On: North Korea Sentences 2 American Journalists to 12 Years of Hard Labor

[davidw]

They don't need nukes. South Korea is well within range of conventional weapons.

In any case:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[gaius → davidw]

Nukes are NK's only weapon effective against a carrier battle group.

[davidw → gaius]

Apparently, Seoul is in range of conventional weapons, making for millions of "hostages".