Is North Korea crazy enough to court annihilation?

The Times ^ | August 7, 2004 | Rosemary Righter

[MadIvan]

Remember, if Kerry is elected, he'll be "unable to think" for part of any potential North Korean disaster.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Phsstpok]

Is North Korea crazy enough to court annihilation?

What is "Yes?"

Let's have some harder questions, Alex.

[ECM]

Both contenders for the White House must hope that it does not happen before the first Tuesday in November, because neither has a particularly reassuring strategy for dealing with a dramatically altered threat from this singularly awkward quarter.

Strategy? I always though South Korea would make for a lovely island vacation destination.

[glockmeister40]

We're going to have to fight them, to some extent, sooner or later. They'll have less nukes if it's sooner. Less nukes means they'll have less nukes to sell to their friends, like arab terrorists or iran.

I think one good ass kicking out in the pacific will end it.

[QQQQQ]

Related article:

North Korea 'Tests in Iran'; New missiles being readied

[HipShot]

Ping. We don't need to get tunnel vision.

[Taylor42]

As an Air Force intel buddy of mine says, "If they even look like they're about to launch, we'll hammer them so hard".

At least until if and when another democrat becomes President.

[misterrob]

Oh, I don't know about that. LA would be one of the first places to go and the democrats couldn't have a big source of cash and propaganda go up in smoke, now could they?

;-)

[Servant of the 9]

We are going to have to 'Copenhagen' their fleet, as at least an interim measure until we can disarm them.

So9

[SevenofNine]

I take Crazy Little leaders with live journal.com site for 1,000 Alex

Who is Kim Jong 11

Of course Ivan he is crazy enough risk smackdown on his country it is Little Kim we dealing with

[BunnySlippers]

Gee thanks.

L.A. Native

[Spok]

"neither has a particularly reassuring strategy for dealing with a dramatically altered threat from this singularly awkward quarter."

If we have a strategery, I would assume it's classified, so Bush would be constrained from disclosing it. The only thing constraining Kerry is his IQ.

[Phsstpok]

If they even look like they're about to launch, we'll hammer them so hard".

Despite Jimmy (khomeni is a saint) Carter being president at the time, the commander of the task force off of the Iranian coast at the time of the hostage crisis said that if the hostages were harmed "there will be a second sunrise in Tehran."

I like that thinking.

[Mini-14]

I saw a PBS story on North Korea last night.

The government installs televisions inside of every household, and the government broadcasts propaganda into every household. This is by law, and the televisions do not have "off" switches, so everyone gets their daily dose of government propaganda.

The average citizen blames American for every little problem. For example, everytime the electricity goes out, the citizens cuss out America for the blackouts.

Their hatred comes from the fact that we bombed the daylights out of them after they invaded South Korea in the 1950s.

The North Korean government must have intended to allows PBS access to show how wonderful North Korea is. North Korea instead came off looking like a whacko country.

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

Anyone have any opinions on what China would do if we had to take military action against North Korea?

[KingsKindred]

Do the math...
Kerry + N. Korea ÷ by appeasement = Armagedon

[trek]

What a bunch of BS. We can continue to wring our hands and worry about what "Dear Leader" might do. Or we can just kill the pot bellied pig that sits atop the affront to humanity that is the DPRK and be done with it.

[trek]

Cheer?

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

he he