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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by colanderman on Monday August 28, 2017 @06:39PM (#15120728)
Yep. It hasn't gotten to the point that they've had to resort to actually destroying a city yet, or even demonstrating that they can. Just hinting that they might be able to has thus far been enough to keep the aid flowing.
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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by KGIII on Monday August 28, 2017 @06:53PM (#15120812)
If it wasn't against the law, I'd send him a few cases of Scotch.

By which I mean, I'd chip in to calm him down. I'll buy him a gently used Toyota, tomorrow, if it means he will settle down. I'm not even kidding. I'd even take him at his word. Hell, set up a PayPal account, and make it legal, and I'll send him money every month that he doesn't harass his neighbors. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

Hmm... We should crowdsource Un's Scotch fund. I'm only partially kidding.

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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by throwanem on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:44PM (#15121337)
Once you pay the danegeld...
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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by KGIII on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:45PM (#15121343)
We've already paid.
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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by themaninthedark on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:05AM (#15124327)
Only they have, abet in a limited way and the SK and US response was also limited to avoid escalation.

I don't think they are harmless but I also don't think they are suicidal, this just happens to be the only leverage they are willing to use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Yeonpyeong

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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by MBCook on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:28PM (#15121260)
They can't. They saber rattle because it means that they are powerful enough to bring people to the negotiating table but they're not actually destructive to other countries (outside tit-for-tat stuff).

The minute they destroy a real city they are game ends and the rest of the world is going to actually do something. They LOSE negotiating power and are inviting in attack against them that will destroy the regeime.

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