The time for O’s mettle test is here: North Korea prepares for war
Please pick up the red courtesy phone (Photoshop credit: Redhotphones.com)
Joe Biden said our unseasoned Dear Leader would soon be tested. The time is here and now. North Korea tonight has abandoned a 1953 ceasefire and is preparing the peninsula for war in the wake of South Korea’s decision to side with an anti-proliferation coalition led by the U.S.
Wonder if that red phone woke him and Hillary up yet. Brrrrrr–ing. Brrrr–ing:
North Korea’s military says it considers South Korea’s participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of spreading weapons of mass destruction tantamount to a declaration of war against the North.
The communist North’s military said in a statement Wednesday that it will respond with “immediate, strong military measures” if the South actually stops and searches any North Korean ships under the Proliferation Security Initiative.
The statement, carried by the North’s Korean Central News Agency, said North Korea no longer considers itself bound by the armistice that ended the Korean War, as a protest over the South’s participation.
Flashback October 2008:
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
Flashback February 2008:
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Now might be as good a time as any.
The question is whether BHO will pass or fail the test? I am not holding my breath. If I was living in South Korea I would be very worried.
With all due respect Michelle, until North Korea starts shooting or has troops or aircraft enter South Korea it is demonstrably incorrect to assert that North Korea has abandoned the 1953 ceasefire.
I think the rhetoric in this case is a bit over the top. If the North Koreans are ready to make a move, I support the President 100%. I have no time for politics on this issue. It is too important.
Also, I really do not care what Joe Biden said, last year, because he’s an idiot and what he says is unimportant.
all right, here we go:
“Gird your loins! GIRRRRRRD YOUR LOINS!!! “
I hope the phone rings at 3am for Obama and it’s one of those auto warranty robocalls.
I’ve said this already, but did the Dep. of Education take over the Dep. of State? I mean, this all reminds me of a whiny, emasculated substitute teacher’s endless pleading for the kid next to me to stop slinging spit wads at the chalkboard.
Seriously, are there any men left in Washington? This is embarrassing. Right after Memorial Day for crying out loud! They could at least do we relatively few veterans/service members the respect of at least acting like men. American politicians sure are good at the game of bulls%^* when it’s for winning elections, but when it counts for real, they haven’t a real spine among them. Then add on the pansies of the State Dep. and you truly do have a well-written joke on your hands.
Talking to North Korea has little effect. They take little notice of what we say.
They do take notice of US Navy carrier battlegroups heading their way, fighter groups going to five minute alert, radar site powering up and AWACS aircraft arrving, as ell as Marine amphibious units and the 25th Infantry Division going on alert.
Teddy Roosevelt understood a North Korea perfectly.
“Hillary, it’s for you!”
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Teddy Roosevelt loved it when a pipsqueak “country” tried to give the U.S.A. C**P. He send the Marines in a few weeks later to teach them a lesson they would remember. He operated on Rhambo’s principle–NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE.
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We owe the Norks bigtime–for the Pueblo, for the ax murders of our military in the DMZ, for the real prisoner abuse (not “panties on the head stuff”) that they have done in the past. And some Japanese payback for kidnapping their citizens is long overdue.
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Other countries do not have the stomach (Huevos in Spanish) to start charging the Norks. However, the U.S. Navy could do a naval blockade on them. I think Ronald Reagam (may God bless his soul) could figure out how to “put the hurts” on them.
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President O’bummer (PBUH) doesn’t care about foreign policy stuff. His goal is to “community organize” or “socialize” the new U.S.S.A. and our wallets.
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John Bibb
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I agree to a point, Flyoverman. This could be another way for NoKo to shake down the US and Japan for money…but the endemic absence of strong and determined leadership by the US on NoKo’s nuclear program will encourage them to make more and more provocative moves and then they will make a big mistake..or we will in response.
I hope we have built back up our stores of Tomahawk cruise missiles. We sure did use up a lot of them in the Gulf, and this is a R E A L enemy this time.
(Of course, since the N. Korean nukes are only 10~30 kiloton, the Dems will be able to argue later that “we found no evidence of WMD in North Korea.”)
I’ve spent several years stationed in Korea, and participated in a number of exercises. It may come as a surprise to some that the major US Bases there, such as Osan and Young-San, are literally swarming with American dependants–Formerly an unaccompanied tour, US bases there now resemble American suburbs, schools, churches, and of course Macdonalds.
