I don't recall anything from the 'analysts' who tell us they know everything stating why the hell this fat retard from North Korea is doing what he is doing. What does he hope to gain? The moron is demonstrating that he could lob missiles here, there and everywhere - but to what purpose? He hasn't said 'if the West doesn't do this and that', I will zap you'. So, what is it all about?

Need to remember that the United States government is the world's biggest criminal organisation and threat to world peace. Look at all the wars invasions, bombings etc they have carried out under various pretexts to further interests of banksters, corporations and the military industrial complex. The illegal and improper things North Korea has done pale into insignificance by comparison. Note that the US apparently dropped about 26,000 bombs in other countries in 2016. How many did North Korea drop? I think none. Then think what the US and its allies did to North Korea during the Korean War. Bombed it into the "Stone age" and killed millions of people. Then the end result was political boundaries about the same as before the war.

Seems North Koreans are well aware of the US making agreements and they breaching them when they feel inclined - regarding themselves as exceptional. Despite this, they apparently have repeatedly asked for a proper peace treaty to formally end the Korean War but the US has not obliged. Re North Korea apparently having nuclear weapons which can quickly be launched, seem the only way a small country like them can keep a big bully like the US out. They and/or allies are likely to suffer a nuclear response if they attack North Korea. Australia should take the lead in trying to stop US provoking North Korea, such as it arranging military exercises near at rice planting and harvest times, which obliges NK to have military reservists in state of war preparedness rather than helping with food production. W

Mox,

You are a headcase.

"We are highly vulnerable to either a trade war involving the US and China, or to disruptions caused by a military conflict in our export markets."

Of course Australia is vulnerable....whether it be flatulence or a simple head cold....Australia is vulnerable because it is where it is by it's own design.
Anyone believing otherwise is delusional and a contributor to the present status.
When Australia gave up it's manufacturing base it gave up it's right to future self determination....at least make our own armaments, weapons etc.....Australia just digs it out of the ground and looks for someone to buy it with the profits going offshore to the international shareholders
The politicians line up for their turn at the trough....the public servants are overpaid with pay rises every year....everyone is in la la land preoccupied with how many friends they have on facebook...the Greenies want to turn golf courses into housing estates and everyone else wants more of what there isn't, insisting they're entitled to it.
Manus Island is a festering wound that has no intention of going away and we're paying through the nose to maintain what?....our resolve...resolve to what....to be the idiots we choose to be?

The greater threat may instead come from within.
http://youtu.be/s8h-ZzHzTFM
(Contains explicit language)

An excellent essay.
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Hi ttbn

On "I don't recall anything from the 'analysts' who tell us they know everything stating why the hell this fat retard from North Korea is doing what he is doing."

The (all Fat Boy) Kim Dynasty need to manufacture external Bogeymen (always including the US) to justify the Kims' dictatiorship over all the non-Kims in North Korea.
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Hi mox

I concur with ttbn in pointing out your headcase-ocity.
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In this increasingly nuclear-weapon-armed-world - sooner or later Australia will need to build or buy nuclear weapons.

Cheers