Fetch the comfy chair! U.N. Security Council passes new toothless resolution; Update: N. Korea fires two more short-range missiles
In response to North Korea’s willful violation of a toothless U.N. Security Council resolution, the panel quickly passed…yet another toothless U.N. Security Council resolution.
It is Monty Python’s world, and we are all just living in it. Fetch the comfy chair!
We all know the answer, but William A. Jacobson has an excellent post asking the inconvenient question:
Will the Left apologize to John Bolton?
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Update: In the wee hours of the morning comes another set of test launches. Wow. Those new resolutions really showed Kim Jong Il! Via Marketwatch:
North Korea fired two short-range missiles along its east coast Tuesday, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. The reported launch came a day after similar launches and the apparently successful test of a nuclear weapon. Yonhap had reported earlier in the day that North Korea had declared parts of its coast off-limit to ships, signaling that a new launch was imminent.
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I am sure the little leader is quivering in his boots over there in NoKo…..
No wait it appears he is preparing for a missle test Tuesday.
Well, this is what the world wanted. This is what we have been told for over eight years was what the world needed and how the world needed to function.
Gone are the days of “Peace through superior fire power”. No more will the policies that crushed the Soviet Union and ended the Cold War be used.
Look at “The Bush Doctrine”. Look haw that has been mocked and ridiculed. Heck, when Bush called N. Korea “evil” back in 2002, he was called a lunatic.
They elected the POLAR OPPOSITE of a strong leader when the people of this nation elected Obama. For some reason, the people of this nation, and the world, for that matter, have become even more blind to true evil than they were back in the 20’s and 30’s.
While Obama sliced the Military’s budget and does away with Missile Defense, two of the three despots of “The Axis of Evil” continue on their quest to obtain the weapons they need to reach their goals of death and destruction. While the rest of the world falsly accused Bush of being a war monger and dangerous, they routinely have allowed the real evil to continue to build nuclear weapons…weapons that they will have no qualms what-so-ever in using.
And when Iran or N. Korea does irradiate one of their neighbors, those who whined about Bush and whined about his statements and policies will be the ones to whine and complain the loudest about what should have been done, completely ignoring the truth of the matter which is that they are the ones who allowed all of it to happen.
Maybe we can take all the paper from these U.N. Resolutions, get a glue stick and put them together and use that as a missile net. After all, they would have the same usefulness in that capacity as they currently have now.
Next step – a sternly worded UN resolution.
Next step – An ALL CAPS UN RESOLUTION.
Next step – A ‘final’ UN resolution.
Next step- repeat the previous three steps.
Next step – Obama sends an apology and rebukes the Bush administration for leaving him with American presence on the Korean peninsula without an exit strategy.
Next step- UN sends aid to the smoldering ruins of Seoul and Tokyo,
along with a stern rebuke to North Korea.
And truly sad????
Because she was FORCEd into the Chair…
and yelled at…
and made to feel bad by telling her she had done evil by asking her to confess…
This it considered torture under the Army Field Manual, and thus, even the CIA can no longer use this method of Inquisition…
And no, this is not sarcasm.
Torture? What, was she made to look at pictures of naked men?
Just the thought of how many thousands the Left are going to get killed makes me want to puke. They put all these things into motion for evil to thrive, and then are allowed to blame it all on those that have done all they could to destroy evil.
Just absolutely amazing. You would think in this age of the Internet, when knowledge is right at anyone’s fingers, that people would be able to learn from history like never before.
Sadly, that is anything but the case. In fact, they throw away history, or at least what history they were unable to rewrite and doom thousands, if not millions, due to their amazingly endless stupidity.
Ha! Gee Whizz Wally! You mean Moms not going to tell Dad? yippie!
Unbelievable
The entire World is playing Chess and Odopey only knows how to play Checkers.
This admin is a laughing stock.
NK does not honor commitments it actually agrees to, why in the world would the UN expect them to abide by its silly resolutions??? But on the bright side, I’m sure the representatives had a great dinner on the
UN’sUS’ tab.Someone posted that nukes are the one thing that differentiates our leader from Lil Kim. But there is another. Lil Kim has no problem telling the rest of the world to go #@&% itself.
“…swift, clear, unequivocal condemnation…”
Oh, no, not the swift clear, unequivocal condemnation. Why so harsh?
