You know what this means don’t you?
North Korea defied international warnings and sent a rocket hurtling over the Pacific on Sunday, a launch President Barack Obama called an illicit test of the regime’s long-range missile technology that threatened the security of nations “near and far.”
Obama and European Union leaders meeting in Prague condemned the move and said North Korea’s dangerous defiance demanded an international response. Diplomats at the United Nations scheduled an emergency Security Council session for later Sunday to discuss what Obama called a clear violation of U.N. resolutions.
The “international community” will now transition from issuing utterly impotent warnings to devise yet another aid program in exchange for another agreement from the Norks not to do it again.
See? “We believe in dialogue.”
(“Oh no, not the strongly worded letter!”)
me so ronery
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I was astonished to hear The Messiah’s call for a “nucular free world”. I can just see the Russians, Chibnese, Iranians and Pakistanis and N.Koreans sya “yeah, sure. We’ll destroy our weapons along with you”, while hiding them under the carpet.
The French, British, Israelis and Indians must surely be saying in provate “You bloody idiot; we ain’t stupid”.
I see a pattern emerging; the bad boys are learning they can do whatever they like and push and shove and the Obama state will splutter rhetoric and do nothing.
Look for more international trouble.
Can anyone tell me why Barry O is still running an election campaign … in Europe?
Never underestimate the awesome powers of a Community Organizer. With one stern look from the Obama & their will be a brown out in all of North Korea. I don’t mean an electrical one either.
The Nation will fall prostrate in grief towards him who lowers the waters of the World. In shame of his displeasure. I am sure this will work as well as Toronto’s Zero gun policy.
JMO
So does this make Joe Biden into some kind of seer?
Syncro
sylvain at April 5, 2009 1:36 PM
You don’t have a good grasp of things. This test happened precisely because of the new Prez Barry O.
They wanted to see how far they can push before getting push-back. It seems there is no push-back and all America’s, and the West’s, enemies will push even more.
Would this have been attempted under Reagan, or Bush, or even Clintopn? No, these guys showed they will send in the cavalry.
Listen, The Wonder Boy has not read Machiavelli. He thinks it is enough to be liked. It is much better to be feared than to be liked.
sylvain at April 5, 2009 3:55 PM
You are being disingenuous here.
India hasn’t developed an “intercontinental ballistic missile capability” because it doesn’t need one. It’s two enemies are nearest neighbours – Pakistan and China.
Neither the NORKs nor the iraniabns need one either. They only need to land one somewhere within a feww hundred miles, there need be no precision targetting.
Stephen at April 5, 2009 5:31 PM
Yes, good popint. The Europeans have all been gushing over The One, but haven’t doen a thing he has been asking for.
Exactly as expected, the UN Security Council on N. Korea got nowhere. The US, S. Korea and Japan all asked for a ‘strong condemnation’ while Russia and China urged ‘restraint’.
And that’s how the New Obama World Order is going to play out. I’m going to speculate.
We’ll have Russia, China..and Iran, as a triad expanding their imperial agendas – economic and land based agendas.
The US under Obama will be reduced to isolationism and empty rhetoric, as given as Chesire Cat Performances (The Grin) by The Chosen One.
Europe will be focused on retrenching and changing its old networks – moving closer to Russia and China.
I’ll even bet that there’ll be a Middle East War, with Iran and Israel as its key players – without US involvement.
Speculation. We’ll see.
The bad news is that North Korea has the Bomb.
The good news is that the rest of their technology is so backward they’ll have to drop it off the back of an ox cart.
(with apologies to Johnny Carson)
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Modest proposal for dealing with North Korea:
1. Kim Jong-il allowed to get a place in Hollywood so he can watch movies being made and, if he is still able, maybe make one himself (after all, what he always wanted to do was direct);
2. The rest of the regime recognizes reality and admits failure, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (a la South Africa) is established to ‘fess up to everything, then everybody goes home and gets on with their lives in a free country …
Anyone have anything better?
The test isn’t all bad news. The US and Japan probably gathered more information about the rocket’s capabilities than the North Koreans did.
