Is the World Underestimating the North Korea Threat? 

It must be Godzilla that destroyed the Nordstream pipelines.

Or rather, Pulgasari. Yonggary vs Pulgasari would be fun though, if only.

Kim is a hero for saving us all

🏆well done sir

He’s actually been the protagonist this whole time

lol good one XD

if that regime ever falls, its millions of people that need to be un-brainwashed, half of what they know about the world isnt true, theyve been under strange lies and oppression for generations

r/angryupvote

I think some of them are aware that there country is full of lies and propaganda but they can’t do anything about to cause they don’t wanna get killed.

No complaints, I must say

I've always said, French is the most asian sounding of European languages lol

I love quasóns lol

Non ees hwa-----song meesyur! Merci

I said the same thing. 😂

@@Potarnul wth are you talking about?

That's must be one of the wildest thing to live. I wonder if there were celebration orgies afterwards

Yeah…I live close enough to several key parts of our nuclear and missile defense systems that if the nuclear poop hit the fan I’d be dead within the first hour at most. If the world is gonna end like that, I’d prefer quick and easy.

So long as they are running around, they feel safe :p

@@T1kr3b3u they scattered like roaches. All of my co-workers ran away too except for one, a waitress. I've never been a big fan of smoking cigarettes, but she offered me one and we walked outside and was just looking up in the sky to see if we can see anything. But we were both pretty much like "so be it"

@@JABoyle3875 when I was growing up in my granddad would talk about the cold war, he always said that if it fell, he hoped that it would fall in his lap.

VX Nerve Agents are your friends.

Those are cutting edge long distance payload delivery munitions!

😂😂😂

They are always the most dangerous ones.

public? no. the media sure as fuck pushed that particular fear though. always fear. live the fear, guys. :)

Heck the public were mainly joking about the “war” we’d have with NK. Nearly everyone agreeing it would’ve been a 1 sided massacre

If you ask trump supporters theyll say Trump stopped nuclear war

​@@jhm3346 it's easy to think that when your media pushes that and you don't actually know anything truly tangible about their capabilities.

Yes it would be 1 sided just like the Afghanistan war, after 20 years the Taliban are as strong as ever.

Tsksks 😂

Lmao

South drops k-pop, North returns K-poop. 😅

People underestimate North Korea until they send K-poop balloons at us

South Korea is a degenerate state so the Norths sending over refuse is fitting.

Still aren't now

Unless you’re North Korea

Rare actual wisdom in a youtube comment. Have a like.

@@TheShftyOne My life is complete.

An army that is starved almost to death already? with officers without any militairy experience? yeah totally not something to underestimate...

@@fjalarhenriksson A cornered, starving animal is the least predictable, my friend.

And he just had to get his anti-Trump dig in. :(

​@@seventhson27 well, to be fair, the man has 30+ felonies and spent most of his Presidency golfing on the taxpayer's dime.

Thank you for this

Actually Korean war 3, 2 happen right in the middle during the Vietnam War

I doubt we be around to make it to gta6 the way things are going in the world

GTA 7: Pyongyang

Korean War 2 electric boogaloo get your Hawaiian shirts and plate carriers

Before Half-Life 3, you mean?

The media is tricking people, they make it sound like Kim Jong Un will strike offensively as it gets more clicks but whenever you actually follow his statements you're realizing he's telling the US not to invade, makes sense now?

The threats are purely defensive, in every speech he is assuming western aggresion first, Kim isn't stupid he knows that he can't win against the US outside of the Korean peninsula.

Defensive and offensive threats aren't the same thing in geopolitics.

The lil' Kim that cries wolf. Misses his useful idiot Trump

Also, it's that old story about the boy yelling "wolves!" When there were none. When wolves appeared nobody believed him.

Ironically your comment is more intelligently written than most RU-vid comments I would say that basically makes you an intellectual.

Short and sweet, I like it.

Short and true, I like it.

Yes Kim once said if we didn't have nukes we would end up like Iraq. There nuke can hit California and they don't declare their testing so America is always gonna keep that in their mind and they havea a big black market with methampthane and chemicals.

I vote we give Russia’s veto power to Ukraine. Also, shouldn’t Taiwan have China’s veto power?

The same way that USA has veto power and vetoes the Gaza ceasefire letting the genocide of Palestinian civilians continue

They did, until 1971

@@GusCraft460 Excellent point! Also, I agree!

Who are you the right to decide who gets a veto and who doesn't? Your western supremacists ideology shows why Russia is more deserving than who ever you propose.

I was a warning, but some use it as a guide.

There's a reason The Lorax isn't available to read in North Korea.... lol damn near every book is banned.

well yeah, first you need a population that is able to actually read

@@ASlickNamedPimpback Funnily enough, they can. North Koreans have to be able to read the regime's propaganda and laws.

