http://www.newser.com/story/164195/pyongyang-kills-hotline-as-us-seoul-drills-begin.html
Newser) – North Korea today "completely scrapped" the armistice that held a tenuous peace on the peninsula for six decades, reports the Washington Post, even as American and South Korean troops began the large-scale military drills Pyongyang had warned them to abandon. The North is playing up its unpredictability, saying in a state-run newspaper today that with the armistice gone, “no one can expect what will happen next.” Further heightening tensions: The Red Cross hotline the North uses to communicate with Seoul has gone dead. "We called at 9am and there was no response," explains a South Korean official of the line, which it tries daily. The North has also threatened to cut off its hotline with UN troops—and to nuke the United States.
for those who wanted to dismiss dear leader jr.
- North Korea, which is planning huge military exercises of its own, claims the US-South Korea drills are a move to launch a nuclear war. Analysts believe Pyongyang isn't capable of launching a nuclear strike on the US even if the regime was deranged enough to try. But some kind of attack along the disputed sea border with South Korea is seen as a more realistic possibility, reports Reuters.
intelligence has proven at times to be unreliable and then at times ignored (2001 9-11), do we want to repeat the history we ignore?
- As threats fly back and forth, some South Koreans are openly discussing obtaining nuclear weapons of their own. Pyongyang'snuclear test last month, its third, "was for South Korea what the Cuban missile crisis was for the US," a professor at the Korea National Defense University tells the New York Times. "It has made the North Korean threat seem very close and very real."
this is one of the more detrimental reasons to nuke down the world, eventually those who have those who threaten inspire those threatened to nuke up as well, but that takes time, no how, and connections if threaten by one who has you'll be ashes before you can get off the ground. those who are holding and opposing have anti missles or other programs to respond to a strike as well as knowing it has been launched, so another button pushed and for the stupidy and posturing of one the whole big blue marble is uninhabitable.
- The hotline-closing and scrapping of peace pacts have recent precedents, but the mood in Seoul is tenser than it has been after previous outbursts from Pyongyang, the BBC finds. North Korea's tone is more belligerent, and people fear the regime is more willing to back its threats up with action.
