Quote Originally Posted by the image reaper
the troop numbers pale in the presence of ONE bomb, though ... I just feel so sorry for the people over there ... millions starving to death, while that twisted runt spends billions on his war machine :wtf:
Billions on the war machine, despite dire poverty that needs to be fixed? You just described every U.S. president since Truman.

So the world has another nuclear power...doesn't scare me anymore than the idea of Israel or the U.S. being armed, despite the moral-superiority rhetoric. It's not like North Korea can do anything with its weapon...in today's age, no one can use a nuke and hope to survive the counter-attack. That's the only reason the Cold War stayed cold. They're just security blankets, really, and considering North Korea isn't a protected member of the international community, this just serves to make them a little less vulnerable to what we can throw at them. Despite all the sensationalism, all that will happen now is that N. Korea and the Western world will both sit on their nukes quietly and grit their teeth at each other. They may very well invade South Korea at any time, but with smaller weapons...to nuke their neighbour to the south would be suicide, considering the reaction it would get internationally. The world has stayed nuke-strike-free since 1945 and will for the foreseeable future.

If there's one country that I fear might go absolutely insane with their power, it's Israel. That tyranny has been known to strike at whomever they please, with U.S. backing (something the Koreans don't have). The genocide of the Palestinians or the annihilation of Lebanon or Iran wouldn't surprise me all that much.