Any nukes that North Korea sends over the Pacific will be shot down before they even make it to our shores.

Stop watching terrible Hollywood remake movies.  

North Korea allegedly broke the non-aggression pact with South Korea.  

That's if they can even get their rockets working, hahahaha  

It's a serious issue as N.K is a crazy country that a lot of people underestimate, the thing to consider is that N.K and China are really good friends, China is very powerful.
If it comes to war America will be hard pressed to find the resources to survive World War 3 (short of nuking all the opposing nations, which has its own risks and problems (i.e, nuclear winters, heavy civilian causalities, radiation etc.))
Not to mention America owes China so much money, it would cause major economic issues that America (and the world) might never recover from.

The MAD principle (Mutually Assured Destruction) should come into effect anyway, as if America and N.K (and by extension their allies) went to war and started firing nuclear weapons both countries would be destroyed.

I'm sure N.K just wanted to make people remember that they're still a problem for international relations, in my opinion it's just empty air.  

Posted by RenoDorvay

It's a serious issue as N.K is a crazy country that a lot of people underestimate, the thing to consider is that N.K and China are really good friends, China is very powerful.
If it comes to war America will be hard pressed to find the resources to survive World War 3 (short of nuking all the opposing nations, which has its own risks and problems (i.e, nuclear winters, heavy civilian causalities, radiation etc.))
Not to mention America owes China so much money, it would cause major economic issues that America (and the world) might never recover from.

The MAD principle (Mutually Assured Destruction) should come into effect anyway, as if America and N.K (and by extension their allies) went to war and started firing nuclear weapons both countries would be destroyed.

I'm sure N.K just wanted to make people remember that they're still a problem for international relations, in my opinion it's just empty air.

Tl;dr They are allies, but they're slowly breaking apart. Plus, the US has most of the power in the world on its side. And other countries realize the 'threat' NC poses, so they aren't afraid to fight alongside the US or any other sane country. And SC isn't that bad off. They could take NC alone I think.  

I've always wondered, and I've never really understood, what would happen, in a nuclear war, to the countries without any nuclear weapons (and/or without any nuclear technology in use at all). Do you think they would also be attacked, because a lot would still participate in the war without actual nukes, or not? And would a nuclear WW3 also have the "usual" gun type war involved at all? So, pretty much, what about non-nuclear countries?  

Posted by Kiwi

I've always wondered, and I've never really understood, what would happen, in a nuclear war, to the countries without any nuclear weapons (and/or without any nuclear technology in use at all). Do you think they would also be attacked, because a lot would still participate in the war without actual nukes, or not? And would a nuclear WW3 also have the "usual" gun type war involved at all? So, pretty much, what about non-nuclear countries?

WW3 will be a "gun war" if there ever is a WW3.
Nobody has the balls to start a nuke war.

btw if anyone has been reading the news China's alliance with NK is actually weakening and they could possibly switch their alliance to South Korea. China agreed to U.N. sanctions on North Korea's nuke testing. And also due to South Korea's new president who speaks Chinese, record high exports and that the Chinese people don't really care for the NK alliance since it makes them look bad.  

Posted by Rexx

WW3 will be a "gun war" if there ever is a WW3.
Nobody has the balls to start a nuke war.

I know that, but I mean if it was to happen.  

Well they would probably be on high alert and preparing for a nuclear fallout.  

Radiation isn't as bad as most people think. The blast kills the most people, not the fallout. Sure, some people do get radiation sickness, but if you look at an annual cancer graph for Hiroshima in WW2, cancer only rose by a little.
The fear of the unknown is probably one of the greatest fears of all. Humans can't smell, feel, hear or see radiation, because we also can't stop it harming us 100%, this scares people.
Plus, the hydrogen bomb, is way greater than a nuclear warhead. If anything should be developed as a WMD in the future, it should be them. There will be a cure for cancer in the near future, with technology on the rise, I can see nukes becoming redundant in 60 years or so.
I'm no expert, just stating my opinion, but in the future, nuclear technology will only be used for energy- and even that will be replaced because of the waste it leaves behind.  

Posted by Pimpsy G.

Communism looks good on paper, but is absolutely horrible in practice.

Just like democracy.  

@Pimpsy
Communism was never achieved by any government. China's pretty damn close to it, and look how well they're doing. They were dying of hunger a mere thirty years ago and now, what do they have? They have a ticket to take 16 trillion dollars from the us from the debts. If china asks for the money we owe, we have two choice (us). To nuke China and start a war by some other country thinking America poses a greater threat. Or to give China the money, ruining the economy, or by giving all of the factories to even out the debt.
If i lead China, i would simply start like this. Firstly i would ask the United States for the money they owe. Refusal means nuke, march onto Russia, if win streak continues, march onto europe. If you control those, wait and start nuking britain. And so on.  

So they got beef with us? Does the U.S. have anything nuclear made?  

Posted by KeroObsidian

@Pimpsy
Communism was never achieved by any government. China's pretty damn close to it, and look how well they're doing. They were dying of hunger a mere thirty years ago and now, what do they have? They have a ticket to take 16 trillion dollars from the us from the debts. If china asks for the money we owe, we have two choice (us). To nuke China and start a war by some other country thinking America poses a greater threat. Or to give China the money, ruining the economy, or by giving all of the factories to even out the debt.
If i lead China, i would simply start like this. Firstly i would ask the United States for the money they owe. Refusal means nuke, march onto Russia, if win streak continues, march onto europe. If you control those, wait and start nuking britain. And so on.

China isn't doing well because they're communist...its because they're becoming more capitalistic.  

People need to stop being so confident in us americans. We may be a world superpower, but that doesnt mean we arent vulnerable. Just because all the media companies glorify the US so much doesnt mean all of our troops will be going rambo taking out entire armies and getting everything done. If north korea launches an attack, its not certain that theyll even be able to be shot down. If they hit us then millions will die, and congress will declare war on korea, which will lead to all the communist countries turning on each other, than europe goes to ashes again and only one will win, so don't sit back with the bag of popcorn if your not in the US, because the war will engulf the whole planet. And let me tell you, the western powers and democracy, also known as the United Nations, will not win it all, and there'll only be one power left, if we dont decide to all unite as one global country instead of what we did with WW2. Communist countries will go all out, and we will hold back trying to defend our honor and innocence which weve lost long ago. I'm not saying communism will win, i'm saying that another world war could risk human extinction especially with the space age tech we are creating and developing currently. However, this all could be averted if we just neutralize North Korea's missile program.

I'd also like to add that in the US's current state in the social ladder of nations, we aren't exactly the highest. From what I've heard from my foreign friends that we are racist, full of ourselves, and way too unhealthy pumping junk food into our bodies every day, which all of that is pretty much true. All americans are racist to others in my opinion, even the "charitable" ones who claim to not be, they're still racist treating them differently, you can see the apathy and sense of their superiority complex in their body language. The US may more "free" of a country than some european and asian countries, but the united states is still at gunpoint, only alive because we're negotiating with the shooter.