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Not really. Even China is giving less and less support to North Korea as time goes on and their military is still using equipment from the sixties. Seriously, who would come to their aid at this point if they started a war? Iran? Venezuela?They're a sad country that has been hanging by a thread for years. I'm certain that they could do significant damage to Seoul due to the sheer amount of artillery they have aimed at it, but I doubt that they have any counter measures for the air support that the United States would provide. Lastly, South Korea has the economy to recover from a war; North Korea doesn't. Maybe North Korea's leaders are stupid enough to not know this, but I highly doubt that they could have kept the country from falling into civil war as long as they have if they were.

Iran are their allies already. As for China, true China can't risk an open war as their economy (and the rest of the worlds) has such an inter-dependence of each other. Russia has however started taking over the "big brother" and Putin has on occasions said that any act against North Korea won't stand. Whether they will sell the weaponry like what is happening in Syria or if it will come in other kind of support is the question.

As for North Korea itself, it is getting pushed harder and harder into a corner, and eventually, like any rabid animal out there it will be forced to do something with whatever it has.

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Doesn't mean those medias beat them to the punch. It just means the other sources were updated more frequently or time zones. I was in work this morning at 0730 GMT and it was up on stripes.com.

Your article was [SIZE=10px]Last Modified: 26 Mar 2013 08:28 GMT[/SIZE]

They probably borrowed it from Reuters (UK) [SIZE=11px]Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:35am EDT[/SIZE]:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/2...6520130326

Reuters is the way to go.

Usually get my majority of news from BBC, love the little BBC app they have for android/iphone.