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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone remember North Korea? They were going to bomb us into the stone-age just last week
How quickly we forget to be afraid of something when we are not reminded to be more or less constantly.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)I was thinking about that earlier.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)What exactly does taunting and antagonizing a situation like this accomplish?
rvt1000rr
(40 posts)If they can find something more dramatic, closer to home and easier to cover and peculate about, then that's the new "news" that they will sell, 24/7.
I'm not saying that North Korea is not a serious problem, but all we have heard for weeks is the threat that they pose to us. After the Boston bombing.....crickets.....
Fear sells.
gordianot
(15,226 posts)A couple weeks before Japan and China were tense.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)Then we'll never be afraid! Of course, we'll be uninformed and ignorant, but ignorance is bliss after all - right?
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)The threats are still there, he's just not being as vocal about it.
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)and heroically not earning any money from the Kaesŏng Industrial Region, so maybe Kim will get lucky and we'll start listening again after the recent craziness.
zappaman
(20,605 posts)charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)He FINALLY got smart, or at least someone over there got smart, and realized that it would be a catastrophically dumb decision to antagonize the United States after we were attacked and looking for blood. Plus, as another poster above stated, North Korea had been quietly backing down lately anyway. They're even talking about talking now.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Or did cooler heads decide war against the US would turn out very bad, stuff him in the trunk of a car, drive till it broke down, and left him there?
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)to manipulate the information he receives. So, maybe there are those who realized things were maybe edging towards getting out of hand and began telling him that, yes, the US totally backed down or something.
Now, if those people are crazy/evil, we could continue to have a problem (see: Bush, George W. et al).
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Too bad, so sad--someone stole their news cycle.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)If you think NK is not a problem, in my opinion you do not understand the situation.
randome
(34,845 posts)zappaman
(20,605 posts)since NK says they will nuke Austin if they attack the US...