Oddly enough, _1984_ is one of the Western books *not* banned in North Korea. Maybe the Kim gang gaslighted their people into thinking it is a utopia which NK is living out rather than the dystopia it was meant to be

...Somebody get this man on the phone with the Pentagon.

I'd say let Japan to mediate affairs

Where, though?

where? WEST ASIA?

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 lmfao thats like asking Britain to mediate any affairs with its middle eastern colonies, or its african colonies, or the US.... so no

How pissed were you when you found out it was a false alarm and had to take the tests after all? Lol

@@itsdan722 When I woke up I was like wait why am I'm still here? Decided to look out my window and saw that everything looked the same. Checked my phone and saw it was a false alarm. I basically was like darn...well I guess I better study for that chemistry test (which was required as a gen ed but not part of my major lol). Honestly, if some disaster be it natural or not is coming to Hawaii there really isn't much to do to get out of it which is why I resigned myself to just sleep through it.

I was working for ServPro at the time. Some of my co-workers were in a panic. Me, I just walked outside from my workplace and just looked up into the sky, hoping sumthin was about to happen. I lived in Oahu almost all my life, and usually, nothing bad happens here. Tsunami warnings, hurricanes, or some random tremors becuz of the big island. Those are nothing to me, and I think of that as normal

@@daniel_gallardo808you took CHEM as your SCI requirement. Do you also dry shave & eat those ghost pepper chips for sport? You are a mad man

Plausible but unlikely. During the Cold War grandpa Kim would often threaten the PRC and USSR with siding with the other unless they sent him aid and he played them off one another constantly, then when the USSR collapsed the PRC and DPRK both realized the DPRK had no choice but to side with the PRC so their new way to make up for the lost income from the Soviets was from the west. They halfheartedly tried to get investment but they werent willing to allow any concessions so those investments never happened, so the learned international aid was their best bet. Kim Jung-Il learned pretty quickly that the west didnt want a war but had plenty of money (same story with South Korea and Japan) so they just needed to rattle their sabers and money would come in. That's also why the timeline of tests tends to line up on a slight delay from their economy: early 90s famine leads to their first missile tests in 1990 and 1993, Asian economies had a downturn in the 90s and North Korea had their first IRBM in 1998, and then after that they either agreed to short term moratoriums, extended those moratoriums for a year at a time, or launched missiles damn near annually through the 2000s and 2010s with a sharp uptick not long after Kim Jung-Il died and Kim Jung Un realized that while his father was viewed as a ring-leader of the "Axis of Evil" that he was viewed as a lesser threat so he needed to establish that same fear in the west his father and grandfather had commanded. "Balance of terror" is a concept the Kims have long employed, it's a political strategy where you have to make sure people fear you enough to do what you want but dont fear you so much that they think it's not worth playing along and just take you out. The Kims have practically perfected it and it's been what's kept their government afloat for the last 30+ years. War doesnt benefit the Kims or North Korea in the slightest, they stand zero chance of taking on South Korea even without the US helping the South and war is almost guaranteed to start with Kim Jung Un's death in a decapitation strike thanks to how centralized their government is leaving them more susceptible to decapitation strikes then any other military on earth, but playing this political game gives the Kims everything they want.

@@viewviewview1236 yeah it really bugs me when people talk about war with North Korea. The DPRK has such bad infrastructure, so few trucks, and such bad famine (even for the military) that they literally struggle even operating within their own border. Their military is so large because many of their "soldiers" are like medieval peasants and the military uses them as laborers to work on government farms and public works, and famine is such a problem that quite often soldiers will work for awhile and then have to go back home, not because the top brass wants to cycle men in and out like a normal military but because the soldiers subsist on food like watery corn and soy gruel and whatever food they can scavenge so they end up getting bed ridden or even dying from malnutrition while working in their own country, sometimes even despite working on farms. Seeing how Russia's invasion went with plenty of trucks, fuel, and food marching hundreds of miles into Ukraine can you imagine what the DPRK would look like trying to march even across the heavily fortified DMZ? I would honestly be shocked if 20% of the soldiers they sent towards the frontline even made it close enough to get shot at by the ROK forces. Any "war" would just be the North flinging outdated WMDs at the South and even those are kind of suspect. Their missiles are mainly based off SCUDs and we learned in Desert Storm just how effective those were against US missile defenses. It's possible that one or a few could get through to hit the South but the farther they try to hit the fewer could get through the defenses to the point even hitting major targets in Japan would be tough and the Kims aren't as stupid as they look, they havent tried honestly attacking the south for decades because they know any serious attack would result in almost instant annihilation. It also helps that they saw how things went for Saddam's WMD program and how his attempts to launch missiles at Israel went. The Kims can stay in the lap of luxury (and by extension so can their allies) as long as they maintain the status quo but any serious aggression would end with them being dragged out in front of cheering crowds to be hung. They have no real incentive to go to war since they have everything to lose and nothing to gain.

