Yesterday as we honored our soldiers, N.Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il disrupted the world by detonating a nuclear bomb underground and test firing two missles. His actions shook neighboring countries and angered others. In 2006 he agreed to a resolution that would ban N.Korea's development of nuclear weapons and clearly violated it. President Obama addressed the actions and expressed his concerns, stating that "we will seek and support a strong United Nations Security Council resolution with concrete measures to curtail North Korea's nuclear and missile activities."
The President also reiterated the United States committment to assist S. Korea and Japan from Kim Jong-Il's nonsense, and attempts to be Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction..."I will not be ignored!".Speaking with leadership in in Japan, both President Obama and Prime Minister Taro Aso intend to work with Russia, China and South Korea to enforce the resolution curbing N. Korea's ambitions of nuclear weapons.
Appeasment, I'm sorry, sanctions will work. History has proven it.
ReplyDeleteElliot, what is intended by President Obama, PM Aso and the other nations is still unclear. I am not suggesting appeasement, nor do I believe the aforementioned leaders or countries. Again, nice try with the tired language that even Chris Matthews has debunked.
ReplyDeleteI see my point has been missed.
ReplyDeleteAt this point in time, what can we do that we already haven't done to North Korea? The US and its allies have sanctioned North Korea so many times, I think we've all lost count.
The way Obama operated, at least experience with them, has told me nothing much will be done. We'll probably just hear Hillary say something like "We must not let North Korea obtain the means to produce nuclear weapons which will treaten our allies."
And before you ask me "Well, o.k. smartass, what should we do?" My answer would be, we need to use some sort of proactive solution to keep uranium 235 out of Kimmie's hands. Set up a border patrol, eliminate it from Iran and other possible nuke countries, note the word possible, and in an extreame case, occupy them, but again, in an extreame case, occupy them.
Back to my point though, I see nothing but something like a slap on the hand to Kim, and ultimatly, no net gain of anything good for us, and Kim will resume his desire and means of gaining U-235. Ultimatly, appeasment.