You dropped a bomb on me, baby
    You dropped a bomb on me, baby
    You dropped a bomb on me.

    --The Gap Band.

    "The North Koreans may be thinking that in two or three years, it
too may be regarded as just another nuclear power, outside of the
Nonproliferation Treaty, the way we now view Pakistan and India and
Israel," the official said.

    The New York Times

By COY ASKEW
Ahssa! Copyeditor

The DPRK nuclear crisis is one of those intractable problems that
should keep Bushie up at night when he's actually asleep dreaming about
"My Pet Goat." I mean, come on, people, what's the point of getting all
that power if you don't actually, like, use it and stuff.

We need to do something about the DPRK. Do we really want them to have
The Bomb? If accept a bunch of nutjobs like the government of the DPRK
having the bomb, then the Japanese will want The Bomb, too and it just
goes all down hill from there.

One thing that the DPRK is not taking into account about India and
Pakistan is that we, like, think those two countries are pretty cool
and stuff. We got no beeef with India other than the fact that all our
software and telephone marketing jobs are going there. We "tolerate"
Pakistan having The Bomb 'cause they're helping us with the War on
Terror and it would be a serious pain in the butt to get rid of those
bombs at this point.

Although, I have to admit, the idea that a country as...uh..unstable as
Pakistan would have The Bomb makes me nervous.

Miguk saram Uncle Sam needs to address the issue head on. Do we really
need to attack the DPRK?

I dunno.

In a purely war-gaming point of view that makes the best sense, but the
potential toll on human life in this area (including mine) is just too
horrific to even begin to imagine. Just doing back-of-the-envelope
guestimating, I could see 10 million people (+ me) or more could go
poof! in a wall of fire. That doesn't even factor in the folks in
northern Seoul who would die when The Mother of All Artillery Barrages
began in the first few moments of the war.

The longer I am in Korea, the more I realize that the DPRK and RoK have
a "brothers agreement."

In my mind, I imagine the government of RoK kinda imagines the DPRK as
an individual Hanguk would of a brother who likes to hit the soju (and
maybe their wife) just a little too much. They like them, 'cause
they're kin and all, but they sure do things that annoy them. Neither
side wants war at this point and given enough time the DPRK would
probably just collapse and the RoK would spend the next hundred years
trying to get their Hangukin brothers up to Third World Levels.

But that's not how the world works.

I have had several discussions - ok, heated arguments, - ok, verbal
fistfights with Commonwealthers about why the US would have every right
to preemptively bomb the DPRK. (This was in my first few months in
Korea and I think such behavior was simply my newbie status coming
out.)

As the world's lone hyperpower, the U.S. has responsiblities to keep
the peace that other countries don't. This doesn't even take into
account the fear the American populace has about kooks like the
government of the DPRK selling A-Bomb technology to the highest bidder.

If the war started again, I just can't see the DPRK using the A-Bomb on
RoK, and they would only destroy the places like northern Seoul with
conventional weapons 'cause they would, like, have to and stuff once
the war started.

The worst bit of this is that the DPRK KEEPS PUSHING MIGUK with its
provactive behavior. It kinda reminds me of that movie about the little
country that declared war on Miguk just so they could get the
development dollars after they lost. [Are you talking about "The Mouse
The Roared?" Why can't you just say it? -- Coy.] Don't mess with us,
DPRK. You wouldn't like us when we're angry.