North Korea to launch 3 new satellites in 2024, as Kim warns war inevitable : worldnews

[-] intelshill@lemmy.ca 30 points 6 months ago

Kim said he would no longer seek reconciliation and reunification with South Korea, noting the “persisting uncontrollable crisis situation”.

Buried in the article is the real shocker. This would be like China saying they no longer seek reconciliation and reunification with Taiwan or the US dropping their blockade of Cuba because of "the controlled end of the Cuban situation."

[-] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago

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[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

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[-] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 months ago

Because they have nuclear weapons. Imagine the disaster of the Vietnam war, but with a couple of USA cities obliterated by nuclear warheads.

[-] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

North Korea would be leveled wall to wall with air strikes if this ever happened. And kim knows this.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

North Korea was already leveled wall to wall with air strikes. That's why they're behaving this way, because the USA already demonstrated that they were willing and able to bomb the entire country until there were "no more targets" left to bomb and the Korean people needed to start living in caves to avoid the mass dropping of napalm.

[-] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

gee i wonder why they built nuclear weapons for deterrence, just look at how peaceful and understanding the liberals are!

[-] UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works -5 points 6 months ago

Maybe Kim is hitting fuck it territory

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

Where with who? The fucking Ocean?

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago

Multiple challenges to the US across the world at once, right after its loss in Ukraine. Should be interesting.

[-] cobra89@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Lol Ukraine may not have taken back the country during its counter offensive but the US won extremely big by showing the Russian military isn't actually the 2nd best in the world, probably not even top 10.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

How did the US win? What of the goals has ever been achieved? Russia achieved what it set out to do, and its economy and industry is stronger than ever. https://www.npr.org/2023/12/17/1219882734/russias-economy-is-going-strong-despite-sanctions-from-the-u-s-and-its-allies https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-has-upper-hand-arms-race-with-west-russian-minister-says-2023-12-25/

Maybe you missed that the US exhausted its ammunition supply to the point that it had to abandon Ukraine to supply Israel with weapons. https://www.axios.com/2023/10/19/us-israel-artillery-shells-ukraine-weapons-gaza

I will grant you that weapons makers have made billions from this conflict, but Lockheed Martin and Ratheon aren't the US government or the US people. The government and people got screwed, and it is a major strategic loss for the US. The US now not only appears weak, but is known to be unable to produce ammunitions fast enough.

[-] explodicle@local106.com 1 points 6 months ago

Putin announced a "special military operation" to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine, claiming Russia had no plans to occupy the country. Since they've achieved what they set out to do, will they be going back to Russia?

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Technically, yes.

[-] explodicle@local106.com 0 points 6 months ago

What did it lose in Ukraine?

[+] Carvex@lemmy.world -6 points 6 months ago

What are you going to do? Catapult starving people south across the border as artillery? A GDP of $6USD, 19 million uneducated zombies, and no way out without giving up power forever to China or SK.

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