north korea successful nuclear test!

[Arrian]

NK: LOOK AT ME!!!!!

The best response, IMO, is to just calmly stare them down.

-Arrian

[Dauphin]

No.

No it's not. Because even if we won, it'd be a Pyrrhic victory.

Oh, wait, I forget, you ****ers don't really have any connections with that place in the world except, "Isn't that where my electronics come from?"

Better there than here.

[Q Classic]

Better there than here.

Of course.

[BeBMan]

Nobody disagrees with this, but there's a reason why SKorea wants to have a long, drawn-out peaceful reunification process.

reunifications

[Thue]

I agree it's unsustainable.
[...]defectors and refugees who make it to the South from the North end up having to be educated on simply how to live in modern Korean society: how to use an ATM, how to find work, how to play StarCraft.

Just curious, are you good at StarCraft?

[Q Classic]

Just curious, are you good at StarCraft?

I thought I was decent, then I played against my cousin. And got crushed. Utterly. Like, pulverized, atomized...

[Felch]

Reading the DPRK news accounts is like hearing the story in an alternate universe.

CPRK Regards S. Korea's Full Participation in PSI as Declaration of War against DPRK

Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The Lee Myung Bak group of south Korea keen on the moves for confrontation and war against the DPRK in league with foreign forces on May 26 officially declared at last it would fully participate in the PSI despite the unanimous opposition of all Koreans and public opinion at home and abroad.

The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea issued a statement on May 27 in this regard.

It said:

The so-called PSI is a mechanism for a war of aggression built by the U.S. against the DPRK under the pretext of intercepting and blockading ships and planes, etc. suspicious of transporting weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons and missiles.

The PSI has been criticized and repudiated at home and abroad for its aggressive nature and illegality.

Moreover, full participation in the PSI by a side on the Korean Peninsula where the state of military confrontation is growing acute and there is constant danger of military conflict itself means igniting a war.

The DPRK, therefore, has already seriously warned the south Korean authorities against the above-said moves and repeatedly clarified its stand that it would strongly counter those moves of the Lee group, in particular, regarding them as a declaration of a war as it is pursuant to its American master's policy.

Nevertheless, the Lee group undisguisedly took a step of fully participating in the PSI, which former regimes dared not do so, bringing the situation on the Korean Peninsula and inter-Korean relations beyond the uncontrollable danger line of a war.

It is preposterous for the Lee group to have opted to fully participate in the PSI under the pretext of the underground nuclear test of the DPRK for self-defense.

It is nothing strange and quite natural for a nuclear weapons state to conduct a nuclear test.

The anti-DPRK racket kicked up by the U.S. and its followers under that pretext is not truly aimed at the nuclear non-proliferation but prompted by their black-hearted intention to stifle the DPRK.

Now that the south Korean puppets were so ridiculous as to join in the said racket and dare declare a war against compatriots through their full participation in the PSI, the DPRK is compelled to take a decisive measure, as it has already warned.

The DPRK solemnly declares as follows in view of the prevailing situation:

First, The DPRK will deal a decisive and merciless retaliatory blow, no matter from which place, at any attempt to stop, check and inspect its vessels, regarding it as a violation of its inviolable sovereignty and territory and a grave provocation to it.

Second, The DPRK will take such a practical counter-action as in the wartime now that the south Korean authorities declared a war in wanton violation of its dignity and sovereignty by fully participating in the PSI.

The DPRK will never pardon the south Korean puppet group of traitors for going mad with confrontation and war, bereft of any reason as servants for outside forces in the moves for a war of aggression.

The Lee Myung Bak group will be held wholly accountable for the disastrous consequences to be entailed by its reckless hostile acts against the DPRK.

[SlowwHand]

It is nothing strange and quite natural for a nuclear weapons state to conduct a nuclear test.

That's kind of been the point all along.

[Winston]

Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) --

[..]

It's the Wiglaf state.

[Heraclitus]

Well in any case North Korea is now 100% safe from American attack and his regime is more isolated than ever its like the village in that movie. Kim is actually pretty good at keeping himself in power.

[Patroklos]

This cluster**** isn't just the US's fault.

How do you figure it is our fault at all? Seems like the blame rests solely on China, USSR and NK.

[chequita guevara]

So they have nukes. Every country should have nukes. No more wars.

[self biased]

i'm actually scared that i might live to see a nuke get dropped.

[chequita guevara]

Not like it hasn't happened before.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Well, if you play Fallout3 you should have a decent drop on the competition for post apocalyptic survival.