A lie and you know it, or at least should know it if you are as well read on this stuff as you claim. He is increasing the DoD budget by 8% over last FY. Feel free to argue about specific cuts in specific weapons programs (which are there and certainly subject to scrutiny), but try to keep a modicum of integrity and stop parroting this verifiably false meme that Hannity, Rush and the right wing bloggers have been throwing around.
Roh no… not Hans Brix….
Yeah…because word games are what this is all about. Then again, when you can’t defend the actions, might as well clutch for straws.
Bull. Its not about “word games”. It is about you lying or being ignorant. Take your pick.
Well, I dunno…you tend to be both.
I always think it is classy to peddle racial stereotypes about the way Asian people speak on a blog run by a woman of Asian descent.
So you say. But between the two of us, I seem to be the only one who either 1) is intelligent enough to know, or 2) is willing to admit that adding 8% to x is an increase over x.
I just like how it is now going to be your contention that the best friend the military has, and who will be funding all their needs, is Obama.
Now, I am not going to be in a pissing contest with you on here. Sorry I called you on your garbage a few weeks ago and that got you all bent and twisted out of shape, but one would think you could put your big boy pants on and behave on someone else’s blog.
Me? I am going back to ignoring you. Have a nice life.
Well, take it up with “Team America”.
I’m heartborken. But before you go, could you please tell me again why you lied about what Gordon Brown did and did not say? I have been waiting all these long months for an answer.
Like I said there, lying seems to be pretty much pathological with you.
I know what the reference is. I suppose you think it is okay to call an Asian person a “slope” just because John Kreese said it in “Karate Kid.”
Hey, the comfy chair! That’s hussein’s interrogation method! I bet the bad guys will be so amazed by our kindness, they’ll feel bad and tell us everything.
Sorry Retfireman, just because one is educated does not mean one is simultaneously capable of competent moral reasoning, let alone common sense.
The selective ignorance of educated elites brought the NoKo situation upon the world as much as it allowed the rise of Hitler and such.
What she said.
Maybe we’ll hear about “Laz-Z-Boying” Gitmo prisoners, and Colin Powell will give foot-washes for them…now that he’s switched parties …again.
Thank you, Atheling, its getting late.
Well that settles that. The Mad Hatters Society of Turtle Bay has spoken!
Gummy Bears to them all.
Yes? No? Don’t leave us hanging Chappy.
But I bet the Spanish Olympic Team doesn’t-again. Poor Spain hasn’t had any luck since they lost all their boats.
Never fear, Madeleine Albright solved this problem for Bill Clinton, so she can whisper in Hillary’s ear and help her solve it, too. Just offer the North Koreans another nuclear generation plant or two and voila! Problem solved! Heck, throw in a few trillion newly printed treasury bucks and they might even agree to take those poor, misguided Gitmo fellows off Obama’s hands, too. (Just don’t tell the ‘Gitmoans’ they have awfully cold winters in North Korea. The ACLU might sue for cruel and unusual punishment.)
Bachbone:
And don’t forget the basketball!
I still think he phoned Bill Gates…
Unless and until the Chinese turn the screws on that N. Korean runt, little more than hand-wringing is going to happen. The Chinese have us by the short hairs financially, and, while that isn’t Obama’s fault, his fiscal policies (if we allow them to pass) will only exacerbate it in spades. As far as Iran is concerned, he’s all but thrown Israel under the bus, setting them up to be the fall guy. I doubt Netanyahu is going to wait to see if his newest, bestest buddy Barry will stand up beside Israel when the crap hits the fan. North Korea has its nukes, and Iran will have them, unless Israel strikes their nuke facilities first. All that blather about how making peace with the Palestinians will take the wind out of the Iranian push for nukes is simply a fig leaf for Obama to use to cover his ass when the shootin’ starts.
Is anyone else concerned that when North Korea detonates a nuke and fires off a couple of warheads Obama goes golfing?
Imagine if Bush had done this. The Left would be rioting in the streets.
Why would the Chinese turn the screws on NK? The Chinese will use a small dictator much like the Russians did with Cuba in the early 1960’s.
And as so far as Iran is concerned, what makes you think they don’t already have nuclear capability?
All our President will do is issue harshly worded statements, have his UN Ambassador pass worthless resolutions ( I know, non sequitor, all UN resolutions are worthless), and then throw lots and lots of our tax money at the “problem”.
Hell, that’s the only strategy a “community organizer” knows: place blames and get Federal assistance to throw around!
The actions of the West over the years about NK are very instructive to every little dictator out there. The West will do NOTHING to stop anyone. The USA used to be somewhat of a threat to them. No longer. It is “free pass” time for the tyrants of the world.
