Anonymous Attacks North Korea

[Do4600]

The only people who will see this message is Kim Jong Un and the generals of North Korea. This government has been active long enough that there are only a few people in the country who don't believe that the entire world has it worse than they do, because that's what they've been told. There are no revolutionaries in North Korea, only corpses.

This is fruitless, no one will see it and even if they did they wouldn't act on it.

 

[Hasido]

Even if most North Koreans have computers or internet access (not sure)... why would you make the message in English?
I very much doubt they teach a lot of English in NK.

That was my thought as well, kinda makes it seem more like Anonymous are showing off to Americans rather than actually trying to accomplish anything. Ho-Hum.

Also, calling USA government oppressive might be fine in normal political shouting matches, but doing it in the same sentence as the North Korean Government. Kinda baffling, like talking about the danger of a shotgun in a debate on nukes.

well shotguns do have a bit of a kick, and if someone were to get hit completely by the blast I think- wait what were we talking about?


OT: Oh don't mind me, I'm just collecting bottle caps and baked beans. What? No I'm not gonna share.

but seriously I don't think this will really go anywhere. Just a feelin'.

 

[SadisticFire]

Eh I think everyone doesn't realize(or atleast a large portion) it says claims. i.e some dude, who refused to give a name said without evidence that he hacked North Korea with a photoshopped picture. I can claim I found a cure for cancer, but not actually show evidence. At any rate, if they/he(coulda been a single dude) did it, then good for him. I doubt North Korea will do something. Maybe use it for propaganda, but that would mean they would have to tell their citizens that the internet exists, and they've been lied to for a long ass time.

Also people saying we should just whipe out North Korea, imagine nuking your own town to get rid of a corrupted mayor. Sure, the mayor is gone, but so are all your friends and family, and the near by towns are probably going to be pissed that the fallout will go into their food supply, and exploding cancer rate.

 

[Varitel]

If they try anything completely crazy, it would mean the downfall of their government at the hands of pretty much every ally of South Korea. Hell, maybe China would even throw their hat into the ring. It would be a pretty messy war though. Yeah, Pyongyang would probably belong to coalition forces in about a week or two, but then they'd probably be fighting with a civilian population indoctrinated for decades with the idea that pretty much the entire rest of the world wants to destroy them. It just sounds like alot of blood would be shed in a quagmire that would make Iraq look easy.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

I think it'll be pretty funny if Anonymous becomes super big in the future and all of us look at each other remembering all the shenanigans they were up to in the early days.

I don't know about you guys, but their targets seem to be getting bigger and bigger.

 

[Grottnikk]

Why does this situation remind me of this video?

 

[Caffeine_Bombed]

Way to go, Anonymous. It's not like this is a sensitive situation or anything...

 

[Caffeine_Bombed]

Nope. Anonymous will not receive any praise from me for this action. They are a loose cannon that simply does whatever they want, to whomever they want, for whatever reason they want. They do not speak for the people, they do not represent the people, and they do not fight for the people because they take no input from the people. They hold no consistency of values, morales, or ethics other than whatever strikes their whims. They exercise poor judgement in their actions in how they are accepting of innocents as collateral damage for their so-called crusades. They claim freedom of speech while denying to others. No, I will never see them as heroes in any way, shape, or form, and I will not cheer them in this action. They are simply muddying the waters and potentially provoking an already unstable government to rash action.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

 

[likalaruku]

Bit late for April Fools jokes, isn't it?

 

[Zetatrain]

I'm baffled as to why we're just sitting around waiting for them to throw the first punch.

Well what do you propose?

Anything short of full scale nuclear strike on North Korea will just result in them launching their nukes and killing millions of people. Even if the US could intercept all their missiles I doubt the US is in any hurry to charge into North Korea especially since this would most likely drag China into it.

 

[Cpu46]

I'm baffled as to why we're just sitting around waiting for them to throw the first punch.

Cause they won't.

The moment they even look like they are going to legitimately fire nukes or invade South Korea their allies will revoke their support. North Korea won't do anything militaristic without the support of their larger allies. They simply don't have the resources to sustain any military action without it.
While it is true that they could hold Japan, Guam, or South Korea hostage with threats of military or nuclear assault the reaction against them would probably consist of most of the major world powers. Even withholding nuclear arms the combined retaliation strike would absolutely cripple the country if not destroying it outright.

