This morning North Korea announced new sanctions on the United States in an attempt to deprive the capitalist country of valuable diplomatic ties and avenues for negotiation. Following this declaration, the DPRK will halt all further exports of communication to the US and its allies; furthermore its leaders have indicated that they know better now, and will never (ever) agree to meet with the US Secretary of State, aka that other Clinton, no matter how far she can see into North Korea with those binoculars.
Some experts point out this strategy by the historically-isolated country is nothing new; that in fact North Korea has always been really hard to get a hold of and often cancels or reschedules important meetings to talk about sinking South Korean warships.
The US, meanwhile, responded with similar sanctions targeted at depriving North Korea of things it didn’t have much of anyway. A joint military training exercise between the United States and South Korea is expected to involve lots of big, scary warships and airplanes in the next few days, which will allow these two countries to show North Korea how big and scary they are (without actually sending a message to North Korea, because, you know, they’re not taking those at the moment).
The move is expected to “anger” North Korean leaders, who have threatened in the past to retaliate to such shows of force by “drowning Seoul in a sea of fire” (but seriously? C’mon, what are they gonna do? We’re America here &etc!)
Meanwhile, China is doing some “worrying” things over there.
