North and South Korea.

[Madara XIII]

IF war breaks out America will just show up and steamroll who-ever we want to lose. If China jumps in, Japan has our back. ^.^
Nothing to worry about, just more money for the war profiteers and an end to a really annoying stalemate.
Now if Israel and their enemies went to open war, THAT would be an issue.

You do realize that Japan's military force is limited to a self-defense force, right? The only thing we'd have from Japan is economic support.

Does this finally give us an excuse to Nuke North Korea and Kim Jong Il?

Please tell me it does!!

Let's not start a war with Communist China from launching nukes in their neighbor. Fallout is not what I'd call an ideal world.

*WHINES* But I wanna go to New Vegaaaaaaaaas *WHIIIIIINE*

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Well, if they start warring each other, it's probably inevitable that the US will involve itself.

sorry to be "that guy" but korea dosnt have "weapons of mass destruction" that "cant be found" and it dosnt happen to have a massive collection of oil fields...

Sorry i know i will take some stick for that...

Man, wage a war on false pretenses once and you never hear the end of it...

Seriously, their our allies, and we have troops over there, we'll probably help out.

 

[Naheal]

IF war breaks out America will just show up and steamroll who-ever we want to lose. If China jumps in, Japan has our back. ^.^
Nothing to worry about, just more money for the war profiteers and an end to a really annoying stalemate.
Now if Israel and their enemies went to open war, THAT would be an issue.

You do realize that Japan's military force is limited to a self-defense force, right? The only thing we'd have from Japan is economic support.

Does this finally give us an excuse to Nuke North Korea and Kim Jong Il?

Please tell me it does!!

Let's not start a war with Communist China from launching nukes in their neighbor. Fallout is not what I'd call an ideal world.

*WHINES* But I wanna go to New Vegaaaaaaaaas *WHIIIIIINE*

You'd get a vault for 200 years if you're lucky. If you're not...

 

[Canid117]

The north is run by loonies.

I don't know how to explain it other than that.

 

[Madara XIII]

IF war breaks out America will just show up and steamroll who-ever we want to lose. If China jumps in, Japan has our back. ^.^
Nothing to worry about, just more money for the war profiteers and an end to a really annoying stalemate.
Now if Israel and their enemies went to open war, THAT would be an issue.

You do realize that Japan's military force is limited to a self-defense force, right? The only thing we'd have from Japan is economic support.

Does this finally give us an excuse to Nuke North Korea and Kim Jong Il?

Please tell me it does!!

Let's not start a war with Communist China from launching nukes in their neighbor. Fallout is not what I'd call an ideal world.

*WHINES* But I wanna go to New Vegaaaaaaaaas *WHIIIIIINE*

You'd get a vault for 200 years if you're lucky. If you're not...

Wait....does this involve the Creepy pasta story about the Static and the secret Vault where you can't open any of the doors?

 

[ecoho]

If China jumps in
Now if Israel and their enemies went to open war, THAT would be an issue.

China is unlikely to go to war over North Korea these days.
Isreal in open war, you mean like the other half dozen times over the last few decades? As things stand, that is a non-issue except for those directly involved. That's only likely to change if Iran gets nukes, then 'd expect a first strike by Isreal, an almighty mass, and oil proces going through the roof.

Israel has never gone into what you would call "open war" which would be very very bad. Open war would be like the 7 day war they had only on a much more massive scale. That being said if it came down to it this is how it would end Israel will start it then finish it with a huge incress in land. (you so dont fuck with the isralies thats just commen sence

Bullshit. I've seen Evangelion, you can't tell me they don't have giant mecha.

Hahaha, ehem.

OP: It is not that easy. If it was, it would have heppened already. A war between North and South Korea could start a World War. North Korea is backed by China and South Korea is back by the US to start. Who knows where other countries will fall into.

actualy china is very pissed at North Korea and has already told them if you start something with the americans we wont save you. So this conflict will last a year at worst if it starts up mostly do to the fact that we will just decapitate their leadership. BTW your all missing the bigest player to this conflict, south korea will have all of blizzards suport and lets just say with that kind of fanacial backing North korea is screwed

 

[Timotei]

If China jumps in

I'm getting tired of having to clarify this:

Neither China nor the US have ANY inclination to go to war with one another because neither is willing to disrupt the a multi-trillion dollar international trade. Sure, we may fight a proxy war at most, but so long as China and the US continue to maintain the largest international trade market in the history of humanity, nothing short of one side clearly attacking the other is going to end that.

To start a war would be similar to setting an atom bomb off in the global stock and trade market, nobody wins. The most that will occur from this is that North Korea goes so far that China has no other option but to step back and watch their neighbor turn into a puff of smoke.

And no, Japan will not be backing up South Korea or the US if shit hits the fan. With a small Navy of only 110 small vessels (maybe some 3-4 fleets worth) and 18 submarines, 805 aircraft (less than half of which are combat planes), and some 147,000 troops, it'd be safe to say the most we'd be seeing from them is simply securing the Sea of Japan and the mainland itself from the inevitable attacks North Korea would do as a means of trying to cripple morale.

Now those numbers may sound like a lot, but when you're talking about large scale military operations it's rather small in comparison to the firepower others can bring to bear.

 

[Ekonk]

Ok everyone, as most of us are aware at this point, North Korea has shelled a South Korean Island and caused most of the world to start yelling ta them over it.

But what this makes me think is this: These two countries have officially been in a state of war for about fifty years now.........FIFTY YEARS!!! Seriously, what theh hell is wrong with htese people? I mean if they want peace, declare peace, if you want war, just go ahead and attack each other. But being in a state of war and doing nothing but trading insults for half a century is just ridiculous.

Now I know that I may sound like a horrible person for saying this but here it is. I wish that the two Koreas would jusy have it out already. I mean this "will they, won't they" thats been going on is just getting tired. Lets just get it done and over with.

Hopefully this shelling will lead to some sort of conclusion to this, peace or war, either suits me.

Please tell me what you think and I apologise if anyone though I am being too harsh over this.

It sounds like you have a very limited knowledge of the Koreas.

North is ruled by by a military dictatorship led by a megalomaniac who cares not about his people, only about his own glory. The brainwashed populace worship him. They occasionally attack South Korea in small provocations. They are essentially holding everything within missile range hostage. They are a poor nation, plagued by famine yet they have a very large army and lots of weaponry. They are, simply put, insane.

South is a democracy.

There can be no 'agreement', as the North will never agree to anything the reasonable South may say. This is because the North is a bunch of zombies led by a megalomaniac.

 

[USSR]

IF war breaks out America will just show up and steamroll who-ever we want to lose.

I literally just fell out of my chair laughing at how true that is.

sorry to be "that guy" but korea dosnt have "weapons of mass destruction" that "cant be found" and it dosnt happen to have a massive collection of oil fields...

I don't know.

<link=http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101123/india_nm/india530928> Linky.

The White House condemned the attack, telling the North to halt its "belligerent action" and saying it was committed to defend the South.

Not saying you're wrong though.
Defend can be thrown around in multitudes of ways these days.

 

[nash_clovis]

Japan can't help America if we do go to war. Their troops are only for self defense.

China has no inclination to go to war against North Korea as they're very strong trading partners. They wouldn't even consider it unless they think that the Korean Peninsula is more beneficial to China under the control of South Korea, in which case the only thing they do is wait it out to see who comes out victorious.

 

[IntangibleMango]

Hopefully this shelling will lead to some sort of conclusion to this, peace or war, either suits me.

I don't think it would particularly 'suit' most Koreans.

 

[The Man With the Soap]

Did you ever hear of the Korean War?
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War] may help. It is quite interesting to read.

To this day, the Korean War is technically not over. An armistace was signed, but no official peace treaty was ever ratified.

Well, if they start warring each other, it's probably inevitable that the US will involve itself.

Plus, I'm pretty sure that we're not letting them war it out. We have troops over there on both sides of the border to prevent this.

While the United States does maintain a significant military presence along the Korean DMZ, U.S. troops only operate on the South Korean side of the border. The North Koreans would never allow American troops across their border for any reason.

I thought I read recently that they had troops on both sides. My bad, I must have read it wrong. >.>

It's fine. We all make mistakes. I am merely trying to inform.

 

[Zeetchmen]

Don't get your knickers in a twist, N korea has been doing this stuff to the south for years

Nothing is going to come of it

 

[Anchupom]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

[sup]Or something.[/sup]

 

[Ph33nix]

Ok everyone, as most of us are aware at this point, North Korea has shelled a South Korean Island and caused most of the world to start yelling ta them over it.

But what this makes me think is this: These two countries have officially been in a state of war for about fifty years now.........FIFTY YEARS!!! Seriously, what theh hell is wrong with htese people? I mean if they want peace, declare peace, if you want war, just go ahead and attack each other. But being in a state of war and doing nothing but trading insults for half a century is just ridiculous.

Now I know that I may sound like a horrible person for saying this but here it is. I wish that the two Koreas would jusy have it out already. I mean this "will they, won't they" thats been going on is just getting tired. Lets just get it done and over with.

Hopefully this shelling will lead to some sort of conclusion to this, peace or war, either suits me.

Please tell me what you think and I apologise if anyone though I am being too harsh over this.

first off use a browser with spell check please
ot: the reason their is an armistice is because the US and China got tired of the stalemate at the end of the korean war and decided they wanted to head home and forced the truce

 

[zama174]

IF war breaks out America will just show up and steamroll who-ever we want to lose. If China jumps in, Japan has our back. ^.^
Nothing to worry about, just more money for the war profiteers and an end to a really annoying stalemate.
Now if Israel and their enemies went to open war, THAT would be an issue.

You do realize that Japan's military force is limited to a self-defense force, right? The only thing we'd have from Japan is economic support.

Bullshit. I've seen Evangelion, you can't tell me they don't have giant mecha.

You expect us to believe that the Gundam in tokyo is just a building?! Bullshit! Its a working Gundam!

 

[Worgen]

Bullshit. I've seen Evangelion, you can't tell me they don't have giant mecha.

Hahaha, ehem.

OP: It is not that easy. If it was, it would have heppened already. A war between North and South Korea could start a World War. North Korea is backed by China and South Korea is back by the US to start. Who knows where other countries will fall into.

well china wont do shit since if we end up in a war with them then we win since we can wipe out debt and neither country is interested in invading the other since an ocean is still a really good barrier

 

[KeyMaster45]

Gentlemen, I think we know the solution to this problem...but I'm afraid many of you aren't going to like it.

ROLL THE TITLE SEQUENCE!!!