DEVELOPING: S.Korean ship sinking, torpedo by North suspected

So we can assume you are less than 9 years old

 

Aside from the last time there was a dustup in this same spot ... and the time before that ... no, I can't ever remember anything like it.

 

This. I mean, Jesus Christ.

 

In Angus' defense, maybe he was specifically addressing toddler-age residents of North and South Korea.

 

War is the health of the state.

 

They're much closer to starving to death than to revolting against the government.

 

S.Korean ship sinks after explosion, officials back off attack suspicion

They appear to be backing off the torpedo attack idea now. May have blown up on its own. Sue me.

Yes, I am older than 9. I forgot the incident in 2002 when a North Korean vessel was sunk killing an untold number of North Koreans [per Wikipedia], and I was only two when North Korean commandos landed in South Korea and over 100 were killed. But if it is an attack -- and I understand nobody's saying anything definitive at this point -- it ranks right up there in scale, at least according to the Wikipedia page I read. I haven't had time to exhaustively research anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_border_incidents_involving_North_Korea

 

If you were talking SKorea-NKorea only, fine.

But "anything of this magnitude" pretty much would be shouted down by ANYONE who lived through 9-11.

 

Or the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the USSR and USA were minutes away from lobbing nukes at each other.

 

Yeah, that was way before my time. Guessing also before his.

 

The Axe Murder:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_Murder_Incident#cite_ref-2koreas_0-3

The "Ax Murder Incident" led to one of the largest military build-ups on the peninsula by the United States since the end of the Korean War in 1953, and brought the peninsula to the brink of another war.

In the days that followed, the United States sent the aircraft carrier USS Midway to the waters off the Koreas, fighter jets and bombers were sent to South Korea from bases in Okinawa and the United States, and troops throughout the region were put on alert.

http://www.stripes.com/01/aug01/ed081801c.html