N. Korea warns Japan against targeting rocket - CNN.com
Doesn't look like Japan is going to f*ck around with Pyongyang...
Doesn't look like Japan is going to f*ck around with Pyongyang...
N. Korea warns Japan against targeting rocket - CNN.com
Doesn't look like Japan is going to f*ck around with Pyongyang...
It was the Axis of Evil speech that did it. Once Kim & Co. saw that the Bush admin wasn't going to play ball they decided the only way not to get invaded was to have nuclear weapons. Iran did the same thing and Saddam would have if he could have.
Bush didn't realize that his words carried the consequences they did.
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | North Korea 'has launched rocket'
".The rocket lifted off shortly after 11:30 a.m. local time from a military site in a rural area called Musudan-ri, near the town of Hwadae, on the country's northeast coast, then arced over the Sea of Japan and Pacific Ocean. ...
...The rocket is the newest step in a program of advanced-weapons development that North Korea's authoritarian government uses to maintain power and force payments from other countries....
.. For the United States, the launch presents the new administration of President Barack Obama with its first test of whether it can rally the international community to punish a rogue regime. ..."
I guess it's official: Iran, the PRC, the Russian Federation, Pakistan, Noth Korea, et al, have seen Obama's mettle tested, have his seen his failure to respond, and so, see him as severely lacking ...
Launch confirmed. Launch successful.
Why did Bush not try to engage North Korea diplomatically in his 8 freaking years? Why did "W" just say we're not negotiating with terrorists - and dig in his cowboy boots like a stubborn child - inevitably leading to this?
...yes at time the shame of getting ASS whipped by N korea was embarrasing and yet is today...i pray our regime in washington can and will get the revenge we so deserve....yes i have been drinking this friday nite...ready for a fight..step up PRESIDENT OBAMA.
I agree with you... I just recall hearing all this blanketed diplomacy vs. war rhetoric.
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some carpet bombing of sorts would be an economically and ease-o-implementation way to tether this yippy chihuahua back a bit.
I guess it's official: Iran, the PRC, the Russian Federation, Pakistan, Noth Korea, et al, have seen Obama's mettle tested, have his seen his failure to respond, and so, see him as severely lacking ...
I really want to see what Japan and the U.S. do in response.
Launch confirmed. Launch successful.
Why did Bush not try to engage North Korea diplomatically in his 8 freaking years? Why did "W" just say we're not negotiating with terrorists - and dig in his cowboy boots like a stubborn child - inevitably leading to this?
Not so fast....
On a more optimistic front, many pundits are seeing this a a cry for help by North Korea in a move intended more to pressure the United States into direct talks with high level leaders than to threaten it militarily. Since Obama has already inicated such a willingness to consider such a move, this may have been unnecessary. In any event, the launch can be seen as something of an embarassment as well as a hollow and gratuitous gesture.
How original of you.a compelling argument can be made that North Korea's actions are designed to garner attention from the US President, in a desperate bid for help and assistance, using its only bargaining chip, the threat of military action (and it can only be a threat -- North Korean strategists were genuinely shocked and awed by the display they witnessed of American capabilities in Iraq)
realistically, at this point, no significant credible military response could have issued from Pyongyang,
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they would have lost a lot more by issuing a military response, and they know it