North Korean Sabre Rattling 2013 We Nuclear Baby!

[Zetanio]

People need to see past their mindless hatred of Donny T and realize how big of a deal this could be.

[Day]

it's pretty incredible honestly, i remain a bit skeptical obviously but never thought I'd see anything like that

[Day]

[Fiye]

Hopefully they marry. Then Korea will truly be one again.

[Salodin]

People need to see past their mindless hatred of Donny T and realize how big of a deal this could be.

People do see how big a deal this is. But it's also north korea, and they like to change their minds. And it's Trump, he likes to fuck things up at the last second.

Also, lol@mindless hatred.

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[vagus]

To be honest I give Rodman more credit then Trump for this.


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[Aerin]

It's a really huge deal, but I can't help but feel like it's all too good to be true. And that has nothing to do with Trump, if Hillary was President I'd be feeling the same way. Like, why now? What changed that they are suddenly coming to the table so willingly along with giving us so much of what we asked for? Smells fishy.

[Day]

AG gave fairly good explanation of the most likely reason

[Fiye]

http://abc7chicago.com/politics/geol...apsed/3392970/

My guess is this

[Aerin]

AG gave fairly good explanation of the most likely reason

I hadn't read the last page so missed that post. So the working theory is it's China finally putting their foot down?

[Zetanio]

Also, lol@mindless hatred.

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Not sure what's to lol about, half of the people I know lose all motor function and scream when his name is even said.

[Salodin]

I thought you were rich and only had the best of friends.

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[Zetanio]

I said I knew them, not that we were friends.

[Day]

i lold https://twitter.com/DemonTito/status/989864494498287616

honorable mention: https://twitter.com/DemonTito/status/989641086950928385

[Dimmauk]

Its going to be hilarious when NK turns heel again and hits SK with a steel chair.

[Zetanio]

Getting thrown off through a table off the top of hell in a cell would be a p big deal.

[Andalusian girls]

AG gave fairly good explanation of the most likely reason

FAIRLY good you beast

[Andalusian girls]

i guess Jesus warned me of this

give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast
ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them
under their feet, and turn again and rend you

[Day]

look man sometimes you make me google words and phrases and shit and ain't nobody got time for that

[Andalusian girls]

I hadn't read the last page so missed that post. So the working theory is it's China finally putting their foot down?

it is, though there are some other factors. Kim Jong-un is not his predecessors and appears slightly less bellicose than either (only with the North Korean regime could this be said of a man who had his uncle torn apart with antiaircraft guns and nerve agent'd his half-brother), as Fiye said their nuclear testing facility collapsed raising the cost of further development at a time the economy can least afford it, and Trump going full madman theory, including raising the possibility of a preemptive strike, has to be worrying the leadership of Pyongyang.

but ultimately it's China. perhaps no economy on earth is as dependent on another's as North Korea's is upon China's, with the latter accounting for 90% of the foreign trade of the former, and over the past year China has taken the unprecedented step of not only adhering to U.N. sanctions but applying further unilateral ones of their own. in addition to other things North Korea relies upon China for their energy needs, for their access to foreign capital, for the luxury goods the communist elite so enjoy, and they simply have no alternative avenue of attainment. likewise the aggressive American posturing would be less worrying to Pyongyang were China assuming its traditional posture of defender of the status quo, but following the collapse in relations between the two nations in recent years it beggars belief to expect the Chinese to go to war with America and South Korea were the peninsula to go hot. the Chinese do not want a nuclear armed North Korea, they do not want instability on the peninsula, and they do not want a shooting war that would inevitably result in the American-backed regime pressing all the way up to their border.

there is a tendency among both left and right to overstate the importance America has in international affairs, for ill and good respectively, but Xi Jinping is the most important player in this drama.