OT: North Korea Missile Tests

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thorfrog said:
I don't see the point in NK continuing to persue the nuke option when their people are starving. Eventually they will go bankrupt.

The point is simply to maintain control over their people. An oppresed people can't very well rise up and overthrow an oppresive government in this day and age when they would be crushed by the military tanks and machine guns. It's not like the 1700's when the armies of the world didn't have all that better of weapons then the general populace. These days as long as the military is behind the current regime, which it appears to be in this case, you aren't going to get a "popular revolution" without some outside intervention. The nukes are a deterrant to anyone outside that might be considering intervening.