This will not end well.
UN sanctions, how very nice, and mostly useless. Been there, done that.
Maybe it is time to try something different, like pull our troops out of South Korea. And, have the rest of South Asia step up and deal with North Korea.
Demonstrate our non-interest in North Korea. And, should the other countries in South Asia not deal with the situation, then we should, from a distance, inter-continentally.
“Bush did it. Whatever it is, he did it. It’s all his fault. All of it. Failed policies. Non-inclusion. Mean. Harsh. Now, where’s my teleprompter? HEY. Who took my teleprompter? Damn.”
Direct quote from Our Fearless Babbler.
Maybe Obama will send them a letter.
Actually, the UN will pass a resolution condemning Israel for its human rights violations against the Palestinians. The angst caused by Israel caused N. Korea to test its nuclear capability in order to protect itself from the Zionist movement.
I don’t guess Obama and Hillary were nice enough to N. Korea.
Obie condemn’s NK…
The posts write themselves these days …
Absolutely amazing…. we are witnessing the same appeasement filled snooze-fest that transpired just 70 years ago…. Cripes, why does it always have to take a holacaust to get people to understand what true evil is? Roosevelt was pretty bad domestically and internationally, we now find out… I imagine the sitting Precedent will be much worse. He plays with TOTUS in the garage while the true evil in the world plays with devices of mass death…
Perhaps Obama is so steeped in liberalism that a pending catastrophe such as nukes flying out of an evil country is not considered all that bad, just seen as part of the evolutionary process…all things come and go…the world changes and “we must also change” along with it.
Is he stupid, ignorant, delusional, evil or a combination of all? My jury is still out…
One thing is for sure, he’s 100% liberal, which is DANGEROUS.
Gee, that “smart diplomacy” is working out so well (just like it did for JFK, right?).
It is so easy to act nice when you are giving away other people’s money, their countries or their way of life.
We could be next. Liberals. but that is their plan.
Here is where this is all going. NK will continue to perfect both its nuclear arsenal and its ballistic missile program. World condemnation is irrelevant. Iran is assisting NK in these efforts and will get both bombs and missiles as a result. (Israel can destroy Iran’s capability in Iran, not in NK. NK is Iran’s “back-up drive”.)
Option A: Either NK or Iran will deliver a small nuke to islamic terrorists. The only question is where will this bomb go off.
Option B: NK or Iran will launch a missile off our coast to an appropriate height and detonate a nuke, causing an EMP that will destroy most of our modern way of life.
The world will act shocked. Those on this blog will not be shocked.
He is increasing the DoD budget by 8% over last FY?
How does that compute? A 20% cut in weapon systems – IE F22 on that list,
and Dear leader increases DOD budget by 8% – For what, ToothPaste, new desks?
So the left is finally acknowledging that the FY09 budget is Obama’s budget? News to me. We’ll have to remember that.
The FY10 budget is only about 20b more (685b from 665 b) than FY09, and that’s a 3% increase. It’s left to be seen whether that’s a real increase or real decrease, given the possibility that our debt could go less than AAA due to all this ridiculous spending. It’ll probably be break even.
The FY11 and further budgets, which are the ones impacted the greatest by the program cuts, are indeed cuts in defense. We go from 685b to 631b to 608b (Dod estimates). Those are real DECREASES in military spending by around 11% and 6% (assuming 3% inflation). Obama is INDEED cutting defense.
It’s sort of disingenuous to say one can complain about the elimination of programs but not the underlying defense CUTS.
This country has been supplying North Korea with food and oil for how many years now? Shame on us! This talk of humanitarian aid is a crock of BS. It’s time to pull the plug.
We should show NK how nukes work from the air!
Odumbo played golf yesterday. Nuff said. Chap–were you invited to play?
Neither have a navy, and certainly nothing stealth enough to get anywhere near the coast.
I vote Option A.
I think option A is more likely, as well. However, you don’t need a navy, or stealth. Just a big enough barge a bit off the coast, launch the missile, sink the barge, and leave us guessing who did it.
Gothcha.
OOOOOOOOooooooooo realy?
Whats next? A nasty word?
Chap, The 8% is wrong because it includes funding that was emergency spending last year. If it were a true 8% increase they wouldn’t need to cut weapons, maintenance and ammo precurement.
as usual zero will impress no one with his rhetoric. what an embarrassment, having a once great nation become the laughing stock of the world, while the slug playing president continues to rotate on his thumb.
