North Korea Tests a Nuclear Weapon

Not too much anyone can do about that. What is wrong with spending billions on nuclear weapons programs when your population is literally starving?

Is it wrong?

 

I wonder if he has realized that the world has moved on from Nukes yet.

 

Heh?

 

He's the Dear leader.

 

Nukes used to be the penis extension of world powers. The only people that care about nukes anymore are the ones who plan on using them. Kim Jong is not that person.

 

Look, get it right when are addressing greatness. It's Dear Leader.

Great Leader might have been Kim Il Sung.

 

It was. Lil' Kim is the Dear Leader.

Sigh. I've only been back in Seoul for a week and already the North are starting shit. Guess I have a bunch of panicked emails from my parents to look forward to tomorrow.

 

No worry. Fatty the 2nd, just want Obama's attention.

 

Well, I am glad to see our new policy of engagement and openess to dialogue is already getting results.

Snark aside, what does anyone expect. The only real issue is whether Kim is crazy or if he is acting crazy knowing he will get money.

I say the new policy is to make it clear to Kim, we do not really care if he starves his people into submission in order to build his toys. But one missle crosses the DMZ and his country gets flattened.

All this guy wants is attention (and money).

 

We should encourage them to conduct as many tests as quickly as possible.

That way, they'll expend their supply of plutonium and won't have any to make real weapons with.

 

I think Lil Kim deserved more credits than just labeling him crazy.

In the old time, the balance of Koreas depends on two alliances:

In the North: Soviet Union-China-North Korea;

In the South: US-Japan-South Korea;

Then two things happened: first Soviet Union collapsed, second China normalized relationship with South Korea.

So the North triangle was gone, and South triangle is still intact.

At the critical point, the Old Kim, Fatty the 1st, made his strategical judgment: North Korea needs to normalize relationship with US to make the country(or regime) sustainable. Or at least make equavlent relationship comparable with China-South Korea kind.

But North Korea needs a big bargaining chip which is nuclear bomb and the potential threat of spreading the technology into Mid East.

But US had a different idea. They want to destablize North Korea at the time when China's Northeast (Manchuria) was going through the closure waves of state enterprises with massive layoff of unemployed workers. Street protests were common, and think about adding millions of North Korean refugees there. A stone to kill two birds.

Of course, that strategy failed, abeit with waves of Western media attacks on China's refuse on accepting numbers of North Korean refugees.

So it backs to negotiation table. Until US and North Korea normalize relationship and as return North Korea gives up nukes, you will hear this repeatedly.

 

It's easy to say this when you have them and most others don't.

 

The US should step away from all talks with NK and stop all agreements with them for a few months. No interaction with them, no aid, nothing. Suspend the 6 party talks as well.

 

That will not work. North Korea would try to get their tech to sell into Mid East market.

US did need to talk with North Korea, but insisting on the monitoring regime on North Korea's denuclearization process.

 

Something they are already busy doing anyway. No I think the US needs to put NK on the ignore list for a few months and stop all, and I mean all interaction with NK. No aid, no talks, no nothing. It is obvious that NK will continue to advance their nuke program and test missiles regardless of what the US, China, etc... does or says. So I say let them go 6 months or a year with no US interaction.

 

Whatever food aid they get just frees up more resources for their nuclear arms program.

 

Like he's adverse to starving his own people to get what he wants.

 

Or let their people starve. Starving people FTW!

 

Even with aid the people in NK are starving because the food is diverted to his armed forces. I see no reason for the US to continue to feed the armed forces of NK.

 

Then we should invade. Invading countries FTW!...literally.

 

This is going to sound cruel, but well, yes. The starving people in Korea really are not our problem, they are starving because the country is lead by one of the most odious leaders on the planet. Every dollar of aid given usually ends up in the hands of the army, or otherwise strengthens the regime. I can understand the South Koreans wanting to aid the north, those suffering are their cousins. But as for me, I would not give one more dollar of aid to the north as long as it is under the current regime.