re: US Warns Australia it may take action against NK & shoot down test missiles.

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In the short term are they a threat to mainland US? No but they do pose a threat to US assets in the region and regional allies. However sooner or later they are going to perfect their missile technology and than they will be a threat to us. The question is do we wish to tackle the problem now or later?

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You can say this of just about every corner of the globe.

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I don't like this shite.

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same here

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I don't like this shite.

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Nothings going to happen, just a lot of posturing. The pending economic disaster would ruin China, HK, Singapore, etc.

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This is fine - just stay out of Syria

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In reality we should be very concerned with the midget pervert, he has the potential to start a real nightmare of a mess.

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Nah. They don't have any long range delivery systems. We're talking about overthrowing a nuclear power with strong ties to a super power.

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It's really not about their delivery systems or their nukes. We could take those out pretty much anytime we wanted or just park a couple Aegis destroyers off the coast or put missile defense shields in SK or Japan and pretty much nullify that threat. The real issue here is China. China is our only credible geopolitical foe in the world. Russia and Iran are a fricking sideshow. Us controlling North Korea instead of China is huge leverage for us.

North Korea with more bullshite:

N.K. vows to take 'toughest' military actions as U.S. sends aircraft carrier

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SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) -- North Korea vowed Tuesday to take the "toughest" counteraction against the United States as Washington is sending its strategic assets near the Korean Peninsula for what the North calls an invasion of Pyongyang.

The North's warning was made after the U.S. dispatched the USS Carl Vinson, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, to waters off the divided peninsula amid signs of the North's provocations.

North Korea's foreign ministry warned that the country is ready to take the toughest actions to defend itself with powerful weaponry against what it calls Washington's provocations.

"We will hold the U.S. wholly accountable for the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its outrageous actions," a ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Tensions on the peninsula have heightened amid speculation that North Korea may conduct its sixth nuclear test or launch a long-range rocket around its key anniversaries in April.

Concerns about a possible U.S. pre-emptive strike against North Korea are growing as well.

U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster told Fox News that President Donald Trump has ordered him to prepare "a full range of options" to nuclear and missile threats North Korea poses to Washington and its allies.

North Korea claimed that Washington's military threats justified its development of nuclear and missile programs.

"The prevailing grave situation proves once again that (North Korea) was entirely just when it increased in every way its military capabilities for self-defense and pre-emptive attack with a nuclear force as a pivot," the spokesman said.

Meanwhile, the Korean People's Army (KPA), North Korea's military, condemned the U.S. for applying a "double" standard" to South Korea's provocation.

The North was referring to South Korea's test-firing of a new 800-kilometer-range Hyunmoo-type ballistic missile that can reach anywhere in North Korea.

"This is a brazen-faced stance quite different from its reaction to the routine rocket firing exercise of the KPA," a spokesman for the General Staff of the KPA said.