It's an alarming thing. Particularly since I'm situated in a much higher risk zone from an attack from Korea than either of you guys. But, the population isn't so dense up here, and the most they could hope for on a strike here would be the obliteration of about 250,000 civilians and 2 fairly large... military.. uh, bases. OK, so perhaps it's not such a bad idea to strike here after all. Our ready squadrons could easily retaliate directly against N. Korea so perhaps they could view us as a threat.

yeah and you know that whole missle defense base thing they've been developing up here? yeah. a bust. though, to be fair, it's extremely difficult to hit an ICBM which is only about 6 feet in diameter (I think) and travels at about mach 4. Especially head on with another missle that travels at mach 6. tricky tricky. But still, it's a bust. Reagan's advisors had some pretty good ideas with satelite based infrared weapons. But, they're too vulnerable. Russia blew one up very easily.

the US is still the sole remaining superpower, but china's catching up pretty fast. I think perhaps the superpower status of the US might have spurred on the joining of forces of most of the Eurpoean countries. I mean, one country in and of themselves can't challenge us, but a whole buncha them together?