Challenge to MM: what precisely would you have us do? Hint: Bolton’s macho swagger helped scuttle a deal with North Korea and helped put us where we are now. We can’t invade North Korea. We can’t force China to stop helping them.
You tell us what a perfect Christian conservative would do.
if all else fails blame that all to familiar someone else. accept responsibility for nothing, it was bush’s fault, no wait bolton, or maybe the ice cream man’s fault.
lgm said: I blame bush. Typical.
LGM obama is president, not Bush. All he is doing is he is repeating 50 years of mistakes.
DDUUUHHHH…
What would I do? I would cut all aid and all funding of any kind to North Korea.
obama is weak, he has been tested and failed.
My guess would be it’s for diversity training.
We can’t? would we invade after they give a nuke to terrorists? I would prefer we invade before.
Oh for the good ole days of the “rogue” CIA. They could’ve taken this guy out by now!
YES WE CAN!!!!!
LOL
But seriously, we could, but we would have to call up every single reservist in the USA to do it.
lgm: Why can’t we invade North Korea? Because we tried it once and we ended up with a truce? Because the People’s Republic wiould get really, really mad? Because Russia would do this or that? As far as Bolton crushing any deals with North Korea, what did President Clinton’s and Sec’y of State Albright’s deals do? Did it cause Kim Jongil to “back down”? Did it “force” the North Koreans to accept their situation as untenable? Can we count how many Democrat Presidents are responsible for North Korea being what she is today?
First, there’s Democrat President Harry S. “give-`em-Hell-Harry” Truman, who gave the North Koreans anything but “hell”, going, instead of victory, for “peace” at any price, when his Commanding General, Duglas MacArthur was spot-on in how to deal with the Chi-Coms and North Koreans. And what dod President Truamn do? Cut his fire-eating general loose, enabling him to come home wth voctory? Instead, he sacked General MacArthur, went for “peace”, leaving the mess for President Eisenhower to clean up.
Next up, President Bill Clinton. He sends his Secretary of State in his fiorst term, Warren Christopher over, and while the Distinguished Secretary is there, Kim Jongil tosses dissidents into prison, all the while smiling and saying “Friend, Friend!” to Sec’y Christopher and President Clinton. Later, Clinton sends his even-more-clueless-than-Christopher Secretary of State Madeline Allbright over to Pyongyang, who has a deal signed in which President C., and the rest of the world, is gullied into believing that North Korea won’t create Nuclear Weapons (all the while, doing so anyway), in exchange for heavy oil and fuel, not to mention a nuclear reactor.
Enter President Obama. What will he do, now that North Korea has doen two serious weapons’ tests in less than two months? Will President Obama order North Korea back on the Axis of Evil list, naming them a terror state, and punishing Pyongyang in a serious way? Not likely.
So, what shuld we do, lmg? I challenge you, since, after all, you seem to support the likes of Truman, Clinton, and Obama. What should we do? Play nice-nice, hoping that the Commies in Pyongyang will pony up their weapons and turn away forever? If you think so, build your bomb shelter now.
If men like John Bolton were in charge of things? These two-bit terror states and ten-penny dictators would be done.
No, lgm, it’s a challenge to President Obama. What precisely will he have us do? You cannot seriously believe that the UN has any teeth to resolve this.
Yes, because that’s why North Korea is testing nuclear weapons? It’s amazing how the radical left will attack Bolton for being right about N. Korea’s nuclear ambition, but are typically mute about Kim Jong-il and seem to think that he’s even the slightest bit rational.
Who said that was the only option?
What is it with your loathing of Christians? You could have left that adjective completely out of your sentence. It’s telling how much you stick to the rhetoric that you find it necessary to include that.
By my estimate, Lil Kim’s got at least 20 more UN resolutions to go before he has to find a spidey hole to crawl into.
You ar3e correct in stating there will be a budget increase, but you might want to recheck the 8% number. It appears to have been a mistake and is actual a 4% increase (still an increase not a decrease). Here is the link (scroll down to update III)
The increase may be less seeing as Obama has called for a defense department cut of 9.2 billion dollars in his budget cut requests. That would mean the total increase would be 4.8 billion, so roughly about the same (still an increase and not a cut).
I do disagree with the cut of certain weapons system programs. If you recall one of the last times there was a big weapons program cut put forth in the 80’s it would have cut programs such as the Apache and the Abrahms. Both of these weapons platforms have more than proven themselves in the long run; yet both started out the same as the Raptor (behind schedule and over budget).
