So what exactly is N.K. doing to the US? That is besides making Trump look like a fool.

[nikibatts]

[longship]

1. Their nuke tests have been spotty; their missiles explode at launch.

That the DPRK has a missile deliverable nuclear weapon is childishly ridiculous.

Building a buried nuke is not the same as building one for delivery by missile, or bomber.

My opinion is that the DPRK does not have a weaponized nuclear weapon. Hell! I'd put money that they not only have no reliable A-Bomb, they don't have a reliable missile.

[former9thward]

2. He has been threatening the U.S. with nuclear war.

Along with some of his neighbors. You may not have noticed. The U.S. is not obligated to wait until he carries out this threat. A nuclear weapon can be delivered by many different methods. A missile is just one of them. Clinton should have taken him out. Bush should have taken him out. Obama should have taken him out. The U.S. should take him out.

[yodermon]

3. I have family in Seoul. You threaten them with this language. Stop it. n/t

[former9thward]

4. Congrats on deflecting the real threats of N. Korea.

[Kentonio]

6. The only way to give you the illusion of safety

Is to almost certainly condemn tens or hundreds of thousands of South Koreans to death. Please grow up.

[former9thward]

7. And when they detonate a nuclear weapon in LA or Seoul what are you going to say?

The U.S. was warned! And ignored it!

[Kentonio]

8. How exactly do you think they're going to get a nuclear weapon to LA?!

And why do you imagine that a family whose only interest is holding onto wealth and power in NK, is suddenly going to commit suicide by launching a nuclear attack? They're a bunch of thugs and crooks who get to live a live of unimaginable luxury on the backs of poor, oppressed North Koreans. They've been doing this for 3 generations now, and have done almost nothing to try and attack the outside world. They've launched small attacks against South Korea a few times, but where are the bombings and NK terrorist attacks against the US? Yet suddenly we're supposed to believe that after 64 years they're suddenly going to attack the US with a nuclear warhead and condemn their entire country to obliteration?

Bullshit.

[former9thward]

9. A ship can easily take a nuclear weapon to LA or anyplace near the ocean.

You are assuming the current leader of NK is sane. My assumption is exactly the opposite. The father and grandfather were grounded with reality to some degree. This guy is not. China and Russia recognize that. At some point NK will collapse like all similar countries. When that happens he will want to take down everyone with him.

[treestar]

12. from what I've taken in on the subject

The Kims simply want to stay in power. The country has no resources. Their threats are to obtain such resources as they need to stay in power.

They keep their people uninformed. But there are people sneaking DVDs from South Korea into NK. Eventually, the people there will realize they can have a much better life and that SK is not the disaster the Kims post it to be. That's how they will come down.

[Marengo]

10. Unless that poster is directly advising the President, it's highly unlikely a DU post threatens...

Your family. The very concept is absurd, so how about you stop trying to shut down dialogue.

[tavalon]

5. Well, if they ever get their shit together,

they want to blow up Los Angeles. But their shit seems to just blow up in their faces, thusfar. May it be ever so.

[Calculating]

11. To start with

HORRIBLE human rights violations. Probably the worst in the world. It's not directly hurting us, but the world should probably do SOMETHING to save the people of NK from the sadistic Kim regime. >90% of the people don't have electricity, and starvation is so widespread that cannibalism occurs. All this because little kimmy spends every spare dollar on weapons development so he can threaten other countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016/country-chapters/north-korea
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/north-korea

They're an extremely hostile and reclusive regime, led by a maniac who constantly threatens to turn the US into ashes, and they're constantly developing more nukes and missiles to get them here. Seems like the definition of a threat.

Little Kimmy does some atrocious stuff to his people. After the holocaust the whole world said "Never again". Well, it's happening again to people in NK. Little Kim will have the families of dissenters condemned to torture camps/caves for 3 generations where they are starved/worked to death, tortured, and have medical experiments such as vivisection and bioweapons testing conducted on them.

FFS! Little Kimmy had his own half brother assassinated with VX nerve gas in an international airport. The guy is a madman, a monster and probably the worst leader in the world right now.

Little Kimmy is a problem, and it's not gonna go away unless somebody does something about him. If we just sit around and let him develop nukes capable of hitting us then we forever lose ANY ability to do something about him.

[hack89]

13. Distributing illegal drugs, counterfeiting dollars, selling missile and nuclear technology

threatening war on a regular basis.