In related news, the DPRK is threatening an all-out military strike to destroy... loudspeakers. I hope they don’t put too hard a strain on their forces.
http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2...-military-strike-on-south-s-loudspeakers.html
North Korea warned of an “all-out military strike” to destroy South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda tools along their fortified border, according to the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency. South Korea’s preparation for psychological warfare, is a “direct declaration of a war” against the North, the general staff of the communist state’s military said today in a statement on KCNA. The North’s military retaliation may turn Seoul into “a sea of flame,” the statement said.
My favorite part: Later in another article the author notes that the last time the DPRK said "sea of fire" was 1994. They were able to go through the list of threats and cite the last known utterance of a specific threat. It is almost like the North Korean PAOs have "belligerent rhetoric" talking point matrix.
More threats of gloom and doom, doing anything to take the attention off of the ship incident. When they stamp their little feet, throw a hissy fit and threaten "ruthless war to totally smash the capitalist war-hawks and their puppet running dogs in Seoul" then we sternly respond with free shipments of money, oil and food.