Perhaps instead of cutting programs in the future the DoD should work harder on securing better contracts with more guarantees to work withing the bid and on time.
Hate to say it but right now I have more faith in North Korea than Obama.
I agree. LGM’s persistent infusion of sarcastic descriptors of Christianity and/or of Christians in general, into his posts of late appears to be broaching that gray area between religious denigration and outright bashing.
Let this worthless extortionist weasel blow bombs up under the surface of the earth all he wants. If he uses them above ground, his piss ant little country will be made a parking lot. But right now, *yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn*.
I’ll see your 20 resolutions and raise you one new administration.
I am not a Christian, but I can recognize the mockery of MM’s faith when I see it. Tell us LGM, why does Obama keep 50,000 troups on the Korean border? They are nothing more than sitting ducks for a 2,000,000 man (and woman) army. Also why not install missle defense in Alaska? Are Alaska and Hawaii now too insignificant to defend? What would an anti-christian liberal do?
You are joking, right? Macho swagger? The intellectual dishonesty of that statement is jaw-dropping! If this is the conventional wisdom of the left, God help us. Seriously – God, please help us, Amen.
Also need to factor in inflation…
As Salt said, that is neither here nor there: Obama is now in charge. And you know Israel had great success in pinpointing for destruction the nuclear epicenters of hostile nations. Why would a similar action not apply w/ NK? Japan would be more than happy to do it themselves. What’s more, China would have no alternative but to agree with the decision if the US made it clear that we would allow Japan to rearm itself in the face of an objection from Beijing.
And Madame Albright did what exactly, to alleviate NK’s nuclear angst?
Other than the fact that Obama has overextended our forces with a 17,000 man surge in Afghanistan, why not? If you’re suggesting China as an impediment, forget it. Like I said, arming Japan is a powerful bargaining chip in dealing with China.
Despite the level of financial dependency Obama and the Democrats have on China – almost to the point of making them our silent partners in some forms of legislation, deference wise anyway – the US still has bargaining options, namely Japan.
Answer the question, LGM.
To: Kim Jong Il
From: The Untied Nations
PREMIER IL,
NO FRUIT CUP
N. Korea is China’s favorite pet. Think about what a nuclear armed N. Korea allows for.
Once N. Korea’s missiles pose a credible threat to our West Coast (2 years, perhaps?), N. Korea and their Chinese puppet master have us hostage.
If they decide to go “rogue” and nuke Seattle, what do we do to retaliate? Nuke Pyongyang? Then what? Nuke the launch site?
After two or three target, North Korea is out of things worth shooting at. You can have no “Mutually Assured Destruction” when the other guy has nothing worth destroying.
PLUS there’s the issue of “how many nukes will China allow us to drop in their backyard?” How many would we allow in Mexico?
PLUS there’s the same issue for South Korea – they don’t want mushroom clouds just across their border. And Japan is DOWNWIND from North Korea. I’m pretty sure Japan is rather sensitive to the effects of radiation on their populace, given history.
Thus China has a lap-dog that can, if China so desires, cause a huge amount of disproportionate damage to our country – with little fear of retaliation. Perfect, no?
The only thing holding China back is “what happens if/when the US Economy collapses?”
This might make them think, give how much they’ve loaned us. Then again, knowing that they would be the only remaining superpower… writing off a couple of trillion US dollars could be a reasonable price in their eyes.
Never mind the risk of N. Korea selling this stuff – a risk that is very real. Even without this, we are facing a very grave threat.
An ICBM-armed North Korea is as asymmetrical a threat as has ever faced us.
I think they might view the lost money as part of their military budget. A pretty good bang for the buck? Decimate the US without firing a shot.
Anyone else more concerned about Pelosi going to China? Is she selling the US down the tubes during Memorial Weekend. Certainly she is not interested in praising any fallen US troops.
lgm, in response to your delusional ramblings:
1.) Don’t take a swipe at the proprietor of the drinking establishment you frequent:
What happened to that lib-thing “respect diversity and all opinions?” The swipe was unnecessary, inappropriate, and demeaning to you and MM.
2.) Answering this question:
Lemme see, one suggestion might be: (a) overwhelming buildup in the Sea of Japan, followed by (b) provocative night maneuvers, followed by (c) JDAMs into the establishments Lil’ Kim is known to frequent at the times he frequents them, capped by (d) Tomahawk strikes into the nuclear and missile facilities that NK “does not have” – kind of a Clintonesque climax (sorry couldn’t help myself) as seen in Bosnia and Afghanistan. A similar approach by the late (CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN) President Reagan seems to have worked to take some of the bluster from Khagoofy’s sails in the 80’s.
