North Korea Backs Down

[Pat Mustard]

Just as I thought they would.  Kim backs down.

North Korea is backing off a threat to fire missiles at the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, according to a new report.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he had decided not to launch an attack but warned he could change his mind.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/346566...eat-report

Not really. They never intended a first strike in the first place, just to show an increasingly belligerent US* that they now had nukes and could deliver them a serious distance, to Guam, say. Once that was done, there really was no point stoking the flames further.

You see while both the US and DPRK are both lead by evil bastards, the Korean bastard has a certain level of intelligence and enough self-awareness to pull back from the very brink.

*A belligerent US whose foreign policy for the last fifteen years was "find a non western country with weak defences and antiquated arms, and invade".