RW,
“It’s two enemies are nearest neighbours – Pakistan and China.”
Space technology is key in the development of Ballistic missiles. The most advanced Indian missile, which covers abouy 70% of China, cannot target Beijing or Shanghai, and indeed most of the Chinese coastline. Having a credible nuclear component rests on both the ability to inflict maximum harm – especially on major cities – and having a second-strike capability. The principle is to be able to inflict damage anywhere, not just on its two main rivals. India is continuing to test long range missiles – they just haven’t quite figured it out yet. And its costing billions.
My grasp on the situation appears, so far, to be better than yours. You are the one being disingenuous here by suggesting India isn’t trying to develop ICBMs. They’ve had 4 or 5 tests in the last couple of years. The next round of testing is going to start in 2010. But then again, I suspect you know nothing about the region.
“They wanted to see how far they can push before getting push-back. It seems there is no push-back and all America’s, and the West’s, enemies will push even more.”
The tests would have happened whenever North Korea thought they had the technology to pull it off. It really doesn’t matter who’s in power. They declared nuclear weapons capability during the Bush regime, by the way. Theres no pushback because nobody knows how to pushback. In the past 60 years nobody has been able to make heads or tails of the hermit kingdom.
Barry O’s not going to do anything. No one is. Not until they get South Korea and Japan’s blessings. And those two countries are too important in the US plans to contain a resurgent China. The South Korean strategy has always been to pursue a reconciliation with the North Korean leadership. They have, strangely enough, made progress over the last decade. They will oppose any unilateral American military action against North Korea, not least because they will bear the brunt of the reaction.
These are all, of course, minor considerations that shouldn’t be brought to light in the latest SDA quest to bash any non-Republican President. But they are worthy of consideration all the same.
“Theres no pushback because nobody knows how to pushback.”
Sunrise over Pyongyang at 3am is about the only push-back Kimmy and his pet vampires are going to pay any attention to, sylvain. Nobody wants to p1ss off the Chicoms, is why nothing has been done to date.
Most likely nothing -will- be done until either Kim Jong Il is dead and the new leadership contains somebody with a functional brain (think Gorbachev), or Kimmy gets feeling poorly and decides to take out some enemies before he takes his long nappy poo. You know, closing the barn door after the horse has run out and nuked Seoul. Or Tokyo, or Washington DC… etc.
I think that an -intelligent- response to Kimmy’s latest would have been a B2 strike on the launch pad the same day he launched, or maybe even the same day they attached the hoses to fuel the thing up.
If you build it, we will come.
That particular ship sailed a long time ago unfortunately. It was decided somewhere that allowing all these little dictatorships to develop nuclear weapons was easier than stopping them. Which will be true right up until the day one of these peckerheads uses one. Then, things will become expensive.
Attacking the launch pad would effectively end the ceasefire on that border. The immediate consequence, probably within minutes, would be one of Kim’s famous artillery orchestras that would take out one of East Asia’s most important economic centers, as well as more than a handful of American bases in the immediate vicinity of Seoul. I have my doubts about how effective – or intelligent – that would be.
Ohter than that, I generally agree. The ship sailed when MacArthur got sacked for being too aggressive towards the Chicoms. What a monumental mistake that turned out to be. Now the Chinese have their own version of Frankenstein doing stupid things. As for Kim and his death – well one of his sons is studying in Switzerland. Another was caught in Japan on a fake passport – he was there to visit Disneyland. We really are in for it, eh.
On the bright side, those wonderfully snobbish Swiss are benefitting from his, and his various cronies, bank accounts, and the money he sends to support his sons. They are “neutral” after all, and they get rich by reinvesting blood money from all over the world. Want to hurt terrorism and tinpot dictators? Nuke Switzerland. But I digress.
TJ and his cabinet = weak sister [not even plural since my sister could kick all their axxes if provoked – hell, I could kick a few of them myself]
You must take into full account that the dear leader has had a stroke. The strong stand of president Obama may lead to the Dear Leader laughing himself to death.