Fear not! It seems there is a secret plan to deal once and for all with the murderous totalitarians running the rogue regime of North Korea. The U.S. government, together with the United Nations, is going to bore them to death.
OK, just kidding. But as the sophisticates of the “international community” yak on about penalizing North Korea for the March 26th torpedoing and sinking of a South Korean war ship, the Cheonan, any sane person looking in on this scene might well wonder if this is all just some sort of tedious diplomatic spring ritual — long on diplo-talk, but short on any action that really matters. It’s now two months since North Korea with an unprovoked attack sank the Cheonan, drowning 46 members of the crew. Definitive evidence has been presented that a North Korean submarine committed this act of war. But if Kim Jong Il is tuning in to the remarks of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, what he heard her say on Monday, in response to a press question about whether the U.S. would support additional United Nations sanctions on North Korea, was: “We are obviously continuing to review and consult closely on these matters… .”
Hmm. Kim must be quaking in his elevator shoes.
Over at the UN, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has just interrupted his own la-la-land perorations about a world free of nuclear weapons to pronounce himself “confident” that in response to the sinking of the Cheonan, the Security Council will, with all its usual competence and integrity, take “measures appropriate to the gravity of the situation.” This would be the same Security Council which since 2006, with two sanctions resolutions against North Korea and three against Iran, has failed to stop either the North Korean or Iranian nuclear programs. For that matter, this is the same Ban Ki-Moon who prior to taking charge at the UN played a lively part as foreign minister of South Korea in the launch of that grand failure known as the Six-Party Talks — which dispensed all sorts of largesse to Kim, while spanning North Korea’s first nuclear test, in 2006, and serving as prelude to North Korea’s second nuclear test, in 2009.
Not that there’s been a complete lack of action in recent days. South Korea has announced it is cutting off all trade with North Korea — all trade, that is, except the trade that will not be halted, plus humanitarian aid (which has a long record of helping to sustain Kim Jong Il’s regime). Joshua Stanton on his One Free Korea blog has a good rundown of the loopholes.
The very least we could do is remove all military dependents and civilians from the South, now. Not tomorrow, now.
Uh…I know its abit old fashioned but thats what the military is about…
to fight wars..thats what the sophisticated hardware, the trillion dollar
budgets, the uniforms, the discipline..its about…well, uh, killing people..
killing the enemy before he can kill you, which he has every intention of doing.
So its okay to remove the American dependents..but the soldiers have been kept there for 60 years..for this moment.
But Obama will tell you the military about giving Gays the opportunity to meet
hunky bunk buddies…so you can believe that if you want.
military dependants are the wives and children of the people who are actually in the military. Such a move allows the military to concentrate on it’s main job, ie killing the other guys.
Perhaps you should spent a minute and look up the word “dependents”, esp as it applies to the military. I think you are a bit mixed up in your..analogy,comments?
Kim knows that President Zero won’t do anything to support one of the most loyal, steadfast allies we have left. The American soldiers currently stationed in Korea are in serious danger with virtually no support available.
Meanwhile, the Clown-in-Chief goes on vacation (again).
Why doesn’t Barry break out his Titleists and head over to North Korea, and take along a set of junior clubs suitable for someone of Kim’s diminutive stature to play with? Surely there must be a golf course over there somewhere. Or drag Biden away from Home Depot for the weekend to go along on another “beer summit”.
Putting North Korea back on the terrorist list might do a bit of good: President Obama would appear to be doing “something” and there might be a distraction from his inaction in the face of the horrible
Katrina messoil rig mess. The Rasmussen daily tracking poll might give him a bounce from today’s twenty point strong disapproval vs strong approval poll. Beyond that, what?Back in 2006, some very interesting sanctions were imposed and later strengthened. They involved the luxury items treasured by the Dear Leader and his friends.
They may or may not have had significant effect, but Dear Leader at least lost some weight.
The O stands for over his head.
As long as he continues to drag down the world, his backer$ are padding his future.
Go on vacation O, you deserve it. “O”ne gets tired for being so perfect.
Thank you all who voted for the”O”. You are to cool for me, and so much smarter.
I’m hoping that in the lull between the sinking and the announcement that the US used all of its abilities to track and sink the NORK sub and have promised to sink any others that dare stick their nose into the sea. That would be the only logical response. Kim sent a clear message and he should get a very clear one in return, in the same language. I hope against hope, of course.
Tjhere is a big differance between quality and quantity of the Noreth and Southe Korean armies. The north nay be six times the size of the south’s army but if they don’t acheive surprize the south will win. The question is has the South come to an understanding with the Chiense and is the southe willing to win such a war.
Ironically the North would provide some of the loswet cost labor in Asia and the country has the DMZ which is the best Asian wildlife refuge.Like the a second Korean war would be a bloody slaughter. The south would win always.
I could be wrong, but I think N. Korea’s strings are pulled by the CHICOMMS.
For whatever reason, the N. Koreans are acting like they want war. The BLT POTUS is being tested. Iran is watching.
Meanwhile, US Aircraft carriers are heading to the gulf per Debkafile, and Syria, Hizboallah, and Hamas are getting ready for a Summer war.
Wars, and rumors of wars. What’s the end game? The heat off Iran? Perhaps, oil prices are to low.
If for no other reason, North Korea should be dealt with for the way they treat their people!!! totally a disgusting state of affairs.
The N.K., leaders have no morals nor scrupples, period!!!, and probably have their poor poor people duped into thinking they are the best treated people in the world and must defend their country’s honor!!
