North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map

[stock_post]

Are they crazy?

on a world map, can some one clearly see that little crazy country?

Those little nut heads have something up their bottom.
which is making them talk BS!

[Anthony Ng]

This kind of rhetoric is actually intended for an INTERNAL audience (people within North Korea). Sound crazy? Not exactly. Remember they have successfully fought off (with the help of the Chinese, of course) the American-led UN forces back in the 1950s?

[tekz999]

Any reference link?

I will personally go fry the pork-looking creature in the BBQ and feed the dogs!

[tetrapak]

How scary

[tristanperry]

Good luck to them

Not sure what they are playing at.

The unfortunate thing is, like with Iran, the Government's silly behaviour just harms their citizens and (in N. Korea's case) just increases poverty.

[ilovedomains]

Oh come on, North Korea starved the whole nation for years trying to develop that bomb. The least you Americans could do is pretend to be scared.

Kim will feel like such a dork if all you do is laugh at him.

[tristanperry]

Oh come on, North Korea starved the whole nation for years trying to develop that bomb. The least you Americans could do is pretend to be scared.

Kim will feel like such a dork if all you do is laugh at him.

Lol, I like this approach!

[Dale Hubbard]

NK is stuck very much between a rock and a hard place -- geographically and politically. Not much to debate really.

[Donald Aquilano]

I'm really scared.

The best thing to do with North Korea is not to give them any aid. If enough of their people starve to death they'll be an uprising in the country and it will topple the regime. The only people who can really affect change is the citizenry.

[Dale Hubbard]

They just need a 21st century slap - things have changed since the last cock-up.

[PRED]

The only people who can really affect change is the citizenry.

i agree to a large extent

the same goes for many situations. exceptions being with genocide,
problem is the powers that be are usually armed to the teeth, and the intelligent masses are unarmed

for example when genocide is taking place, thats when the world sits back, like Rwanda, yet falling over themselves to get involved in Iraq

Africa is a unique situation in many ways like access, size and other countries surrounding etc though that are not necessarily co-operative

the U.N is a great idea in principle but it needs a hefty backbone and teeth and full respect and co-operation from members

don't ignore the U.N and manipulate at will. U.K and U.S prime examples

[Dale Hubbard]

NK is a little backwater with no friendly borders. It's also completely dependent on what it purports to defend: its oceanic access. In that prime context it has no power, only rhetoric. The Japs are gonna get the hump first and who'd blame them when those NK fanatics test fire over them. If those lunatic prats fired a broadsword over the UK you know they'd be very regretful. Like the USA, the UK has invested all its nuclear power in submarines. They rule and that is job done; end of story.

[BELLC1]

So was Japan and Viet Nam and they didn't go quietly into the night ...

[Dale Hubbard]

"Specialist" talk.

[tekz999]

Kim Chi Ill is the next Osama Been Aladdin.

[RustyK]

Hawaii is the first to be hit if anything and to be honest, I don't worry about it because if that's God's calling then let it be. It seems like Revelation has already begun ...

Just hang loose brah!

[Anthony Ng]

The best thing to do with North Korea is not to give them any aid. If enough of their people starve to death they'll be an uprising in the country and it will topple the regime.

This has been PROVEN to be a failed strategy. Look at China, Vietnam, and Cuba. The OPPOSITE actually works. China and Vietnam have been opened up NOT by war or embargo but by greed; both are now de facto Capitalistic states.

Of course, we are not talking about democracy here; South Korea, Taiwan, Argentina, and Chile were all ruthless dictatorship with the support of the US. As long as Kim Jong-il is willing to open up his country and people for exploitation, who would care about those starving people.

[stock_post]

you sound like KIM's Half brother.
--The way you say it. (my be I am getting what you actually mean?)

I don't have much knowledge of SK - but are they in Dictatorship and their people are exploited?
-- I was under the impression they are a democracy?

[Focus]

I'm pretty sure they will no longer exist in the next 12 months regime wise. (NK)

[mulligan]

I'm pretty sure they will no longer exist in the next 12 months regime wise. (NK)

Really? What gives you that impression? Very hard to change peoples minds, with or without the bomb and the gun.