Kim Jong Il Hangs Out His Christmas Stocking
Since the mid-1990s, each U.S. president in turn, from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush, has gotten himself a North Korean nuclear freeze deal — and seen it dissolve. Each time, the pattern has been the same. North Korea ups the ante, brandishing its out-sized military and its nuclear pursuits, and issues threats about “seas of fire,” “war,” and “catastrophic” attacks. The U.S., the UN and related players hold fevered meetings and wring their hands over the crisis. Then North Korea puts out the word via some eager shill that it might be open to a deal. With relief, yabbering on about how “encouraging” it all is, America and allies sit down again at the bargaining table and pay wergeld to the Pyongyang regime.
Now it’s Obama’s turn. Since Obama took office, North Korea has conducted a nuclear test; tested an array of missiles (including ballistic); sunk a South Korean warship killing 46 members of the crew; hit Yeonpyeong with the worst artillery shelling since the 1953 armistice; carried on its sanctions-busting weapons traffic with Iran; and –after denying any uranium enrichment — unveiled an in-your-face uranium enrichment facility for visiting U.S. nuclear physicist Sigmund Hecker to observe and report home about.
In a saner world, these would all be among the long list of reasons for America and U.S. allies to devote themselves not to dignifying Kim’s regime at the bargaining table, but to undermining this totalitarian dynasty in every possible way — with the aim of bringing it down, at speed. But in this crazy old world, Kim Jong Il has every reason to believe that attacks, threats and a multi-track nuclear weapons program are all chips he can bring to the bargaining table — there to reap rewards for promising, again, to desist from things he should not be doing in the first place. That’s how his regime has survived since the collapse of its old godfather, the USSR. And here we go again. In sum, Kim Jong Il has just hung out his Christmas stocking, expecting Uncle Sam to again play Santa. No doubt we will soon be hearing more from Richardson and Blitzer about the happy news they believe they just discovered in Pyongyang. This North Korean routine — murderous, cynical and hideously destructive to any civilized order — does not deserve even a lump of coal.
If there were Jimmy Carters, Bill Richardsons, Donald Greggs, and Chris Hills in the U.S., there are thousands of similar or much worse charaters in South Korea like Sohn Hak Kyu, Yoo Shi Min, and Chung Dong Young, all openly supporting and defending their Dear Leader (The Hideous Butcher Ever) in North Korea.
Sohn Hak Kyu, the big chief of the minor party in South Korea, said: We cannot risk a war by way of irresponsible military drills in the game of face saving!
Yoo Shi Min, the Political Heir to the Anti-American, (now dead, he committed suicide) Roh Moo-hyun, said: No military drill! No war!
Chung Dong Young, the defeated presidential candidate of the minority party in SK, said: Americans are responsible for the Yon Pyong Island disaster! No more military drills! More dialogues with the Dear Leader!
Am I making this up? As unbelievable as what Kim Jong-il has been doing, the South Korean political traitors are openly irrational, insane, treasonous, and disgusting. Their party name in Korean means “Democrats!”
This is South Koreans’ job, but we have to get rid of all these traitors in South Korea, before we can even talk about getting rid of Kim Jong-il and his murderous regime in NK. Lee Myung Bak the Coward President of South Korea is not doing it. He is in fact egging them on.
Disaster and catastrophe ahead in South Korea!
In the meanwhile, the temperature around the Tumen and the Yalu Rivers are in the single digit, and they don’t have any heat or food. Nobody talks about the NK people and the refugees in China any longer. Only Kim Jong-il’s nuclear threats and his heir-apparent, the Third-Generation Butcher, Kim Jong Eun!
God help us!
Sin-U Nam
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Its time to end all tribute (call it humanitarian aid if you want to) to North Korea. No food, no oil, no money. As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I believe from an earlier time the quote was, “Millions for defense, not one penny for tribute”. All that has changed is the ethnicity of the Barbary Pirates.
You don’t see the word “weregold” used nearly enough in modern essays. I will forever respect you as a pundit for your use of the old English term.
