[Updated]U.S hold diplomatic Summit with North Korea

China State TV: If Kim attacks Guam, they say he is on his own. But if US strikes first, they will intervene. They are against Regime change.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Mick

China State TV: If Kim attacks Guam, they say he is on his own. But if US strikes first, they will intervene. They are against Regime change.

The solution has to come from China, they seem to be the only ones to have leverage of the N Korea regime. Can't see why its its in their interests to have the current instability on their doorstep. If there's a conflict they'll have millions of refugees flooding in.

BREAKING: North Korea fire a ballistic missile over the North of Japan in a highly provacative move, as it lands off the eastern coast of the country.

http://news.sky.com/story/alert-as-n...japan-11010829

Terrifying for Japan.

Apparently the initial signals only indicated a missile heading their way and sparked emergency notifications on everyone's phones telling them to head for 'sturdy buildings'.

There are also reports that immediately following the launch the US Government and primed retaliatory strikes. We were this close to a war.

I am not sure what the US and Japan can do here other than try to keep the situation calm. China will have to do something, cut of supplies maybe, but that risks isolating the regime further and giving them nothing to lose. We can't bomb the place to dust because they can easily level Seoul before we've taken them out.

[tweetiepooh]

Who would sanctions against North Korea hit? The little porkers at the top and the military are likely to have supplies stashed away or can get them. China are probably also not comfortable with having that instability that close. With the state of mind of the North Korean leadership it may not take much for China to become a target.

If they keep firing missiles towards Japan things will escalate quickly as no nation can just sit and allow another nation to routinely fire missiles towards them and both China and Russia will understand that. First sign that some form of military action is coming will likely be Russia and China distancing themselves from North Korea whilst increasing their military on the border. This is not a situation that can go on long and the fact that North Korea keeps doing these stupid acts will cause alarm in quite a few top offices that the NK leadership isn't acting in a way that leaves much room for options.

Most of the long range artillery that the north has capable of hitting Seoul will already be in place and known to the US and South Korea for rapid hits the only thing that complicates this is NK's nuclear arsenal. Many military headsheds made their feelings known that allowing NK to develop nukes was a massive mistake and they were spot on and the price for that mistake may turn out to be huge.

BREAKING: North Korea State says it's created an Hydrogen Bomb that it says can be inserted in to a long range Ballistic Missile.

ALERT: North Korea Earthquake sparks Nuclear test fears.

South Korea is assessing whether North Korea may have conducted a sixth nuclear test after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake.

The US Geological Survey said the quake struck 55km north of Kimchaek.

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Previous recent tremors in the region have been caused by nuclear tests.

http://news.sky.com/story/north-kore...fears-11018555

[denphone]

Sadly North Korea is a ticking timebomb which will have to be sorted out sooner rather then later IMO.

[Osem]

'Appeasement' and sanctions don't seem to be having the desired effect. All that's lacking is a piece of paper accompanied by a declaration of 'peace in our time'...

[Gavin78]

The question is what does the north want? a spot on the table with the big boys? so they get a say what goes on in the world or are they just hell bent on wanting to take out America regardless of any situation?

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

The question is what does the north want? a spot on the table with the big boys? so they get a say what goes on in the world or are they just hell bent on wanting to take out America regardless of any situation?

They want as much as they can get and the more concessions they get, the more they will demand.

[Sirius]

I feel we are getting close to the point of no return. N Korea will keep pushing the limits and that limit will be hit. Once they go past the limit there will be a lot of dead people but no more N Korea. N Korea will not win against the US Japan and S Korea. The issue's will be who shoots first if its N Korea then Russia and China will not get involved.

[adzii_nufc]

We're at the point of no return as suggested above. You either allow North Korea to become a fully fledged Nuclear state or you don't. Are they going to troll us with these utterly and 100% effective sanctions again? Whilst Russia continually supports them instead.

Russia is against N.Korea's nuclear program, yet literally nullifies the sanctions imposed against them.

This constant pushing by NK is making me think there's more going on then any of us know, while the leader might be an overgrown child his senior military are not. Either kim jong un believes he will get russian and chinese support regardless of how stupid he is or he's lost it as the road NK is on only has one destination and it isn't good for NK. Now that they have announced that they can mount nuclear warheads on their missiles Japan is going to find it very difficult not to respond if anymore missiles are fired in their direction they certainly cannot be expected to just accept the situation given at some point it may be a live missile that hits them.

This whole situation has demonstrated why Russia and China are not upto filling the role the USA has in global affairs as they could have prevented this from happening on numerous occasions and chose not too.