To all SSC Station occupants
Thank you for the donations over the past year (2024), it is much appreciated. I am still trying to figure out how to migrate the forums to another community software (probably phpbb) but in the meantime I have updated the forum software to the latest version. SSC has been around a while so their is some very long time members here still using the site, thanks for making SSC home and sorry I haven't been as vocal as I should be in the forums I will try to improve my posting frequency.
Thank you again to all of the members that do take the time to donate a little, it helps keep this station functioning on the outer reaches of space.
-D1-
North Korea supposedly is going to launch more attacks against the free world.
South Korean lawmaker Rhee Beum-Kwan quoted National Intelligence Service chief Won Sei-hoon as making the prediction, Yonhap reported.
"North Korea pushed for reckless actions as internal complaints grew over its hereditary power succession and economic situations worsened," the lawmaker quoted Won as saying.
Meanwhile, South Korea and the United States wrapped up joint military exercises on the Yellow Sea, while South Korea carried on with plans for artillery firing drills next week amid simmering tensions with Pyongyang.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiap ... index.html
Kim Jong-il has ruined his country and he is willing to talk as much smack as he can to keep his country relevant in the world. He knows damn well that if he does anything drastic that many many lives will be lost.
This is not looking good at all. I hope China and the USA can stay out of it. Those two, working together, could stop this before it begins. I feel sorry for the ordinary Korean people both north and south of the border who may have to fight and die in yet another pointless war. 🙁

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If China doesn't compel North Korea to calm down, there will be trouble. North Korea couldn't care less what the U.S. thinks, they have nukes and half their country is starving. South Korea is rich and fat in their eyes.
I love (and by love, I mean despise) people in power that risk so many lives without a second thought. For them, war, or the threat of war, is just another tool of international politics.