Ditto. I find it particularly striking that over the last three years NK has been able to upgrade its nuclear capabilities from under 1 megatons to over 20 megatons if I'm not mistaken. To me that basically shows that NK never had any intentions of scrapping its nuclear program to begin with. Thus I fail to see how any negotiations with such an erratic and backwards regime could ever produce anything meaningful. North Korea seriously thinks it can negotiate better trade deals by pulling such asinine stunts? Screw that, hit them with more sanctions. At least if there's anything made obvious by this stunt, it's that it pissed off everybody, China and Russia included.
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