Posted on 12/06/2009 5:34:54 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
OK, this is confusing: but this is the LINK to the original Japanese language article from the conservative/trustworthy South Korean "Chonsun Ilbo" daily newspaper website in Korean which reported from a Russian news agency just a little while ago.
The headline is 北朝鮮デノミ：「住民騒乱を懸念、軍が戦闘準備」 ("North Korean Currency Devaluation: Worries Over Uprising By North Korean People; North Korean Army Goes on Sub-War Status")
“We could have decapitated the leadership in North Korea any time we wanted to.”
Sure, and then what. Who leads the country? The military the Chinese, or the lackeys that have been supporting the current govt.
Bush gets hit all the time for doing nothing. He did a lot and most certainly did not send the Sec of State over or make a visit for two young women.
Kimberly, there is one thing I believe you are overlooking.
Unlike the oppressed prisoners (it would be a joke to call them ‘citizens’) in North Korea, there are millions upon millions of patriotic Americans that are armed to the teeth with every kind of firearm and the ammo to go with it and you can be sure that those individual arsenals are NOT sitting on top of the mantle for visitors to admire. They are securely stashed away in countless ‘undisclosed locations’ in the event that the day arises when Thomas Jefferson’s admonition about the Tree of Liberty needing to be watered with the blood of tyrants is manifested.
(naturally, I am not advocating the violent overthrow of the United States Government, nor am I urging anyone to commit ANY violent act whatsoever. However, the right to self defense is universally recognized, should our imperial would-be masters in Washington ever overstep their bounds and perhaps initiate the equivalent of an American Tiananmen Square and violent attacks on the citizenry)
Should the 0bamunists attempt such folly, they will rue the day and will quickly understand how the Romanian regime of the Ceausescus suddenly found themselves deposed and disposed of. It is human nature to resist tyranny and that is why we see Americans from coast to coast rising up and opposing the policies of this pack of latter day Communists.
The North Korean people have very little to fight with besides their bare hands.
Not so we Americans. Never bet against American determination, persistence and ingenuity.
Just as it always has, just as it always will.
Ambassador Chris Hill sufficed just fine (for the North Koreans, I might add)--and got screwed to the floorboards seven ways to Sunday by the Norks. No, Chris Jong-Il just didnt get a chance to dance a Maddie Albright jig in the Workers Stadium, but he sure came close to it (what with his shameless, embarrassing, rush to unfreeze the DPRK's massive illicit overseas funds/blood money in Banco Delta Asia in Macao in exchange for diddly squat.)
Nice to see that socialism is still leaping from one great victory to the next. Clearly, we need more of that over here in the West!
Who says it has/had to be absolute scorched earth war? We were doing a pretty good job of strangulating them economically from 2002 to 2005/6 allright, and then suddenly, bang!, they (D.C./State/NSC) go totally Joe Pritchard/Wendy Sherman/Madeline Albright on us with Pyongyang, start the kowtow little by little, and before you know it they are getting hosed up the large intestine by a laughing Kim Jong il by December 2008. It was one of the most pathetic erosions of American Will & Resolve I have ever watched, and what made it suck was that it occured under “W”s watch after such great prose and policy during the Axis of Evil days. It will only be outdone by what this dorfus Obama in there NOW will do, IMHO. God help us (and the poor North Korean people).
They will blather and spin about how they "tried" and it was their "efforts" that inspired the "freedom fighters."
I O W they will attempt to take the credit, just as little ZerØ is "finishing the job" in Afghanistan.
All libs/communists think in similar (stupid) terms which to me indicates they are mentally and thus morally defective.
Is full scale war the only option you consider?
NK has the 5th largest military in the world. Sure there are many arguments that its poorly maintained and supplied. However they don’t have to move anywhere to kills tens of MILLIONS of people.
They have extensive supplies of chemical and bio weapons. They also have the systems to deliver them throughout the region.
Bush sent food, which while propping up Kim it also fed many many people whose only other option was cannibalism.
He also banned the import of luxury items into NK. This wasn’t so much for Kim as it was to piss off his supporters.
The fact is, the North Korean people would welcome the South Koreans, Americans, Communist Chinese, even the Russians as liberators because they have been driven to the point of extinction by the policies of Kim Jong Il.
The North Korean military may be what props up Kim Jong Il, but they are not blind and they can see what KJL’s ‘juche’ theory has done to their country.
Actually, the discussion we’re having is moot because we ALL know that Comrade 0bama is not about to initiate any kind of military action against Pyongyang, in fact one of MY concerns is that 0bama would sacrifice ALL of our military forces stationed in South Korea on the chance that by showing “restraint” that the Korean War would not flare up again, where it left off in 1953 (of course being the Marxist/Communist that he is, 0bama would probably be wishing for a win by North Korea anyhow).
We had a window of opportunity in which at the minimum, we could have taken out North Korea’s nuclear capability, and it is highly likely that if that had occurred, that Kim Jong Il would have had his throat cut by one of his more ambitious generals and that would not at all be a bad thing.
I believe it was John Bolton who said “the only thing worse than a preemptive strike against North Korea to eliminate their nuclear capability, is a nuclear armed North Korea” (and he may have said the same thing about Iran, and would be likewise, absolutely correct).
“We had a window of opportunity in which at the minimum, we could have taken out North Korea’s nuclear capability, and it is highly likely that if that had occurred, that Kim Jong Il would have had his throat cut by one of his more ambitious generals and that would not at all be a bad thing.”
Its more likely they would have commenced with the artillery bombardment of Seoul and launch of the scuds.
Mk you have BDS.
Do you have any first hand experience with the Korean culture?
‘b.) launch the damn preemptive strike and let the chips fall where they may.”
Those CHIPS are the lives of MILLIONS of people in South Korea, Japan, China, eventually America and certainly others.
“War is Hell. And sometimes it becomes necessary regardless of the Hell that is unleashed. Chamberlain learned that too late.”
You’re an idiot. You advocate ‘saving’ a few North Koreans at the expense of MILLIONS of others. I think its more about your ego at NK thumbing its nose at America than anything else.
South Korea doesn’t want war and they have family in the North. A peaceful solution would have been at hand if not for Clintons bumbling.
What right does America have to do anything to North Korea unilaterally? None
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