When Krazy Kim’s official news agency says that it “no longer considers itself bound by the armistice”, I would have to say that they abandoned it, even without the thousands upon thousands of artillery shells descending upon Seoul.
Yeah, I’m not surprised. Alot of Americans have grown deaf to the sense of danger that used to make men leave their wives and kids at home rather than let them be that close to a provocative Communist enemy.
Of course dear leader, Barrack Hussein Obama, will issue a stern apology, trash our nation and the US citizenry as being a violent, mean spirited, bigoted, hate filled, dishonest group of haters who love to torture and abuse and oppress people. Barrack Hussein Obama will say “Please, don’t get mad. We are sorry. We apologize. What can we do to make it up to you? We won’t do it again!”
We have a very strong, wise leader.
I expect nothing less than from this intellectual giant of a President than full prostration at the feed of Kim Jung Il and Ahmadinejad, bringing peace.
Corrective edit to post # 15:
“I expect nothing less than from this intellectual giant of a President than full prostration at the feed of Kim Jung Il and Ahmadinejad, bringing peace.”
Make that “I expect nothing less from this intellectual giant of a President than full prostration at the feet of Kim Jung Il and Ahmadinejad, bringing peace.
if the phone rings at 3AM, Ear Leader is going to let his wife answer it.
after all, it’s not like beauty sleep is going to do *her* any good.
I’m afraid that Kim Jong is NOT going to wait for the ‘international community’ to come together to finally realize their only option is to bomb his nuke capacity back to the stone age. I expect him to use it NOW while he he has it and while inept Obama is floundering and unlikely to retaliate.
Of course this is is Bush’s fault for ‘not doing anything’ to stop DPRK nukes…
Pray for the people of Korea and Japan. A mad man is threatening war and we’re stuck with a narcissistic Chicago Thug who is clueless in the delicate art of international stare down.
Fire up the stationery, lads, time for a strongly-worded letter!
I’ll take the little nutcase at his word when he says NK is no longer bound by the armistice. I also have NO faith in Obama and the libs to do the right thing.
NK and Iran are in this together big time. They are ignoring the world while openly preparing for nuclear war. Israel should be very afraid, as should South Korea and Japan.
Excellent!
I think we can expect no substantive action, which, after all, would be mean, violent and unfair.
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I’ll just say this about North Korea’s words and aggression aimed at the South and the US:
North Korea would be incredibly stupid to start the shooting again. The US has a sizable fleet in Japan, not to mention many, many military bases and thousands of soldiers here. While I don’t doubt Kim Jongil would use his nukes, he’d be even more incredibly stupid to do so. All these words are nothing more than North Korean buster aimed at themselves rather than at anyone else…
Hmmmm, this opens a serious can of worms for the UN, seeing as how the Korean War was UN sanctioned and supported. Several countires took part in the War on both sides, overtly and covertly.
Throwing out the ‘armistice’ is certainly a bold move and I wonder does that obligate the countries who originally participated in the War to pick up arms again? Will they?
Would it be up to Pres Obama, or the UN, to get those ducks in a row?
Hussein – Michele where’s my Blackberry? I have to fire off another sternly worded email to Kim Jung Il.
I’m sure Michelle has to hide the blackberry every now and then so she won’t have so much competition for his attention. I wonder what she does about the mirrors.
Where does one find an adult on such short notice?
True. And our military men and women are the best in the world, BUT, Obama is the one calling the shots. The world has taken its’ measure of Obama and found it lacking. The greatest military in the world is hobbled when it is commanded by an idiot.
Obama will “pass” this test the same way he’s “passed” every other – by passing the buck and hoping that whoever comes next suffers the consequences.
As long as he doesn’t stop any N. Korean ships, there’s no problem. So he’s “looked tough,” and now can count on the press to forget all about it as ships come and go – un-inspected – to N. Korea.
Are they carrying atomic warheads, or components thereof? Chauncey doesn’t know or care, and doesn’t care to find out. Will they eventually find their way to Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan, etc.? Chauncey doesn’t know or care.
As long as it takes them more than 3 years to get them to where they’re going, and 3 years to use them, he doesn’t care.
Will he get 3 years? I doubt it – but this is the only game he has ever played. It’s what he’s done with the economy (“can we keep it from exploding in an inflationary melt-down for 3 years? let’s find out…”) It’s what he’s done with health care, social security, and everything else.
If he has a tatoo, it says “Live for Today.”
Alfred E. Neumann is a more strategic thinker.
