“[North Korea would] not merely turn everything into a sea of fire but reduce everything treacherous and antireunification to debris and build an independent reunified country on it.”

North Korean armed forces minister Kim Il Chol, threatening a massive retaliation should South Korea and the United States attack his country.

Their rhetoric sure has changed since President Bush and SecState Rice unilaterally took them off the state sponsors of terrorism list, didn’t it?

Never fear, though; while making concessions like that (and others), Rice knew all along that “”only an idiot would trust the DPRK.”