Quote Originally Posted by JMS View Post
After I posted I was beginning to wonder if it was just a poor choice of words or had some other intelligence benefit that hadn't occured to me.
It only now occurred to you that the military might actually have thought about this before it reached your ears? The coach at the sideline usually has a better understanding of the game than the armchair quarterback

But regardless... North Korea does not pose any credible threat.
They have no decent long range military capabilities.
They can't attack in earnest or they get annihillated.
But the US can't do anything in earnest either, or seoul will be annihillated.

So there is a lot of sabre rattling, but nothing else.
IF NK releases a missile, it'll go nowhere, because if it would, then NK would not exist for much longer.
So given that certainty (or at least good betting odds) the smartest thing to do is get whatever information you can.

But yeah. Booooo Obama. Boooo.