Chick I beg to differ...Tonight that may be true.....BUT we as were the Brits 1945 are spent (broke) , overextended, have a crisis of morals and leadership with no change on the horizion. Time is in China's side.........we won the cold war with USSR but lost the peace (sorta like the US Civil War). It ain't pretty.
Maaaan, things are really heatin' up guys. "D-Day" is comin, and I hope NK backs away from the thin red line, or all hell WILL break loose, and not for their benefit.
In a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communist country lashed out at Tokyo's standing orders to destroy any missile heading toward Japan, threatening such actions will result in a nuclear attack against the island nation.
If Japan executes its threat to shoot down any North Korean missile, such a “provocative” intervention would see Tokyo — an enormous conurbation of 30 million people — “consumed in nuclear flames”, KCNA warned.
“Japan is always in the cross-hairs of our revolutionary army and if Japan makes a slightest move, the spark of war will touch Japan first,” the report added.
An official at Japan’s defence ministry said that the country “will take every possible measure to respond to any scenario”, while the US Secretary of State John Kerry warned that a North Korean missile launch would be a “huge mistake”.
“The rhetoric that we are hearing from North Korea is simply unacceptable by any standards,” he told a news conference in Seoul alongside South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se.
“The United States, South Korea and the entire international community… are all united in the fact that North Korea will not be accepted as a nuclear power,” Kerry added.
NK is starving to death and bat sh** crazy. We talk about trying to keep the situation calm and then Kerry steps in However, I do understand that we can't just sit and let NK be a bunch of playground bullies either......
Enough with the rhetoric, NK needs to make one false move so that we have an excuse to take 'em down and move forward. We already have a huge presence in that part of the world, taking out NK will just be another chess piece, imo.
Lil Kim is playing a thermonuclear game of chicken and so far it doesn't look like the West is blinking, Kerry isn't wanting to set up negotiations. The new female South Korean leader doesn't appear to be backing down either. The new Japanese PM has been wanting to turn their "defense force" into an actual military.
4/15/2013 is the biggest holiday in North Korea, Kimdad's birthday. Will the missile(s?) be launched then?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least Fred. NK has nothing to lose but a bunch of hungry mouths that need fed, no joke intended. 4/15/13 could end up being "historic." Kinda holdin' my breath here, but it's possible that they'll just keep kicking the can down the road, but that's a low possibility in my opinion. :scared:
All of a sudden, no coverage on NK. Might have to go with the latter statement in the Title. More sabre rattling, but who knows, maybe something will develop over this week. Not holding my breath any more, that's fer sure.
FredHayek wrote: We want to point to domestic or Islamic terrorism but what if it is NK. perfect date. This one is for granddad?
Heard the same thing from a close friend of mine. I have to disagree though, NK is a bunch of sabre rattling cowards that could be likened to feral dogs. Only way they'll act is if you back them far enough into a corner. You ARE in fact entitled to your opinion though Fred, and I would have to at least say there's a possibility. One could say these feral dogs ALREADY have been backed into a corner far enough, what with sanctions and being made the fools.
Such as feral dogs roaming the streets of major cities. They really don't have the balls to go the full gusto, but perhaps I'll be proven deadly wrong in the next week or so. ::shrug::
However, I do understand that we can't just sit and let NK be a bunch of playground bullies either......
