N. Korea Warns it May Attack S. Korea

[bytor2112]

SEOUL, South Korea -- 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.

Scary......read more here.

[NeuroTypical]

Yep - you get nukes, your power at the geopolitical bargaining table goes up. Translation: "We now have nukes, so you people will now let us extend our influence by transporting arms".

Pity Obama had other things on his mind the first hundred days.

Pity the world let it's hatred for America overpower it's common-sense desire to halt nuclear proliferation during Bush's tenure.

Pity we didn't have the spine to demand Clinton NOT make deals with them, allowing their program to get off the ground.

(The pity's probably go back further than that, but I wasn't paying attention prior to 1992-ish.)

LM

[Hemidakota]

What is coming, we shall declare war on both Iran and North Korea...

[Dravin]

I wonder what China thinks of its nuclear neighbor's flexing.

[the Ogre]

I wonder what China thinks of its nuclear neighbor's flexing.

Not much.

[Dravin]

Well there 'goes' the one country best in a position to lean on Korea. My understanding is that China wasn't happy with N. Korea getting nuclear weapons, I'd have assumed that would extend to it flexing though I suppose not.

[Palerider]

I don't think Russia is excited about this either...

[a-train]

Why are we not concerned about the other umpteen nations with nukes? They are our friends.

Thus the trouble is not nukes, but politics.

We need to once and for all abandon McCarthyism. Is North Korea run by an evil empire? Certainly. But will our efforts to prevent their race to their own destruction bring about any good? The biggest monster of all, the USSR, collapsed under its own weight. North Korea will do the same.

Iran on the other hand is not in such a terrible state. It is open to freedom, much more open than many Americans want to admit. Iranian resentment of the west is not any hatred of freedom, but of interventionism. Their fear and emnity is not unwarranted, we drew first blood and kept drawing.

-a-train

Edited May 28, 2009 by a-train

[jadams_4040]

Yep - you get nukes, your power at the geopolitical bargaining table goes up. Translation: "We now have nukes, so you people will now let us extend our influence by transporting arms".

Pity Obama had other things on his mind the first hundred days.

Pity the world let it's hatred for America overpower it's common-sense desire to halt nuclear proliferation during Bush's tenure.

Pity we didn't have the spine to demand Clinton NOT make deals with them, allowing their program to get off the ground.

(The pity's probably go back further than that, but I wasn't paying attention prior to 1992-ish.)

LM

and its a pity bush sat on his big fat butt for 8 years and didnt couldnt do one thing about it because he has us all tied up on a worthless and deadly endeaver of self interest in iraq.

[Palerider]

and its a pity bush sat on his big fat butt for 8 years and didnt couldnt do one thing about it because he has us all tied up on a worthless and deadly endeaver of self interest in iraq.

I am very sure that big bad Obama has them shakin in their boots...his warning of stop that, from the teleprompter will have then hiding their nukes...

[talisyn]

I assumed Russia has it's military on high alert in case the USA does something, not if N. Korea does?

[hordak]

We need to once and for all abandon McCarthyism. Is North Korea run by an evil empire? Certainly. But will our efforts to prevent their race to their own destruction bring about any good? The biggest monster of all, the USSR, collapsed under its own weight. North Korea will do the same.

-a-train

I concur. The best way to fight Communism is to spread capitalism through goods and services.

[FunkyTown]

Why are we not concerned about the other umpteen nations with nukes? They are our friends.

Thus the trouble is not nukes, but politics.

We need to once and for all abandon McCarthyism. Is North Korea run by an evil empire? Certainly. But will our efforts to prevent their race to their own destruction bring about any good? The biggest monster of all, the USSR, collapsed under its own weight. North Korea will do the same.

Iran on the other hand is not in such a terrible state. It is open to freedom, much more open than many Americans want to admit. Iranian resentment of the west is not any hatred of freedom, but of interventionism. Their fear and emnity is not unwarranted, we drew first blood and kept drawing.

-a-train

I am agog, A-train. I agree with this one hundred percent.

[Hemidakota]

I wonder what China thinks of its nuclear neighbor's flexing.

Closed borders...too the point of blowing the bridges that gaps the river between them.

[Hemidakota]

Why are we not concerned about the other umpteen nations with nukes? They are our friends.

Thus the trouble is not nukes, but politics.

We need to once and for all abandon McCarthyism. Is North Korea run by an evil empire? Certainly. But will our efforts to prevent their race to their own destruction bring about any good? The biggest monster of all, the USSR, collapsed under its own weight. North Korea will do the same.

Iran on the other hand is not in such a terrible state. It is open to freedom, much more open than many Americans want to admit. Iranian resentment of the west is not any hatred of freedom, but of interventionism. Their fear and emnity is not unwarranted, we drew first blood and kept drawing.

-a-train

Regard to North Korea, nice comment but that is not the mindset of a two-year child when they cross the border into another country.

[HEthePrimate]

Scary......read more here.

That IS scary. That Kim Jong Il thinks that the U.S. is going to attack N. Korea tells me he's a paranoid old tyrant. Or maybe what they're saying is true, that he's trying to boost his standing among his own people and be able to set up his own successor.

If it weren't for the homosexuals, this would never have happened. It's all their fault, and their moral depravity!

HEP