 

[Zetatrain]

I'm baffled as to why we're just sitting around waiting for them to throw the first punch.

Well what do you propose?

Anything short of full scale nuclear strike on North Korea will just result in them launching their nukes and killing millions of people. Even if the US could intercept all their missiles I doubt the US is in any hurry to charge into North Korea especially since this would most likely drag China into it.

China wouldnt give two shits. They know what side of their bread is buttered and they are not going to send their economy into a downward spiral just to help a little isolationist nation that isnt even one of their official allies.

North Korea has no official allies, they just have 'strong ties' with China, and formerly Russia

Actually, I'm pretty sure China doesn't want to see NK collapse because it would lead to a massive influx of refugees, something China definitely doesn't want happening given their already massive population. I'm highly doubt China would wage full scale war, but it think an invasion of NK by the US would cause the two to butt heads in a way that goes beyond political rhetoric.

Even if we eliminate China from the equation I doubt the US or any other country wants to deal with the aftermath of a second(or third if you want to get technical)Korean War.

 

[SteewpidZombie]

Oh we're off to troll the wizard, the wonderful wizard of N.Korea. Because, because, because! All of the horrible things he does!

 

[Zetatrain]

I'm baffled as to why we're just sitting around waiting for them to throw the first punch.

Well what do you propose?

Anything short of full scale nuclear strike on North Korea will just result in them launching their nukes and killing millions of people. Even if the US could intercept all their missiles I doubt the US is in any hurry to charge into North Korea especially since this would most likely drag China into it.

China wouldnt give two shits. They know what side of their bread is buttered and they are not going to send their economy into a downward spiral just to help a little isolationist nation that isnt even one of their official allies.

North Korea has no official allies, they just have 'strong ties' with China, and formerly Russia

Actually, I'm pretty sure China doesn't want to see NK collapse because it would a massive influx of refugees, something China definitely doesn't want happening given their already massive population. I'm highly doubt China would wage full scale war, but it think an invasion of NK by the US would cause the two to butt heads in a way that goes beyond political rhetoric.

Even if we eliminate China from the equation I doubt the US or any other country wants to deal with the aftermath of a second(or third if you want to get technical)Korean War.

Well, south Korea would be happy to pick up the pieces in the aftermath, they really want their northern brothers and sisters to have a good quality of life that isn't controlled by crackpot dictators.

Ah, that is true, can't believe I didn't think of that. However, another thing to consider is that generally speaking preemptive strikes are frowned upon within the international community. Plus lets not forget that even if NK doesn't have a way to deliver/launch its nukes they can still set them off. It would basically be COD 4 in NK.

 

[Strazdas]

North Korea has computers advanced enough to connect to the internet?!

Even better question: They can be accessed from outside of North Korea?

actually they even have office of national statistics website.
Sure it takes 5 minutes to loadn and the data is so inconsistent that its pointless for anything but a joke, but they have a official website.

 

[Jack Nief]

It's all fun and games until someone gets killed. Which, in this case, is likely to be some poor North Korean citizens who had nothing at all to do with this.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

How can people have a low or high opinion of Anonymous? Any prick with some hacking skills can hack someone and claim that it was an Anonymous attack. That's what being anonymous means. It's not an organization. You don't apply for a membership. You just do stuff and claim that Anonymous did it.

 

[bluegate]

Meanwhile in North Korea innocent people are being blamed for this and being executed for treason or whatever name they slap op these sort of things.

Someone, somewhere, will pay for this little prank, whether it be just or not...

 

[mad825]

I'm terribly sorry but this just seems to go so well with what you just said and it also kind of explains NK's positions at the moment.

You're comparing what I said to COD?

To iterate what I said in a simplified way; Nobody wants a war. The U.S tried to invade NK during the 1950s which also NK never officially declared peace therefore they've stayed in a state of war. Like a victim of a bully, all it takes is one final straw to erupt.

 

[Zeckt]

I'm actually quite scared that one day I will log on to the news and find out South Korea got bombed and suffered massive civilian casualties. Please let's just hope that never happens.