From: slider@nanashram.com

BRITISH citizens should get out of both South and North Korea immediately, Britain’s former Navy boss is warning.

The situation is so critical the Government should be advising British nationals in the Korean peninsula to leave if the tensions over Kim Jong
Un's nuclear programme continue to ratchet up, Admiral Lord West of
Spithead said.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/840492/north-korea-war-brits-advised-leave-the-region-immediately

He added there was a "real risk" the current stand off between North Korea
and the United States could escalate into an actual conflict, resulting in
an exchange of nuclear weapons, with "catastrophic" consequences for the region.

Lord West said advising UK citizens to leave the peninsula and nearby
Japan would send a message to the international community that they needed
to act to prevent a lurch into all out war.

"When you start giving certain advice to your nationals people start
taking notice and maybe China and others will say 'Goodness me, this is
really serious'," he told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House.

"I would set out a certain number of parameters, that if in terms of
tension if things change, and say 'You should now think about getting out
and about other people you should think about not going there'."

The current Foreign Office travel advice for both South and North Korea
notes that tensions "remain high" following the North's latest nuclear and missile tests but does not advise Britons to leave.

Lord West, however, said he feared chances of a conflict breaking out in
the region were now higher than at any time since the end of the Korean
War in 1952.

"It is extremely worrying. I think that there is a real risk - by miscalculation, probably, more than anything else - of something happening
that no one intends," he said.

"The results would be catastrophic. It would be hundreds of thousands if
not millions, dying and, yes, we would be pulled into finally.

"I don't think our nation would be liable to a nuclear attack. I think any nuclear weapons would be limited to two or three, but that is enough to
cause absolute untold damage because nuclear weapons should not be
warfighting weapons. They are there, I believe, to make war unthinkable."

The latest rise in tensions follow the disclosure that US intelligence
analysts had concluded the North Koreans had developed a nuclear warhead
small enough to be fitted on a ballistic missile that could be used to
attack the US mainland.

It prompted President Donald Trump to issue a series of strident warnings
that the US would rain "fire and fury" on North Korea if it continued its threats.

Pyongyang responded by announcing plans to test fire a series of missiles
into the waters around the US Pacific island territory of Guam where
American strategic bombers are based

### - get out now but no need to run! - just yet?

iow: dunno how many nationals there are, but it takes 'time' to get 'em
all out and everyone leaving at once would likely clog up the system/cause problems, perforce the more nervous/freer ones will leave first after a
message like this (tourists and the like) followed by businesses and/or
assets which take longer to wind up, this all adding days to the known countdown before the shit hits the fan?

the question being: what's a reasonable time to allow for all such
departures; a week maybe? a fortnight? longer? versus: the american travel
ban to korea commencing end of august...

otoh, if silly bollocks fires off shit at the international waters around
guam as threatened, i can't imagine they'll wait to see exactly where they
all land before knocking them outta the sky? (travel time is only about 15 minutes total, so there's not much time to react...)

mid august for this haircut said, and we're already nearly there? (2 or 3 days!)

question is: will china accept such provocation as being nk making the
first move or not? especially if we then wade-in on nk on the basis of
such an attack/demonstration?? (we could, for example, always say/claim
that we thought one of them was actually gonna hit guam and thus acted accordingly...)

and because, if it kicks-off thus and china gets 'twitchy' (is not sure
whether to join in or not kinda thing) then likelihood is we'd have to
take them out as well just in case? (unlike nk china has some serious
shit!)

russia, china & iran! the remaining 3 obstacles to world domination of democracy so-called?

i don't think anyone really gives a shit about nk per se, it's those big-3
the west has its eye on! poor pathetic little nk just being the flash point/patsy that's getting the: 'cuban-missile-crisis' treatment!

(funny how 'troubles at home' have suddenly all paled by comparison? ya
can't, for example, impeach a prez in the middle of a nuclear war!?!)

fucking right-wing must be literally 'loving all this! (we gots all you
fuckers dancing to 'our' tune now! whay-hey! and there ain't nuthin' you
can do about it!)

boring cunts :)

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