 Yeah uhhhh, I don't believe this bullshit at all, either, nor you should be saging this anyway. It's your opinion, let everyone else have theirs. Is it bullshit? Or is it real? K? I have the source, it has shit written on it, there's no need to sage this.

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I doubt that really now North Korea would try something, they have had decades to launch at anyone, it's 2013. They don't have the ability to pull anything off.

If this hasn't been posted yet on the /Random/'s LOLThread 7 yet.

>>6 best joke I've seen this year, I wonder if Pys would laugh at this one.

Lol awesome joke you got there @Day/Dia

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First of all we really don't know whats over there. How do we know they are not secretly talking to another country getting information on how to build a Nuke. This could be what they have done. But we won't find out till they got the guts to really try and bomb us.

North Korea has been making threats similar to this for years now; it's just how they are. Though it doesn't make the severity of their threats any lesser.

Just to clarify, they DO have the technology to create nuclear missiles - it's just that their firepower isn't exactly on par with the other major world powers. Last I checked, the farthest range missile they were known to own could only reach the west coast of the US and slightly further inland, and we do own ICBM defense technologies for a worst-case scenario.

The main issue, the way I see it, is the escalation to war in general. If they so much as attempted to attack us, we'd have no choice but to spend a lot of resources - human or otherwise - to beat the shit out of them and potentially upset the current balance of things. There is no doubt we can, it's the prospect of being forced to that needs to be avoided.

World politics are a series of threatening each other into an equilibrium of inaction. The most dangerous thing is someone who ignores these threats, even if they're just asking for their own self-destruction.

I agree with Misuto. Even if North Korea can launch nuclear missiles, they would be stupid to. The U.S. and all its allies would come in crush them with ease, but it would still take lots of money and resouces.

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i hope not, if we the us goes to war with japan, there will be no more anime!!!

If this really all happens russia might join in than if that happens than isreal would join in the fight against america too so all of america would easily fall in an instant

>>13 I hope you step on a landmine

>>14 The entirety of the United Nations is on the side of the United States when it comes to this issue. Why are you so bent on the US "falling"? You said something along the same lines in another thread - are you simply trying to be edgy?

>>14
Pretty sure America is still the top super power. Where exactly do you get your information that we'd fall so easily?

Fuck North Korea some one kill those son of bitch's

>>18 Wrong.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Don't blame a nation because the leader is an imbecile.

Think back in the day when America got such a bad rep (or well, a worse rep) because Bush was a moron on several occasions? Practically the only cool moment he ever had was when he swiftly dodged that shoe thrown at him during a press conference.

North Koreans most likely a bit brainwashed from the generations of propaganda. They're practically trapped there.

Their leaders, both political and militial, are making all 24 million N. Koreans look bad. Remember, bombing them won't just rid us of the problem, but it will also rid the lives of 24 million innocent men, women, children, elders, and infants.

>>14 You forget the fact that North Korea has alienated most of its allies with recent events. China has denounced their actions, and china is historically their main supporter.

>>11 Points out that they can reach us, and probably ruin our economy, but they lack the kind of range and number of missiles to actually wipe us out, while I suspect that US nukes are capable of completely blanketing north Korea. Also, supposedly the ICBM defenses are a bit of a game of chance, and have a low success rate, or so I've read somewhere.

>>19 makes the most profound point of all though. People are actually very similar and accepting of one another. Stereotypes arise because leaders want us to take action, so they make the other side look like "bad guys." In fact, I've also read somewhere that North Korea has a lot of anti-sedition stuff going on, and that they put people who disagree with the government into camps of some sort, so I suspect that many of them just play along out of fear.

It really looks like their government just wants to look tough, so they are trying to push the envelope dangerously to do it. It's like riding a Harley or other noisy motorcycle to compensate for the fact that you have a small, mistreated populace and are not getting much play on the global scale.

I really just hate america nomatter what.

Yeah, well you have fun with that Germany. FYI, your country ain't all that great either.

You do realize that, unfortunately, with Germany's history, you all don't have the luxury of talking shit about ANY nation. (Except maybe Rwanda: In a 100 days they killed off roughly 20% of their population.)

As I've said for the umpteenth time, every country has their faults.

I just hope we can get some relief to North Korea. The people there are just the victims of bad leadership.

For some reason this entire thing feels like a game of Civilisation 5 to me.

>>24 Well, if you haven't noticed that governments often act pretty childish and that science has hypothesized that our own universe could be a simulation by a more complex one, then it is possible that this is gigantic super futuristic Civilization game that we're all living in.

>>23 I don't think that will happen with any of the Kims that have ever been in power. Perhaps they'll starve their people some more and eventually spark a revolution or something. Regardless, their people are probably in tough times for a while.

Also, they technically already have nukes, they just don't have as much range as US ones. So far, they could launch one on a missile that could reach LA if they are lucky, but even assuming their rocket works (apparently they have a history of failed attempts with putting up satellites), NK still has to make the bomb small enough to put them on a missile. The bigger threats come from bomber delivery and the risk of their nukes being stolen by terrorists.

>>25 Wouldn't the biggest risk be them aiming at South Korea and starting another invasion? I mean they have been rejecting South Korean workers from entering factories along the border.

>>26 Hmm, aside from the retaliation and the loss in SK infrastructure that NK might want to help balance its economic issues, that's actually a very good question....Oh, also they said they would attack Japan first, but that's not so good either. It looks like the only thing stopping them is that they're surrounded by countries that disagree with their plan.

From what i've seen of history thats never been something to stop a crazy dictator before.

>>28 Sounds about right.

Random Idea:
Let's assume North Korea would start war against South Korea,
wouldn't not only South Korea's allies, the US and Japan, but also the NATO and the UN take action?

>>30 Yes, the problem is just that NK might not care. Currently, it's basically NK passing ultimatums and making threats while brandishing weapons, but saying little else, while the other countries and organizations are saying to calm down, while also arming up in case NK means it for real. Boom...new season of Hetalia in the future... If they decide to do something there is no question that everyone will retaliate big time, the question is if they'll do it anyways, or if they somehow think they have a strategy to get out of the retaliation.

Cant North just work w russia ukrane china and isreal. Its the best move really. I actually planned this all out practically and its all happening as I predicted but not as i wanted. Thats the world i guess just a bunch of American lies and hurting other inocent countries.

>>32 When do you plan on explaining yourself??
When do you plan on explaining how Americans wronged Germany or what "American lies" and "hurting innocent countries" has to do with N. Korea swinging its dick around?

>>32 Okay this is the second time I have seen your weird fucking opinion and next time, please reconsider before voicing it.