07-04-2006, 05:27 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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What is going to happen with North Korea?
I guess that missile defense program doesn't seem like such a waste of money after all.
Will the Bush administration negotiate with them and offer them they same kind of deal they put on the table with Iran? Will China get involved somehow if the US puts trade restrictions on countries that ally with? Will there be an invasion by Japan, South Korea, the USA or China (I'm sure they could always use some more land)? Or will there be a few missiles strikes to take out their military? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060705/...nkorea_missile Here are some tourist pictures. It looks like a half-way normal country when you take away all advertisements. And if you took pictures of trailer parks and ghettos in the US, some places might be better in the DPRK. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...8&page=1&pp=20 http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...ad.php?t=82755 Last edited by ASU2003; 07-04-2006 at 05:31 PM.. |
07-04-2006, 05:41 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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They already did the deal. N. Korea has broken the terms of that deal. I think the question is "now what?".
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07-04-2006, 08:37 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Do you remember how poorly we understood Russia? I think the same is going on here.
Does North Korea's leader believe he can defeat the world? Does he believe he can stay in power if he doesn't try? What part is China playing? |
07-05-2006, 06:28 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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North Korea is a cultist government that is isolated from the world. Shooting off ICBMs is a real smart move
Eventuall NK will prove they have the means to hit the US with a missile. Then they go back to their blackmail games. Try to get food, energy, technology from the US for ceasing the missile threat. I expect one day they will claim to have equipped one of those missiles with a nuke, point it at Seattle and make more demands. They won't ever get a chance to fire one. They'll be wiped out before lil' Kim pushes the red button.
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07-05-2006, 07:34 AM | #5 (permalink) | ||
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i dont see this as much more than theater--the talks between nk and the 6 countries who want them to stop developing missles are stalled and the tests are apparently being seen as a kind of "PAY ATTENTION TO ME" move. you can read a fairly sane interpretation in the guardian here:
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the macau factor is quite interesting and, as seems usual with the american press, it does not figure as an issue here. too complicated maybe. the danger here is that both nk and the bush administration seem more than willing to use hysteria over potential military adventures to prop themselves up internationally and domestically. so there are two kinda irrational clowns in a pissing match involving nuclear weapons. i think the idea of american military action against nk a kind of pipe dream for the right. but it does fit into a dimension of the right's history of military interventions involving such dynamos as grenada and panama. so it follows, the dueling clown problem.
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07-05-2006, 08:13 AM | #6 (permalink) | ||
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDEUR=X&t=5y http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpdodt.htm http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdint.htm <center><center><img src="http://mwhodges.home.att.net/trade_all.gif"> Looks to me like two bullies who squandered a disproportionate share of their respective national wealth, with both now faced with failed, bankrupt economic futures, resorting to the only desperate methods they have left to shore up their dire situations: ....propaganda driven nationalism.....and posturing with the fruits of their malinvestments...the military hardware that they chose to purchase and brandish, at the expense of their respective economic futures. It seems like a race to determine which country's population and leadership is more blinded by it's own bullshit propaganda and nationalistic zeal. I don't take lightly; my own decision to lump NK and the USA together. I see them both though, as "dead men walking"; because economically, that is the category that both find themselves in, today. The leadership in both countries, disturbingly....seems to be employing the same strategies in response to their economic crises...both as concealment and as avoidance mechanisms.....posturing with, and wildly waving around the guns that hastened their bankruptcies. Last edited by host; 07-05-2006 at 08:35 AM.. |
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07-05-2006, 08:22 AM | #7 (permalink) |
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This is nothing new from the North Koreans. They've been brinksmen for decades, and the late Kim Song-Il played as well, if not better, than his son. North Korean foreign policy has seemed to revolve around playing as close to the edge as possible, and they're really the only one left of the old Cold War players that still plays the game in that old style. Starting a war is a losing proposition for both Koreas, but threating to start one hold lots of potential benefits for North.
Not to belittle the missle launch in any way since it does pose a huge threat to the region's security, but we have been there and done that already. The Bush administration has already conceeded that they have too much on their plate already to spend the resources that it would take to disarm the North Koreans in any sort of effective way.
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