North Korea: why bother with a test?

What's hippocritical about American nuclear policy is how we turned a blind eye to India's nuclear tests and how it very blatantly violated the agreements involved in the Nuclear Club.

Hippocritical or not, though, there's no reason we shouldn't be up in arms over North Korea going nuclear. Give me one good reason why a ruthless dictator who is perfectly willing to sacrifice the lives of his own people to perpetuate his power should be allowed to develop both the most powerful implement of destruction, and it's delivery system.

Unless you can come up with a damn good one, all you're doing is blowing hot air.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Are you, uh, South Korean?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

They said that the Taepodong was aimed in the general vicinity of Hawaii based on the angle of the nose cone and its height before it fell the fuck apart. So with a targeted distance of over 6,000 kilometers, it couldn't even stretch the 1,000 required to jump Japan.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Sure thing pal. We'll see how you'd feel about American Imperialism when your European goods are raided by pirates. ARRR!
I'm seriously not joking

How ya doing, buddy?

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I was speaking idiomatically.

Nobody's really excusing anything, I think you're just drawing straws at problems that don't exist.

I'm no fan of el presidente, but that's all sort of irrelevant when Kim thinks he can blackmail us into compliance with his own firecracker.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I dunno, how is that different? Or do you forget that Iran is headed by Militant Islamists and has a force of over 8 million suicide troops? The reason we supported Saddam during the Iran/Iraq war was because the Iranians might have won, and were posed to march all over the Middle East.

Even calling this a clash of powers, though, is laughable, since North Korea has no real power. We don't even need troops in South Korea anymore. They have a standing army of 700,000 with modern weapons and equipment, 5 million reservists, and a defense budget that's equal to the total national product of their northern neighbors. Compare that to North Korea's 1 million strong army which uses outdated Soviet hardware, is malnourished, has no air power, and is spread across the entirety of North Korea to keep refugees in, protect sea landing zones, fend off air cav, put down possible coups, and garrison the DMZ.

A nuke is the only way the North Koreans will ever acquire any semblance of power, and I think it's Kim Jong's bid to blackmail the US into non-interference, and cow the South Koreans into unification. It could work. Probably won't.

A lot of people say that Bush's inept diplomacy is the cause for Kim even trying to strike US interests with an atomic weapon, but North Korea isn't worth invading. As I said before, it offers no military threat, has no resources, no industry, no economy, nothing worth seizing or destroying. It's basically a giant hole in the ground that nobody wants to touch.

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Great. Then we bring Kim to the table, tell him that he needs to back down from his missile and nuke program or we'll destroy what little facilities he has. If he tries nuking Japan or shelling Seoul, then it'll be the South Koreans that force re-unification.

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