[garbageseeker]

This is a rather interesting article. I would like your comments on it.There is a slight bias in the article and does not take into account of threat of a missile attack by North Koreans on the continential United States in the long range.

[Brilliant]

The real threat from NK is that they are going into the export business.

[Paloma_55]

I say the next time they start fueling one of these things, we should send a submarine based, GPS guided cruise missle to the launch pad.

[monkeywrench]

"One other point. When it comes to political posturing, the Bush administration deserves a bit of credit on its own. Talking about activating an unproven ballistic missile defense, whose booster seems to have serious reliability problems, to deal with a test it probably was almost certain would never hit the United States was posturing on its own."

This guy is worried about our defense shield. He goes on to ridicule the idea. He and the chicoms are dying to know how accurate it is. LOL!

[wolfcreek]

All these countries that think We're too bogged down in I and A to be a real threat, seem to discount the fact that our Navy and AF are basically idol.

[American Quilter]

IMO we should take out the NK government and its nuclear capability for both strategic and humanitarian reasons. It saddens me to think of the millions of starving and tortured people there, struggling from one day to the next with very little hope of survival.

[DB]

This "analysis" seems nuts to me.

"Semi-suicidal" if NK launches a preemptive nuclear strike?

If NK were to do that, it would be over in minutes - his million man army and all.

The writer goes on about what a threat NK is to our allies in the area, and then goes on about how Bush overreacted to the threat and how that threat is no real threat yet to the US... Duh, they're our allies... A threat to our allies is a threat to ourselves. An attack on Japan is an attack on the US for all practical purposes.

Sorry, but this guy sounds like an idiot to me.

[xjcsa]

I see the note at the bottom that this was "extracted" from a longer paper. I wonder if the long version was the same sort of disjointed rambling.

As to lighting up their missile on the ground - just keep in mind that it would mean the immediate destruction of Seoul and the deaths of a great many of its residents. North Korea has artillery - some of it possibly loaded with chemical or biological weapons - in range of the entire city, and we would not be able to take it out fast enough to save the city.

[pankot]

Nothing will be done by the appeasers until one of those Longdong rockets lands on their head.

[Lazamataz]

This is absolutely true.

A nuke over Japan would plunge the world into a recession the likes of which you have never seen.

[PsyOp]

How dare he iimply the oceans won't protect us!

Oops! wrong century.

[RightWhale]

The world economy, if there is such a thing, is hugely complex and interrelated; maybe better call it world commerce. If any part of it becomes disabled, the disruption would not be so much like puncturing a balloon or bubble as housing bubble aficionados seem to think, but like dropping a bridge in LA. Traffic would go around, but not as efficiently.

[John Lenin]

China needs a wakeup call. It's time to slow their economy down.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Iran and PDRK will both be toast by 2009 so that, like Bill post-Cold War and Gulf I, Hillary has nothing to do for eight years.

[alarm rider]

Move the 30,000 US troops away from the DMZ. Give NK a warning, and follow up with the Chinese.

The next time they light one off, destroy the launch sites and keep a couple of carriers, some submarines and some air resources on station.

Arm the Japanese.

[Frances_Marion]

We need to just go ahead and give Japan a nuke of their own....then there wouldn't be a vacuum there. And while we're at it, give them to Taiwan as well, since China facilitated the NK missile program in so many ways. Everytime little Kimmie doesn't get his way, he flings a missle over Japan. Japan threatens sanctions when NK kidnaps people right off of Japanese soil, NK "tests" a missile or threatens war. Japan is outraged when NK navy boats smuggle drugs and fire on Japanese boats in Japanese water, NK rattles their sabre. It's the same sh*t China has been pulling on Taiwan for years now, and I'm sick of it. Give them, and maybe even S. Korea, NUKES, and tell China and NK to go f*** themselves.