Paris riots: North Korea -- no comment

When I was a kid, I used to love listening to Radio Bulgaria in English. The language was always chocked full with phrases like "American running dogs" and "British stooges". It was a near perfect caricature of the socialist mindset and I loved it. Perhaps that's why I find so much amusement in the hysterical ravings of the far left in America and the mainstream of places like France. They still talk the talk even though it's completely unmoored from reality.

So get this bit from North Korea:

Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- Japan is massively stockpiling plutonium under the pretext of "laying in stock nuclear fuel". Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a signed commentary in this regard: These moves of Japan are aimed not at storing fuel for nuclear power plants but at stockpiling the nuclear substance for the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Japan's stockpiling of "nuclear substance" is designed to realize its militarists' deep rooted ambition to have access to nukes.

Okay, I know, it's not about the Paris riots. But it is an amusing glimpse into the oh-so-paranoid reality of North Korea. And perhaps, there is even a kernal of truth to this. There is nothing in this world more frightening to North Korea than a nuclear Japan. Oh sure, they're afraid of us, but Japan as conquered North Korea a bunch of times. And if Japan wanted to become a nuclear superpower, it wouldn't take long. They could crank out nuclear weapons like Toyotas (can you imagine the Camry long range strategic missile?).

It would probably give the Chinese something to think about as well. Once upon a time, Taiwan was part of Japan. It may well again.