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North Korea, which was removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism on October 11, 2008 as a reward for its nuclear disarmament, looks to be preparing another nuclear weapons test.

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“It’s changed out there, and it’s dangerous. Increasingly dangerous,” Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during an informal question and answer session with troops in Iraq.

What does it tell you that soldiers in Iraq are fretting about Korea?

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China has done the impossible. It has managed to make even Vladimir Putin seem like a responsible statesman:

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met his North Korean counterpart in Moscow on Monday and condemned the artillery attack on Yeongpyeong Island.

According to the Russian foreign ministry, Lavrov met with North Korean Foreign Minister Park Ui-chun and told him that the shelling of the inhabited South Korean island, which killed four people, is blameworthy.

I know, they’re just words, but it’s a start.

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More signs of disillusionment among North Korean youth.
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Whoa, they did eat the baby elephants! You know, if the word of this gets out, it could cause global outrage. Unlike the mass murder of North Korean human beings.
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South Korean students protest against the Democratic Labor Party for being North Korean tools. Well, duh!

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  1. OP:

    North Korea, which was removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism on October 11, 2008 as a reward for its nuclear disarmament, looks to be preparing another nuclear weapons test.

    In all seriousness, we should do whatever we can to encourage as many such demonstrations as possible.

    Every nuke they (allegedly) detonate in a mine shaft is one more that can’t fall into some rogue’s hands when the regime collapses.

  2. er, not seeing anything about a Baby Elephant Feast in that link? I feel like this is a joke I’m not quite getting, though.

  4. Every nuke they (allegedly) detonate in a mine shaft is one more that can’t fall into some rogue’s hands when the regime collapses.

    I would agree with this if NK’s nuclear stockpile was fixed, but it’s not. By some estimates, they are now able to produce up to 10 bombs a year. As long as North Korea keeps producing more uranium or plutonium, each test only serves to improve North Korea’s nuclear capability.

  6. If China can make Vladimir Putin responsible, surely the powers that be could make disillusionment amongst North Korean youth more prevalent. The Disarmed tend to like Wargames less than the Forever armed. Let us arm the North Korean Youth with knowledge.

    I may have misread Joshua’s last post. But i’m hoping that at least I may getting warmer to its meaning and not colder.

  7. What does it tell you that soldiers in Iraq are fretting about Korea?

    Not fretting. US troops in Iraq are not doing much active combat and are looking for the next asses to kick. When Al Qaeda beheaded Imams and tribal Sheikhs in Anbar, they went too far and lost the popular support of the Sunnis in the province. Result? The Anbar Awakening. When the DPRK sunk the Cheonan and shelled Yeongpyong-do, they went too far. Not only is the ROK population awake (finally), but the news-of-the-world is seeping flooding into the DPRK and popular support for war with the ROK may be waning all but non-existent.

    Seriously, of course US troops don’t crave war. The force is tired. But it is also battle-hardened, experienced, and allied with an extremely capable force in the ROK that outspends the DPRK on it’s defense budget by 10:1 every year.

  8. Does the DPRK have a weaponised bomb – or a bomb at all?

    This article by Jennifer Lind is well worth considering: http://38north.org/2010/11/giving-north-korea-the-bomb/.

    She suggests the first bomb was a fizzle, and the second, if not a fizzle, a fake — and that we should put the DPRK to the test of an actually verified nuclear size bang before we give them credibility as even a proto-nuclear power; and that that stage is itself only a precursor to the ability to deliver a warhead as a weapon.

    There’re a lot of good points here. She may be wrong — but there is a fifty year history of the DPRK’s maskirovka, and the nuclear bombast may be part of it. It’s a really interesting article — and she is not ignorant of the point that every warhead exploded underground is one fewer for use.