Here is my question…
When does the US Act? Do we wait until they cross the border? Do we wait Till Seoul or some other S. Korean City or base is consumed in a nuclear fire ball? Seriously, I’d like to know when you spank the baby (North Korea) for throwing a tantrum.
This is one “test” that affirmative action can’t prepare a person for.
Commandant Urkel sputtering to Kim”But, But, But – we reached out our hand in eternal friendship, we are overlooking your crimes against your own people, we were bending over frontwards for you Kim” And Kim says,”And what is your point Commandant Urkel, you are an empty suit, and we know it.”
I haven’t given much thought about either Dear Leader in the last 72 hours–they are both tiresome in their repeated demonstrations of insanities. But we have been living in the ’30s for some time both domestically and foreign policy-wise. We took a hiatus from reality last November 4th and these things are almost the inevitable results. We’ll likely have to resort to very heavy handed techniques if the Norks go for it. Myself, I’m doubting Obama will display the gonads necessary.
Obama put the red phone on call forwarding to the UN.
This guy is sooooooo in over his head! He just is not equal to the task. I never thought I would say it, but I’m almost glad Shrillary is at State!
Flyoverman, in case you hadn’t noticed, he’s BEEN shooting!
Very accurately, too. He aimed his missiles at the Pacific Ocean and he hit it.
The Norks have perfected the international temper tantrum, but they’re entering a new area that they may find themselves in too deep water. One thought is to ignore them (the shut up and go away until you behave policy); the other is to confront them (the do you really think that you’ll win policy). I think the Teddy Roosevelt Policy of speaking softly (or ignoring the crybaby) and carrying a big stick (2 battle fleets) will be the best bet for all.
How many times has NoKo given the finger to those it has entered into agreements with now? Every time we’ve taken them at their word, regardless of the Administration, we’ve been played for chumps.
NoKo knows that the gutless, toothless and all around useless UN won’t take any real action, and that Geezus H. Obama is too busy milking unicorns and chipping golf balls to do more then read a sternly worded statement off of TOTUS. It is no accident that this is happening now, and Iran’s getting itchy, too.
Sometimes, change costs more than it’s worth.
Kimmie and Achmadinnerjacket working in collusion to start WWIII.
While we have wars in Iraq and Afghanistan AND Mr Hope n Change ultra liberal commie Oba Won as POTUS, its time for the bad guys to act. Both of them poking @ the US without any fear whatsoever.
The showdown with Israel/Iran is just a matter of time. Israel WILL act and it WILL be soon. Kimmie is ready to join the party by attacking S Korea and/or Japan. Who knows what else will happen in concert with this? Only the terrorists know.
Its not going to pretty folks. We have THE worst person as POTUS to deal with it. Anyway…….its all BOOOOOSH’S fault!!!
No need to worry. Sheriff Biden has foreign policy experience. The poll results should be in soon so they will know how to respond to this latest test.
The odd thing here is that in this one instance, Obama would be justified in blaming Bush. After all, Bush did make the stupid mistake of following the same appeasement strategy with NK that failed so miserably under Clinton.
Gen. MacArthur Had It Right
Though labeled a warmonger, MacArthur learned to read the tea leaves of how Asia operates and knew he’d be nipping a lot of future problems in the bud like Taiwan and Viet Nam had he exercised the option of a nuclear threat on China during the Korean War at a time when we could’ve acted wholly unopposed on the nuclear side. A nuke or two on the battlefield back then wouldn’t have destroyed the whole world like chicken littles fretted and would’ve changed the face of that region. I’m sure Swarztkoff had a MacArthur pang in 1991 just a hundred miles from Bagdad; think how different things how could’ve been!
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
It’s hard not to appease the little runt, considering he has millions of innocent civilians incarcerated. Like the nutball in Iran, he also needs to be taken out. Just how to do this has always been the question, especially when there are clones of these clowns running countries all over. They are their own support group, and Russia and China have no issue with them.
And you propose we do what drop bombs on them? What would your solution be to this little despot? Oh and this was going on WAY before Clinton and Bush.
Errah, I’m sure when pressed, BHO will say, “Have you’ve seen the hispanic I nominated for the next justice of the SCOTUS”. . . “Uh, we’re currently working on a new fairness doctrine”, “We need to look at what happened in California yesterday and make sure this is overturned and that this type of discrimination never happens again”, “Did you hear we’re fixin healthcare”, “Did I mention, Global warming and reducing your carbon footprint” . . .”Spiders!” . . . Someone please find Nero’s fiddle.
