[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

[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

[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.

[wasnova]

So far, blackmail has worked well for them.

I agree that everything about N.K. seems mostly like a really "nutty" religious cult of "personality" - doesn't make me comfortable.

Are we really sure that China isn't aleady a major Nuc player?

[Question_Assumptions]

I suspect that the day an North Korean sub sets sail with a missile is the day it is followed everywhere by two American attack subs which will make it disappear magically should they hear the clang of an opening missile hatch.

[GOP_1900AD]

In some future history book: "The day before the DPRK showed its hand, a new Axis, which some warned about for years prior, but were snubbed by the Fukuyaman orthodoxy, was announced. The Axis encompassed a majority of the world's land area, population, and nuclear weapons. Coming on the heels of the economic crisis which was started by the suitcase nuke detonations in the USA, and the geopolitical crisis caused by Iran's invasion of Iraq, the PRC's missile barrage against Taiwan, and Russia's incursion into Lithuania, all the while, Venezuela's massing of troops at the Columbian border, the Communist coup d'etat in South Africa and subsequent closing off of the country, and the massing of the PLA in the Golden Triangle area, as implied threats, all happening simultaneously, the USA, which was no longer structured militarily to fight two, let alone four, wars simultaneously, was a bit stunned by the situation."

[Angry Enough]

It could soon test the 5,000-mile Taepodong 2, which could theoretically reach the western United States.

Um....I have a question. Do you...think it could reach....Hollywood, for instance?

[Paleo Conservative]

[KangarooJacqui]

My mother wants me to go teach English in South Korea. She's been on my case about it since before 9/11 went down.

In a fit of pique lately, I told her, fine, I'd go - under one condition. That she and dad bought me a broadcast-quality steadycam.

That way, if Armageddon occurs while I'm in the country, I'll have pictures (and commentary) to go with it. (Naturally assuming I'm not charred wreckage myself at this point.)

(My mother told me to stop being so facetious, which I take it was a "no".)

Heck, I didn't train as a broadcast journo for nothing... and I doubt anyone will care all that much about my political bent when all hell starts to break loose.

[Central_Floridian]

No, but an evil dictator will see his country destroyed before he releases his hold on power.
Hitler is a prime though unsolitary example.

[TexanToTheCore]

The leader of NK is quite crazy enough, but his generals are not. If he makes a move, they will drill him.

[Chode]

Is North Korea crazy enough to court annihilation?

well no, probably not North Korea, but... unfortunatly their Dear Leader is, so, samey - same