Crazy But Not Stupid — We Hope
North Korea does its best to alarm the South, but it’s not as bad as it seems. Read:
North Korea said it will sever all ties with South Korea and expel the South’s workers from a joint industrial zone as “punishment” for accusing it of sinking a warship and killing 46 South Korean sailors.
“There is no need to show any mercy or patience for such confrontation maniacs,” the official Korean Central News Agency reported late yesterday, citing the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea. North Korea will “abrogate the agreement on non-aggression” and handle all issues with South Korea under wartime law, the group said.
North Korea will cut off all communication links, ban passage of South Korean ships and airlines through its territories and resume propaganda broadcasts across the border, KCNA said. The communist country earlier yesterday warned of military action in the disputed maritime area off the peninsula’s west coast after accusing the South of violating its territory in the zone.
North Korea probably doesn’t have enough fuel to fight for more than a few days, after which their tanks will simply stop. Certainly, the Norks could do some serious damage to the South, but the final outcome would never be doubt — not even to the Dear Leader. Best case scenario – if the North really does look ready to strike, Chinese paratroops land in Pyongyang and install a puppet.
But the real chances of war: Very slim.
That’s what I’ve been thinking too. Not sure the NoKo generals would obey a war order as they nave to know that they personally & their families would get destroyed too.
So why don’t we just whisper to China that NoKo can be as totalitarian as it wants, just maybe have Kim “retire” with a general taking over.
I think that Kim Jong Il is depending on China having his back. They’re just waiting for the moment they can run in and annex NK into china. They’re patient and have waited for 60 years. What’s another year or two?
I doubt very much if China wants to annex North Korea. It’s not worth the bother. The country is a basket case. One might be better off taking responsibility for the winos living in the back of the alley. Much of the population of North Korea is uneducated and suffers physical aliments and deficient brain power due to severe malnutrition.
NoKo has never had the ability to actually win a conflict with the south. Their strategy has always been to provoke an incident, then threaten to commit suicide in as messy a fashion as possible. Unfortunately with Seoul so close to the border the suicide could be VERY messy.
Very messy because the first batch of casualties would include the US Soldiers on the border, officially there to keep the peace but unofficially so when they get killed by a NoKo attack, the US has a justification to intervene and set things right. This was an arrangement set up in the good old days when we had Presidents on both sides of the aisle who worried about the security of the world in general and the security of the US in particular. No telling what the Alinskyite-in-Chief will do in this situation.
Didn’t W. move most of our troops south, so they are no longer the trip wire?
What’s sad is that Seoul will be obliterated. hundreds of thousands killed. And NoKo will fail, so not only will the rest of the world have to bail out South Korea, but will have 22 million North Koreans to deprogram and feed
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A resumption of the Korean War would end quickly, but probably kill millions, cost trillions including mopping up the aftermath and rebuilding, and make large zones of the newly unified Korea uninhabitable for centuries or longer.
Pushing the button is an effective way to end an argument, but is similar to taking out a fly with a 500 pound bomb.