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The 5th item on the BBC main news today after Banks etc, etc, etc, would suggest the situation is being ramped down, lets hope the sabre has been rattled, and returned to it's rightful place, above the fireplace.

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He calls all the women 'darlin', it isn't a term of affection in his case!

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I don't think so. Moving missiles to forward locations is hardly ramping the situation down

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And holding joint military exercises with the South Korean military close to the DMZ and sending squadrons of Stealth bombers to Guam is hardly likely to convince the North Koreans that they aren't under attack.

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Are we in any sort of dispute that News story was placed fifth in order of priority behind a Bank Boss at Hbos, Leeds Infirmary child heart department reopening and two other more forgettable news items.

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All quiet still, strange that occupants of foreign embassies have ignored Pyongyang's advice to evacuate.
Just an observation, no suggestion of any prior knowledge.

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Noticed this story today:

U.S. officials quietly are expressing concern that North Korea could use its “space launch vehicle” to explode a high-altitude nuclear device over the United States, creating an electromagnetic pulse that would destroy major portions of the U.S. electrical grid system as well as the nation’s critical infrastructures.

The concern is so great that U.S. officials who watch North Korea closely are continually monitoring the status of the North Korean “space launch vehicle,” whose status could suggest a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States.

They are aware of the three-stage missile North Korea launched last December that also orbited a “package,” which experts say could be a test to orbit a nuclear weapon that then would be deorbited on command anywhere over the U.S. and exploded at a high altitude, creating an EMP effect.

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This concern recently has been reinforced by a little-publicized study by the U.S. Army War College that said a nuclear detonation at altitude above a U.S. city could wipe out the electrical grid for hundreds, possibly thousands of miles around.

The impact would be catastrophic.

“Preparing for months without a commercial source of clean water (city water pressure is often dependent on electric pumping to storage towers) and stoppage of sewage treatment facilities will require net methods of survival particularly in populated areas,” the military study said.

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Is this another preemptive shoot across the bows, I ain't got a clue, but it would seem we have been here before.

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Watch this space......

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That is what would worry me as opposed to all the posturing that's going on at the moment. I just hope Britain has the sense to stay out of it until/unless it becomes a threat to us.