I think that North Korea is just asking for it. The attention they want, they'll get. If they want a war, they'll get it. But the problem is; they've done this too many times before for us to take them seriously! Yes, maybe they do have missiles, but so do we. they're too small to go into nuclear warfare. we'd know them off the map as soon as their born. I say we teach them who they're messing with. Fire a missile at their front lawn and give them a taste of what's to come, if they go to the distance. Just a thought. -Fireghost5

G,Day and welcome fireghost5.
I am willing to bet just about every contributer here will agree.
But like every thing, it see,s reactions stop them getting it.
China, no less or more wrong than the Americans or British Empire now gone.
Will not let it happen,was is a possibility if the west acts.
North Korea is a pawn in a game that should never be played
In saying that China, and the west, should be condemned, for leaving the fat idiot in power.
North Korea makes that book 1984 look timid.
It the whole nation bar its leadership, are slaves unaware of the true nature of their country or the world.
The United Nations, partly due to Russia and China, is a waste of its budget.

The real objective of the USA is China.North Korea is just the excuse.

None of you seem to see the situation with North Korea as something that has its roots in the distant past and is part of an ongoing anti-colonial confrontation. And saying that I've now confused all of you would-be world historians and political scientists.

Mr. O you are certainly a very good argument to convince us that Julia is right.

Yes right in cutting university funding, just wrong in not going anywhere near far enough.

Big comeback Hasbeen, BIG COMEBACK!

While the lurch away from the subject is weird, it in its own way HIGHLIGHTS our need to spend more on education.
The subject could flash out over night in to ww3, do not think so?
What if the little fat idiot fires a Nuc?
And America retaliates, what of China?.
Arjay extremely funny post, thanks.

According to your buddy Hasbeen we should spend less on education.

I wish you guys would make up your mind.

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What if the little fat idiot fires a Nuc?
And America retaliates, what of China?.
Arjay extremely funny post, thanks.
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Did you not just say the same thing as Arjay?
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North Korea is a pawn in a game that should never be played
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Spend more on Education, indeed!
Bigger gold stars all around huh, belly?

so far the more money we spend on education the worse our Government gets. No one dreamt it could be as bad as the current mob.

I say, take North Koreans out of their misery.

A life like theirs is not worth living.
Those who will make it alive will live in freedom, those who will not will still be better off.

Y at least you made an effort, and in fact described the country well.
Others thoughts that the country is a pawn baffle me.
Is starving to death its people, blackmailing with great success,country,s to get aid , because they are pawns? of who?
Can anyone out there see? see the total uncaring for the people of North Korea?
What are we to make of small minded comments not about the suffering but of our government.
Do folk like that have a heart?
Do they care about anyone?
War never runs to plan, this puppeteer master and his father and grand father are dangerous, have, now each of them, kept a whole nation in slavery, sunk fishing boats and fired rockets.
We may see a war here.
I hope some who posted here take time to think.see the pain of a brainwashed people in North Korea.

Nth Korea is like the teenage hoodlum who makes a real nuisance of
himself, but then one day turns up with a gun. He then gets treated differently.

It could be that North Korea will prove to be the answer to problems of global warming and peak oil. If they continue on in the same way they will trigger a nuclear response from the US. This will bring in China and a nuclear exchange will spread to include all the other nuclear powers.
The resulting devastation should depopulate the world down to the stoneage and the survivors (if any) will not have any worries about CO2 or peak oil ETC.
Problem solved.

Dear Robert,

Please do not be so optimistic - China has no interest getting into such mess. It will only be 2-3 bombs on either side, end of story.

Sorry to our author, you put up a very rational thread one a more caring group may have looked much closer at.
You got not much back.
But as been said we all may see a war come as a result of a lunatic owning a country.
With 46 million refugees said to be looking for homes around the world, a stunning figure from the UN, how many more if that war comes?
The pain of watching the country.s victims, internal and external, the south, it amazes me we did not treat the thread with more care.
And dare I say? concern, Australians have died in war there lets hope not again.

Ha,ha,ha,ha..you don't get it do you all ?.re: "The mouse that roared" Peter Sellers. To win a war, start one and LOOSE!. God the world is thick as 2 planks of wood.

pepper you must consider is it wise?
Smoking the Lantana I speak of.
And claiming the rest of the world is nuts, then putting it in such words is not helping you.
Here in North Korea, and I bet every contributor knows and understands this.
A long used play acting that brings gifts of food and such, is no longer working.
We too, surely all of us? know China is not interested in millions of refugees fleeing to its boarder.
Not keen on the little fat fool but using him, as he uses them, to hurt if possible Chinas growing list of enemys/victims Japan/Philippians, and any one claiming owner ship of China sea Islands.
We badly miss treated this subject, ignored the very real chance it will become a front page event.
Last nights Doco, folk eating grass, empty hotels, living lie, this country will impact on every one of us one day.