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[Loud Whispers]

So, it is actually Dorf Korea, and we have only been getting the name wrong all these years?

We need to make sure Dorf Korea cannot engineer any dragonfire-proof mechanisms, the future of an unmagma'd world may depend upon it

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's happening. Park will formally lose her power as South Korea's planetary governor on Friday. After this, the Arbiters will have 180 days to determine her guilt or lackthereof, which if successful will result in the enactment of a traditional Blood Struggle within an additional 60 days.

Currently, only 4% of South Koreans believe Park retains the Emperor's grace, while 78% support branding her a heretic.

[90908]

The Emperor Protects. May His will be done.

[WealthyRadish]

As weird as it is, this whole thing seems par the course for South Korea. It often seems like its post-war history was written by screenwriters and conspiracy theorists, at times reaching DPRK levels of camp.

Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C

[smjjames]

It's happening. Park will formally lose her power as South Korea's planetary governor on Friday. After this, the Arbiters will have 180 days to determine her guilt or lackthereof, which if successful will result in the enactment of a traditional Blood Struggle within an additional 60 days.

Currently, only 4% of South Koreans believe Park retains the Emperor's grace, while 78% support branding her a heretic.

Planetary? lol....

As weird as it is, this whole thing seems par the course for South Korea. It often seems like its post-war history was written by screenwriters and conspiracy theorists, at times reaching DPRK levels of camp.

Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C

Technically they're still at war, there is an armistice, but no peace treaty was ever made. So, both sides have been in a war footing all these years, which makes it a rather unusual situation.

S. Korean politics are about to get wierder still, the impeachment went through, but she may still stay in office and serve out her term until 2018 despite being stripped of her powers.

Although it says the constitutional court there may or may not reinstate her, if she is reinstated, she'll still be powerless and be effectively a dead duck (the PM has power in the interim). If she isn't, then new elections will take place and a successor will take office.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I just realized that this is basically just Liberal Crime Squad: SK Edition.

[Reelya]

I was reading an article just now claiming that North Korea would have nuclear-tipped ICBMs ready to hit the continental USA by 2020. Whoever wrote that is a war hawk who's smoking too much good stuff.

It's seriously fucking laughable.

What if I told you that Australia could develop a working ICBM system capable of hitting the USA by 2020? It would clearly be a fucking joke. The entire nation of Australia would have to throw everything into making that a thing. And it would probably fail. Costs would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

And how does Australia rank vs North Korea? We have the same amount of population (around 24 million), but the Australian economy is 100 times the size, with about 6 times the defense budget of North Korea, plenty of materials, lots of good universities, scientists and engineers.

The thing is, North Korea only survives because China is next door. If they get too belligerent there are dozens of countries that would be capable of wiping them out very quickly. I mean, New Zealand has half the defense budget of North Korea, and much better tech.

[hops]

Why would Australia even need ICBM, they can just smuggle some wildlife into America and watch everything die.

[Sheb]

I was reading an article just now claiming that North Korea would have nuclear-tipped ICBMs ready to hit the continental USA by 2020. Whoever wrote that is a war hawk who's smoking too much good stuff.

It's seriously fucking laughable.

What if I told you that Australia could develop a working ICBM system capable of hitting the USA by 2020? It would clearly be a fucking joke. The entire nation of Australia would have to throw everything into making that a thing. And it would probably fail. Costs would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

And how does Australia rank vs North Korea? We have the same amount of population (around 24 million), but the Australian economy is 100 times the size, with about 6 times the defense budget of North Korea, plenty of materials, lots of good universities, scientists and engineers.

The thing is, North Korea only survives because China is next door. If they get too belligerent there are dozens of countries that would be capable of wiping them out very quickly. I mean, New Zealand has half the defense budget of North Korea, and much better tech.

Why would that be that strange? They got nukes, they got rocket. Taepodong II's range estimate is 6700 km, meaning it could hit Alaska, and while it's not clear how reliable it is, it shares a lot of systems with Uhna, and those managed to put a 200 kg satellites into orbit. Now, nobody knows how small their nukes are, but it's not impossible that they could have at least a small one mountable on a Taepodong II by 2020.

[Loud Whispers]

Best Korea and South Korea was a mistake

[hops]

I still can't get over them naming rockets dongs.

[Reelya]

Why would that be that strange? They got nukes, they got rocket. Taepodong II's range estimate is 6700 km, meaning it could hit Alaska, and while it's not clear how reliable it is, it shares a lot of systems with Uhna, and those managed to put a 200 kg satellites into orbit. Now, nobody knows how small their nukes are, but it's not impossible that they could have at least a small one mountable on a Taepodong II by 2020.

IDK, 200 KG is barely much larger than Sputnik, and the rocket that launched the NK satellite was in development since 1987. Compare that to 4 years of development for the Soviet R7 until it launched Sputnik. If we assume NK has nukes equivalent to first-generation nukes, then Little Boy was 4.4 metric tons, or 22 times bigger than what Taepodong II launched. So maybe they can put a 1 kiloton bomb onto that rocket. Basically it takes them 30 years to make 1950s equivalent tech that was developed in 3-4 years at the time.

[Sheb]

If you assume. NK claimed it detonated an hydrogen bomb already, while we can't check it, you can't really dismiss out of hand either. 200 kg is over twice the mass of Sputnik I, and the R7-A as a ballisitic missile could carry a warhead weighing over 3 tons.

So yeah, if NK was announcing today that they're starting a nuclear program from scratch, you could laugh at the notions of them having the capabilities to launch a nuke-tipped ICBM in five years. But they have a working rocket, they have nukes. Starting from there, it is much more believable that they would be able to do so.

[ChairmanPoo]

I miss this thread and it's special announcements.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

DPRK Thread will never truly die, it merely lies dormant, avoiding the frequent thread desolation of 2016.

Even should I be banned, the line of succession has already been determined.