US dismisses North Korea threat

Ok. Now I need to think about this. Hmmm. A communist nation known to have some of the worst human rights records threatens the US with a nuclear weapon if we attack them, yet Iraq got their asses kicked in the Gulf War and made no threat to us and had no ties to Al-Qaeda and the US invades them. That really doesn't make any sense.

Seems like the US is a bunch of bullies who invades defenseless nations.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5143580.stm

Washington has dismissed a threat by North Korea that it will launch a nuclear strike against the US in the event of an American attack against it.
A White House spokesman described the threat as "deeply hypothetical".

Tony Snow said the statement was about what might happen if something that had not happened, did happen.

He urged the North Koreans to return to six-party talks aimed at curbing the country's nuclear activities. The talks stalled last year.

Earlier on Monday, Pyongyang warned it would launch an "annihilating" nuclear strike if its atomic facilities were pre-emptively attacked by the United States.

But the US State Department said it had no intention of attacking North Korea.

Military drills

"The strong preference of the United States and the other parties to the six-party talks, other than North Korea, is for North Korea to rejoin the talks, to sit down at the table," Mr Snow said.

The talks involving the US, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and North Korea stalled in November after Pyongyang objected to military drills conducted by the US and South Korea, which it denounced as a preparation for invasion.

North Korea is thought to be preparing to launch the Taepodong-2 from the Musudan-ri launch site in the northeast of the country.

The untested missile has a range of up to 6,000 km (3,730 miles), putting parts of the US within striking distance.

The last time North Korea tested a long-range missile was in 1998, when it launched a Taepodong-1 over northern Japan.

The reason we invaded Iraq instead of North Korea is that we'd have had a hell of a time defeating North Korea. Oh, we would win if we fought them, but the cost in lives would be much, much, much higher. What's scary to consider is that the ultimate cost of invading Iraq may reach 2 trillion dollars. If IRAQ cost that much, it's just unfathomable how much a war with North Korea could cost. Of course, we wouldn't really have to occupy North Korea -- the South Koreans could do that better than we ever could.

North Korea? ....that's where the monkeys in the ...Wizard of Oz..came from. ....Sorry, stoned!....