Oops, my comment should say “weregeld,” not “weregold.” Combining my old English with modern terms, for shame!
Great use of the word, but it is spelled wergeld.
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This is probably my first 2010 comment praising, even mildly, the Obama Administration for anything. Possibly due to President Obama’s apparent lack of interest in or focus on the Korean situation, the United States has thus far taken a strong approach to North Korea. She has stood up for South Korea’s right to defend herself and Admiral Mullen and his South Korean counterpart appear to have agreed on new South Korean rules of engagement.
Of substantial importance, there were US military personnel on Yeonpyeong-do at the time of the live fire exercises. Their purpose was
I doubt that their purpose had much to do with preventing escalation; there was little if anything they could have done. Just having them there was important; had North Korea fired on the island and had some U.S. troops been casualties, the public pressure on the administration to “do something” would have been enormous. The “do something” pressures would not likely have been for further aid to North Korea or for more talks. As I noted elsewhere,
That’s the way I see the positioning of U.S. troops on Yeonpyeong-do for the exercise.
It seems likely that North Korea has backed down for the moment, but only until it can make a surprise attack of some sort – this is one possibility, there are many others — while in the interim trying to appear peaceful in hopes that sanctions will be diminished and aid of various types provided. According to my Ouija board in which I have little confidence, North Korea is going to have to take substantial steps (a) to eliminate all threats, as well as any probability, of attack on South Korea and (b) to terminate its nuclear program before negotiations even reach the point of discussing sanctions and aid. This is consistent with the administration’s air of skepticism thus far about resuming talks.
That strikes me as a valid approach; whether it will continue to be followed is a big question.
All talk and bullshit…
The SOKO’s have the same problem with NK that we have with muslims…
Namely, ours and theirs (the SOKO’s) sandard of living is too high to get dirty cleaning the mess. We tolerate them because its less effort.
War with NK, a REAL war, where destruction of the other side is the goal, can easily be won, but not at the minimalist cost demanded by modern democracies.
In our own efforts with Islam, 4000 combat dead in ten years, is too high, and we are pulling out.
Obama’s solutions to Kim clans have been spineless and use someone else as usual. Truly amateurish and quixotic:
1. Send one strongly worded letter after another written by his cadre of idealistic speech writers.
2. Send Billy to kowtow and fetch 2 naive and dumb “journalists” from Al Gore’s pathetic TV venture. Surprised he didn’t give the WH podium to Billy that time.
3. Send the CORRUPT Richardson who withdrew from Sec of Commerce job Obama appointed when Obama realized he is about corrupt as one can be and target of investigations.
Wait! Wait! My dog left him a present for him, it’s in the yard. Let me get the bag and I’ll pack it for his stocking. Anything more would be a pile more wasted money. Maybe if his army gets hungry they will eat his lunch. We can hope.
Thanks for the laugh…
…the gift the dog left in the yard…too funny!
Richardson went to North Korea because he is one of a dwindling band of useful idiots Pyongyang can dial up at any time to get the bait and switch going again, or at least try to. But this time the North’s psycho-calculation isn’t going to work for the simple reason that it would be extremely unwise of Obama to put himself in the position of having revelations of North Korean cheating coming out just before the 2012 election. And it would be doubling dumb of him to give aid because of the chance they might pull their own version of an October Surprise, unless, that is, he quietly agrees to pay them off first.
The USA needs to immediately remove all troops from South Korea and re-deploy them on our Southern border with Mexico.
Those Marines should be protecting America, not protecting South Korea.
I agree…..if only the incredible expense of America’s supply and logistics for over half a century were to be considered and totaled, we’d think ourselves taken for philanthropy on a grand scale. That those acknowledged hard, brave South Korean fighters helped us out in S. Viet Nam is not reciprocity for half a century’s American support inside their homeland.
Every opportunity I see, I post something against our ultra long-term “entangling agreements” signed under far differing original conditions. Anti-communism and domino-collapse potential dating from the post-World War II era has now morphed into permanently established precedents for open ended American blood and cash.
When we get our own national immigration-infiltration and financial affairs in order….then….may….be time to consider overseas deployments.
