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Pointedstick wrote:

MediumTex wrote: The North Korean rhetoric is really silly.

I don't understand what their motivation is.  Why not just be quiet and tend to their internal affairs like keeping their people from starving?

The most convincing theory I've seen so far is that the bluster is Kim Jong Un's attempt to pacify, occupy, and impress the military brass, most of whom don't really have any loyalty to him.

This is what I think also. It's just a show, and a really bad one. Team America deserves another watching.

MachineGhost wrote:The whole situation with North Korea reminds me of the most awesome Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

You mean like:

"Well boys, I reckon this is it, nuc-lar combat, toe-to-toe with the [North Koreans]"

Or perhaps:

"Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuc-lar combat."

Or even:

"I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed."

Pointedstick wrote: The most convincing theory I've seen so far is that the bluster is Kim Jong Un's attempt to pacify, occupy, and impress the military brass, most of whom don't really have any loyalty to him.

I think that is probably true but I think it's also true he wants Obama to think he is crazy enough to do what he says he's going to do if the U.S. has any intention of seeking regime change (and why would he ever think such a thing?).

He may have learned this strange behavior from another leader ....  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

I saw some interviews with S. Koreans on the street on Fox News the other day and it was interesting to see how little concern they had for the situation.

notsheigetz wrote:

Pointedstick wrote: The most convincing theory I've seen so far is that the bluster is Kim Jong Un's attempt to pacify, occupy, and impress the military brass, most of whom don't really have any loyalty to him.

I think that is probably true but I think it's also true he wants Obama to think he is crazy enough to do what he says he's going to do if the U.S. has any intention of seeking regime change (and why would he ever think such a thing?).

He may have learned this strange behavior from another leader ....  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

I saw some interviews with S. Koreans on the street on Fox News the other day and it was interesting to see how little concern they had for the situation.

Kim Jong Un, you're not the first "in-over-his-head" politician who is tempted to do crazy things.

Just remember that your opponents may be willing to do even dumber things than you.

I'm sorry but i do not trust at all, nada, 0% our intelligence on north korea. We've heard numerous contradictions already this week on north korea s capabilities. We simply do not know and scary to think Dennis Rodman is the only American to get close enough to Lil' Kim to have a conversation. I,m afraid that he has cornered himself and now to save face he might do something stupid.

money quote: "scary to think Dennis Rodman is the only American to get close enough to Lil' Kim..."

China Bull wrote: I'm sorry but i do not trust at all, nada, 0% our intelligence on north korea.

How would an American citizen have any idea what our intelligence on N. Korea really is? As a PP'er this is no different to me than listening to stock market prognosticators and I'm surprised any of the wise folks here actually fall for any of it.

All we get are headlines in the news, much of it controlled by our own government. Cosnider Saddam's massive arsenal of WMD's and Iran's frantic quest for nuclear weapons capability so they can launch them on Israel (in fact, I have read that our intelligence agencies all report that there is no evidence of such although for some mysterious reason we hear it continually in the news any way - so just what are you supposed to believe?).