Well, gee, offering to build a nuclear reactor for them in exchange for an empty promise to end their nuclear weapons program really was a Truman thing, huh? Or are you blaming that on Reagan? That was a Clinton idea, carried to NK by Madeleine Albright – and it was repeated under Bush ’43. Nobody else to blame for that, because as far as I know, there was no NK nuclear program worthy of note before 1990.
Watch…. the Empty Suit will not handle this well and millions will die.
Errah, Obama Admin, “Bluff” and “Bluster”, Nothing to see here! No more Cheetos, Coke and Levis for you! The DOD better start gassing up our trucks in Yongsan for the trip south. BHO/Gates Do we need that missle defense and F-22 programs now
The thing I can’t understand is why Kim is picking this fight with Obama; they’re birds of the same ideological feather!
If Kim Jong Il wants nukes, we can give him all the nukes he wants. Delivered in 30 minutes or less or the next one is free!
True, but Barry must not approve of Kim’s lack of empathy towards the sea of humanity he rules over.
No one is denying that but, you forget it was Jimmy Carter who was also, involved with the building of the nuke reactor. Like BO Clinton was a coward and used JC as a go between.
NK nuke program goes back to the 80′s which was pretty far along until signing the NPT treaty in 1985 with the UN. It was under Clinton that the program became it’s strongest.
As we see historically NK has been a problem for 6 decades and always violates any and all treaties it signs. No matter what we do it will always be the same game.
Russia has just come out and is afraid NK will commit a real nuke attack. So who strikes first is the question pre-emptive and who strikes NK or wait and see if they strike SK or Japan?
There unfortunately is no winning solution to this and BO and kids can blame who they want but, just like prior presidents this country and despot will raise it’s ugly head no matter who is president!
Let’s analyze this for a minute. The NKOS will not even squat without permission from the Chinese Government. China provides way too much aid as well as NKO being a Chinese Government surrogate and an extension of its ultimate goals by proxy. China also owns one hell of a lot of US Debt. Iran is saber rattling, developing the Bomb and playing Naval Games in the Strait of Hormuz. It also is a friend of the Chinese Government. With Iran playing chicken in an area where all Mideast Oil is transported through a choke point( Think Oil prices), NOKO threatening War and setting off Atomic Weapons and the Chinese Government sitting back and watching do you think our Dear Leader will do anything? This Jug Eared Dolt is so far out of his Community Organizing element that Zippy the Pin Head looks like Einstein compared to this Empty Suit.
I think I may have overgirded my loins, I’m starting to feel woozy.
Wonder if The One has ever bothered to find out what the contingency plans are? All the classified contingency plans have to be approved by the president before they can be implemented. If he doesn’t know what’s in them, how can he make a decision? Oh – right, my bad. Sorry – I lost my head there for a minute. He will whip up a new set of plans to send in thousands of community organizers to help Kimmie hold block parties, hold hands, dance in the streets and sing “Kambaya.” Then all will be sweetness and light, and all will be well again in the world of the wacko leftists.
Waiting for Code Pinkos to denounce the second Korean War in 3 … 2 … 1 …
The Blame Bush liberal excuse machine supported by the MSM is churning. Their mouthpieces will be trumpeting this message:
It’s as obvious as the hair plugs on lunch bucket Joe’s head.
Flyoverman
This taken from Bloomberg news this morning.
Check out what you say about MM first. She is one informed person.
Thank you for my first laugh of the day!! I hope it won’t be my last. This is not looking good, and I have zero confidence in this President or his administration. Everything is hitting the fan while he rushes to put through all his radical programs before the American people figure out what he is doing and kicks him out.
Kunsan and Taegu were pretty much devoid of dependents in the 80′s but who knows now, if they are even still around…it was a bit unnerving to get off a flight and see the gate agent in chem warfare gear and we weren’t being handed any…
Right! Barry wants to rid the world of nukes and ILL will be the first to deliver.
Soft power…
meet hard reality.
The world is over-run with Liberals, Asian thugs, Muslim extremists, and Latin dictators. What to do…
http://townhall.com/cartoons/2009/05/27/3
Obama votes present.
The only think we can do at this point…PRAY. Seriously. It is all hitting the fan and God is watching very closely.
How many units have trained in all aspects of CBRNE over that last 6 years?
Not a lot of them. This troop is getting ready. This troop is thinking chemical, biological and nuclear warfare.
If this does kick off, expect the dead to outnumber the Iraq and Afgani war dead in a week, if it takes that long.
