said the act would not go without some reaction by our government, what that reaction would be.


I feel sorry for the NK people.

maybe they can drop in with hot air balloons

the only question is whether they can plant a bomb here.

But, hey, we got high school kids who can do a massacre at a theater, so NK couldn't figure it out?

(What would we do if ISIS threatened to blow up a theater?)

1) ISIS is a terrorist organization drawing motivation from fundamentalist Islam. Even excluding Shiites, that still includes a potential recruitment pool of tens of millions, many in Western countries.

North Korea, on the other hand, has its motivations from a fanatical devotion to its leader, a sentiment largely isolated to the peninsula. There aren't any North Korean sleeper cells in the US, and no significant recruitment pool in the West as with ISIS.

2) ISIS wants a fight with the US more than anything else. They don't care about potential casualties or reactions from the US, as long as they achieve their goal of dragging it back into a war in the Middle East.

North Korea, for all its bluster, knows provoking a conflict with the US is suicidal, and a deliberate attack would alienate its one last major benefactor in the world--China. The rank and file might be brainwashed, but the leadership isn't that stupid.

Those are the reasons we can't draw ISIS or al-Qaeda comparisons.

which I suspect is not applicable to either of them.

I do remember back in the days when nuclear war was seen as a possibility, Mao said he he didn't fear it because if we threw all our nukes at China it would still leave at least half a billion Chinese to take over the US.

And we thought Mao was saner than this clown.

police and military forces.

HOGWARTS FOREVER!

China created the NK problem.

Let them have it back.

Although I don't disagree on pulling some troops from S. Korea.

Come on, once you think about it, since when has Hollywood been so afraid of making movies that paint foreign dictators in a bad funny light. It's pretty normal. I personally think that pressure was put on the distributors of said movie by the US government due to present yet unannounced diplomatic moves between the US and DPRK and the present administration doesn't want anything that might upset the easily up-settable North Koreans. Obama's tenure as president is coming to and end and every President wants to have a legacy. The surprise announcement about the thawing of relations with Cuba fits this theory. If Obama can get North Korea from out of the freeze, it would be one of the bigger jewels in his crown.