North Korea Says it has The Bomb. Now what?
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:14 pm
I'm sure everyone has read something in the last couple of days about North Korea pulling out of multilateral nuclear talks and saying quite vocally that it has nuclear weaponry and that its justification for having such armaments is to defend itself against the United States.
Such a revelation, if true, stands to completely destabilize that region. China, Japan, and South Korea are all immediately at risk of imminent nuclear attack at any time. Its the cuban missile crisis for that part of the world.
Obviously North Korea will probably not stop developing weapons until it has the capabilities to launch missiles directly at the United States. so the question is, what should we be doing about this problem? As much as I dislike giving credibility to anything George Bush says, I have to admit his labling N.Korea as a member of the "axis of evil" was very well justified. However, what does he intend to do about the problem?
Currently, if the administration were going on the same grounds for justification of an invasion that it used to attack Iraq, it would have all the justification it needs. A nation gone rogue, a dictator gone mad, and a very real threat of weapons of mass destruction. We have done no finger pointing this time, which would spare us from any humilitating "intelligence failures" such as what the administration has endured over the past several months because of the faulty Iraq intelligence, no, we have the rogue nation itself saying that it indeed DOES have weapons. And if they are lying and we were to invade, well, they shouldnt have cried wolf, because somehow I doubt any of the neighboring countries would be condeming any action we would be to take, unlike Iraqs muslim neighbors.
What I believe is required now is an extremely hard line stance against North Korea. We must form a multilateral coalition in that region with the objective of containing North Korea if at all possible, or if nessecary, a multilateral, multi front invasion in order to depose its current regime and install a less hostile, and preferably democratic one (altho I would wager that China would have otherwise, but at this point I think I could tolerate a less renegade new communist regime in north korea that doesnt have the bomb).
This threat is quite real, unlike all the doubts that surrounded the iraq "threat". What this administration and indeed the entire world should be doing is dealing with it properly. Isolate and contain. Embargos, blocakdes, complete isolation. We need to let North Korea know that there will be consequences for trying to threaten the world with nukes. What do the rest of you think?
Such a revelation, if true, stands to completely destabilize that region. China, Japan, and South Korea are all immediately at risk of imminent nuclear attack at any time. Its the cuban missile crisis for that part of the world.
Obviously North Korea will probably not stop developing weapons until it has the capabilities to launch missiles directly at the United States. so the question is, what should we be doing about this problem? As much as I dislike giving credibility to anything George Bush says, I have to admit his labling N.Korea as a member of the "axis of evil" was very well justified. However, what does he intend to do about the problem?
Currently, if the administration were going on the same grounds for justification of an invasion that it used to attack Iraq, it would have all the justification it needs. A nation gone rogue, a dictator gone mad, and a very real threat of weapons of mass destruction. We have done no finger pointing this time, which would spare us from any humilitating "intelligence failures" such as what the administration has endured over the past several months because of the faulty Iraq intelligence, no, we have the rogue nation itself saying that it indeed DOES have weapons. And if they are lying and we were to invade, well, they shouldnt have cried wolf, because somehow I doubt any of the neighboring countries would be condeming any action we would be to take, unlike Iraqs muslim neighbors.
What I believe is required now is an extremely hard line stance against North Korea. We must form a multilateral coalition in that region with the objective of containing North Korea if at all possible, or if nessecary, a multilateral, multi front invasion in order to depose its current regime and install a less hostile, and preferably democratic one (altho I would wager that China would have otherwise, but at this point I think I could tolerate a less renegade new communist regime in north korea that doesnt have the bomb).
This threat is quite real, unlike all the doubts that surrounded the iraq "threat". What this administration and indeed the entire world should be doing is dealing with it properly. Isolate and contain. Embargos, blocakdes, complete isolation. We need to let North Korea know that there will be consequences for trying to threaten the world with nukes. What do the rest of you think?
North Korea is north of the equator, so it's winter right now. We can fight better in the cold and in the dark than the sissy North Korean "military".
Those incompetent commmunist "scientists" don't have the brains or the money to put a Nuke together like the good 'ole USA.