According to the Washington Post, Korea wants to try a test detonation of a nuclear bomb, and despite the previous paragraph, this is something we should all take seriously.
"North Korea's final goal is survival, and a test is their final option," said Ahn Yinhay, professor of international relations at Korea University in Seoul. "Given the current situation -- the enormous pressure from the U.S.'s hard-line policy -- the North Koreans may think they have no other means to try to get out of this deadlock. They may think they have nothing else to lose."
This was a fairly late-breaking story, and not a lot of A-List bloggers are on it, but Captain Ed has an interesting comment:Unfortunately, people have to take Kim's cries for attention seriously after his unexpected missile tests this past summer, all of which failed miserably. So far, no one has any indication that a nuclear test would meet with any more success than Kim's Taepodong-2 missile, but that hardly provides any comfort.
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