N. Korea announces the complete success of hydrogen bomb for ICBM

Yonhap News ^ | 2017/09/03

[TigerLikesRooster]

People are all talking about the problem as if we could still find some "reasonable" solution. The only thing we have is to jack up the price so high that NK elites feel that ditching Kim is better than imminent ruin(or death.) Same for China. Either rein on Kim or face full economic retaliation. We simply cannot do this while keeping everybody's apple cart safe and sound.

We need to put them in a rock and a real hard place. Forcing NK elites to bail out with their stashed money.

Actually I had enough of sorry pundits at NK News run by measly cowards who were responsible for appeasement which led to the current disaster.

[Tallguy]

I rather doubt that any Nork missile boat will make it past Guam before it has ‘and accident’... A Mark 48 accident.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Correction: We need to put them in[between] a rock and a real hard place

[SamAdams76]

It is unfair to make the claim that Trump "has no balls" to do something about N. Korea. None of us here are in the inner circle and if we were, we wouldn't be talking. This is very serious situation and the solution is not as simple as "nuking" N. Korea out of existence. For one, we have a metropolis just 20 miles south of the border (Seoul) with over 10 million innocent people.

I have confidence that options are on the table to deal with this and that at some point in near future, it will be dealt with. Hopefully the solution does not result in the destruction of Seoul - which is a very real possibility.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“I thought we finally elected someone who had the balls to take care of this problem.

I love Trump but he doesn’t seem to have the balls this time.”

Its just a video game that is resolved in an hour; right?

[Vaquero]

Should there have been an EMP from this event? Any problems in South Korea/Japan because of an EMP.

Not from an underground test, no.

[bgill]

Should have taken out chubs years ago.

[Netz]

Will we be saying the same for Iran in a year or two?

[ex91B10]

You nailed it.

[datricker]

Existential threat I think it’s time to start banning Chinese imports. This is their fault. We suffer the several years of not having crappy consumer goods. We are feeding Kim indirectly

[bert]

The problem is not North Korea or Trump or the USA, but Japan and South Korea. They have apparently not given up on negotiation and are in the greatest danger.

Before unilateral American action, both must agree.

[neverevergiveup]

“The NK problem has been kicked down the road by every president since Truman.”

Yes, but the biggest contributor to this current crisis is Clinton, without a doubt. The time to have definitively dealt with North Korea's nuclear ambitions was during Clinton's tenure, and what we got instead was a an ‘agreement’ that has led us to the brink of disaster. Two self-absorbed idiots with law degrees from Yale (the Clintons) and another self-absorbed idiot with a degree from Wellesley (Albright) have put the world at incredible risk, and that's not an overstatement.

[mandaladon]

Let’s just wait and see...

[Bob Ireland]

###No good options left###

My solution (mailed to WH): notify China that any act of aggression by NK will be considered an act of war by China __ (since China is the sole power on earth able to exercise control over NK.) Can we ask: How is it that NK has a _hydrogen bomb_ and China does not?!!! [Posted from my Kindle which is a sole combatant.]

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

This mess should have been dealt with in the early 1950’s.

[mdmathis6]

It would be horrible about Seoul but the great thing about Seoul is that there is the “rest of the country”? Seoul will recover...the question is when would be the best time to “weather” the storm in cleaning out all those artillery pieces and secret tunnels aimed at the capitol. The seat of the government and its bureaucracy should be moved out of Seoul post haste for a start!

[JoeProBono]

[AdmSmith]

Is it just a coincidence that there is an escalation/potential crisis point in NK at same time as Zapad 2017?

[SamAdams76]

I agree. If I was in Seoul, I’d have my “bug-out” bags packed and be looking for a place to go. Terrible situation. I think this is going to come to a climax sooner rather than later. We simply cannot allow N. Korea to develop and retain these capabilities.

[hoagy62]

Uh, China detonated their own H-bomb in the Sixties. All their ICBMs are equipped with them.