N Korea urges foreigners in South to evacuate

So what we have here is NK basically talking itself into a conflict that nobody wants... and thank the gods that the US stopped that missile test. I think they should just stop all war games in the area until the nutters have calmed down. This is all about making the kid look good in the eyes of his people... all smoke and mirrors.

I think Korea, the US and Japan should request that all people who do not want to die for a chubby, crackpot despot get out of North Korea while they can.

I am kind of glad to see the world get sick of this farce. Let them keep making these idiotic, idle threats. If they did make the mistake of actually doing something, we should enact a swift and harsh revenge, something that will hit Tubbs right where it hurts: ban twinkie exports or something.

Good to see Dennis Rodman doing an excellent job as peace envoy.....!

let airlines enjoy a bonanza in wonderful spring season !

L'il Un says Panic in 1...2...3! Okay, now for real: 1...2...3!

Dang!

Well one thing is for sure. The Korean tourism industry is being hit bad and the Korean stock exchange market is probably operated like a casino with high bidders gambling like there is no tomorrow.

How about NKoreans studying and working abroad to return to NK if they dont want to get hurt. Other countries may not be able to guarantee thier safely.

If North Korea isn't doing anything, they will look even more stupid than they look like now. Even a nuclear or missile test will look ridiculous. Still, I don't think anything serious will happen. I wonder how they will spin it.

Dum-Dum is painting himself and his lemmings into a toxic, little corner. If his people make a slight miscalculation, they'll be sent back to the Stone Age quicker than they can shout holy kimcheee! This is a Cuban Missile Crisis-scenario. Whether NK can deliver a "clean" nuclear payload isn't clear, but a "dirty" bomb is also possible. These are scary times.

Nessie

L'il Un says Panic in 1...2...3! Okay, now for real: 1...2...3!

Kind of reminiscent of old Khadafi with his infamous 'line of death' no? Certainly just as entertaining.

Do something China. Your little boy is now trying to be the big bully in the neighborhood. The old generals are pushing him into the ring just to see what he will do, and he knows that he can be replaced.

Kind of reminiscent of old Khadafi with his infamous 'line of death' no? Certainly just as entertaining.

Also Saddam Hussein's promise of the "Mother of all Battles" if coalition forces tried to evict Iraqi forces from Kuwait. It instead turned out to be the mother of all retreats.

Fat boy doesn't seem to understand... only us Americans should be the stupid ones who've used nukes in aggression. We did it in our ignorance and now that the actual effects of such use are understood, no sane individual should ever want them used again. For him to throw around threats of thermonuclear war just goes to show how mentally incapacitated he really is.

Foreigners should leave Korea so they don't get hurt....except for Koreans, Japanese, and Americans. NK is offering free vacations to Pusan for them...

North Korea cares so much about the foreigners in South Korea that they are warning them to evacuate. If they cared so much how about not shooting missiles and artillary at South Korea and starting a war in the first place? Any country that openly threatens to start a "thermo-nuclear war" needs to be stripped of all ability to develop such weapons.

North Korea will not attack the South. The main problem is having the US in the region, The North Koreans hate them and were encouraged to do so by their communist allies for decades. The only army that isn't local in the region is the US and they would be powerless to stop an initial attack.

The next ratcheting up of the baby tantrum in Pyongyang will be the announced launch of one, maybe two, Musudan missiles which already are staged on the Sea of Japan coast of the DPRK. Whether the announced launches will qualify for being shot down by Patriots is anyone's guess, I suppose.

While this has been going on, the DPRK has been going on a "business as usual" footing with the PRC in so far as this year's warm weather tourism business is concerned.

They have river tours on offer and one of the ministers from Pyongyang met with Chinese tour operators last week and assured them that there will be no war on the Peninsula so that they should continue to book tours in NK.

The point of this is that the five nations involved with efforts to get NK to curb its nuclear ambitions need to let the baby tantrum run its course with no benefit to the DPRK inuring thereby.

Sooner or later the tantrum has to stop. NK cannot afford a real war. If they attack SK, they will get their asses thoroughly beaten as less than half of the DPRK military actually goes through the motions of fighting a war and the rest either stand down or defect.

I really wish Japan would give the boot to the NK owners of the pachinko parlors. Let the government run them or give them to the Yaks - anything rather than let the NK profit from this obsession.

Yes, sooner or later the tantrum has to stop. But will it stop with a whimper or with a bang? I think the NK leadership has put themselves in a position where they will have to do something ugly to "save face."

Why the heck doesn't China do something? This can't be in their interests either.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, Evac-uation!

HokoOnchi Whether the announced launches will qualify for being shot down by Patriots is anyone's guess, I suppose.

Is it possible ?

technically ?

practically ?