Lets see, cold weather gear, mountian boots…
…don’t search our ships….looks like Kim is back in the exporting of nukes business. I think he thinks Obama is just to nice a guy to risk doing anything that might possibly make HIM look bad…no worries here Obama will back off and Kim will get what he wants….look for another “little” tax increase to pay for it……time to move on
…satellite recon of Kim’s position, battleship with tomahawk cruise missles…
Thoughtful.
Agree. I’ve been seeing this everywhere now. This is a very serious situation here.
3 a.m. is way past Bambi’s bedtime – need to make sure that his Crackberry ringer is on, and that the Imperial Teleprompter is warmed up and ready to roll.
…and not one thing will be done about it prior to it all blowing up in our faces…all for political gain. In the meantime we will wreck the economy, strip out liberties, and destroy the American way of life.
Amen… votes “present” for what? To be in line to be vaporaized? We are going to see how an appeasing coward acts… just wait for the VP Bozo presser that “everything is under control, we’re handling the situation”. The MSM will be flooding the airwaves with domestic propaganda while rogue nations commit mass murder around the world. All is well….
Nancy Pelosi…
third in line.
The free world, or formerly free world, is impotent and the bad guys know this. This is the time for them to make their moves. NK, Iran, Islamists, are on a roll, feeling empowered. Wouldn’t you?
Obama and his minions live in a fantasy world and have no concept on how to deal with the likes of Ahmadi-whatever or the the NK psycho.
Good thing Biden is there to give advice!
All the battleships have been retired. You will have to do with a crusier.
Keep this in mind: China is NoKo’s number 1(and only) ally. The Chinese People’s Republic Army is the sole owner of COSCO(China Overseas Shipping Company). COSCO happens to be one of the largest container shipping companies in the world. A good estimate is that fifty percent of the items we import from China are shipped via COSCO.
How hard do you think it would be for NoKo to strike a deal with China to have a few nukes transshipped to China and exported in shipping containers destined for West Coast POEs? Or to any other potential adversary(Japan comes to mind)?
Meanwhile, our DHS is busy trying to figure out how to get us labeled as Right Wing Extremists without raising such a fuss about it. As good as the Coast Guard is(and I tip my hat to them), they can’t check every container that comes into Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, or Portland.
The cost of a container ship and its cargo would be a cheap price to pay for Korea/China to smear the proverbial egg all over the face of our committed socialist POTUS and Bozo. They wouldn’t be able to reprogram the TOTUS fast enough.
We might not see millions die, but it’s entirely possible that the toll could be in the hundreds of thousands. Can’t do enough community organizing to cover over that kind of a disaster.
Yes, this is serious, folks. This isn’t an empty threat. Kim Jong Il means business, and he has two things going for him: (1) he has the weapons and ability to back up his call; and (2) his major opponent is an empty suit with no experience in dealing with the REAL bad guys.
Now might be as good a time as any except there are about 25,000 AMERICAN troops on the peninsula 55 years AFTER the ceasefire. Japan should be Korea’s ally in the North East Asia defense but the Koreans are still upset with the Japanese invasion a hundred years ago. Just how many beautiful American Military Cemeteries do we need to build because other people can not get along?
And that is the other side of the coin: wait until you have dead all over the field, your artillery and armor is scattered and communication lines are broken until you do anything. That is exactly what let to the Battle of the Bulge, the Chosen retreat and the horrible losses of Tet 1968.
The ability to take a hit is Heroic–blocking that hit is better. This might be a good time to go get the Pueblo though.
I don’t think we have enough Infantry on this list. But if there is to be war than damn it DO IT RIGHT THIS TIME–but not under President Hussein I fear-must consult with the Mullahs of Madness first.
NK and Iran haven’t spent billions on nukes and missiles to let them sit around. They intend to use them. Iran has repeatedly said it will wipe Israel from the face of the earth. KN will sell nukes of missiles to anyone for cash.
I still say this all leads to a nuke going off or an EMP over the USA. And we won’t know for sure who did it, so Obama will do nothing.
The only proviso is whether Iran/Israel or India/Pakistan go to war before my prediction takes place.
Huff and puff in advance. They’re gonna start shooting. Obama’s gonna blow it. North Korea will invade Hawaii and establish Sharia law.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
So, what are you trying to say…?
My point is, since we are not calling the shots here, and more time would mean more N.K. preparation and nukes, if this is going to happen, now would be as good a time as any.
