North Korea claims U.S. planning imminent "pre-emptive nuclear war"

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Originally Posted by Deckard

Either way, from Pyongyang's point of view, this provocation just seems bizarre to me. But then the appearance of acting counter to logic is an established weapon in itself, as we see from Israel's 'reactions' from time to time.

Agreed. In my mind it really isn't justifiable or useful to reduce the entire problem to another case of western aggression for profit. The north korean flag should have a picture of a baseball and a screw, because starting with their leader they are up at night batshit crazy. That's not the western media telling me that. Its *their* media telling me that when they say "the sun came out of the clouds and the rain stopped when our beloved leader appeared". The dude can control the weather. This is a nuclear-armed proletariat cult that has proven complete incapacity to mediate its ways under the pressure of prudency.

That said, I don't think the americans should respond to this problem past defending hawaii. Especially when Japan and South Korea are poised to be the big losers here.