# North Korea Dream Video Shows U.S. City In Ruins After Missile Attack **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407 "2013-02-05T17:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/21 "2013-02-06T00:05:16Z")
If we feel free to use NK as the aggressor and mortal enemy in Red Dawn, the remake, why shouldn’t they have a bit of poke at us? they know that we clearly have no intention of taking out their nuclear capability, so they have nothing to lose. If they develop a system that can hit Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan and, perhaps, Australia along with a bit of the West Coast, and make stern threats to use it, we will ask them to agree not to nuke us in exchange for more food and consumer goods. Rinse, lather…repeat. They’ve already destabilized the mid east (Iran). and could easily get some extra cash from Venezuela’s oil money. But, since they haven’t actually tossed a nuke at us yet, we won’t risk world opinion by simply flattening Pyongyang and their nuclear facilities, the work of a few days for our B-2’s. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/22 "2013-02-06T00:11:24Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > The video is gone It’s still on the [HuffPo site.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/05/north-korea-dream-video-us-city-missile-attack_n_2622559.html) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/23 "2013-02-06T01:03:16Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > It’s getting to the point where it’s almost impossible to parody North Korea; the minute you conjure up something comedically bizarre about them, they reveal something about themselves that’s even more bizarre. Try to mock N. Korea, and they will write your jokes for you. In case anyone hasn’t seen it yet, here’s [Cracked.com](http://www.cracked.com/article_17165_6-reasons-north-korea-funniest-evil-dictatorship-ever.html) on the subject: > [@6 Reasons North Korea is the Funniest Evil Dictatorship Ever](#): > > _Some_ country has to be worst one on Earth, and based on the conversation they heard you having in your hotel room last night, North Korea is really worried that you might think it’s them. > > Unfortunately for North Korea (and fortunately for us) they’re just as bad at looking good as they are at being good, and their attempts to not make their country appear to be a festival of horrors usually end in laughable failure. For instance… ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/24 "2013-02-06T01:18:21Z")
> [@crucible](#): > > If we feel free to use NK as the aggressor and mortal enemy in Red Dawn, the remake, why shouldn’t they have a bit of poke at us? they know that we clearly have no intention of taking out their nuclear capability, so they have nothing to lose. If they develop a system that can hit Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan and, perhaps, Australia along with a bit of the West Coast, and make stern threats to use it, we will ask them to agree not to nuke us in exchange for more food and consumer goods. Rinse, lather…repeat. They’ve already destabilized the mid east (Iran). and could easily get some extra cash from Venezuela’s oil money. But, since they haven’t actually tossed a nuke at us yet, we won’t risk world opinion by simply flattening Pyongyang and their nuclear facilities, the work of a few days for our B-2’s. You do realize that ‘we’ didn’t re-make Red Dawn…right? It was a film studio, not the US government that made it. And they used North Korea simply because the Soviets are gone now, and using the Chinese was probably deemed a bad marketing move (just in case some Chinese actually want to rent it…or, more likely, for product placement since the Chinese wouldn’t be amused). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/25 "2013-02-06T02:13:29Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Just wait until it gets taken down for a copyright violation. > [@tellyworth](#): > > The video is gone: Damn, I was just kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/26 "2013-02-06T02:31:43Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > The video is gone: Wait, so _Activision_ owns We Are the World? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/27 "2013-02-06T02:44:50Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > The city picture in that video is from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. For realzies. > [@Smapti](#): > > Wait, so _Activision_ owns We Are the World? **Bob Ducca** called it. ---
**Author:** ![Vicullum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@Vicullum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicullum)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/28 "2013-02-06T03:30:50Z")
I was halfway expecting something [more like this](http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af170/Sleipnir123/HV_NK_unicorn_550.jpg) to pop up in that man’s dream at some point. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/29 "2013-02-06T03:37:35Z")
> [@Vicullum](#): > > I was halfway expecting something [more like this](http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af170/Sleipnir123/HV_NK_unicorn_550.jpg) to pop up in that man’s dream at some point. I thought only a virgin can tame a unicorn. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/30 "2013-02-06T03:47:51Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > You know that photo montage of the Earth at night from space? The one that shows all the city lights and how the northern half of the Korean peninsula is conspicuously darker than the south or Japan next door? Well if North Korea ever actually nuked an American city, they’d have to release a new version showing the former North Korea glowing in the dark. “Behold our glorious victory! No more will our citizens struggled through the dark of night! Free lighting for everyone!” ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407/31 "2013-02-06T03:57:01Z")
I know I should be laughing at this, but it really did disturb me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-dream-video-shows-u-s-city-in-ruins-after-missile-attack/649407.md?page=1)