N. Korea vows to sink Japan for ‘dancing to US tune’ & reduce US to ‘ashes and darkness’

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  • Don't worry. These are idle threats.

    Votes: 3 37.5%
  • Ask China to deal with him.

    Votes: 2 25.0%
  • Trump should bomb North Korea

    Votes: 3 37.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 1 12.5%

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the thin man looks suicidal, and thus is likely not overly concerned.
 
Sinking on the knife edge


In February of that year, the great leader Kim Jong Il, with whom he had a seat, recalled the history of the Songun who had come through the rough front.
He said that he had gone twice to Oseongsan, and when he climbed Ohseongsan, he had to turn the knife to 152 degrees. When he first went to Ohseongsan, he said that he had not been able to move forward and he was still standing. He taught me that I had to push my car against the muddy water that had been sprinkled every time I turned around. ...
In front of the eyes of the people, the sight of the day was hard to come by.
It was a dangerous front line where the enemy was in front of Oh Sung San, which is over 1,000m above sea level, consisting of a raging knife cliff and a deep valley. The soldiers stood before him, desperately telling them that he would never come to the great general.
However, the great general said, "I have to go up to the highland when there are people army soldiers in the highland, and the chief commander has to go through the rough roads of the front line in the same inclement weather today, and he knows the life of our warriors. It was a steep and rough road leading to stunning cliffs and stony roots that were exposed in the muddy water that was picked up by the wind and the heavy rain. The field car, which for some time peaked at the peak, began to slip down and slip down at a certain moment. It was a dangerous moment.
At this time, the great general, who had come out of the car, lifted his shoulders on his body. He did not even know that the muddy water was being sprinkled, and he pulled out his car and pulled a knife ...
He looked around at the crowded crowd and remembers that his car had slipped down one or two boats and rolled down the slippery cliff.
The officers were convinced that the great general would go through and the last victory would surely be accomplished.
 
'I was just doing my job': Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77
A Soviet officer who prevented a nuclear crisis between the US and the USSR and possible World War III in the 1980s has quietly passed away. He was 77. In 2010 RT spoke to Stanislav Petrov, who never considered himself a hero. We look at the life of the man who saved the world.
A decision that Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov once took went down in history as one that stopped the Cold War from turning into nuclear Armageddon, largely thanks to Karl Schumacher, a political activist from Germany who helped the news of his heroism first reach a western audience nearly two decades ago.

On September 7, Schumacher, who kept in touch with Petrov in the intervening years, phoned him to wish him a happy birthday, but instead learned from Petrov’s son, Dmitry, that the retired officer had died on May 19 in his home in a small town near Moscow.

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On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov was on duty in charge of an early warning radar system in a bunker near Moscow, when just past midnight he saw the radar screen showing a single missile inbound from the United States and headed toward the Soviet Union.

“When I first saw the alert message, I got up from my chair. All my subordinates were confused, so I started shouting orders at them to avoid panic. I knew my decision would have a lot of consequences,” Petrov recalled of that fateful night in an interview with RT in 2010.

“The siren went off for a second time. Giant blood-red letters appeared on our main screen, saying START. It said that four more missiles had been launched,” he said. From the moment the warheads had taken off, there was only half an hour for the Kremlin to decide on whether to push the red button in retaliation and just 15 minutes for Petrov to determine whether the threat was real and report to his commanders.

“My cozy armchair felt like a red-hot frying pan and my legs went limp. I felt like I couldn't even stand up. That's how nervous I was when I was taking this decision,” he told RT.

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Retired Soviet officer rewarded for averting nuclear war
Taught that in case of a real attack the US would have gone on an all-out offensive, Petrov told his bosses the alarm must have been caused by a system malfunction.
“I’ll admit it, I was scared. I knew the level of responsibility at my fingertips,” he said.

It was later revealed that what the Soviet satellites took for missiles launch was sunlight reflected from clouds. Petrov’s action, however, received no praise, and he was scolded for not filling in a service journal. His superiors were blamed for the system’s flaws. “My superiors were getting the blame and they did not want to recognize that anyone did any good, but instead chose to spread the blame.”

For over 10 years, the incident was kept secret as highly classified. Even Petrov’s wife, Raisa, who died in 1997, didn’t know anything of the role her husband played in averting nuclear war.

That was until 1998, when Petrov’s superintendent, Colonel General Yury Votintsev, spoke out and a report about the officer’s quiet deed appeared in the German tabloid Bild.

“After reading this report, I was as if struck by thunder,” Karl Schumacher wrote in his blog.

“I could not get rid of the idea that I had to do something for the man who prevented an atomic war and thus saved the world,” says Schumacher, for whom “nuclear threat was so real for decades.”

Schumacher flew to Russia to find the man who saved the world, and found him living in a flat in Fryazino, northeast of Moscow. Schumacher invited Petrov to the German town of Oberhausen, so that locals would find out about the episode of when the world was teetering on the edge of nuclear catastrophe.

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Soviet officer who 'saved the world from WWIII' gets Dresden Peace Prize
During his stay in Germany, Petrov appeared on local TV and gave interviews to several daily newspapers. Global recognition followed that trip, with major awards presented to him. In 2006, the Association of World Citizens handed him an award, which reads: “To the man who averted nuclear war,” in the UN headquarters in New York.

In 2012, Petrov was honored with the German Media Prize, also awarded to Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama and Kofi Annan. Next year he received another accolade, the Dresden Peace Prize, with the prize given by a 25-year-old Dresden resident, who “belongs to the generation that would not have survived had it not been for Stanislav Petrov.”

Based on his story, the movie “The man who saved the world” premiered in 2014, featuring actor Kevin Costner. The actor sent Petrov $500 as a “thank you” for making the right decision.

“At first when people started telling me that these TV reports had started calling me a hero, I was surprised. I never thought of myself as one – after all, I was literally just doing my job,” Petrov said.
 
The world is very fragile if its existence depends on the decision of one man. :(

Just $ 500 for saving the world? Sometimes this world seems worthless, but never to that point. o_O
 
The world is very fragile if its existence depends on the decision of one man. :(

Just $ 500 for saving the world? Sometimes this world seems worthless, but never to that point. o_O

$ 500 ?! :lbf: I'm sure Kevin made a little more from that movie.
 
I know. I'm kind of surprised that a couple of people think Trump should bomb North Korea. There has to be a better solution. I saw this opinion that we should provide North Korea with free wifi and drop smart phones instead of bombs. It was a joke but bombs are expensive it would actually be cheaper to help North Korea and give the credit to their glorious leader. Stop the sanctions. They have not worked. Invite Kim Jong-un to the White House. He can hang out in the US with his pal Dennis Rodman for a week and then go home and tell his people whatever he wants to tell them. Tell them that the US caved in to his demands. What's the difference?
But one of the concepts in 1984 is that the government must spend money on things that do not increase the standard of living of the people. That might be an oversimplification but it actually makes sense. If you are the government your main goal is to stay in power. To do that you have to control the people while making them feel that they need you. If they get too comfortable they have free time to think about their situation. In the US we do have lots of young people who have spare time and resources and that could be dangerous to the government, so they are mostly distracted. You're either struggling to survive or you are barraged with endless distractions and ways to waste time.
 
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