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October 17, 2006

Second North Korean Nuke Test on the Way?

So say South Korean government sources, according to this news story:

South Korea is "aware" of fresh signs that North Korea may be preparing for a second nuclear weapon test and has strengthened its intelligence-sharing with the United States, Yonhap News quoted a government official as saying Tuesday.
The unidentified official, in the wake of media reports U.S. spy satellites have detected suspicious activity at North Korean sites that could be preparations for another test, said, "We are preparing for uncertainties but are very cautious in analyzing North Korea- related intelligence."

He said the detected activity could be simply part of military activities unrelated to a nuclear bomb test.

South Korea has been on a holiday from reality for the past ten years or so - somehow thinking that NK would just go away, and that the United States was at fault for anything going wrong...the nuke test seems to have awakened them from dreamland, and placed them squarely back in the real world. I understand South Korean aprehension - after all, their capitol city is within artillery range of NK, mostly Koreans will die in any conflict, and even if a peaceful dissolution of NK is engineered, it will still become a heavy burden for South Korea as they repair the damage of 60 years of Stalinism.

But NK must be opposed, and it must be destroyed in the by and by, because it is proven itself incapable of either governing its own people, or acting responsibly on the world stage. How the final destruction will be engineered remains to be seen, but NK's days are numbered.

Posted by Mark Noonan at October 17, 2006 02:00 AM

Comments

Destroyed? By who? What part are we to play in the demise of North Korea? The Chinese have watched NK saber rattling for years, and done nothing. And, setting aside UN resolutions, NK's Kim Jong Il is evil, starving 2 million people to death in 94-95, and showing utter disreguard for who it shares it military technology with. Now this one leg of the axis of evil has a nuclear bullet in the gun that it waves at the rest of the world. And how does Bush meet this threat?
"Diplomacy has to be allowed to run its course."
Appeasement, if ever I heard it.
Why the sudden reliance on diplomacy, on UN diplo speak? Or do Iraq, and our lopsided financial relationship with China present obstacles that neither Bush nor any of his synchophants could ever hope to overcome.
What happens when the Iranians get nukes from the Russians? Are we going to wait for diplomacy to take its course their, too?
Forces are taking shape which could form the theatres for the next world war...and Bush ignorance of Afghanistan, and his misguided adventure in Iraq may make Chamberlians "diplomatic offensive" in 1936, as effective as Bush's in 2006...with results that might prove to be as calamitious.
Neither republicans or democrats have the guts to tell the American people what's coming or the sacrifices necessary to prevail in the upcoming conflicts born of this administrations incompetence or the impotence of the opposition. We need a third party.
I'm confident it will appear. It's just a matter of when.

Posted by: Just Another Taxpayer at October 17, 2006 06:08 PM

Come on guys. Where are you? This is one of the triad that forms the axis of evil. Where is your response? Where is the bellicose triumphalism of old? Where is the absolute certainty that God is on your side?

Posted by: Just Another Taxpayer at October 19, 2006 03:36 PM

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