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The very premise of the question is flawed: North Korea has been at war since 1950, there was never any peace deal signed. So to peruse Betteridge's Law of Hea

The very premise of the question is flawed: North Korea has been at war since 1950, there was never any peace deal signed. So to peruse Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No.

hoothin 3y ago
Indeed, so as Taiwan.
skhr0680 3y ago
Yes, they have been “at war” but not at war
moose_man 3y ago
That's glib, these are some of the most experienced hands on North Korea in the world. One of them was even invited by the North Koreans to personally inspect their nuclear facilities. They're warning of a profoundly dangerous event. The consequences are so intense, we shouldn't just dismiss it like all the ignored warnings regarding Russia's invasion --- Robert L. Carlin is a nonresident scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a former chief of the Northeast Asia Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the US State Department, where he took part in US-North Korean negotiations. Siegfried S. Hecker is a professor of practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, a professor of practice at Texas A&M University, and a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and professor emeritus of Stanford University.
- Dalewyn 3y ago
  >we shouldn't just dismiss it On the contrary, I'm saying we are in fact dismissing it by either ignoring or forgetting the fact that North Korea is, and has been, at war. If we are asking if North Korea is "preparing for war", we are in fact dismissing the dangerous state of affairs already concerning that country. North Korea is at war and is improving their arsenal and capability for that reality, but do we understand that as well? Perhaps we don't.
hackerlight 3y ago
Sigh. We all know what they mean. And the Betteridge quip is a meme that has been empirically falsified, I don't know why people keep bringing it up ad nauseum on HN.
D-Coder 3y ago
This seems to miss the point of the article: an active war, not just the legal state of things.
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The very premise of the question is flawed: North Korea has been at war since 1950, there was never any peace deal signed. So to peruse Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No.

hoothin 3y ago

Indeed, so as Taiwan.

skhr0680 3y ago

Yes, they have been “at war” but not at war

moose_man 3y ago

That's glib, these are some of the most experienced hands on North Korea in the world. One of them was even invited by the North Koreans to personally inspect their nuclear facilities. They're warning of a profoundly dangerous event. The consequences are so intense, we shouldn't just dismiss it like all the ignored warnings regarding Russia's invasion --- Robert L. Carlin is a nonresident scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a former chief of the Northeast Asia Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the US State Department, where he took part in US-North Korean negotiations. Siegfried S. Hecker is a professor of practice at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, a professor of practice at Texas A&M University, and a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and professor emeritus of Stanford University.

Dalewyn 3y ago
>we shouldn't just dismiss it On the contrary, I'm saying we are in fact dismissing it by either ignoring or forgetting the fact that North Korea is, and has been, at war. If we are asking if North Korea is "preparing for war", we are in fact dismissing the dangerous state of affairs already concerning that country. North Korea is at war and is improving their arsenal and capability for that reality, but do we understand that as well? Perhaps we don't.

hackerlight 3y ago

Sigh. We all know what they mean. And the Betteridge quip is a meme that has been empirically falsified, I don't know why people keep bringing it up ad nauseum on HN.

D-Coder 3y ago

This seems to miss the point of the article: an active war, not just the legal state of things.

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