He can have Hawaii, Chicago, San Francisco and Kenya-Kim or Hussein-it does not matter.
lgm, when it happens, will you run down to your firendly neighborhood recruiter’s office and volunteer to help keep your country safe? Or are you all hat and no cattle?
There are those of us on this blog who can remember times in the past when people like you were scoffing, and sure enough, things happened and people got killed.
I wonder if Slow Joe will tell the AF Academy graduates today to gird their loins?
Kim Jong Mentally-Il has nukes and long range missiles. Yup, it’s the right time to cut $1.8 billion from the missile defense budget.
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– Flyoverman
I agree. I don’t dispute what the media is reporting the North is saying, but North Korea postures like this every six months or so. I’m almost certain I’ve read similar ‘abandoning the armistice’ rhetoric from them before. It’s premature hysteria.
NK knows that using a nuke will be their own death sentence, and moreover there’s no advantage for NK in attacking the south with nuclear weapons. Given South Korea’s superior training and equipment, it would likely go very badly for NK if they tried a conventional fight with the South.
And watch how fast KJI uses one of his bombs on the South. Is there anyone foolish enough to think that it is mere coincidence the testing happened at the same time the rest of this has?
Looking more and more like an early Thanksgiving in Korea.
Just how will Obama deal? How will the Dems deal? After 8 years of telling everyone that they alone know how to deal with such things, now the mess with Korea that began with Albright schmoozing with the little despot and the Clinton’s selling certain Top Secret materials to what was considered a very dangerous enemy…until they said they weren’t…is coming to a head.
God help our men and women sitting over there on the border, and God help the cities in South Korea’s populations that are about to see the results of what “Failed Diplomacy” means.
Anyone even know exactly where Hill-Dawg is right now?
Yes…in a rational world and with a rational leader. However, KJI is anything but. This is a man who has been starving his own people for a very long time, and who…essentially…has nothing left to lose. This is why he is incredibly dangerous, and this is why he can and most likely will use his new toys.
2003 was the last time N.K. threatened to abandon the armistice, saying that the US had provoked them.
This is qualitatively different, I think. We now have a working nuke…probably not a warhead, but still something you could put in a shipping container. We have a working ICBM, and with a nuke, you can miss by a mile and still score.
An American carrier battle-group is a big target.
Head firmly in the sand I see.
They have actualy said it is off this time so we are right now at active war with North Korea. obamas responce so far? really harsh words.
Israel is watching ever so closely as to how this administration moves (or doesn’t) to guard an ally who is in need.
As is EVERY capital of every nation on Earth, friend and foe alike.
I tend to take madmen at their word when they threaten or bully, and that is what this is. This is quite dangerous. The DMZ is a very small thing; North Korean aircraft can fire on our air defenses and never leave their own territory. They can be flying a second strike before we know what’s happened.
And our Dear leader will show his spine of Steel — LMFAO
This is really the darkest of comedies being played out for all of us to watch and are virtually helpless to do anything about.
Obama knows its OUR FAULT!!
NK is a peaceful agrarian community, at one with nature and each other…only to be THREATENED by the captalist imperialist racist policies of the US!
we should withdraw so Kim can extend his beneficient rule to the capitalist running dogs of south korea…
to do anything else would be racist.
As I said in another post, KJI has some very strong environmental factors on his side.
His country borders China and South Korea, and is up-wind from Japan (just across the Sea of Japan).
IF KJI were to release a nuclear device, then the USA would likely have grounds to retaliate with one. I cannot imagine a situation where China, S. Korea or Japan (or any combination thereof) would tolerate more than one or two US strikes on NK.
KJI knows this.
There is also the fact that China won’t want US troops along the Yalu any more than we’d want Chinese troops on the Rio Grande. If conventional war comes, China will want all parties to return to the 38th. Perhaps – perhaps – they would tolerate an offensive that unseats KJI’s regime and gets rid of the nuclear program, but even that is iffy.
The fact is, China benefits by having this loose cannon under their control, and we all know that KJI exists at the pleasure of China.
Most disconcerting: once N. Korea has a nuclear ICBM that can reliably reach the US Northwest, China has the ability to basically gut the US economy if/when it chooses with no traceable link back to them and no fear of retribution.
As I said before, this is a classic assymetry, and it makes for a very difficult strategic situation.
Little too late when the mushroom cloud starts to form, wouldn’t you say?
Sonofdy, you and I are of like mind, I see. I pulled me gear out of the attic last night. Seriously. I hope I don’t need it.
me gear = my gear… Apologies, can’t preview on the BlackBerry. DOH!!!