North Korea begins artillery shelling on SK

[Mac Sirloin]

And, despite 200+ shells being launched, there are currently about 16 wounded.
Wounded.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_787294.html

[Strike Witch]

What poor aim.

Anyway, if this escalates, it'll be a standoff between China and the US. If the US backs down, they haven't got the balls to pick a fight with China, which will give it a huge ego boost. In China backs down, then NK will realize the bastards never cared much about them at all.

Hm.

[Hazel-Rah]

North Korea is gonna get fucked up, some of the best Starcraft players in the world are in the South korean military.

[Bullet Magnet]

How many of them are generals? In the military, I mean.

[Nate]

What poor aim.

Anyway, if this escalates, it'll be a standoff between China and the US. If the US backs down, they haven't got the balls to pick a fight with China, which will give it a huge ego boost. In China backs down, then NK will realize the bastards never cared much about them at all.

Hm.

I wouldn't pretend to be an expert but my impression was always that China supported NK in principle due to the Communism thing, but don't particularly approve of what they do. I suspect they'll tell Kim Jong-Il to calm the fuck down.

[Strike Witch]

That's basically it, however there's also China supporting NK just because it annoys America. I'm thinking they'll ditch their plaything the moment it gets serious.

[scrabface]

Nah I think China would do no shit. NK is totally broken, there is nothing to fetch out of NK, except problems. SK doesn't want a fight either because they would only loose. what do you do with brainwashed kids?

[Leto]

This whole situation makes me go ":["

[enchilado]

I went ":[" in real life, which I will have you know is extremely difficult.

[shaman]

Let's hope the US doesn't get involved.

[Daxter King]

I hope the US gets involved. And China wont do shit over NK.

[Alcar]

Best Korea will prevail!

Fairly stupid thing to do though. First it's the ship they attacked, then the random North Korean firing across the de-militiarized zone, now this. The stupid is astounding.

By the way, is 'militiarized' proper British English? Militiarised doesn't seem correct.

Alcar...

[Hazel-Rah]

I hope the US gets involved. And China wont do shit over NK.

We won't dude, we owe China way too much money, we'd never do anything to harm them. >_> It's fucking bullshit.

[OANST]

Christ. Does the shit never end?

[Bullet Magnet]

Every now and then North Korea likes to remind everyone that they're mad. Of course, when South Korea retaliates, the North Korean civilians are told that they are the aggressors.

North Korea is worried. People keep defecting to the South, dear leader is sick and there's a revolutionary underground army training up recruits. I don't think it has long left.

[Asmoden]

All wars in history was done for money, US and China will be no exception.

I don't think they whant a war right new but historically speaking a war is a good metod to surpass an economical depression and, at the actual speed, the planet resources will not be enought for both US and China next generation.

I hope at least the best starcraft players will not decide to try their fanatical passion on real life(i play starcraft and i can guarantee some of them are crazy)

[STM]

Hmm, the exact details of the conflict are unknown but I doubt we should be preparing for Fallout 4...Firstly even China who is shit scared of Kim Jong Il has tried to make N. Korea sign official peace talks with S. Korea.

Oh and South Korea fired first but nowhere near the N. Korean water space, this is however hotly debated by SK who say their port was attacked. Pyongyang province is on threat level 1 so they are officially at war but there is too little information on the shelling for real info. Fingers crossed there is no escalation.

Sources: BBC, The Times and some small US site

[Mac Sirloin]

All wars in history was done for money, US and China will be no exception.

This is so incorrect it hurts.

[Asmoden]

This is so incorrect it hurts.

If you are going out of your way to point it out at least tell me where(i managed to find only 1 error)

[Wings of Fire]

If you are going out of your way to point it out at least tell me where(i managed to find only 1 error)

Lets start with World War 2 and work our way back from there.

[Mac Sirloin]

If you are going out of your way to point it out at least tell me where(i managed to find only 1 error)

Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt that plenty of armed conflicts have been for profit in some capacity, but no, all wars is a bit much.

[STM]

What about protecting the peace through war, what about defending a nation on poor, helpless people, what about the first two crusades...

[Mac Sirloin]

What about them?

[STM]

They where wars, fought not for monetary gain...well

[OANST]

I'm not going to argue with that. Not because I think you're right, but because I don't understand what you're saying.

[STM]

Yayvarily, this is probably best because looking back, I don't have any idea what I was getting at.

[Bullet Magnet]

Of course, one of the things that made it possible for the second world war to start were the massive reparations Germany was forced to pay which they considered grossly unfair. Quite possibly rightly.

[MA]

ALL WARS WERE ABOUT NAZI GOLD WE'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS

[OANST]

Hitler. I said it. Now it's a real conversation.

[Hazel-Rah]

All wars in history was done for money, US and China will be no exception.

Nah, it's not gonna happen. It wouldn't be a profitable business venture for either country, China needs the US and we need them, a war with the US with ste China's economic progress back quite a bit. War is the most expensive adventure a country can embark upon.