North Korea may test-fire missile toward Japan: Media

The whole thing seems a bit silly. How can anyone seriously think North Korea would ever fire an actual nuclear missile? They would most likely be bombed out of existence the same day. 

Japan is chomping at the bit to get new F-22 planes from the US unless Obama kills the program. I don't think he will because Japan has hinted at spending  US$30 billion on them just when the US needs the business and workers need jobs.

Needless to say the rest of Asia, including goofy dictators are a tad bit concerned about Japan getting 100 F-22s.

N Korea is just trying to see how far they can go before someone challenges them.

Pretty much says it all 158.  Course one day they will go too far and then carnage!

There is a serious lack of information in some of these posts. I will explain.

North Korea has an entire mountain side converted to a gun armory with bomb-proof doors with cannon such that the entire operation of loading, raising, opening the bomb-proof door, firing and shutting the armored door can be done within a very short period of time.

As a consequence, Seoul, the capital of South Korea, a country we kept in existence with the deaths of tens of thousand of American GIs, would be destroyed within hours, and millions of people would be dead.

The only way to take out those bomb-proof doors, according to my well -informed source, would be to use battle-field nuclear weapons.

So, the idea that North Korea is so screwed up that we have nothing to concern ourselves with is just plain wrong.

By the way, Barry, I own a copy of "Team America" and have watched it at least twenty times. It is easily the wittiest, funniest political parody I have ever seen, and, as you know, the most irreverent, if only Kim Jong Il could pronounce "irreverent".

Most of the movie is composed of homage scenes from other films and the opening where Team American destroys half of Paris to save it, incredible (and a steal/homage from Monty Python).

Great article although I hope that this is just a nightmare.

It never ceases to amaze me how crazies can hold whole populations in thrall.

North Korea is a place that I used to use at a Jung forum to annoy the knee-jerk left because it is so obvious that the evil there has its own home-grown roots.

About 5% of the population is in concentration camps and about 20% of the people in those camps die every year.

The problem, of course, is not exactly communism, but rather how communism has no checks and balances, and, as  result of its absolute power, North Korea is absolutely corrupt.

We can't stop them, but China can. Kim Jong Il likes to eat and his son likes to go to Eric Clapton concerts in Europe. Can't do much of that on an empty stomach, and you have to use real money to buy them Clapton tickets.

Moonwolf, all of us have some knee-jerk elements. I just work to overcome mine.

The problem I was trying to deal with was the idea of basic human inhumanity to others, and I wanted to deal with it in a context in which the US couldn't have anything to do with it.

I tried to use Rome, but no one seemed to get it. There were no republican stockholder Christian white males to blame.

I tried to point out how North Korea was and, believe it or not, the whackjobs I was trying to converse with pointed out how at least the starving North Korean children were not subject to an American junk/fast food diet.

Lucky North Koreans! Their other-wise emperor loved them so much that he had them all put on the calorie-retricted diet, the only one proven to extend life in larger animals.

And, the best part: they had no choice!

I think Moonwolf hit the nail on the head when he said that Kimmy is just ensuring he doesn't get hit. He aint gonna attack anyone.

My interpretation is that maybe he's just trying to stay in place until he dies. That's what those of his ilk do.

(Mind you, the sooner he's no longer around the better, in my view...)

Thanks.

You can think what you want but you can't prove your position to be right, and, because of that, we have to develop a scenario of defense based on all possibilities, not just the ones we are comfortable with.