Translation? Pre-emptive strike.
If we feel uneasy about N. Korea, with the Pacific Ocean between us, imagine how the Japanese feel, with this psychopath just over the back fence.
Atheistic communism needs confrontation and upheaval, or it dies. Its whole fabric is based on "struggle". It cannot exist in a peaceful situation Right now, N. Korea is in its death throes and it must engage in some sort of violent conflict or die.
In fact, it will die anyway. The only question is whether it dies a violent, bloody death or simply lies down and goes to sleep like eastern Europe did in the late '80s and early '90s.
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I'd love to see it, but I'm starting to lose faith in the free world's guts. Terrorists are out wrecking things, causing havoc, and the Western world basically debates, then passes resolutions, then talks about them. Our leaders, it seems, are Monty Python's People's Front of Judea... |