Nuclear North

North Korea has confirmed it has nukes. I would like to point out that threats like this are the whole reason we are pursuing National Missile Defense in the first place.

UPDATE: The article has a great quote from the North Korean Foriegn Ministry:

It added that Washington's alleged attempt to topple the North's regime "compels us to take a measure to bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal in order to protect the ideology, system, freedom and democracy chosen by its people."

Freedom and democracy chosen by its people? Did North Korea get its Koreas mixed up or something?

Pop quiz, if a nation's name has the words "democratic" and "people" in it, like say the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, what isn't it? Thats right its not actually a popular democracy. If your nation actually was those things you wouldn't have felt the need to put it in your country's name. You don't see North Dakota calling itself the Democratic People's Republic of Dakota do you? No. This even goes for the United States of America. When the USA picked that name, our states were far from being actually "united" in anything.

If they had fed that line to me I would have laughed in their faces. Well at least I would if they weren't insane with nuclear fricking weapons!