Posted on 05/21/2010 7:42:00 AM PDT by rdl6989
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said Friday South Korea and the United States are considering upgrading their alert level on North Korea amid heightening tensions after Seoul blamed Pyongyang for torpedoing one of its warships.
Asked by a reporter about the possibility of "Watchcon" being elevated to the second-highest level, Kim replied, "As we are monitoring North Korea's movements, we are reviewing it."
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Ping.
Like Obama is going to do anything.
DPRK is not going backdown this time, this only escalates from here. What other time in history has the US been so weak?
If we really want to spread freedom, "I mean really"SNL
I’m afraid you are right. This is going to get very ugly.
Raising the alert level - that’ll show ‘em!
Just before WW2?
Progressives allowed WWI, WWII and now WWIII. They are the true traitors to humanity in many ways!
And the next time the NORKs blow a South Korean (or American for that matter) ship out of the water they will raise the level EVEN HIGHER!!!!!
Hitler was a Progressive??
I think Kim is sick as in Medically sick and what does he have to lose the World knows they sunk the Souths ship. I see storm clouds on the horizon. Oh and could this be Obamas wag the pooch?
Yep the truest traitor in American History is FDR and his whole administration. They allowed the Communist Soviets to take over half of Europe and spread communism from Poland to Cuba. Thanks Franklin. May piss be on your grave!
Actually he was a progressive.. He was a National SOCIALIST, isn’t socialist what a true Progressive is?
Actually he was...just a different brand name. They all come from the original philosphy of Eugenics.
Hitler wasn’t the cause of WWII, it was the liberals and Progressives looking the other way when he was building up...just like the very same scumbag liberals and progressives today are turning a blind eye to Iran, DPRK, etc...
Agreed, Kim is dying and has nothing to lose, as is NK itself.
No, but Chamberlain and all the other a**hats liberals were, the real people who started the war by not standing up to Hitler when he could have been stopped. History repeats itself.
Quick! Raise the alert level on Kim from Courvoisier and Beluga caviar chilled for half an hour to Courvoisier and Beluga caviar chilled for a mere fifteen minutes...
Ouch - that’ll learn ‘im.
Another reason WW2 started was the Treaty Of Versaile was so harsh on the Germans that it destroyed the country and economy and the national pride.. So it was a matter of time that someone {Hitler} would rise to power and bring the German People back to their former glory.. But that is not how it worked out for Her Hitler. Thank god.
I'm not sure about that at all. People forget two things about FDR. One, while most Americans wanted to stay out of the war in Europe, including the Republican Party, he was constantly trying to rile Americans up to help Europe. Second, Russia had defeated Germany on the Eastern front in a hard fought, bloody war. During the war Russia developed a highly capable war machine, good enough to defeat Hitler's best, most battle hardened divisions. The last thing America needed was to get into another war with the likes of Russia while licking our wounds from Japan and Germany. Unless you think we should have simply nuked Russia, war with them would have been long, bloody and costly, of the sort of cost we thankfully avoided by nuking Japan. You just can't nuke 'em all. And what would have been the premise for nuking Russia? They aren't leaving Eastern Europe because we want them to? Japan richly deserved a couple of nukes, but using that weapon against Russia was not really justifiable, at that point in time.
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