# Impeccable sources say - war with North Korea "probably only hours away" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332 "2013-03-30T08:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/1 "2013-03-30T08:07:36Z")
According to [this breaking news](http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/outbreak-of-war-hours-away-as-north-korea-plans-us-strike_838683.html) Kim Jong-un has ordered the country’s military forces to prepare to strike the US and hostilities and will soon begin. We know because > [@](#): > > Dylan Harris, director of Lupine Travel, which specialises in holidays to unusual places like Iran, Chernobyl and Siberia, received an email on Friday morning. So far only one thing stops me taking this story at face value > [@](#): > > It was not clear who the email was from, the paper added. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/2 "2013-03-30T09:10:12Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > According to [this breaking news](http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/outbreak-of-war-hours-away-as-north-korea-plans-us-strike_838683.html) Kim Jong-un has ordered the country’s military forces to prepare to strike the US and hostilities and will soon begin. Well, _I’m_ convinced. I’m packing my bags and heading to Chernobyl forthwith. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/3 "2013-03-30T12:06:13Z")
Once again I’m reminded how the UK - a country a love and admire in so many ways - has the worst print media of any free country. The newspapers there truly are awful. Pretty much all of them, really. Here is the original article: > **[North Korea: 'outbreak of war hours away' as Kim Jong-un plans US strike](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9961610/North-Korea-outbreak-of-war-hours-away-as-Kim-Jong-un-plans-US-strike.html)** > > North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has ordered missile units to prepare to strike US mainland as a British tour operator was warned that the "outbreak of war probably only hours away". ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/4 "2013-03-30T12:11:09Z")
I was thinking last night - all this bluster and posturing is most likely for the benefit of the NK populace. Lil Kim will stamp his little feet and wave his little fists, then declare that the rest of the world, especially the US, backed down in the face of the overwhelming might of the North Korean forces. Then Kim will demand we send food or he’ll keep building nukes. But if he does launch an attack, our response needs to finish it. We don’t need to waste another 60 years piddle-farting around over there. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/5 "2013-03-30T12:11:28Z")
Actually, Kim III could probably declare that he had already attacked the American imperialistic forces, driven them off the peninsula, resulting in a resounding victory–and have missile parades touting it within hours. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/6 "2013-03-30T13:53:20Z")
Well I’m sure he has his dad’s photoshopers name. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/7 "2013-03-30T14:36:15Z")
What the hell, you’re not trusting e-mails from unknown sources? Sheeple! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/8 "2013-03-31T01:24:53Z")
If a tour guide disagrees with the Secretary of Defense, I’ll go with the tour guide every time. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/9 "2013-03-31T08:17:31Z")
I think we all need to get our news from more peccable sources. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/10 "2013-03-31T08:21:01Z")
Well, it’s time to send Dennis Rodman back to North Korea to try to talk them out of it. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/11 "2013-03-31T08:34:40Z")
For safety’s sake I have spent the last 24 hours in my bunker awaiting the end of the war. I notice that it is not a trending topic anywhere so I guess that means it has already been fought. So who won? ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/12 "2013-03-31T09:23:46Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Once again I’m reminded how the UK - a country a love and admire in so many ways - has the worst print media of any free country. The newspapers there truly are awful. Pretty much all of them, really. You don’t get the bone-dry sarcasm, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/13 "2013-03-31T12:16:33Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > You don’t get the bone-dry sarcasm, do you? The defect is with the British press, not me. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/14 "2013-03-31T12:34:23Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > So who won? Wichita State, 70-66 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeccable-sources-say-war-with-north-korea-probably-only-hours-away/654332/15 "2013-03-31T12:37:32Z")
Thank God for that. Imagine if the war was decided by a lousy point after. Oh, which side represented North Korea?