We don’t usually write posts touting fax as the communication device of the future. It isn’t. But when two countries, at the brink of war, need to threaten each other, nothing is more terrifying than sending a fax.

Just think of those high pitched sounds (“eeeeeeeeyaaaaaahhhhh”)… like when you hooked up your computer to the internet for the first time (Al Gore is proud of you). However unlike the dial-up internet, there’s no AOL frisbee here. Just good, old fashioned paper.

So when baby-faced, ruler-extraordinaire Kim Jong-Un wants his military to get down and dirty, he whips out a fax machine, punches in the number for South Korea and sends a fax (like a boss!).

Indeed, it was lucky for everyone on the Korean Peninsula that the South Koreans were monitoring their fax machines. If things had gone poorly, we may have had to deal with more Dennis Rodman diplomacy!

Happy New Year!