Also, keep in mind, an armistice was never signed in Korea, the peninsula is still engaged in what could LEGALLY be considered a “hot” war.
shinola
Howard Kurtz of Reliable Sources Doesn’t know who is running the North Korean Government.
sonofdy said($59):
Yes, but Obama was not always President. There was the one who came before. That guy helped create the situations we face now.
That’s our current policy. Look how well it worked.
Are you complaining about the earthquakes he failed to prevent?
DBNinKY said (#75):
And how did the rest of our nearly 200,000 soldiers get there? It was the one who came before.
Mister P said(#72):
That definitely puts you in the right half of the MM bell curve. But it’s not religion. MM “snorts” at the slightest deviations from views she seems to regard as G-d given. North Korea is one of those situations that rigid conservative Christian ideology cannot get you out of.
It takes judgment. I am not ready to declare Obama a failure because in a few months he has not solved a problem that was decades in the making and resisted the efforts of several Presidents before him.
shinola,
A cruise missile attack on North Korea is probably far more risky than any benefits we could hope to realize.
Remember, you are talking about the most closed society on the face of the globe. I’m sure our intelligence people work long and hard to get into N. Korea (both electronically and physically), but you have to presume that we don’t know the answers to any of the following questions:
How much fissionable material does N. Korea have?
How many warheads are already built?
Where are the nuclear facilities?
As we have learned, it’s amazing how much you can build underground when the nation is a giant pool of slave labor. For all we know there are launch facilities completely buried – just waiting for a reason to blow the lid off and expose them, just before launch.
There’s also the much more real threat that if we antagonize these nuts with an actual attack, they would deliver a fully working bomb (remember, they could have 5 or 10 already built – we don’t know) to any nation willing to deliver it to us.
We don’t want that…
I don’t like this situation at all. As I wrote, above, it is horribly assymetrical. I’m sure the CIA and NSA (etc.) are working overtime on this one.
Glenn Beck has a hilarious parody of the toothless UN, if you get a chance, listen to it. It portrays them so well as the toothless idiots they are!
Blindmule mocks lgm as a nazi (when he is worse), apologizes and gets banned.
lgm mocks Christians and is still here.
I see why I stay away from here more and more.
Let’s see:
Take a swipe at Christians.
I’m out
Me too, Soap.
So now you are comparing Michelle to a pig. If you disagree, do that, but your litany of insults just attests to your limited intellect.
RobM1981:
Your position makes considerable sense. I do not disagree. However, you can use the North Korea’s isolation as a factor in our favor. Right now, politically, neither China nor Russia can likely sustain public support of Lil’ Kim. That makes Lil’ Kim more vulnerable than ever before. I have got to believe that there are at least a few folks in North Korea would love to see Lil’ Kim and his three sons turned into a pink mist. The whole key to solving the problem is to surgically remove the problem (Lil’ Kim and hopefully his three sons with the JDAMs) while using the Tomahawks to deliver a message that we can strike with reasonable impunity at anything we designate as a target. Lil’ Kim and his sons are legitimate targets given the state of war that exists between our nations – this is a unique situation that can be exploited to our advantage. If we can use internal elements within North Korea to overthrow the regime (specifically through the targeted decapitation of the regime) then perhaps we can achieve the installation of a more moderate government that may not be so eager to do the hidden bidding of their Chinese masters.
respectfully,
shinola
The North Korean Government is not an expansionist communist state. It is more like the Mafia. Their goal is to remain in power and accumulate wealth for “The Family.” They are not jihadists who want to see 72 virgins.
North Korea has three sources of income; weapons sales, drugs and counterfeiting. Our response should be to interdict their means of income.
I do not know what one does with the drug trade. I would stop and search every ship leaving North Korea and any containing military equipment would be turned back. We can use the international banking system to thwart their counterfeiting activities. The Clinton and Bush administrations after doing a nice job in this area, backed off when North Korea made concessions, which they, of course, reneged on. Freezing their assets is also a tool.
This will come down to a nuclear showdown, but they can’t win a nuclear exchange and in a conventional fight they would be used up in 30 days by the South Koreans, Japan and us. So we hold the cards. If they want The Family to survive they will have to back off. BUT…. we have to have the strength to face them down.