Okay, has Pyongyang launched a missile at Anchorage yet?

[derby378]

No? Alrighty, then. I can go back to my usual routine.

Seriously, this level of escalated rhetoric from North Korea is getting ridiculous even by North Korean standards.

[Zax2me]

1. Don't worry. Dennis Rodman says he's got this.

[derby378]

3. THAT'S what I'm afraid of

Dennis, don't be coy. Did Kim Jong-Un promise you control of Florida once he takes over America?

[Wait Wut]

2. To us, they're a gnat.

But, I do worry about SK. Yes, we'll protect them, but at what cost?

[derby378]

5. You raise a very sobering point

Seoul is not too terribly far from the DMZ. Even one of North Korea's suckier missiles wouldn't have much trouble delivering a small nuclear payload into the heart of the city.

Something tells me that there's already a few, shall we say, "aggressive negotiators" on their way to the region right now.

[GP6971]

8. The north has

approx 7,000 "tubes" (artillery pieces, rocket launchers etc) close to the DMZ that can hit Seoul. Convential weapons, but that many will cause havoc if the north lets loose.

I travel to Seoul quite often. Usually, I just shrug the north's rhetoric off. I'm headed back over later this month and am paying a little more attention. It will be interesting to see the mood of the people.

[derby378]

11. Good luck to you

Here's hoping things never got "hot," but if they do, please stay safe.

[GP6971]

12. Many thanks

I was stationed in Korea as was my son. No one gets concerned unless the Defense And State Departments order / recommend dependent and nonessential personnel to prepare for evacuation.

All the rhetoric usually made me yawn. Not sure this time with the "new leader".

I always did and still stand by my reasoning for the US military presence in the ROK......50 percent to keep the north from invading the South.....the other 50 percent to keep the South from invading the north. Reunification is really strong in South Korea.

[Wait Wut]

16. Be safe.

And tell them we've got their back, for what it's worth.

My DIL is Japanese (Okinawan), so I worry about Japan, as well. I don't know who's got their hand up that little puppets ass, but something will eventually need to be done. Sanctions aren't working and 'talks' get nowhere. Maybe we should send them their own basketball team.

[GP6971]

25. I work for a defense contractor

So we do a lot of "battle planning". I'm not involved with that aspect, but with my time in the Army I can pretty much tell where the wind is blowing from. So far, that front has been very quiet......no ramping up.

[Politicub]

10. SK needs a battery of Iron Domes

In case Kim Jong Un falls completely off his rocker.

[randome]

17. Just a lot of good umbrellas for when the missiles flake apart in midair.

[Egalitarian Thug]

26. What cost, indeed. SK has become a fabulously wealthy nation on the American dime.

The SK elite are among the world's rulers and for only one reason, the American taxpayer is picking up their bills.

[Canuckistanian]

4. We could knock out their power grid

During the daytime when it's operating, that is.

[GP6971]

9. You must have

seen Google Maps!!!

[Tobin S.]

6. North Korea is testing my pacifist nature

The Cold War is over. Communism lost.

I wish we could just leave them alone and they leave us alone. They could have their communist utopia and we could have our capitalist competition. Sort of a mutual ignore policy that works pretty good here at DU when people can't work things out. But it doesn't work that way in the real world.

[warrprayer]

7. His "Long Dong"

is a fearsome weapon!

[pa28]

13. Launching a 220 pound satellite is a long way from a weaponized ICBM.

This crap must be for domestic consumption only because it's starting to remind me of the fake Iranian "stealth aircraft".

[spanone]

14. wtf did rodman say????

[Blue_In_AK]

15. If they have, it hasn't gotten here yet.

If you don't hear from me after this, you'll know I'm fried.

[Adsos Letter]

18. It could be awhile, Blue.

My understanding is that, while they have mounted a nuke on a missile, they have to put it on a row boat to actually get it to Alaska.

Could take awhile, depending on the currents, etc.

And, the strength and endurance of the oarsmen does make a difference...

[Art_from_Ark]

27. An NK missile got fairly close to Attu Island, in the Aleutians, in 1998

The most recent test missile made it as far as Okinawa, so apparently NK hasn't been able to increase their missiles' range in 14 years, although that could always change, I guess.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Oh yah, well.....

....when Kim Jong Un rears his ugly head over Alaskan airspace where you know you can see parts of North Korea from it and also much like Barack Obama paling around with terrorists because he hates your freedom and your guns and such so I like all of the newspapers to what respect they mention the Supreme Court cases and all of them because we live in the good old USA with all the soccer moms and Joe the Plumber who I also can call Joe but you know you just have to be a mavarick and also a pit bull but not one of those gosh darned community organizers who you know ask those gotcha questions while ringing those bells and riding your horse through town just like Paul Revere and the British and also so you know we need to stand with our North Korean allies and not retreat but reload and also so drill baby drill.....

[Blue_In_AK]

21. Most excellent impersonation.

However, I don't think she's even up here these days. We never hear anything about her ... Someone told me she moved to Arizona.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Poor, poor Arizona.

Antartica would have been my choice for her.

[sarisataka]

20. Yes

It landed in the Yellow Sea. They are waiting for the Kuroshio current to push it to the North Pacific to the Alaska current.
Time to impact 15000 years (+/- 10000)

[randome]

22. LOL!

[AverageJoe90]

23. Yep....nothing to see here. n/t