Yeah but just the fact that our species has nuclear powered bombs really all weapons that we use on each other for any other reason than to stop human suffering or protect ourselves is pretty wild.

@@LongDongJohnson0705 what's really wild is you're having a belated conversation with yourself

@@arthas640 What do you mean exactly? Please elaborate

Geography is actually what’s stacked against South Korea. Half of South Korea’s population is in the Seoul metropolitan area, which is like 50km from the DMZ. Pyongyang is 150km from the DMZ, and a smaller proportion of North Korea’s lives in Pyongyang. Any preemptive attacks from north is likely to cause civilian casualties beyond imagination.

You're forgetting the biggest problem. The thousands of NK artillery batteries pointed directly at SK

@@DanHipp True, though I didn't deny there would be immense civilian causalities. By concerning I mean the DPRK's ability to pose challenge in fighting

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North Korean now has advanced missile systems in abundance. Modern equipment isn't that important in full scale wars.

there was a young upstart Austrian leader who said the same thing about the soviet union

@@IpsissimusBoz Fortunately, after a hurricane comes a rainbow.

@@tuckercase2449 Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed / Is that you can find one that leads you to the perfect rose

@@Deimnos Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow. Also, the lyric is apparently "perfect road," which totally threw me off the scent because I also thought "rose" was the word and spent too long searching google for the next lyric.

@@tuckercase2449 "and when it's time, you'll know" Haha, perfect road does make more sense, even though, like you said, rose also fit in

Cuban missile crisis.

And inconceivable only 4 years ago, during Trump's presidency...

Doesn’t matter he still answers to china and they dont want war

It's not a dictatorship, it's a democratic republic. It's in their name!

He has no way to hurt anyone but himself, US lasers will enter the chat if he wants to f around

​@@Wtz-jx3whand after the 20 seconds of use they offer?

Yeah but he does have everything to loose and nothing to gain by going to war

I didn't know anyone actually played that steaming pile of dung

You need to worry my friend about china and taiwan war bc most of chips made in taiwan😅

Simons growing it as a contingency plan against isis taking over the western world.

Not really, not in a "we're sending troops way." Even WW2 had South America and big chunks of Asia and Africa mostly sit it out. Now, ECONOMICALLY, with everything tied together in global trade now, that is a different story.

I heard a pretty convincing argument by a very knowledgeable guy a few months ago that WWIII has already started.

@@MM22966Every country in South America declared war on Germany to join the United Nations

Hey its 2024. We're all about inclusion now.

@@adamredwine774 I have heard that , too. But a World War is almost by definition the biggest boys in direct combat. That hasn't happened yet, thankfully. It may not happen, for the same reason the Cold War never went hot.

Maybe the Internet isn't for you

@@kieranklein2527 it's too late now, I'm fused with it

@@polarbear3262 one sec. Gonna pull the plug.

@@kieranklein2527 Don't do it Cypher!

@@polarbear3262 😈

Maybe they were trying to tell us something..

They made it so Jeff Bezos takes a hint

Kid comes in his office while live, wife/nanny (?) on all fours and snatches the kid? Yea. 😅

The only bias they have is in the Russia vs Ukraine war. Russia was and will be powerful.

It's a information black hole, it's impossible to know but what can't be disputed is that i'd be a war like never seen before.

So I was also disturbed by that and after some research i still don't know. I didn't find anything other then drones with ground penetrating radar. But maybe it's something else?

@@horstnietzsche1923 yeah that might be it. It just seems very energy demanding for a drone to borrow through the earth. Even with favorable soil conditions. Let alone solid stone lol

It's not as crazy as it sounds. The US, Soviets and Brits all messed around with them during the cold war. They are essentially just automated sappers. The idea is they drill towards trench lines, bunkers etc, etc and when they reach it, detonate. As far as I was aware all countries abandoned such projects as missile tech improved, however with defensive missile shields now being viable, there might be a place for such drones moving forward.

@@louiscypher4186 daaamn alright yeah that makes sense

Yup. That was a fun game.

Its criminal that company went under

One of the best games I've ever played. .. go figure i find other cultured humans under a video such as this on a channel we all likely subscribe too. Lol

Kimmy boi getting goosebumps watching this😂

team america world police ass

I think we made a movie about that.

So you are no different than Russia and China.

Yes, but America doesn’t play that game. America thinks that only low level soldiers are legitimate targets.

@@Kyr93 well no, not really.

