do we need to test our nukes. nk might be the place.
If China continues to play this game, perhpas we can help South Korea and Japan do what they helped Pakistan do.
They need to either muzzle their dogs or put them down.
It’s simple, they are running out of food again. They periodically need an “incident” so that the regional powers and the US can be dragged the table in order to be insulted, then later convinced it would be in the best intrest of all to placate the monster with food. Thus furthering the mindless tourture and starvation of the North Korean people for a few more years.
As jjs notes, the Danes are demanding more Danegeld. Time to end this charade. Buy yourself some defense contractor stocks for Christmas!
The sad thing is how it will be used politically here. The endgame is N. Korea has to fall and Korea unified. I don’t see how that can happen without war. Then the question is, how do we keep it between just the two Koreas? It would seem we have very little leverage with China.
The six way talks need to become five way talks with S. Korea taking the lead. N. Koreas objective is clear and we need to dismiss it completely by cutting them out and completely reject their blackmail. S. Korea must be encouraged to take the adult responsibility of resolving this situation. China needs to see a unified Korea as a good thing rather than a threat (a productive new trading partner.) We must let China and Russia know that we support a Korean solution and must all stay out of it. A first move to show our commitment to a Korean solution would be to withdraw our ground troops, once we have an agreement that other foreign troops will keep out, while maintaining our carrier presence.
Dear Jesus — and I mean that as a sincere prayer, not an oath — spare us another Korean War.
That being said: if war comes, God forbid, I suspect it will be much worse than anyone can now envision. Kim is not stupid. He is mad, and likely possessed by the forces of evil, yes, but he is not stupid. He knows very well that when the gloves come off our boys will roll his pissant country up like a cheap rug. Knowing this, he will go for a round-one K.O.— a schrecklichkeit attack that will kill so many Good Guys that the American people will demand that our troops be brought home.
Whether or not a Pearl Harbor-type attack would actually accomplish this goal is doubtful, but it’s the ace he has, and he will play it. My guess; Kim has set up warehouses, storefronts, and other civilian buildings throughout Korea, within which are stockpiled quantities of radioactive materials, chemical toxins, and weaponized biological agents (e.g. anthrax). When the balloon goes up, his agents will blow up or burn down these establishments, dispersing these materials and creating mass casualties and chaos in the enemy rear. He will then sue for peace via cease-fire and a return to status quo ante bellum.
Bearing this possibility in mind, let us hope that some patriotic North Korean colonel or general puts a bullet in Fat Boy’s brain before this madness goes too far.
Again: may a merciful God spare us.
To avoid war S. Korea would need an intelligence operation to destabilize the north during the power transition. Does S. Korea have any capability in that way?
do we need to test our nukes. nk might be the place.
If China continues to play this game, perhpas we can help South Korea and Japan do what they helped Pakistan do.
They need to either muzzle their dogs or put them down.
It’s simple, they are running out of food again. They periodically need an “incident” so that the regional powers and the US can be dragged the table in order to be insulted, then later convinced it would be in the best intrest of all to placate the monster with food. Thus furthering the mindless tourture and starvation of the North Korean people for a few more years.
As jjs notes, the Danes are demanding more Danegeld. Time to end this charade. Buy yourself some defense contractor stocks for Christmas!
The sad thing is how it will be used politically here. The endgame is N. Korea has to fall and Korea unified. I don’t see how that can happen without war. Then the question is, how do we keep it between just the two Koreas? It would seem we have very little leverage with China.
The six way talks need to become five way talks with S. Korea taking the lead. N. Koreas objective is clear and we need to dismiss it completely by cutting them out and completely reject their blackmail. S. Korea must be encouraged to take the adult responsibility of resolving this situation. China needs to see a unified Korea as a good thing rather than a threat (a productive new trading partner.) We must let China and Russia know that we support a Korean solution and must all stay out of it. A first move to show our commitment to a Korean solution would be to withdraw our ground troops, once we have an agreement that other foreign troops will keep out, while maintaining our carrier presence.
Dear Jesus — and I mean that as a sincere prayer, not an oath — spare us another Korean War.
That being said: if war comes, God forbid, I suspect it will be much worse than anyone can now envision. Kim is not stupid. He is mad, and likely possessed by the forces of evil, yes, but he is not stupid. He knows very well that when the gloves come off our boys will roll his pissant country up like a cheap rug. Knowing this, he will go for a round-one K.O.— a schrecklichkeit attack that will kill so many Good Guys that the American people will demand that our troops be brought home.
Whether or not a Pearl Harbor-type attack would actually accomplish this goal is doubtful, but it’s the ace he has, and he will play it. My guess; Kim has set up warehouses, storefronts, and other civilian buildings throughout Korea, within which are stockpiled quantities of radioactive materials, chemical toxins, and weaponized biological agents (e.g. anthrax). When the balloon goes up, his agents will blow up or burn down these establishments, dispersing these materials and creating mass casualties and chaos in the enemy rear. He will then sue for peace via cease-fire and a return to status quo ante bellum.
Bearing this possibility in mind, let us hope that some patriotic North Korean colonel or general puts a bullet in Fat Boy’s brain before this madness goes too far.
Again: may a merciful God spare us.
To avoid war S. Korea would need an intelligence operation to destabilize the north during the power transition. Does S. Korea have any capability in that way?