Posted on 04/03/2013 9:16:10 AM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama has a situation on his hands where charisma and media support do him no good. He is dealing with a nuclear-armed regime with a history of military attacks, provocations as a means of extortion, and brutality. Now they have announced they are restarting a reactor that produces enough plutonium to make a bomb a year -- a reactor that had been shut down before as part of a previous deal in which the North Koreans got things of value in exchange for shuttering it.
Worse yet, the dictatorship is now in the midst of a possible power struggle. Kim Jong Un is a man barely thirty, if that (we don't really know for sure), advised by his aunt Kim Kyong Hui and her husband, Jang Song Thaek, reportedly taking power from military factions and giving lucrative sources of income, including drugs and counterfeiting, to party factions. Gordon Chang writes:
Every year, Pyongyang makes bombastic threats before the U.S.-South Korea military exercises. Then, the North Koreans go quiet when the drills begin. This year, however, the tantrum has continued and the words have become increasingly dire. This month, for instance, Pyongyang abrogated the armistice ending the Korean War and threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the United States. The one-a-day rhetorical blasts suggest something is terribly wrong inside the North Korean regime.
Chang explains what he believes is happening inside the power circles of Pyongyang:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yes they are . As the article states profoundly , - the Chinese are pleased that NK ties down a considerable amount of US military assets.
Well said..
Even so, N.Korea does have chemical weapons....pushed to the wall you don’t know what they could unleash....problem is anybody could get restless with this standoff and do something to ignite the entire powderkeg.
good thing the White House phones have call forwarding to the country club.
This is the last thing China wants. NK attacks, Seoul is destroyed in the opening salvo. Retaliation from the south destroys Pyongyang and the hunt for Kim and his generals is on.
I like this take.....
...“The problem with this guy is he is so young and quite impulsive. He may walk up to the edge and stumble over it,” says Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic International Studies.... “Maybe the U.S. is saying to him, ‘We will show you the edge if you don’t know where it is.’ ”
We’re in luck: Obama doesn’t have a campaign fund raiser in Vegas tomorrow....
:^\
Are you sure? It’s a miracle! :-)
No. It's probably just as well. He'd just vote "present."
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