You really underestimate the power of a radicalized populous which has had decades to prepare for a defensive war, their whole country is made to be a fortress and it's filled with mountains with bunkers and tunnels.

@@Might-as-well Not at all. There isnt any indication that the average citizen is being prepared to resist an invasion, not in any serious manner. The citizens are certainly radical and fanatical, but not in the same manner as the Afghans. The population is not widely armed or trained, instead they're starving and ill-equipped. An invasion would be a bloody, nightmarish slog to be certain. But not necessarily difficult or something to be scared of. Especially if it was South Koreas military in the vanguard

@@Might-as-welltheir soldiers are dying of hunger while trying to get their soviet era equipments working

@@Kua99583 Watch any of their recent parades and you'll realize that you're wrong on all points.

@@Might-as-well that’s why there called “parades”. It’s meant to show them in their best light. Don’t be naive and read or watch interviews of NK defectors to understand how hopeless the situation over there really is.

My problem with that is that North Korea's population is still growing besides "starving" for 30 years.

​@@Might-as-wellDid you watch their most recent military parade? The troops looked emaciated.

@@danielhady3021 I looked at their 2023 parade and they didn't seem remotely emaciated, which parade are you referring to?

@@Might-as-well well the most recent one, pretty obvious which one he'd be referring to regardless you dont have a country sealed off for decades with only a few escapees all saying that the conditions are terrible, without the conditions actually being terrible

@@ASlickNamedPimpback The last major parade was in 2023 and in that parade soldiers looked healthy, also the country isn't good but it's not terrible either, South Korean has paid defectors to lie in the past (South Korea isn't a bastion of democracy) and there have been accounts of North Korean's defecting back due to the struggles of capitalism and their will to reunite with their family.

Don't forget stockpiles of chemical & biological weapons.

I hate it, I’d never have children in this horrible world and a fascist possibly becoming a US President who loves all these dictators.

@@teresas8173 "Hate" is such a strong word. 😄

@@teresas8173 youve got to be mental if you think trump is actually a fascist, and even moreso if you think its biden

As opposed to the current president that's presiding over all this chaos. Thats rich.

That's a good point but the brainwash is strong there. Even NK people who work at NK embassies overseas that every chance to leave don't because the believe the lies

Very bad logic, North Korea already had incursions into the South in the past and that never happened, they're too radicalized and would most likely just steal the food instead.

Just like how America overestimated Vietnam, Afghanistan and Korea in the past?

@Might-as-well and Iraq. None of those people want to nuke the world or practice imperialism. They just want to rule themselves but America wants Globalization

Poor souls….

You mean fortunately Seoul could free up some space and give industries to other cities which it is notorious for endless hunger

@@meteorknight999 where else in a country the size of Indiana, with 40 million people, could they relocate a metropolitan industrial area of 25 million? There are basically only 2 major cities, Seoul and Busan, and everything is still in artillery range. They are stuck with what it is. Nothing has changed since my father served there or in my 5 trips there.

You’re delusional if you think that

@@Kua99583 sure bud. You'd know 👍🏻

The issue would be the refugees from the north that would have to be taken care of

Not enough people actually seem to notice that the KPAs gear belongs in museums rather than the frontline.

@@paluckistevenpsh fuck em, seems like a them problem

But you must fear the nodong missile 😂

cool, but south koreans would still die by the tens of thousands

You and "@khaen-tw9yw" said almost the exact same thing. Bot?

21,000 military personnel, including families.

Probably plenty of people here at balding midwit central.

With the aid of Russia they could win though, if the Taiwan war were to start the US would not have a easy time dealing with both theaters.

@Might-as-wel Russia can't even take Ukraine so they wouldn't be much of an assist.

@@WhiteIkiryo-yt2itSouth Korea is easier to conquer than Ukraine, once the metropolises of Seoul and Busan were to be destroyed there wouldn't be much left to fight against, the question is would they dare cause such damage as millions of Koreans on both sides would die within days.

@@Might-as-wellare you on drugs? SK’s army alone has more than 2,000 gen 3-3.5 mbts, 6,000 artillery pieces, 465 mlrs, 53,000 ifvs with more than 600,000 active troops and 3,100,000 reserves which ranks them 5th in the world in terms of military strength according to the latest global firepower and you’re comparing them with Ukraine? Lol. Never think for a second that NK has even the slightest chance against SK.

@@Kua99583 You're not considering that North Korea has immense stockpiles of biowarfare and nuclear weaponry along with vast tunnel and bunker systems, also North Korea has twice the ammount of artillery and twice the ammount of active soldiers, South Korea is advanced and would be able to hold of a traditional North Korean attack easily but they'd not be able to invade North Korea for the reasons stated earlier.