North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack

Justin McCurry in Tokyo
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 5 February 2013 13.37 GMT

It begins benignly enough, with an image of a sleeping young North Korean man, and a genteel piano version of the US feel-good pop anthem We Are the World providing the musical backdrop.

But the YouTube video recently posted by Uriminzokkiri, North Korea's official website, quickly takes a more sinister turn as the man's dream continues into the realms of Stalinist fantasy.

Within seconds he is aboard a space shuttle, launched into orbit by the same type of rocket the North successfully launched in December. The shuttle orbits Earth, at one point passing over a jubilant and reunified Korean peninsula, before the focus switches to an unidentified city draped in the Stars and Stripes.

What appear to be missiles rain down on the city, setting fire to high-rise buildings in scenes reminiscent of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York.

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[Botany]

1. Little Kim wants the world to notice him

[Tagish_Charlie]

2. When you run out of money

halfway through your haircut and your barber uses gasoline powered hair clippers everyone takes notice

[another_liberal]

3. We are the World?

The video (which is no longer available on youtube) uses We Are The World as its theme, and then depicts an American city in flames, under a rain of missiles?

That may not be the best way to achieve their stated goal of one-on-one talks with the United States.

[amandabeech]

4. North Korea always reminds us that it is there

and that it is run by nuts.

Perhaps all our drones could be shipped to S. Korea, fixed up with big nets full of food, then sent over the DMZ to drop their goods.

I feel so badly for the North Korean people.

[davidpdx]

5. It's because literally nothing is being done to try to stop North Korea from what it is doing

China, North Korea's big brother, yields its veto power in the UN Security Council to protect them. With all the crap going on in the Middle East, that sucks almost every ounce of energy diplomatically to get stuff done.

Shipping food to them isn't going to do a bit of good. The food will go to those who are loyal to Kim and his army, not to the people who are starving. The chances of them letting monitors in for food distribution is low and even then they just send people around to pick it back up after they leave.

I feel bad for them too. However when the world sits around and does nothing, that's exactly what we get in terms of results.