These guys shouldn't be allowed to use regular scissors:
North Korea's top governing body warned Thursday that the regime will conduct its third nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States.
Nice of them to make it clear rather than cling to ambiguity.
We spend time arguing whether Iran is really a nuclear threat (and some deny Iran wants nukes), and that is an excuse to do nothing. It is just an excuse to do nothing as North Korea exposes. They make no secret of why they want nukes and we don't seem overly worked up over that.
North Korea's military is getting weak enough that we could get away with striking North Korea's nuclear infrastructure without worrying that North Korea could invade and conquer South Korea.
Unfortunately, they aren't so weak that they couldn't kill a lot of people in Seoul by simply bombarding the city from positions north of the DMZ. So nobody is eager to resort to force.
There is no excuse for failing to do whatever we must short of force to collapse that evil and dangerous regime. Their pursuit of nuclear weapons should scare the Hell out of us.
UPDATE: North Korea threatens war:
In a third straight day of fiery rhetoric, the North directed its verbal onslaught at its neighbor on Friday, saying: "'Sanctions' mean a war and a declaration of war against us." ...
"If the puppet group of traitors takes a direct part in the U.N. 'sanctions,' the DPRK will take strong physical counter-measures against it," the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said, referring to the South.
So North Korea needs nuclear weapons to prevent an invasion of North Korea, but they'll launch a war if South Korea participates in sanctions that keep North Korea from getting weapons? I'm not so sure Baby Nutjob has thought this through.
Even the press has an inkling that North Korea talks a good game but they are unlikely to start a war. For one thing, Kim Jong Un has too little money to revive their rotting army:
In his first speech to his people, the young leader, Kim, who is still believed to be in his 20s, said North Korea will continue its "military first" policy. But for a nation that chronically struggles to feed its own people, resources are limited. And because of trade restrictions, acquiring parts for its weapons from abroad is increasingly difficult.
First is nice. But first for what?
Not only would North Korea lose a war, they'd probably lose their regime as South Korean troops advance north and carve out a no-launch zone north of the DMZ to protect Seoul from bombardment.
Kim Jong Un needs to take some advice from Dean Wormer:
I suspect that Kim Jon Un is the end of the Kim line and will face the Mussolini funeral ceremony.
