One of the main arguments against D.C. having statehood is that it’d be unfair, because District residents are already so close to the seats of power (even though we never get to sit down).

As an article in The Federalist recently put it:

In an election year where “Drain the Swamp” was a popular rallying cry, and average Americans are increasingly aware of the large gap between themselves and policymakers in Washington, it beggars belief that D.C. residents feel they don’t already have outsized power over federal policies. It’s no accident that the four richest counties in the country are all in the D.C. metro area; and much of the real business of the nation’s capital is transacted in District bars and restaurants.

Yes, because when I ran into House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz at Five Guys, he totally backed off on the whole meddling-in-our-local-laws thing (well, actually … ). And all four of those wealthiest counties? Three of them are in Virginia, which has two senators and voting members of Congress, and one of them is in Maryland, which, you guessed it, also has two senators and representation in the House.

But I digress, because this video from North Korean state-run media outlet Arirang-Meari is a better rebuttal than I could draft. It shows the downside of this much-vaunted proximity: utter annihilation. For the second year in a row, North Korea depicted its arsenal raining destruction on our fair city (it also fantasized about destroying Manhattan in a 2013 video).

It comes at a time of ratcheted tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. President Donald Trump called the Senate to the White House on Wednesday to discuss the threat, which Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Corker (R-TN) later characterized as “an OK briefing.”

The video includes an aircraft carrier blowing up, with the caption “When the enemy takes the first step toward provocation and invasion,” according to The Washington Post.

An armada of American warships is headed towards South Korea this weekend, after the White House had said, wrongly, that the carrier had been en route to the Sea of Japan last week, when a picture showed it was headed in the opposite direction.

North Korea has been conducting large-scale artillery drills. However, it’s unclear what kind of weapon they have that would turn the Capitol into little orange triangles, as depicted in the video. Well, at least law enforcement has been practicing in case of a potential coordinated attack.