In the Mel Brooks movie "Blazing Saddles" there is a scene where the black sheriff held back a mob intent on lynching him by putting a gun to his own head and yelling "Don't move or I'll shoot the n--r!" The mob, not having an I.Q. higher than your average E.U. diplomat, was held off by that threat as the sheriff retreated off-screen.
I bring this up because that seems to be what James Dunnigan is describing the current North Korea stand off as, in a short piece titled "KOREA: Surrender or We'll Kill Ourselves," over on Strategypage.com.
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