Can't argue with this!

Brendan O’Neill In the terrible new movie Battleship, a US Navyman watches the arrival of gleaming, menacing spaceships in the Pacific and asks: ‘Is it the North Koreans?’ Doubtful. If North Korea’s botched missile launch is anything to go by, then the idea that this cut-off country poses a terrible threat to world peace is entirely a figment of our imagination. The transformation of an eccentric and hapless state into International Enemy No.1 says more about the international community’s need for a whipping boy than it does about North Korea’s ability to whip its neighbours or the world.