This picture about made me fall out of my seat laughing. :har:

Take special notice of the BIG RED BUTTON.

:haha:

But seriously that is a trackball mouse. I don't know if they still even make those things.

When I first met my wife, she had a computer with a 32MB graphics card and a trackball mouse. Much to my horror.
Needless to say, I helped her see the error of her ways. :03:

Well Daddy made him a Major General before he died and Jr. never spend a day in the military, so anything is possible.
He comes from a long line of Fab leaders. Grand dad started the Korean War, which he couldn't finish even with the help of the Chinese. Daddy made a lot of noise but other than allowing millions of his own people to die of starvation did little else. Like someone else said, every time they need money or food or attention, living in a country cut off from the rest of the world isn't easy, they make a lot of noise to get everyones attention.
They would have a hard time attacking themselves let alone the U.S.

I see your point there. I'm wondering now if Truman had allowed MacArthur to pursue the Communists would it have been better or just another Vietnam-type Stalemate?

I'm not an expert in world affairs...and i certainly did not think that the Unification of Korea would collapse Asia. Then again, I'm young and stupid. What do I know? :arrgh!:

I don't want to see us fight the DPRK...but at the same time I do. I don't know how I feel about this yet. I just know that the DPRK seem to like (attempting to) talking tough.

You're young, not stupid, when I was your age I didn't consider the whole picture either. In fact it didn't really occur to me until about two or three years ago whilst roleplaying on another forum as the leader of the PRC and having to deal with the DPRK, trying to keep it on a short leash whilst distancing myself from it in the international arena. A balancing act that any circus performer would be proud of.
The DPRK is talking tough because it's about the only option left to it at the moment, it's painted itself into a corner and into a position where it can't back down and lose vital political face (which would be a death sentence for the young Kim) but at the same time if it pushes any harder then it runs the real risk of receiving a big smack in the face from South Korea. When the North shelled that island, Yeonpyeong, I think it was, or something similar, the South retaliated with a barrage that did significant damage to the DPRK artillery and killed dozens, if not low hundreds.
The DPRK is at a stalemate because it has lost the advantage, the only advantage that it has against South Korea is its nuclear weapons, and at the moment they have no way to deliver them. If and when they are able to make the weapons small enough to fit on one of their missiles, then the playing field will change a bit, however the ROK will likely seek to come under the American nuclear umbrella, like Japan, so that any nuclear attack on Seoul will result in an American warhead making a visit to Pyongyang shortly afterwards.

It cannot be ruled out that the North will go the whole hog and launch an invasion of the South, it can never be ruled out because we don't know enough about the leadership and command structure of the North and the people within it. One thing is for certain though, the generation that fought the first Korean war are dying out, and the generations that have lived in relative peace on both sides of the DMZ have forgotten the face of war, and are letting their emotions get the better of them. It's often said that the reason that the US is in South Korea is to stop South Korea invading the North, not the other way around, and from what I've heard, I can't disagree with those who have said it.

If Kim Jong Un reads this thread he is going to get awfully peeved! might cause him to push that red button, or at least play with it!!:hmmm:

Track ball mice are still made, used by people who can't grip a standard mouse for whatever reason.

And there's sure a lot of switches for his game of Pong.

http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-cu...090941398.html

Moving closer or just another..:hmmm:

The main question is: will they do something before Easter or after Easter?

It's anyone's guess at this point. :hmm2:

still better then this
http://www.technewsdaily.com/images/...jpg?1356027237

If the rest of the world is like the UK then an attack late Thursday or early Friday would work best, everyone will have gone home and nobody will want to go back until after their time off - Tuesday before you get a full response. :yep:

If they have gone as far as fueling their missiles then they need to do something in the next day or two else they will need to de-fuel and service them which could take weeks