We Will Nuke You!

Is this supposed to make me scared?

 The Bush administration rejected anew Tuesday direct talks with North Korea and said it would not be intimidated by a reported threat from Pyongyang that it could fire a nuclear-tipped missile unless the U.S. acts to resolve the standoff.

“This is the way North Korea typically negotiates by threat and intimidation,” said U.S. Ambassador John Bolton. “It’s worked for them before. It won’t work for them now.”

The White House said, meanwhile, there is a “remote possibility” that the world never will be able to fully determine whether North Korea succeeded in conducting a nuclear test Monday. While acknowledging that the action was provocative, White House press secretary Tony Snow suggested that it’s possible that the test was something less than it appeared.

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North Korea stepped up its threats, saying it could fire a nuclear nuclear-tipped missile unless the U.S. acts, the Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday from Beijing. But even if Pyongyang is confirmed to have nuclear weapons, experts say it’s unlikely the North has a bomb design small and light enough to be mounted atop a missile.

Go ahead and fire your stupid missile and watch Pyongyang become a parking lot after our missile defense system intercepts the missile; that’s if the NK missile even makes it off the launch pad.

This is just another indication of how little the North Koreans understand Americans.  Americans do not respond to threats well and if anything it brings people together against a common enemy.  The more threats they make, the more likely the North Koreans will never get the aid deal and security assurances they want because it would be politically impossible for the US government to give them a deal if they are doing it in response to all these threats.

Threats and intimidation may work with South Koreans to get what they want, but it will never work with Americans.