Conservatives Attack Obama over N. Korea (South Korean News Report on Developments)

Chosun Ilbo Daily News (English), S. Korea (conservative daily) ^ | 2 April 2009 | Chosun Ilbo Daily, S. Korea

[AmericanInTokyo]

(U.S.) Conservatives Attack Obama over N.Korea

American conservatives are closing ranks to attack President Barack Obama over its handling of North Korea's impending rocket launch. A video clip on the website of the conservative Heritage Foundation warns it will take just 33 minutes for a North Korean or Iranian long-range missile to reach the continental United States. The clip, titled "33 Minutes," features a statement by Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulne attacking the Obama administration for failing to protect its people from "the enemy."

Rep. Darrell Issa, a ranking member of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jeff Flake of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs sent a letter to White House National Security Advisor James Jones saying the administration lacks the resolve to eliminate the threat posed by North Korea's rocket launch. They said the lack of determination to intercept the North Korean rocket despite the military making clear it has the capability to shoot down the projectile was threatening America's national security.

And in an editorial on Monday, the Wall Street Journal criticized Defense Secretary Robert Gates for announcing that the U.S. has no plans to intercept the North Korean missile. The newspaper supported intercepting it by pointing out that Gates' comments do not help Japan, which is responding aggressively to the impending launch.

Officials involved in North Korean affairs in the Bush administration also raised their voices. Former senior White House advisor Michael Green criticized the Obama administration's appointments to North Korea-related posts. Green pointed out that Stephen Bosworth, the special representative for North Korea policy, is handling the role as a side job while retaining his academic position. Green added in South Korea and Japan, complaints are surfacing that Washington is only interested in "managing" the issue.

Former State Department advisor David Asher said the ineptness displayed by the U.S. regarding North Korea raises the possibility that Japan will develop its own nuclear weapon.

(englishnews@chosun.com )

[AmericanInTokyo]

[AmericanInTokyo]

Ping.

[AmericanInTokyo]

A link to a short video trailer of "33 MINUTES"

A MUST SEE this week!

Pass to friends and family.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[Dick Bachert]

“I hope locket raunch get UN to send me nasty retter. That good. I soooo RONEREY!”

[AmericanInTokyo]

"...And in an editorial on Monday, the Wall Street Journal criticized Defense Secretary Robert Gates for announcing that the U.S. has no plans to intercept the North Korean missile. The newspaper supported intercepting it by pointing out that Gates' comments do not help Japan, which is responding aggressively to the impending launch."

This is so ridiculous one can't even see half straight. People out here in Japan (which also houses 38,000 of our own flesh and blood US troops) are very livid but trying to put a polite face on it. Under the surface, folks are seething.

This "President" Obama has done great damage to himself and to US-Japan relations in one fell swoop. Brilliant. What an amateur. Let the adults take over, please.

[Prokopton]

attacking the Obama administration for failing to protect its people from "the enemy."

To Obama and the liberals, we are the enemy not North Korea or Iran.

[Jet Jaguar]

Well said.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[TigerLikesRooster]

I really hope that this baby(XK2: S. Korea's newest MBT) drives into Pyongyang, runs over (dead or not) Kim Jong-il, blows up Kim Il-sung Statue and his mausoleum soon.

[ArmyTeach]

[ping]

[bergmeid]

Yahoo says following on this link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_korea_north

QUOTE

Pyongyang has said it will send a satellite into orbit between April 4-8 but the United States, South Korea and Japan say the launch is a disguised test of the long-range Taepodong-2 missile, which is designed to carry a warhead to U.S. territory.

UNQUOTE

Let this sink in - “Designed to carry a warhead to US territory”. Well it sure looks like Oshama doesn’t give a flying flip. Oh that’s right, we’ll be raising the matter with the UN Security Council.

FRIGGIN’ IDIOTS!!!!

[AmericanInTokyo]

The good guys, the ROK troops, climbing out one after the other, and taking one big unified piss right there on the fallen remnants of the Korean Workers Party sculpture, would be fun to watch!

[AmericanInTokyo]

You see how so many people out here in South Korea and Japan are upset over that idiot and his advisors in Washington, D.C.!! Unbelievable!

Well, now words comes out today through the press that "The Messiah", Zero, is planning on a nice little visit to Tokyo end the latter part of 2009. I guess they read the polls overnight to see that Japanese are turning in droves with disgust against Obambi, and they need a PR visit to salvage his international image. Problem is, he might be just surveying nothing but radioactive ashes by that time. Moron.

[mkjessup]

Problem is, he might be just surveying nothing but radioactive ashes by that time. Moron.

In a perfect world, with perfect timing, his DNA would be part of those radioactive ashes.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Weather Report! (today and tonight)

[AmericanInTokyo]

This Obama character is worthless, but we all knew he would/could never pass such a test as this one coming up. I see mass resignations (re-up failures) in the military if this keeps up; total lack of confidence in the guy.

By the way, specific , i.e. immediate as time of this posting, areas of danger to all pilots and mariners as follows, and of course North Korea's missile could veer off and do damage outside of these areas in Japan:

[Rick_Michael]

Anyone know China’s stated postion on all this?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Here pls....

[mkjessup]

That's some pretty nice weather there AiT, will the Busan-to-Hiroshima ferry be running the rest of the week, you think?

[snicker]