[mhking]

I'm convinced that DPRK is in cahoots with Saddam, and is using this as a means to distract our attention with having to deal with two fronts at once.

Isn't the Kitty Hawk on station in that region at this point?

[Semper Paratus]

Is NK feeeling lucky with 2 small A-bombs?

[Mamzelle]

There is something almost funny about how provocative NK is being. Like the mouse that roared.

[TLBSHOW]

These people have to be in with Iraq. Low lifes stick together.

Or maybe they are trying to be first in line.

[geedee]

I wonder if those South Korean protestors still want us out? Or would they rather wait until we neuter the pervert to the north?

If I were Rummy or GW, I would think now would be a perfect time to announce a "formal plan" to pull-out American troops. Ain't no easier way to convert an athiest than to introduce him face-to-face with the devil. Those damn protestors would get religion in a hurry.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Their taunts have turned from talk to action. I wonder how far they'll go?

[iceskater]

You know, this situation is starting to remind me of the flare up between India and Pakistan right when things in Afghanistan were heating up. There were lots of worries that things were deteriorating so badly that it could go nuclear. I am beginning to wonder if AQ behind this whole thing somehow. Seems like a pattern is developing.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I wouldn't send them one grain of food, nor one drop of fuel.

I have a strong suspicion that things are far worse in North Korea than what we presently hear. I sounds like he is in a position where he desperately needs these things to stay in power. Kim Jong is in all probability hearing the fisrt rumblings of a people who are sick to death of being cold and eating grass.

What other explanation could there be for such overt bellicosity. Threatening nuclear war with the United States? Like he really thinks he can win?

No, Kim Jong knows he would be the leader of the world's biggest ashtray.

It seems to me that he has two choices here:

Start a war with the United States and surely die.

Wait for his people to finally say enough is enough, in which case he is finished also.

I think he is closer to the latter.

What is so interesting is that the United States may be his only salvation. In the form of aid.

Gulp . . . I'm so puckered up I won't have a bowel movement for a month . . . but I'm afraid you're right. Pee Wee Clinton spent eight years showing the world blackmail was a viable and profitable tactic. Somewhere, somehow, and sometime someone is gonna have to change that.

Yes, the thugs of the world are feeling particularly bold at the present time. I wonder when the world will ever learn that appeasement is the worst strategy in dealing with men like this.

[The Wizard]

can you spell H-o-r-s-e c-h-i-t this is NK working for Saddam

They don't want to cease to exist, and that's what would happen

[Interesting Times]

North Korea has to be wondering why the heck we haven't bought them off yet.

It may take them a while to absorb the notion that rattling their sabers is no longer a lucrative venture.

[Eternal_Bear]

Maybe they received assurances of support from both China and Russia?

[George W. Bush]

KCNA, the North's state news agency and a mouthpiece of the regime, said the situation on the peninsula was now "so alarming that a nuclear war may break out at any moment."

Translation: we can no longer feed the army and they're preparing to revolt. Our oil stocks are declining to the point where we will soon no longer be able to drive a tank down the street. We hope you believe we will commit nuclear suicide and take the South with us if you don't give us the oil and the food and let us make nukes to sell to terror states.

Japan is ready to hit the North if they even start to fuel a missile. I don't think the North has nuclear artillery so they have to drop a bomb from a jet or a missile. I suspect we've got spy satellites watching them every second and the Japanese are using our satellite feed to keep watch. While it has not been reported, I suspect Japan's defense forces are constantly on patrol off the coast, ready to hit.

The incursion by the jet is just an intimidation tactic as is the talk of imminent nuclear war.

China is also very opposed to nuclearization of the Korean peninsula or Japan. So the North is making them unhappy. And Japan announced a few weeks ago that some weapons-grade plutonium somehow can't be accounted for under their nuclear control procedures. Hmmm, now just where did that plutonium go, surely not into a couple of tactical nukes under Japanese control...

[Centurion2000]

As the Thing used to say : It's clobbering time.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I wonder if the South Koreans still feel anti-American?

[RightWhale]

a nuclear war may break out at any moment

I was just a kid when N Kor broke out over the border last time. It was a shock. If it happens again, it will be a shock, and it will happen just as quickly.

[Bill Davis FR]

nk test sk with probe into the south...war is not far away...

[DoctorMichael]

My South Korean colleague says that "South Korea wants to be treated as an equal with the United States of America".

I asked him, "Do you South Koreans have an expression like we have in the US.....'Bite the hand that feeds you'"?