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North Korea warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday it would take “strong steps” if the 15-nation body took any action in response to the launch. On Wednesday, the Communist-ruled country gathered its top party and military officials for a celebration of the launch broadcast on its state TV and monitored in Seoul.
The reclusive state has threatened to boycott six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium. It also warned on Wednesday of military action if anyone tried to retrieve debris from the rocket.
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The North’s KCNA news agency quoted a military spokesman as saying Japan’s attempt to find booster stages off its coasts was “an intolerable military provocative act of infringing upon its (North Korea’s) sovereignty” and would prompt a response.
I don’t know why it should be so, but when I see a bunch of North Koreans celebrating a launch all of a sudden like some new day is dawning, I get this feeling that it just might have something to do with Barack Obama’s noisy international campaign to dismantle everything that anyone abroad hates about about America — America, in other words.
Whatever’s happening around the world, it’s a sign of change and hope….nnnot so much for the US, though.
His threats put us in a real bind. I believe our only option is to have Jack Layton negotiate a truce on behalf of all humanity.
When someone is bluffing, you have two choices. Call the bluff or fold.
But what if he isn’t bluffing? Then we find out what happens to 1950’s era Soviet tanks when you drop a smart bomb on them. Oh wait, we already know that!
Ha ha!
Puppet Kim Jong Il was the best part of “Team America” by far!
(Well, OK, I admit the untimely end of Michael Moore was fun too.)
These asshats are begging for serious b-tch slapping.
Sorry!
I meant “timely end” of course. Ha ha!
Has anyone else noticed that Moore seems to have all but evaporated since the end of the US elections?
Could we be that lucky?
Sorry to be vulgar (ahem), but I thought the “A**holes, d%cks and p#ssies” geopolitical analysis at the end of that movie made a lot more sense than most descriptions of how the world works. It’s really a classic.
I just watched Team America on Saturday night, as it happened to be on TV. Not sure if it was previously scheduled or replayed due to the current situation. Seeing the news on Sunday was surreal. Love, love, love that movie! Scared, scared, scared of Obama!
Related:
US Marines forced Saddam to watch the Southpark movie and procured a signed photo of him to give to Trey Parker and Matt Stone:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5122031/South-Park-creators-given-signed-photo-of-Saddam-Hussein.html
Obama should send Kim an iPod with his speeches on it. That will surely cause the Dear Leader to cozy up to our Chosen Leader.
Kim knows the Chosen Leader has no backbone. Besides, building and firing missiles is fun!
Comedy often reveals truths, sometimes unintended truths, somethimes sad truths.
Two things holding back the US…China, he is their boy (a troubled boy even by Chinese standards) and South Korea. They have to live with the consequences and until recently there was little consensus to confront. That is changing.
As for a military confrontation. I suspect the NORK’s woudlnt last long but the monsson of rocketfire into the South is the concern along with the refugee flood into China.
Tough to deal with a “passive aggressive terrorist state”, they never get outright aggressive enough to get full slap and they are too annoying to ignore.
I wonder if BO has seen it.
Just thinking of the sex scene makes me laugh out loud. One of the greatest satires ever.
Ahh yes this is an “IL” defined problem.
Japan’s attempt to find booster stages off its coasts was “an intolerable military provocative act of infringing upon its (North Korea’s) sovereignty” and would prompt a response.
So very sorry Mr. Kim, but outside coastal waters are international waters, ie 1300 miles east of Japan, so you go ahead and respond.
I would give them the answer “would you like North Korea to become coastal waters in its entirety?”
That might get the message across.
Unfortunately, for Kim Jong Il international waters at over 200 Km are hardly coastal waters. Check your law of the sea manual there Mr. Kim.
Put that in your Taepodung 2 booster stage and smoke it.
“Oh law of the sea is for pussies”, says Mr. Kim “what we are talking is law of the bullies”.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
So kim Jong or Iran or whoever developes a nuke and fires it off, several points:
A)It will be a small one.
b)They will only use one, at which point thier respective countries become parking lots.
It’s saber rattling against the big bad USA , good politics for these jokers.
It’s more fear mongering/scare tactics for the US which is also good politics.
Funniest movie ever. I was very pleased to learn people on this site enjoy that show. I thought Stone and Parker would have been too racy for some.
My favorite part(s) is when the boss gives the actor disguised as Ackmed the rusty old hammer to bludgeon himself if he got captured; and, the “signal” from Ackmed in the back of the jeep.
South Park being shown in high school would be a good balance to some of the other pop culture crap like Al Gore’s movie. You may not agree with everything or even most things Stone and Parker say, but at least they are “fair and balanced”.
BTW my favorite S.Park episode: Spooky Fish
Go ahead, Kimmie. Mess with a Katana-class AEGIS cruiser. That ought to be entertaining. For a while, anyway.
Mamba
Which one do you think Obama is? Don’t answer that.
BTW OT/ apparently Slim released a single this week. I though Bill O’Reilly’s head was going to explode yesterday when he bloviated about him. Although I won’t buy his album this time, he can still stir up a little s*$t. It’s too bad people like O’Reilly and others can’t understand that his music and videos are the exact same type of satire seen on South Park and Team America. Some people just can’t see though their own bias.
Only thing is, there will not be a Team “America” this time around. Perhaps a Team “Japan” or a Team “Australia” but with Bambi as Commander in Chief, somehow I don’t see America coming to the rescue.
….and the world needs N.Korea because?….
corrected
“I *thought* Bill O’Reilly’s head was going to explode”
“Team America” was spot on, especially about the actors.
The real battle is between China and the US, not the two Koreas.
Whether North Korea gets absorbed into South Korea or remains a separate country on friendly terms, it will still be South Korea’s task to build up their shattered cousins. The well-fed, well-off South Koreans do not want that.
Re-arm Japan, freeze the accounts and oust Kim.
why would barak the magic negro think there was anything wrong with the rocket firing?
and the rockets RED glare
Obamas bursting with air
I can see by the lies
that the flag he’s stilled there.
oh say can that far mangled banner yet wave
homes are now free and the taxes we’ve gave
I miss Team America must watch it again….
I’ve always wondered how they got those nurse sharks in the aquarium to attack the puppet.
We will drop Hans Brix upon Pyongyang from a great height (hopefully).
“Lighten up Francis”
Indy 11:20AM –
I think he’s a d*ck, but unfortunately the wrong kind.
If Owebama shows the same brilliance as he has with the economy, he will transfer nukes and missiles to Cuba, Iran and N. Korea.
To Cuba to atone for the “Cuban Missile Crisis.”
To Iran be Iran is stumbling at the enrichment stage……
To N. Korea to atone for pasty insults and because N. Korea’s missiles are miss-guided missiles which work like crap. Giving N. Korea workable nukes and missiles will free up capital to feed N. Korea….
With all due respect to your poker analogy, Shawn, when you believe someone is bluffing, your best response isn’t to call. You raise!
We’ve been folding and check/ calling Kim Jong Il for decades. It’s time to finally raise when we’ve got the better hand.
Fidel Castro and Qaddafi have proven that evil dictators have staying power. It’s time to simply kill Kim, the ayatollahs, Chavez, et. al.
This is what we get for not finishing the work Bush started. Endless war? The wars haven’t yet begun!