@AlwaysDuggDown:Sorry, I think you can't act. I think you accidently did WIlliam Shatner. Please try again with some more 'uhhs'.I'm not really into politics, so I have no idea how Bush speaks. I apoligize for my ignorance.
Then wait 20 years whiel NK gets 200 nukes. This is similar to WW2 when pacifists in the UK refused to do anything while Hitler took a mile for every inch the pacifists gave. Iraq was not like WW2, this is.
Umm...this is pretty scary. I'm teaching English Seoul, just about 100 miles away from the DMZ. The situation here isn't as tense as the media is making it out to be, but it's still a relevant issue. Should I be contacting the Canadian Embassy anytime soon? My teaching English in Korea blog:<a class="user" href="http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com">http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com</a>
still can't believe there are more Foley articles than the north korean nuke issue. the news media and people on DIGG need there priorities set. this is BIG!!! Bush will be addressing the nation within an hour. i will be following what he says very closely because i live in South Korea. many have argued North Korea is/was a bigger threat than Iraq. this might be true but NOTHING short of an all out war possibly involving China will stop North Korea. on the other hand iraq or even iran would be much easier to stop or set back there programs. anything involving China is well....not something we want to do. It gets much messier and costlier than anything you could imagin. and pales to anything going on in iraq. the US can't do much about North Korea for a meriad of reasons.1) it is the hermit kingdom and little information about where the facilities are and just how deep in the rock the tunnels are is not available. so if we bomb them it will do little good.2) even if we knew where all the facilities are the bunker busting bombs can't penetrate them. again if we bomb them it does little good.3) they have nukes and can detonate them if we bring in ground troops. unlike iraq4) seoul a city of 12 million people will be destroyed once any bomb is dropped on North Korea. North Korea has many artillary batteries within 50 KM of the city. and has already threatened to turn seoul into a "sea of flames" this is no threat, kim Jung Il has the means to carry this out. 5) the North Korean military is far more disciplined and brainwashed than the iraqi military. 6) North Korea is within China's spere of influence. if China doesn't like the US invading, we have another Korean war with China involved. Does anybody really want that?
<a class="user" href="http://morningcoffee.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/norks-with-nukes-so-now-what/">http://morningcoffee.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/norks-with-nukes-so-now-what/</a>The UN could impose sanctions, though since North Korea is already one of the most isolated countries in the world what effect would those sanctions have. North Korea depends heavily on aid from China, South Korea, Japan and the US to even feed its people. Will they be willing to enforce a sanctions regime that stands a good chance of causing thousands of North Koreans to starve, and creating millions of refugees in South Korea and China? A naval blockade of North Korean ports could damage their only viable industry (illicit arms sales) but in order for that to be effective, closing land routes through China would also be required and Chinese cooperation would be necessary.
toszterOct 9, 2006
Are these Little Bush's WMDs? Its funny how easily he's turned a blind eye.
nazadusOct 9, 2006
@AlwaysDuggDown:Sorry, I think you can't act. I think you accidently did WIlliam Shatner. Please try again with some more 'uhhs'.I'm not really into politics, so I have no idea how Bush speaks. I apoligize for my ignorance.
geronimoOct 9, 2006
Then wait 20 years whiel NK gets 200 nukes. This is similar to WW2 when pacifists in the UK refused to do anything while Hitler took a mile for every inch the pacifists gave. Iraq was not like WW2, this is.
gerrydamanOct 9, 2006
Umm...this is pretty scary. I'm teaching English Seoul, just about 100 miles away from the DMZ. The situation here isn't as tense as the media is making it out to be, but it's still a relevant issue. Should I be contacting the Canadian Embassy anytime soon? My teaching English in Korea blog:<a class="user" href="http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com">http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com</a>
aceg1357Oct 9, 2006
still can't believe there are more Foley articles than the north korean nuke issue. the news media and people on DIGG need there priorities set. this is BIG!!! Bush will be addressing the nation within an hour. i will be following what he says very closely because i live in South Korea. many have argued North Korea is/was a bigger threat than Iraq. this might be true but NOTHING short of an all out war possibly involving China will stop North Korea. on the other hand iraq or even iran would be much easier to stop or set back there programs. anything involving China is well....not something we want to do. It gets much messier and costlier than anything you could imagin. and pales to anything going on in iraq. the US can't do much about North Korea for a meriad of reasons.1) it is the hermit kingdom and little information about where the facilities are and just how deep in the rock the tunnels are is not available. so if we bomb them it will do little good.2) even if we knew where all the facilities are the bunker busting bombs can't penetrate them. again if we bomb them it does little good.3) they have nukes and can detonate them if we bring in ground troops. unlike iraq4) seoul a city of 12 million people will be destroyed once any bomb is dropped on North Korea. North Korea has many artillary batteries within 50 KM of the city. and has already threatened to turn seoul into a "sea of flames" this is no threat, kim Jung Il has the means to carry this out. 5) the North Korean military is far more disciplined and brainwashed than the iraqi military. 6) North Korea is within China's spere of influence. if China doesn't like the US invading, we have another Korean war with China involved. Does anybody really want that?
schragedOct 9, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://morningcoffee.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/norks-with-nukes-so-now-what/">http://morningcoffee.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/norks-with-nukes-so-now-what/</a>The UN could impose sanctions, though since North Korea is already one of the most isolated countries in the world what effect would those sanctions have. North Korea depends heavily on aid from China, South Korea, Japan and the US to even feed its people. Will they be willing to enforce a sanctions regime that stands a good chance of causing thousands of North Koreans to starve, and creating millions of refugees in South Korea and China? A naval blockade of North Korean ports could damage their only viable industry (illicit arms sales) but in order for that to be effective, closing land routes through China would also be required and Chinese cooperation would be necessary.
schragedOct 10, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://morningcoffee.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/key-points-of-proposed-sanctions-against-north-korea/">http://morningcoffee.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/key-points-of-proposed-sanctions-against-north-korea/</a>No sanctions regime is going to put the genie back in the bottle. North Korea has nukes, as well as the capability produce more. Nothing the UN can do is going to take that away. These Sanctions however are important in deterring others, including Iran from going forward with their own nuclear weapons programs. Unless North Korea is forced to pay a heavy price for its defiance of the international community, Iran and other rogue nations will take that inaction by the UN as a green light to pursue thier own Nuclear Weapons Program.