South Korean navy ship sinking near North - possibly torpedoed

[Neil]

Is it : war?

I rather imagine not.  Naval clashes happen all the time.  Neither side has the stones for a real war.

[Caliga]

Kim'n'Tim is a better title for marketing.

You know, I actually meant to write The Kim and I... weird how I ended up typing "The Tim and I" instead.  But they both kinda work.

Would Tim be played by: Jodie Foster.

[Lettow77]

 North Korea is a menace that has to be dealt with. I wish Japan would assume a more active role in suppressign them.

[Neil]

North Korea is a menace that has to be dealt with. I wish Japan would assume a more active role in suppressign them.

Japan is even less able to deal with them than anybody else.  Kim has had them cowed with the threat of radiological attack for years now.

[Syt]

Kim'n'Tim is a better title for marketing.

You know, I actually meant to write The Kim and I... weird how I ended up typing "The Tim and I" instead.  But they both kinda work.

Would Tim be played by: Jodie Foster.

There's a John Hinckley joke in there somewhere.

[Agelastus]

Well, shit.

I can't remember, where in Korea are you?  Are you going to be killed in the initial artillery bombardment of Seoul or would it take a massive zerg rush to reach you?

I'm 40 minutes westsouthwest of Suwon by bus, close to the
coast. So, south of Seoul by a decent bit.
It would take a while for them to get here.

...

So sometime on day 3 then, assuming the North Koreans are actually capable of pulling off an assault in accord with the old Soviet handbook? Or maybe day 4 - I'm having trouble estimating the distance properly on my computer screen.

[dps]

Come on. Since when does the sinking of a ship precipitate full US involvement in a war? Sheesh.

1898 & 1917 

[Neil]

1917 

Wrong.

[Strix]

Come on. Since when does the sinking of a ship precipitate full US involvement in a war? Sheesh.

1898 & 1917 

You forget August of 1964!

[garbon]

Has 99 Red Balloons gone by?

Have?

[CountDeMoney]

I can't help but keep thinking about my buddy Joey's battalion commander when he was stationed in South Korea;  the guy had managed to score an old ROK M113, and had welded two bulldozer scoops together in front of it as a cowcatcher to plow through all the refugees, because when the balloon goes up, everybody's hauling ass to Pusan.

Now that, my friends, is combat contingency planning.

[Razgovory]

Meh this shit happens all the time.

[jimmy olsen]

Meh this shit happens all the time.

No it doesn't.

[Razgovory]

Meh this shit happens all the time.

No it doesn't.

It happened 8 years ago.  Three years before that the South sank two Northern ships.  Last year the South shot up a Northern ship.

[jimmy olsen]

Meh this shit happens all the time.

No it doesn't.

It happened 8 years ago.  Three years before that the South sank two Northern ships.  Last year the South shot up a Northern ship.

Given the death toll this would be the worst incident since 1968.