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 .

"The Macy fireworks reach 1,000 feet at their peak . On Macy's 4th July , height is related to 3x the height of the Statue of Liberty." "The tallest building in HK is 2IFC, which is 1,362 feet high. The bursts at Chinese New Year in 2005 were way above all the buildings, and had a diameter of roughly the height of the building. I'm thinking the best part of 2/3 of a mile ." South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile traveled around 1,677 miles and reached a maximum height of 341 miles. So 5700 firework rockets @ $100 would do it, dropping off dead rockets in sequence. $ .57m .
The Korea Meteorological Administration estimated that the nuclear blast yield of the presumed test was between 50 to 60 kilotons.
"This puts TNT at $10.4k/ton: very close to the $16.8k/ton marginal cost of an equivalent energy from Mark 3 nuclear weapons ." 60ktons of TNT would be $624,000,000 .

So the total checkout is $625m for bundle of rockets and ground blast. That's good value.

So much moral certainty Killarney? And you defend it an it's truly abominable record!?

You'd think you of all bleeding hearts, would be incredibly troubled by the sheer number of emaciated North Koreans in North Korean gulags at the behest of a mass murdering monster, killing/murdering/ disappearing, just to remain in power!

It's not as if this mass murdering monster and his saner forbear, hasn't been offered far more benign solutions and power sharing reunification, with the progress and prosperity that would confer.

Along with all the technical and medical advances that would come with it! Along with protective regional autonomy!

And the very last thing China, with a problematic human rights and sovereign nation annexation record wants!

The only thing that will end this decades long nightmare for imprisoned/enslaved millions, is war!

An preferably if possible as a surprise surprise, limited surgical strike to remove this malignant power junkie, who dreams of world domination!

Preferably,before he's able to realize any part of a nightmare scenario that could literally signal/usher in armageddon?

Two thirds of the world's population, live north of the equator! And arguably, the principal ones in the cross hairs of armageddon?

If this, smiling, baby faced, brother butchering (Cain slew Abel) assassin, is not stopped, permanently!
Alan B.

Poor, old , united states. They really tried to win in 1953 and really tried with Vietnam . Then the Kim family rockets started and the window slowly closed. Herr Junker Jong-Un learned from Socialist comrade Hitler and doesn't have fixed missile bunkers. North Korea can be cooked in boiling oil but who can be sure a couple of missiles won't get to Trump land?

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Alan B

OK. Let's destroy a country in order to save it. We've been down this road many times. One day they'll thank us, because we are the good guys.

You can't destroy NK; it is already. They are tooo poor even to have rubble to bounce if a few MOABs are lobbed.

NK is a workers paradise, all of China's and Western Lefties making. Can we charge any Uni profs for aiding and abetting war crimes?

McCackie

Up until the 1970s, North Korea's industrial economy far out-stripped South Korea's. But the 1970s oil crisis and later collapse of the Soviet Union sent it into rapid decline. From the early 2000s, Western economic sanctions drove it into abject poverty.

Continued Western belligerence (i.e. no socialist government must ever succeed) and the invasion of Iraq put the regime onto an expensive military deterrence path.

Can't we idiots in the West see that the two Koreas want to be left alone, with the long-term goal of reunification? Even the South Korean government is getting fed up with our destructive meddling. Hopefully, the united history of the two 'artificial' Koreas will finally decide

Hey Alan,
I have to side with Killarney, because I think the situation there is more complicated than people realise.

"Preferably, before he's able to realize any part of a nightmare scenario that could literally signal/usher in armageddon?"

Simply put, it can't be done.
The only US military option is a massive barrage of nuclear weapons across the DMZ, plus the nuke sites, and mobile nukes and they probably wont get them all. Anything other than that initial barrage and Seoul gets destroyed. Miss any of the nukes and you risk Tokyo and other Japanese cities being wiped of the map, - and Kims submarines too.

From memory a nuke re-entry speed is 15,000mph or just over 4miles per second, 7 or 8 times faster than a speeding bullet.
Wikipedia says Trident II max speed is 18,000mph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II
There is no military option.

The US doesn't like sharing power with anyone, they will talk up anything to continue the idea of 'American Exceptionalism / Imperialism' and may even be potentially willing to risk South Korea and Japans destruction to not have to share that military power.

North Korea is a crazy place, no argument, but the situation is misunderstood.
What they have wanted (from what I understand) is a formal peace treaty since the Korean War.
But the US won't discuss this.
And the media won't tell you that Kim's been willing to enter into a freeze / freeze agreement, where if the US stops the drills (as Killarney alluded to) and they would stop developing the nukes, but the US wouldn't have that either.
For over 3 generations North Koreans have been told from age 3 that America is coming back.
So taking out Kim won't make much difference, the people will still think the US is coming to invade them and step up to defend their nation.
Kim's nuclear build up is a reflection of his genuine belief that the US won't attack and invade them if they are a nuclear power.
The US doesn't make war with nuclear nations.

The fat leader's rate of calories is up . Pop-up McDonalds with extra sugar in cans and Big Jong-un burgers will help him increase.