Two minutes to midnight

I don't think it will happen, the whole doomsday clock is just a political tool, nothing more than a joke really.

Still, there are two "assets" that will be inherently valuable in an apocalypse should one happen, the skills to survive and the will to kill other people. You'll need to be able to at the very least hunt and forage for food and will almost certainly have to kill other people to keep what's yours, and perhaps even take what's theirs to survive and protect your family. I know I can survive on my own. I've hunted, gutted and cooked rabbits, pigeons and pheasants before and I have an air rifle and crossbow (which it's illegal to hunt with, but then if civilisation has collapsed law won't really matter), I know what plants in the wild I can and can't eat, I have reasonable medical knowledge etc. What I don't know is if I'm capable of killing to protect friends and family. I suspect I probably am, just because I suspect that we all are when push comes to shove, it wouldn't be pleasant, but for most of human history most people have been capable of killing and I very much doubt we're deep down, in an us or them situation, any different.

I don't think it will happen

I am hoping that the whole thing is to keep NK on a war-footing without actually fighting, until they are all exhausted and/or run out of money... That would appear to be the one option which no one actually mentions, but would nevertheless fit what we have been seeing.

Unfortunately, I am not sure the Americans (or at least some of the ones that matter in this case) are quite that smart.

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I don't think it will happen for a whole host of reasons, least not that the Norks are a long way of getting a missile that could hit the UK, either in terms of range or accuracy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwasong-15

"The end" is not necessarily near, but these are dangerous times. 

Arguably NK already has the range. 

Trump has threatened that Kim won't be around much longer. Some in the American government have been threatening a preemptive strike on NK. China has warned that if it thinks the US is attempting regime change, it will intervene to prevent it; the Chinese don't want US troops right up against their border. China's DF-5 yields somewhere between 3 and 5 megatons. If China gets sucked into a fight, we can all forget about surviving anyway.

Putin is probably just out for himself, but they too share a border with NK. 

There are many ways this could go spectacularly wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwasong-15

"The end" is not necessarily near, but these are dangerous times. 

Arguably NK already has the range. 

Trump has threatened that Kim won't be around much longer. Some in the American government have been threatening a preemptive strike on NK. China has warned that if it thinks the US is attempting regime change, it will intervene to prevent it; the Chinese don't want US troops right up against their border. China's DF-5 yields somewhere between 3 and 5 megatons. If China gets sucked into a fight, we can all forget about surviving anyway.

Putin is probably just out for himself, but they too share a border with NK. 

There are many ways this could go spectacularly wrong.