North Korea threatens nuclear strike, U.N. expands sanctions

Nork Foreign ministry released a statement saying they’re going to nuke the US as a pre-emptive strike. Yeah, good idea. Takes inane saber-rattling to a whole new level.

Of course, if the Norks nuked the US, or nuked South Korea, or just invaded South Korea… even with the current US administration, North Korea would get leveled. And perhaps – just perhaps – that’s the goal. Get the US to flatten North Korea, surrender, then the US has to rebuild the place. And a post-war reconstruction could hardly produce a country worse off than one that has been under Communism for nearly 70 years. Kim Jong Etc. was edumacated in the west, so he must know what a craphole his nation is; it’s just barely possible that he might actually want to make the place better. And losing a war against the US would do it. The current terrible infrastructure would get built into something modern; the economic and cultural cancer that is collectivism would be replaced with capitalism (even Obama could not prevent that); the “excess population” would be reduced. North Korea five years after losing to South Korea and the US would be an infinitely better place than North Korea today.

Sadly, it’s perhaps just as likely that they’re crazy enough to think they could win.