[neverdem]

John Bolton says China is key to this. China and Japan have a current dispute over islands near Taiwan. The rats just had a historic loss in the House, an indirect referendum on Obama. I think we can expect more trouble overseas.

[screaminsunshine]

Could be they sense the Carteresque weakness of our LILY-livered POTUS. Biden called it. All he is is a shakedown artist. These people are fighting for food.

[screaminsunshine]

China is not on our side.

[screaminsunshine]

China is not on our side.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Several plausible reasons, which could be one or a combination of several. No one Westerner nor group of Western analysts will have the spot on intelligence on this, as to the reasons. That will only come out once the DPRK falls and all its archives are opened.

But the main reasons would come from the following:

they want something; they suspect more are going to starve in the winter

obama just left the region, and combined with that piss-poor image of weakness his defeat in the congress has made him a lame duck, the norkies are in a position to push

27-year-old lithiuanian vodka-swigging, big-breasted infatuated, smoker from his puberty "dear leader" kim jong eun needed training in a provocative act of war, to gain "trigger time" as commander of military forces

the north needs an external enemy right now, to dissipate internal problems, for some reason

the r.o.k. propaganda-ballooning of North Korea on the same day the attack pissed them off

r.o.k. naval activity (training) pissed them off so they took action against yeongpyong island

they want attention and are just being the usual assholes

take your pick of the above, or mix and match

[jamaksin]

During 1960 Nixon-Kennedy Presidential debates, Nixon "implied" that Kennedy would allow the Chinese to take the islands of Quemoy and Matsu in the Formosa (now Taiwan) Strait.

Before that was that "police action" and before that was the cry "Who lost China?" ...

The more things change the more they stay the same - or some such ...

[conservativeimage]

Does ‘low key reaction’ mean the current U.S. administration doesn’t care if N.K. has nukes?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Glad they cleared that up. I knew that it was America’s fault, regardless of the administration. If Obama had blown a gasket over the “revelations” then it would have been America’s fault as well.

Time for South Korea and Japan to nuke up. The Dragon is restless and the Eagle has fled.

[Condor51]

Low-Key U.S. Reaction to Uranium Enrichment Revelations May Have Prompted North Korean Aggression, Analysts Say

"Gee. Ya think."