Cameron: UK at Korea risk

[-:Undertaker:-]

surely its not doing what you said then?

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If america can disable them? And that our defense is already outsourced practically...

I agree, hence why i'd have Trident taken off US operating systems when its renewed.

But having a nuclear defence with some degree of control is better than having none.

[Demi]

North Korea need to calm the hell down!

[Chippiewill]

Even DPRK's longest range missiles BARELY scratch Alaska, and certainly not with any precision or even a payload which could do any kind of damage. (All signs point to DPRK having no missiles capable of even carrying a nuclear warhead, let alone one which could be configured to go off in a sensible place).

I imagine even if DPRK had concealed a missile which could reach the UK it'd be more likely to hit France anyway. And why in the hell would DPRK waste a missile on the UK?! I know they're hardly rationally thinking but any missile they could send our way is better pointed at the US. I really think Mr Cameron has lost it, we have more chance of being invaded by the french.

[Adam]

I think he's trying to justify his support for the trident programme. North Korea's military is barely better than Ethiopia's.

They have a standing army of around 16m.

[AgnesIO]

Would they? do we really want to outsource our national defence to France, the European Union or the United States?

Part of being an independent nation is that you are independent in defending your national sovereignty from outside powers in a military manner, otherwise you're no more than a overseas protectorate or large military base of a foreign power.

I agree with you here. You don't want to rely on others to protect us. Certainly not our so called special friends the United States.. From my understanding that protection only works one way (ie. we help them - NOT the other way around!)

Having said that, NK is making threats that it really cannot sustain. But Cameron is making the most out of these threats possible, as he wants to keep Trident (which I have no problem with) - and this is a perfect opportunity to justify keeping it.

[dbgtz]

They have a standing army of around 16m.

More to strength than just numbers. Also it's not 16m it's around 9.5m (8m of which are reserves).

[Chippiewill]

They have a standing army of around 16m.

Approximately 0 of which have been fed in the last two weeks.

[AgnesIO]

They have a standing army of around 16m.

China has an ACTIVE military of 2.2m, compared to the USA's 1.4m - I still know which one I would fancy in a war.

[Adam]

More to strength than just numbers. Also it's not 16m it's around 9.5m (8m of which are reserves).

Just telling you what I've heard.

Just nuke the worst Korea. No bad will come of all, there's no innocent people there, they've all been brainwashed since birth so as to control any possible uprising - leave the country a baron wasteland. It and they contribute nothing to the world.

[AgnesIO]

Just telling you what I've heard.

Just nuke the worst Korea. No bad will come of all, there's no innocent people there, they've all been brainwashed since birth so as to control any possible uprising - leave the country a baron wasteland. It and they contribute nothing to the world.

Don't destroy it! Some incredible places in NK, that I for one would love to see one day.

They may be brainwashed, but unless they have a leader to tell them to do something, they won't do it - take out the leadership, they won't up rise - they won't know what to do.