NK-"We will launch a first strike against the US while the US is still in Iraq..."

[monolith94]

"smuggle one on board a ship & park it in L.A. harbor."
No big loss. And besides, they know if they did that, they'd totally be toast. No country would not sympathize with the U.S. after an attack of that scale, and we would have possibly the very first united world coalition against a single country. Hell, China might even join in.
Same if they attacked Tokyo, only even more so, because modern Japan is a bit less hated around the world than the U.S., or at least I get that impression.

[Wezil]

JohnT - To what end? Suicide? Kim may be crazy but I doubt he is suicidal.

[JohnT]

The entire stance is suicidal. Why not add some more insanity?

[Zylka]

The country is starving, an so goes the theory that a lot of pissed Koreans can be turned away from the government as an enemy

...but I always wondered in the case of NK - are the people basically put at gunpoint to have "great leader" parades etc., or do they genuinely accept him due to Indoctrination? Are they at least partially happy with their current government, sincerely

[Lancer]

Remember that ship load of missiles from NK bound for Iraq? It makes me wonder...does Saddam have an NK nuclear tipped missile up his sleeve? That could be a nasty shock...

Pres Bush should not have let it go.

[Kropotkin]

It's probably hard to know but there's a lot of brainwashing going on. There was some documentary about a dutch (I think) delegation to NK that caused some attention a few years ago that visited a school where the kids looked, well strange...

[Zylka]

I'm sure they checked the wareheads, Lancer

[Wezil]

Zylka - Good question.

Milan Kundera (a Czech) wrote about this in his book 'The Joke'. While it applied to May Day parades in his country, the same situation exists in NK. It is a charade, and the people know it.

[Garth Vader]

Originally posted by Lancer
Remember that ship load of missiles from NK bound for Iraq? It makes me wonder...does Saddam have an NK nuclear tipped missile up his sleeve? That could be a nasty shock...

Pres Bush should not have let it go.

Are you talking about the missiles that went to Yemen, not Iraq?

[Main_Brain]

Because the Russians are actually nice People who have Sense...
Why you bother? its the same bullying you do to them. Eat it up.

[SlowwHand]

The thing to be concerned about, from a U.S. point of view, how involved is China?

[Lancer]

Garth, yes that's right. Getting senile...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by JohnT
"They don't have the missile range to dump a nuke onto U.S. territory...but they might by able to smuggle one on board a ship & park it in L.A. harbor."

Heh. If they really want to screw with everybody, park that boat in Tokyo harbor.

They don't have to; they can hit Tokyo with ease...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Lancer
Pres Bush should not have let it go.

He had to, sweetheart. He didn't have a leg to stand on.

[Demerzel]

not having a leg to stand on doesnt seem to have been a problem for him in his decision making in the past