[optimistically_conservative]

Actually, I see this as a positive softening of the rhetoric out of Pyongyang. With their bluff called on the nuclear weapons program, they may at best start up the old reactors. If they go after the 8,000 spent rods, they're upping the ante - significantly.

[cardinal4]

My question is; if they are so isolated and their people have zero outside contact, and after their benefactors the Soviets have gone the way of the do-do, how did they get the wherewithall to restart the reactors?

[mvpel]

First they say they're going to destroy the world, then the say "Our republic constantly maintains an anti-nuclear, peace-loving position." What a psychotic government they have...