Coal mining is easy peasy, when you have thousands of slaves to do your bidding!

As for other minerals, even if mountainous, hard to mine if irradiated! And almost as handy as a top of the range, Rolls Royce, stuck up on blocks, only minus wheels. Or racing downhill at full throttle, only to hit an icy patch that allow the shiny new rolls to become airborne over a ninety metre cliff? minus the chute.

It's not the long drop that hurts, just the sudden stop at the bottom! And Flung Dung is sat in the back seat, asking like the typical enfant terrible, are we there yet?

[One has to look through an electron microscope to find an intellect or any trace rationality in play in the corridors of power in sabre/cage rattling North korea?]

What do you think a couple or three ten ton bunker busters, would do to that test site? Enable Flung Dung to be hoisted on his own, [hugely irradiated,] petard?

Personally, I believe this place can only ever go backwards until Yung Flung Dung is surgically eliminated, along with his retinue of demonstrably diabolically demented yung dung flingers Good reliable intell will inform when he's at home and asleep in his own widdle beddie byes. And able to accept a gift, cruised in, gift wrapped, with his moniker on it!

Happy birf day to you dear weeder, happy birf day to you.

It's not your B'day? Well, never mind Bung Lung. Bon appetite. Boom, boom.
Alan B.

Reassuring article - it's nice to know that once Un becomes Nil and peaceful reunification is again a possibility, the South can gain something tangible from it too.

"On 27 May 1644, Wu opened the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhai Pass to let Qing forces into China proper, forming an alliance with the Manchus".
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Kim can work a crowd and seize China like Genghiz Khan and his Mongol India , Indonesia , Hungary-Poland and Iraq. This will give him 500 nukes and Russia another 7000 with some oil left to trade with US.

Them's gold their in them there hills. US10 trillion in gold.

No problem. Just keep having our annual multi-nation military drills right off the coast of North Korea, which simulate an attack on the country.

Just keep imposing economic sanctions on the country that will ensure that the 6 million people living below the poverty line will slide into further poverty.

Just ensure that you intimidate and terrify the administration and people enough to ensure that they pump much-needed funds into military defence, rather than lifting people out of poverty.

Just keep up the propoganda war to ensure that the NK regime is sufficiently monsterfied and demonised that the Western public is brainwashed into believing that bombing and destroying the country (and killing millions of people) in order to effect regime change is the only 'humanitarian' solution.

Do all this ... and that $10 trillion in mineral wealth will pass effortlessly into the hands of the Western oligarchs. Happy ending.

North Korea: Have I been playing chess online with Kim Jong-Un?
http://Chess.com

Aya Ilan, North Korea watcher
Answered Jan 28 2015
Some of the elite class in North Korea have limited internet access (with many censored websites and constant monitoring). Some of their top universities (Kim Il-Sung University, Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, Kim Chaek University of Technology, etc.) have limited internet access, too. Maybe you can ask him?

It seems that he way to get a remarkable media image is to have a different haircut. Maybe a steady smile and a group of wise old men standing in the background. Mind you, I think the funny hats, although unnecessary, add to the image.

Talk about panic for nothing. The South Koreans are only a move away from check mate. Thousands of artillery shells aimed to kill millions in their cities with in minutes - a situation that would bringing the world economic system to its knees. That is something to panic about. But one maybe bomb, or maybe 5 maybe bombs that have little chance of going in the right direction.

What the heck is going on ? The North have moved from a terrible police state to some sort of poor socialist state in a few years with more or less the whole world playing making their economy a stagnant mess. They seem to be pretty capable ... is that a reason to panic?

If I wanted to panic I would worry about the Russian, American, French, or British ship or submarine commanders. Or the technicians in some bio lab who have what they consider the ultimate answer... the list possibles goes on. Why focus on one humorous ploy, designed simply to save one's skin and country?

Its the hair cut, the happy toothy smile and the guys in hats. Great publicists in the North .