The evident net result has been near universal knee-jerk anti-Americanism. This American is fed up with such “reciprocity”.
Make that me three. There have been many demonstrations within S. Korea against our presence. We only have a force of 25,000 there, but let’s get them out. A redeployment on the Mexican border would work for me.
Obama’s solutions to Kim clans have been spineless and use someone else as usual. Truly amateurish and quixotic:
1. Send one strongly worded letter after another written by his cadre of idealistic speech writers.
2. Send Billy to kowtow and fetch 2 naive and dumb “journalists” from Al Gore’s pathetic TV venture. Surprised Obama didn’t give the WH podium to Billy that time.
3. Send the CORRUPT Richardson who withdrew from Sec of Commerce job Obama appointed when Obama realized he is about corrupt as one can be and target of investigations.
When I was still teaching at a high school, I had to take a period for a left wing Social Studies teacher. In his class I saw anti-war posters along with signs for a school anti-war club. I asked is anyone in class in this club. To which a cluster of students sitting together answered in the affirmative. I asked them if they believed what the posters were saying. They went on to explain to me how wrong we were in Iraq and Afghanistan. So I asked them if they believe that we should get out of Asia totally. They jumped on that with an absolutely yes answer. Then I turned to the Korean students in the class and asked if they also believed this and that we should get out of Korea. Almost in a panic they said no, if we did North Korea would invade us. After planting my seed of discourse, I quietly smiled. The left wing students were speechless.
Sounds like the American kids were the only ones with any brains in this story.
How many of those brainy American peace-loving kids can find North Korea on the map? And how many of those few know the facts of the Korean war?
If those Korean immigrants were so worried about the safety of South Korea, shouldn’t they be the ones guarding the 38th parallel instead of American boys?
Great send a open boarders activist with a mullet who withdrew from Obama appointment in the mist of a scandal to negotiate. What could go wrong?
We should have sent Carter again.
Maybe the Norts would hold him hostage.
I can dream can’t I?
Well, we’ve had success in standing up to the North Koreans so far, so why not simply ignore them? Who cares what they want. You know that any agreement you reach with them will be broken, so why not simply ignore them. Build an imaginary fence around that pathetic excuse for a nation and let it implode. They are going to attack South Korea in some way, shape, or form, so why appease North Korea? These people are like vicious little children. If they don’t get what they want, they throw a tantrum and create a lot of noise to drive their parents crazy. But if you ignore the kid long enough, they will quiet down. If the North Koreans understand, really understand, that we’re not going to pay them ANYTHING, my bet is they will just give up and concentrate on other illegal actions, like selling nuclear secrets to Iran. But they still will NOT attack because they know it will mean the end of North Korea. They may kill a lot of innocent South Koreans in the process, but North Korea will still lose everything, and they know it.
Liberty that’s the way I see it as well, why continue to show them any kind of attention, either his own Army will eventually wake the hell up and attack there own gov’t leaders and eventually free there own people which my all accounts should have happened years ago already but just maybe this time around with the recent activity of SK and there not backing down along with our 1 Man Army in the middle it’s quiet possibly this could unfold the way it should from an implosion among the NK Army and a take over of NK by SK and we could see peace in that region of the world, for the interim anyhow.
All we need to do is to make sure SK has ample ammunition to sustain Military exercises on a minimum of once a month just to keep NK in line and either NK gives in and collapses or that make the fatal mistake and go on the attack and SK takes them over in a legitimate sense of self defense. There’s many ways to smoke out the regime it’s just a matter of wanting to light that fire to get the smoke blowing in the wind.
got an idea for his stocking i large missile lol
Seems like the bully is running the school yard. Now if I remember the best way to deal with a bully, oh yeah, hit hard and fast and don’t stop till he says uncle or Obama.
HERE THEY GO AGAIN -
The DPRK is the world’s Recalcitrant Child, crying and stamping its feet for “More Candy.” This time Give Them Nothing – let them collapse of their own ambition, hubris and mismanagement. Dr.Shalit