Posted on 06/21/2009 6:02:05 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Yep. By my tally, they owe us a ship anyway.
Being a North Korean ship it could be carrying missiles or a thousand pallets of counterfeit Viagra.
Overhead satellites can detect what is on deck but can they detect what is actually in the cargo hold?
lol
NK with it’s smoke and mirrors again, same-o, same-o, year after year.
Why don’t we just torpedo the blasted thing? I honestly think some people would assume that the cargo had blown up, knowing how kooky the Norks are.
We should kill them, and say nothing.
This ship might be carrying dangerous stuff. Gee, Greenpeace should be out there trying to ram them. /sarc
Also, $ would go a long way to buying HUMINT there and SK agents can penetrate and pass as NKans.
I agree
“Wonder if this enough of a no-brainer.”
We are dealing with Democrats here, therefore no brains are involved.
BTTT
I think that there is South Korean agents in North Korea. They speak the same language. Many South Koreans families have North Korean families.
The UN is as worthless as the teats on a boar hog.
Got to thinking about this...(that is a scary thought, but necessary)...
Anyway, there is somethign about this whole story that reeks of Muhammad Ali’s famous “Rope a Dope” strategy in the boxing ring...
The NK want us to molest this ship...In whatever way shape or form...To what ends is left to be seen...Sure they could try to get a war going with the south, but that would be their demise...They may be crazy, but what they do not yet realize is their foundation of support from Russia and China is fading to a level where they may not get a lot of support if they decide to wage war upon the rest of the world...
On the other hand, the threat they levied against us in telling everyone they are pointing a rocket AT Hawaii, doesn’t do anything but piss a few people off...
I seriously doubt that rocket will make it halfway to Hawaii...But the threat alone is enough to distract a few from their ship being tailed...
And keep them in the news around the world for some reason...
Notice how the track of the ship is close to China??? That will only last for so long...
My take?
They will stop it and board it, when she gets somewhere near Vietnam. Vietnam was a temp. Security Council member that voted along with the rest against North Korea last week, and its representative had some choice words. Once that Kang Nam is free from Chinese area, all bets are off. What is that? Two or three days off? It also depends if they slow down to stay purposely near their protector, China, if they figure the US is actually going to act.
We’ll see...72 hours...
No, just string a fishing net in their path, let it wrap up the drive shaft, rendering it uncontrollable...
We go over in a humanitarian effort to save the crew (great PR stuff) and take a closer look at what they have in the holds, and voila, zee case iz solved...
No explosives, no rounds expended...
And egg over the faces of Kimmy and his entourage...
The best non-explosive scenario, preventing loss of human life and manipulating PR in favor of the U.S. Navy.
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