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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe apocalypse will be televised....and announced by a DPRK lady in pink hanbok
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2017/sep/04/north-koreas-pink-lady-the-newscaster-set-to-announce-the-end-of-the-world"The apocalypse will be televised, and it will be presented by a pink-clad North Korean woman announcing the news at a near scream.
Ri Chun-hee is the most prominent face on the Norths Korean Central Television, appearing nearly every time the country takes a step towards fulfilling its nuclear ambitions, delivering the states proclamations in a booming voice and brimming with gusto.
The test of a hydrogen bomb designed to be mounted on our intercontinental ballistic missile was a perfect success, Ri said this weekend, as she quaked with excitement in reporting North Koreas most powerful nuclear detonation yet. It was a very meaningful step in completing the national nuclear weapons program.
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Her melodramatic delivery has reportedly won Ri the admiration of current leader Kim Jong-un, essential for surviving under what experts describe as the most brutal regime to date. She rarely departs from her bellicose style, though she wept on air when announcing the death of North Koreas first leader Kim Il-sung, and the subsequent passing of his son and successor, Kim Jong-il."....(more)
hunter
(38,301 posts)Or maybe it was no bomb at all. Maybe they were pumping nuclear waste into the deep earth like your friendly neighborhood Oklahoma frackers.
The last thing Russia, China, and South Korea want is a destabilized North Korea. Millions of starving and severely disoriented refugees flooding across the border is a bad day in international relations. You can't shoot them.
Years ago I was joking here that maybe someone should give North Korea a bomb just to shut them up, make them wear the big boy pants.
Now I'm a little worried someone else with an actual bomb agreed.
Possibly we are witnessing great brilliance in foreign policy. If a big boy hydrogen bomb destroyed all of North Korea's bomb testing tunnels and a larger portion of their testing technology, then maybe it was worth it.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)I thought that they were in the 1950's.
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)Surreal nature of this entire fiasco.