Kim needs to be done away with some how..covertly..Feed those people!!!! and they will realize how badly they have been treated!!!!, and they will come out swinging at their own country!!
I have long felt that the American presence should at the very least move down to Pusan, better still, move off the peninsula where we can fire, maneuver, and resupply. We are a virtual speed bump along the DMZ. There is no way the NK’s can succeed. We would destroy them in a manner of weeks. But do we have to sacrifice a few thousand Americans as a trip wire? This fight, unlike fighting the incompetent Arabs, would be gruesome. The South Koreans are grown-ups and can take the first blows without us. Having been stationed there briefly, I agree with MarkD that this is no place for dependents; it would be a force multiplier for the commies. The Obamites are only bringing us closer to blows with their amateur diplomacy.
“a terror-sponsoring state”
Sounds more like the North Koreans don’t waste time sponsoring terrorists, they are the terrorists.
Axis of Evil, baby!
That’s not in Obummer’s Lexicon – along with radical islam etc.
Does this remind you of the League of Nations as it does me?
I have long held that North Korea is actually compelled by its own self-interest to make mischief, and thereby keep the U.S. engaged in the region. After all, the moment that America leaves is the moment that Kim Jong Il and friends are abandoned to the tender mercies of the Chinese.
I agree..you have to turn everything on its head to understand North Korea.
Liberals will never understand but North Korea needs isolation and conflict.
It is defined by them, and gets its reason to exist by the tension produced.
Meanwhile clowns like Clintoon and Obama keep wringing there hands
and singing Kumbaya as if its all a matter of a few misunderstandings.
If we just show North Korea, Iran, etc what nice guys we are..we can all get
along…
Liberals talk about “open mindedness”..while living in a world of absolutely
rigid preconceptions..and hence they understand nothing.
Of course, you’re absolutely right. Shouldn’t stay, can’t leave. It may be a game but it’s the only game in town. North Korea’s every action is in preparation of unifying the peninsula. You don’t think he’d do it if he thought he could succeed?
OBAMA: Radical Islam, OK. North Korea, OK. Iran, OK. Mexico Narco State, Open Border, MS13 gangs and spill over civil war, OK, Putin and Brazil getting close, OK, Lust for Hugo Chavez, OK, Obama love for Evo Moreles and Castro, OK.
Now the world is a power-void tailspin. Even Turkey, members of NATO since 1952, are giving the USA the boot (In a large part due to Pelosi and the other idiots in congress bringing up the Armenian Genocide).
Obama is an idiot, a dangerous Cloward Pivenist that is literally assaulting American sovereignty and this needs to be drastically corrected in November.
Rat vermin corrupted Boss Tweed-Obama and his corrupted Tammany Hall regime exposed.
Otraitor is a man-child emperor with no clothes. He is a rat vermin traitor with a plummeting popularity rating because he hates America, hates freedom and hates liberty. He works for Goldman Sachs along with Dodd and Frank. He supports expanded wars – but is Soros funded Code Pink and media matters are silent for this baby-dictator Obama, he is weak and the world is destabilizing, he is an oligarchical colloquists and rules our population with an iron fist in a police state with a velvet glove, but he coddles terrorists, Iran, MS13, Mexican Narco-State Drug Czars. He cracks down on the middle class – the law abiding tax paying whom he considers subjects in his regime. His IRS has audited at a rate 300% above normal. His census is a Nazi-like info-gathering attempt. He has outspent all previous presidents in one year. He is big brother, he is a traitor and he is a little man child moron figurehead empty suit that acts childish and thin skinned because he is uneducated. Sure he was indoctrinated with progressive trash, but given what he says and thinks he is a stupid uneducated failure of a man that could not hunt, grow food for himself, even change his tire. He knows nothing of math, history, physics or chemistry, his ideas are idiot Alinsky eructations, his speech capabilities without a teleprompter is pathetic and he is one of the stupidest people to ever grace the Office of the President.
And this moron man child Otraitor looks like the thin skinned loser. He is a disgusting man and a communist rat that will rot in hell.
This Obama regime is the modern Boss Tweed Tammany Hall. The depraved nature of the Democrat party and its hidden progressive-marxist agenda has been a cancer on America for 100 years now, and today, the main stream media is controlled by the progressives so we don’t Thomas Nast drawings exposing what this rat vermin Obama is doing.
wow…
Taking N. Korea off of the terrorist list, one of the 6,342 reasons I am not a compassionate conservative.
Thornton Mellon (aka Rodney Dangerfield) was right. We should have kicked N. Korea’s butt all the way into China when we had the chance. When you confront evil you do not let it survive, you kill it. Becasue we compromised we have spent the last 60 years spending billions of dollars protecting ourselves from (while at the same time appeasing and propping up) two twerp dictators in N. Korea.
Kim is a little short for Red Hussein to supply him with a proper Lewinski.
It will be interesting to watch exactly how we betray the South Koreans.
Gut-wrenchingly shameful. Tear-your-own-eyes-out repulsive. Wish-you-were-dead painful.
But probably interesting.
But here is American progressivism’s first big chance in a long time to really put a few hundred thousand, maybe even a couple of million on their body count.
Woodrow Wilson had his day, but since then it’s been small potatoes for the progressive yanks. Nothing but vicarious thrills over Stalin and Mao and Castro and the like.
Admittedly they won’t really get their hands in on South Korea, but they can take a good deal of the credit for the blood flow to follow.
And the destruction and suffering! Can you even imagine?
Way to go Red Hussein!