 They now have a pact to come to each other's defense if they are attacked by, I guess they're implying us. Well, and it's full of what delights me. In spite of the horror of the thing, I am always amused by the stilted, grandiose language that comes out of every pronouncement from North Korea. The permanent friendship built of solid granite between our two gargantuan peoples. I mean, there's just always that inflated rhetoric.