October 9, 2006
Briefly, On NK, Nukes and Diplomacy
I rarely have anything to say about this topic, because I perceive only profound stupidity in the entire quagmire of so-called “diplomatic relations” between Kim Jong Il and the rest of the world.
Here we have a tinpot communist dictator who starves his people and contributes absolutely nothing to the rest of the world other than malevolence and blackmail-based demands for aid he wouldn’t need if he didn’t isolate his country from the rest of the world in order to run his pitiful little “kingdom” unimpeded.
Here we have a whole bunch of stupid diplomats and politicians, including our own, who continue this idiotic pavane with that insane little shit, who has already demonstrated that he’s about as contemptuous of diplomatic overtures as are most Arab leaders, only potentially more dangerous than most of those — here’s an Asian Ahmadmanjihad who doesn’t even bother to employ pseudo-theological motives in his reasoning, he actually hasn’t a leg to stand on in support of his maniacy. He just yips and yaps like an attention starved chihuahua, and all the great powers of the world and all the world’s media shower him with the attention he craves, plead with him almost to the point of licking his backside, to accept bribes to stand down his nuclear weapons programs.
Here we have his latest nuke test, and the U.S. proposing sanctions in the event the little shit doesn’t want to re-enter talks already proven a useless waste of time.
I don’t generally waste bandwidth blogging about this situation because it’s simply too assinine to bother. We, and at least five other countries that could be injured by the irresponsible whims of Kim Jong Illness, could more than handily wipe him off the face of the earth once and for all, eliminating the problem, and use the freed-up diplomatic assets to address issues that require infinitely more consideration involving nations whose very existences are of far more import to the rest of the world.
http://hardastarboard.mu.nu/wp-trackback.php?p=534
October 9th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
1) China could solve this problem very quickly if it really wanted to. Perhaps the threat of Japan going nuclear will shift the cost/benefit balance enough to give China sufficient incentive to act.
On the other hand, the U.S. has few options given the size of the NK army relative to the SK army, plus the proximity of Seoul to the DMZ.
2) There do seem to be early signs that the NK nuclear test was a failure.
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002832.html
This should become more evident in the next few days as more data becomes available for expert analysis.
October 9th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
CT –
We still continue to afford His Illness with the elbow room to try — and we kowtow to his every effort. We allow this pissant to occupy our calendar and absorb our tax money in one way and another.
If he comes up with a legitimate nuclear threat, his instability could prompt him to use it. If he doesn’t and he’s all bark, it would still be incumbent upon us to expend seven and eight digit precautionary figures.
On the other hand, taking permanent decisive action would eliminate the need to have to further consider the matter.
October 9th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Seth,
Il Jong has missiles and artillery trained on Seoul. If we strike him now he will destroy the capital of S. Korea and devastate its economy, not the mention risk the lives of millions at stake there. This guy is crazy enough to do it if he believes that we will remove him from power. He wants regime preservation.
We have to move carefully. I don’t see a quick solution scenario to this, but we must gather more information and weigh everything before acting.
October 10th, 2006 at 2:41 am
Atheling2 –
Time is not a luxury we have when a maniac is racing to build a nuclear arsenal. Once he has nukes and delivery systems in place it will be too late — Seoul will be the least of our worries.
We have long had the Intelligence, the weapons, the technology and the SpecOps assets to address his threat to Seoul, and that threat is pretty much an excuse, at this point, for not committing to dealing with Kim once and for all.
October 11th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Seth wrote:
Time is not a luxury we have when a maniac is racing to build a nuclear arsenal.
Fortunately it isn’t your call Seth.
No bombs away quite yet.
October 11th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Arthur –
It figures that you would rather wait until a couple of nukes have wiped out a few million people, then take action, rather than take preemptive action so all those people get to live.
The value the left holds for human life can be gauged by the number of fetuses your lot has managed to murder in the past couple of decades.
That’s a typical liberal approach — bury your head in the sand until disaster has struck, then find a way to blame it on the Republicans who wanted to take action to prevent it to begin with.
You’re right, fortunately it isn’t my call — at least fortunately for Kim Jong Illness.
October 11th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Seth wrote:
You’re right, fortunately it isn’t my call — at least fortunately for Kim Jong Illness
Let’s see what happens as the Chinese get involved. Lots more diplomacy and talking before you get to blow everyone up Seth.
October 11th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Arthur –
It is not a question of “blowing everyone up”.
It is more a question of preventing everyone from being blown up.
I, personally, don’t see the Chinese having much diplomatic success with Kim unless they assassinate the son of a bitch and destroy all his nuclear venues.
October 12th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
C’mon Seth. Don’t go all sensitive on us.
I, personally, don’t see the Chinese having much diplomatic success with Kim unless they assassinate the son of a bitch and destroy all his nuclear venues.
Time will tell Seth. But sanctions and arm twisting will get us through this. Not violence.
In the meantime N. Korea has no delivery system for the nukes they haven’t got anyway.
You’re probably safe to enjoy your dinner this evening.
October 12th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
And how would you know what they have and don’t have, Arthur? Are you Secret Squirrel in your professional life?
And being a 1 meal a day kind of guy, I always enjoy dinner. Tonight’s was excellent and since I wasn’t having Chinese food and I don’t eat kimchee, I didn’t think of Kimchee Dung Illness nor of Beijing even briefly.