Bombs away!

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I don't know about the rest of you capitalist running dogs, but I'm not exactly quaking in my boots over claims that North Korea has detonated an H-bomb. Although the successful detonation of a hydrogen bomb represents a step-up in nuclear capability from the gulag nation's three A-bomb tests, there is a fair bit of skepticism from the international community that the latest explosion is what North Korea claims it is. But even if it was an H-bomb test, so what? Their nuclear program has less to do with scaring us than impressing the poor blighters who live there. Nevertheless, there will no doubt be plenty of condemnation from the world's other nuclear powers and further sanctions will just as inevitably be applied. To no real effect, of course. There is a way to change North Korea, I believe, but it involves giving them more, not less. As the saying goes, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. The idea is that a more comfortable and indulgent citizenry would have less need of a crazed man-god to watch over them. And this is crucial if the North Korean tragedy is to ever end - the change, frightening and brutal though it may be, must come from the people who live there. Ah well, just an idea. As to how North Korea became such an oddball nation in the first place, here's an interesting short piece from the clever folks over at Vox: