This was on the Peter Heck Show a while ago... the announcement that they were going to attempt this, that is. But, apparently, it seems that North Korea claims to have successfully completed their first nuclear weapons test. Slashdot, of course, is cheering the fact that they have nukes now, because that means the "US will stay off their backs". What the HECK is that all about?
I think... maybe... the fact that the United States is "on their backs" is because... well... North Korea can't even successfully launch a conventional missile. You remember that, right? They tested a long range missile carrier and it failed. Japan was rather shaken up about it. They didn't know what was going on because we all know how North Korea likes to play fair and let people know what's going on.
Anyone with a head on their shoulders will realize that maybe the US (along with every other country strong enough to give a care) is "on their backs" because they don't have the maturity to develop nukes? I'm sorry, but if they don't even have functional missile delivery systems, why do they need to be build nuclear devices? It's like... they're behind the wheel of a semi-truck without figuring out how to drive yet! Jurassic Park comes to mind. A particlar line from the movie from Ian Malcolm when they're eating dinner after the tour of the main building? Talking about how the Jurassic Park scientists stood on the shoulders of those who came before them. They didn't learn the technology and techniques themselves, and thus had no sense of responsibility for what they were doing. They were so caught up with the question on if they COULD make dinosaurs, that they didn't stop to think about if they SHOULD make dinosaurs... and we all know how THAT turned out.
Everyone needs to shelf their petty political whining and just think about what's happening here... an unpredictable country with faulty warhead carriers has just told everyone that they know how to make nukes. You guys should be worrying about your lives instead of how this affects presidential elections and the United States' "meddlesome" ways. I mean, sure... other countries have nukes and we haven't really had a problem since the Cold War, but you have to admit that those countries are pretty cooperative nowadays. North Korea is some crazy unbridled communistic society that... well, to be honest, they can't be trusted. Not with nukes... not with anything. They're unpredictable and they're just plain scary. I mean they're REALLY frightening.
I'm sure someone who never posts a comment for anything but my controversial posts is going to speak up. "We have no right to tell other countries what to do." Come on... It's not safe for the entire planet for these guys to have nuclear weapons. They've had an insane government for ages now, and they just got doomsday weapons to threaten everyone with... on delivery systems that don't even work. This is a global catastrophe waiting to happen. Do you honestly think that North Korea is capable of sharing some of the responsibility for the entire planet?
...but the morons on Slashdot are cheering them on.
