Online activist group Anonymous warns of World War Three erupting over current tensions between world powers involved in the crisis on the Korean Peninsula in this screenshot of a video posted to the group's official YouTube account, May 6, 2017.
"The citizen will be the last to know," the Anonymous spokesperson added. It will also be globally devastating, both on environmental and economic levels." "But unlike past world wars, although there will be ground troops, the battle is likely to be fierce, brutal and quick. "All the signs of a looming war on the Korean Peninsula are surfacing, watching as each country moves strategic pieces into place," the unidentified figure said. Related: Attack on North Korea Could Start a War in Asia for U.S., South Korea, Japan and Other Nations In the six-minute-and-forty-five-second clip, a figure wearing a black cloak and Guy Fawkes mask can be heard through a digital voice explaining how the actions of nations, including the U.S., China and Japan, currently involved in the tensions between North Korea and South Korea supposedly indicated that a total war is on the horizon. The group posted a video Saturday entitled "They are preparing for what comes next (WW3 2017-2018)" on its official YouTube account.
And while the US could use submarine-launched or air-dropped nuclear weapons, both options would most likely spread deadly fallout throughout the region that could bring about World War III - a great power war between nuclear states that the world has developed nuclear weapons to avoid.As former allied nations around the world celebrate the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany in World War Two, online activist group Anonymous has released a new video warning that global powers are poising for another global conflict-and that the cost would be even higher than that of the last. The trajectory of US nuclear ICBMs would have to fly over China and Russia - which could mistake an incoming missile as being intended for them. There's just no way to fight North Korea "without chaos and enormous death and damage to the world." "But those experienced military leaders know. They have to convince South Korean allies and North Korean adversaries that they'll do anything to protect Seoul, even all-out nuclear war. "That's because there's no good thing to do. "It's always in the US's favor to be somewhat ambiguous about what they will or won't do," said Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate in the East Asia Nonproliferation Program. There's a real risk that, even without nuclear weapons, Seoul would fall in a conflict with North Korea. You're going to actively work to make sure they don't get" an ICBM. "You're never going to voluntarily back away from that. "You never undermine your official position going in," the official told Business Insider. The US has to live with the fact that Russia, the world's second-greatest nuclear power, openly opposes the US's foreign policy in nearly every dimension, and that Pakistan, a country rife with corruption and Islamist groups gaining traction within and around its borders, has nuclear weapons.Ī senior Defense Department official with expertise in nuclear strategy told Business Insider that while the US has said it cannot and will not accept a North Korea armed with a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile, that amounted more to an opening position in an ongoing negotiation than an intention to use military force to stop it. That's not a good regime survival strategy, and even Kim Jong Un would understand that.” They can do a lot of damage to the US, but there won't be any North Korea left in the event of a nuclear exchange. "They may be developing 10 to 15 nuclear weapons. Dennis Blair, the former head of US Pacific Command, said of North Korea at a National Committee for US-China Relations event.