Remember awhile back when some in Congress made an ass of themselves over the nuke deal with Iran?  We heard every scenario possible of what will happen when they get the bomb…..we only have a very limited life expectancy according to some….

I heard some news yesterday that is a bit scary…..but I have not heard any other of these doom and gloom Congresspeople on a subject that is far more in the here and now than some perception of what could happen if…….

I know….what the hell is the old professor going on about, right?

North Korea is known for talking tough when it comes to its nukes, and remarks made by Kim Jong Un Thursday fanned the flames. While touring a museum dedicated to his father and grandfather, the self-proclaimed Supreme Leader suggested that North Korea now has a hydrogen bomb. Grandfather Kim Il Sung “turned [North Korea] into a powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate a self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the nation,” said Kim, per the government’s state news agency, via the CBC. What’s worrisome, if true, is that hydrogen bombs are a much more powerful weapon than atomic bombs, the Washington Post notes.

But, as the CBC reports, it’s difficult to parse truth from fiction when it comes to North Korea: Previous assertions that remain unverified include claims that it has fired a missile from a sub and that it’s able to make mini nukes, per the Post. So not everyone’s convinced that Kim’s words are much more than rhetorical swagger. “It’s hard to regard North Korea as possessing an H-bomb,” a research fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Institute notes to CNN. “I think it seems to be developing it.” A weapons expert at Romania’s Babes-Bolyai University is more straightforward: “I think that’s virtually impossible,” he tells the Post.

We know already that North Korea has the nuke and now he, Lil Kim, is bragging about an H-bomb…….maybe that should be a bigger worry than a “maybe”….of course we could pass it off as him thumping his chest and making stuff up….but do we want to chance that?

Will the Neocons go batcrap crazy?  Or will this just fall through the cracks because it is not a threat to Israel?  My guess it will be shrugged off as no big deal…….What should we do?