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[Sheb]

Yeah, the Japanese tried during WWII, and it's not that easy to deliver enough pathogens. I guess you could easily make something nasty by taking, say, plague and breeding a strain that resist to every single antibiotics in the market. No need for fancy genetic engineering here.

[Loud Whispers]

I had grudgingly started to respect anonymous over the past few years.  In one sentence I am now convinced that I should never make the mistake of respecting them again.

3edgy5me

When nukes are involved that may not be the case.

And now for a few words from our wonderful Prime Minister.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9972193/Cameron-fact-that-North-Korea-has-technology-for-nuclear-strike-against-the-UK.html

And please wait here while I laugh at my own country.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Spaghetti7]

Aaand now they're telling us to "evacuate" our embassies.
An extract:
"It said that the North Korean government would be unable to guarantee the safety of embassies and international organisations in the country in the event of conflict from April 10."

Hmm.

[Loud Whispers]

Seems DRPK would like to keep Russia and the UK out of the war. It also seems David Cameron wants to play follow the leader into war.

Whelp, these are interesting times.

[Max White]

You have to remember that NK doesn't actually have that many resident embassies, especially not some of the 'western culture' countries that NK seems to dislike such as USA, Canada, Australia and NZ, and also its neighbor SK.

Kicking out Russia and the UK might be because they are least trusted.

[Loud Whispers]

I didn't say why they wanted to keep the two out of any potential conflict!

[Owlbread]

April 10th. Does that mean we now have a date? Are the North Koreans possibly going to do another missile test on that day, using the one they've set up on the East Coast?

My father is actually planning on going to a business meeting in Seoul at the end of May. I think we're just going to wait and see.

[ChairmanPoo]

They're not going to do jackshit. It's just posturing, like the "US attack map" they "accidentally" displayed behind Kim jr a few days back. They're the international equivalent of a pufferfish.

[RedKing]

They're not going to do jackshit. It's just posturing, like the "US attack map" they "accidentally" displayed behind Kim jr a few days back. They're the international equivalent of a pufferfish.

I wish I could agree. I feel like this started as a routine saber-rattling exercise but has mushroomed into something far nastier. I think there has been some dramatic miscalculation all around and now Kim is too heavily invested in this to back down without some kind of concession by the West to show for it. And the Western powers (and China, for that matter) are in NO mood to reward bad behavior with any more concessions.

It's like a kid who's used to throwing a tantrum every now and then to get a lollipop. Suddenly, the parents put their foot down and the kid has to decide whether to straighten up or throw a bigger tantrum. North Korea is in full-bore "punching the walls, holding-my-breath-till-I-turn-blue" mode now.

[Guardian G.I.]

BTW: I am earwormed by "No motherland without you" in the last few days. Does anyone else have the same problem?

I haven't got problems with neither the synthpop version nor the military orchestra version.
This is the only North Korean song that managed to get stuck in my head at least once.

[RedKing]

Those MRBMs that North Korea moved to their east coast? They've apparently loaded them into mobile launchers. 

[Descan]

What the hell does North Korea have against Canada? D:

NO ONE hates Canada!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I guess you could easily make something nasty by taking, say, plague and breeding a strain that resist to every single antibiotics in the market. No need for fancy genetic engineering here.

Not a very effective way to go about it. Irresponsible antibiotic usage by the entire world for several decades has only rendered a handful of antibiotics ineffective. You'd have to go a long way in growing cultures to evolve drug-resistance, and even then you'd need a lot of it to make that strain prevalent.

And even once you've finished all of that, which would take several years, you're back to the problem of dispersal.

[lordcooper]

>send the plague up in a rocket
>the rocket assplode
>the plague gets scattered everywhere
>DPRK has a vaccine
>Kim lives

[10ebbor10]

Yup, there's a reason bioweaponry preffers spores

.

Oh, and the reason bioterrorism hasn't been a succes is that bioweapons are WMDS. They need to deployed en masse to overwhelm healthcare and be effective.