Technically speaking, the 9/11 attacks and Marine Barracks bombing were not planned and executed by agents of a sovereign state. I agree though that we would not nuke NK in response to an attack on a US theater. I do believe, however, that NK’s military capabilities would be effectively eliminated in very short order.
China got that back kid
I doubt China would sit idle and watch passively as NK gets torn to shreds. But we’ll never get there anyway because China won’t allow NK to do anything like the scenario portrayed in this thread.
Seeing as it’s another Seth Rogan movie, we should actually thank them.
This is a good point. And while I think NK is as irrational and looney as it gets today (now that Mahmoud Amajenadan is out), I still don’t think they are crazy enough to attack western civilians over a movie.
Highly unlikely.
While the American war machine dwarfs that of North Korea this is not a fragmented country with a weak military force. Technologically they could probably be taken out within a weak but they are highly trained in asymetric warfare, expected to be sitting on a stockpile of chemical weapons and word on the street is that these are the people responsible for training Hezbollah in guerrilla warfare. Even assuming mass defection due to living conditions, with a reserve personnel rumored to be close to 8 million that display an extraordinary amount of patriotic fervor and a supply line that would be impossible to cut off from China it would be a long drawn messy affair that would put Iraq in the shade and one that would have no definite conclusion.
I seriously believe its not the actual millitary invasion everyone thinks is hard but the aftermath.
Lets face it ,NK is far different from any other country,I think the south K has to be stupid to think about taking over the goverment,the people in NK think Pizza&Hamburgers are made by their leader.They have to go through a very long and rough transition time unlike any other country.This is not Iraq,East Germany or even afghanistan they are tottaly cut off from the rest of the world.
I don’t think the movie theatres were scared of people blowing them up. I think they were scared of cyber attacks aimed at them and trying to get PII on people who saw it (to attack them too). Just my speculation though, that’s what I’d consider if in a management role of a theater. I’m pretty certain they probably aren’t the most secure IT wise – why would they need to be?
i think you greatly overestimate the DPRK military. it is highly concentrated along the 38th parallel. after pounding away on the their side of the 38th with relentless firepower, and taking out most air bases and nuclear weapon facilities throughout the country, i doubt the 20% of the military remaining elsewhere in the country would be willing to take on a force of upwards of idk, 20M coalition troops if it was really needed, and far superior technology that can kill them without even seeing a human being. it would be very easy to destroy the DPRK’s air force and blow a huge hole in the 38th parallel and march toward Pyongyang. though it would be likely that coalition forces would take out Kim before this all went down to promote dissention among the ranks.
i agree that it could be a drawn out conflict IF you fought the DPRK like every other country but because the entire DPRK economy is a militiary one, you have to hit them very very hard initially and it should be pretty easy thereafter. if you don’t blanket much of their military infrastructure right away, you’re in for a crappy war. i think the general population in the West would be up for a blanket strategy in NK due to its nuclear threat, if it ever came down to it.
finally, i’m unsure about China’s ability to restrain NK. i don’t think the current situation in NK benefits the China of today. it’s not like China benefits from NK’s poverty or military might, if they ever required it.
DPRK’s military capability is irrelevant. China will never allow US attack on NK. People who are fantasizing about war in NK should get out of mom’s basement.
and how do you suggest China would prevent such action? would China declare war against the West to protect a leader that detonates nuclear bombs in Chinese territory? probably not.
China wouldn’t need to do very much, the US would just take a look and decide that it’s not worth rattling China for a movie theater explosion, probably arrest some guys and move on.
As an aside I recently visited Seoul and the DMZ and got to learn more about North Korea.
They are nuts – and really shouldn’t be provoked.
Back in the 1970s they killed two US Army officers at the DMZ with an axe because they didn’t like that they had cut down a tree in the area.
I toured a tunnel that North Korea had dug for shuttling soldiers across the DMZ for a surprise attack on South Korea. This tunnel was deep and long (a lot of work had clearly been put into it). There have been four tunnels discovered so far – and it’s suspected there are others that are yet undiscovered.
Definitely a fascinating – but also scary – country.
Closest thing to Nazi Germany in the world today. The concentration camp details that came out earlier this year were terrifying. It blew my mind that such things could exist in 2014.
its baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack. Sony told kim jung dong to suck ittttttt
Free publicity for the movie. Now I bet people who weren’t going to watch it in the first place will go now.
Did anyone actually believe this movie wasn’t going to be shown? I’m not in the conspiracy camp, but I knew this movie would be shown at some point.
what happens if one of the theaters gets blown up, does sony get sued?
Can Sony get sued, yes. Will the plantiff win? Who knows. In the USA you can sue anyone for anything. It doesn’t mean the judge won’t throw a hacksaw along with you out of the courtroom.