From Yahoo:
North Korea warned Friday that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war, and appeared to launch its own artillery drills within sight of an island it showered with a deadly barrage this week.So, North Korea says the actions of the United States, in it's support of South Korea, are bringing the region to the brink of war.
The fresh artillery blasts were especially defiant because they came as the U.S. commander in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, toured the South Korean island to survey damage from Tuesday's hail of North Korean artillery fire that killed four people.
None of the latest rounds hit the South's territory, and U.S. military officials said Sharp did not even hear the concussions, though residents on other parts of the island panicked and ran back to the air raid shelters where they huddled earlier in the week as white smoke rose from North Korean territory.
Tensions have soared between the Koreas since the North's strike Tuesday destroyed large parts of this island, killing two civilians as well as two marines in a major escalation of their sporadic skirmishes along the sea border.
The attack — eight months after a torpedo sank a South Korean warship further west, killing 46 sailors — has also laid bare weaknesses in South Korea's defense 60 years after the Korean War. The skirmish forced South Korea's beleaguered defense minister to resign Thursday, and President Lee Myung-bak on Friday named a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the post.
The heightened animosity between the Koreas is taking place as the North undergoes a delicate transition of power from leader Kim Jong Il to his young, inexperienced son Kim Jong Un, who is in his late 20s and is expected to eventually succeed his ailing father.
They're challenging us.
I guess the question is, is Obama as much of a man as Leonardo D'Caprio?
Okay, I'll go out on a limb here and made a prediction.
ReplyDeleteWe will go to war against North Korea -- in BHO's attempt to hold power and to our economy out of the doldrums.
AND...
ReplyDeleteBHO will be constitutionally able to use wartime executive powers to the max.
ESPECIALLY if that "missile" in Southern California had even any connection with North Korea.
AND...Even if the missile had no connection with NK, BHO could put out the word that it did.
Sound impossible?
Well, look at all the other impossibilities happening right now -- across the political spectrum, both domestic and foreign.
I believe that missile was launched by the Chinese. It was ONE YEAR TO THE DAY after a Chinese sub surfaced right next to one of our carriers.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I do think this North Korean agitation is part of a Chinese plan to test Obama's resolve.
Taiwan ought to be shaking in their boots.
Pasto,
ReplyDeleteI agree that the missile, if indeed it was a missile, was launched by the Chinese.
I don't trust China and North Korea not to collaborate on the qt, though.
I was going to ask WTF? But "wartime executive powers" answers that question. That and "China".
ReplyDeleteBut the NorKs? A million-plus troops from a starving dictatorship and we're going to let our 39,000 guys sit there in the line of fire instead of yanking them out, supplying the SouKs with nouks and telling them to have a good time?
Of course an extended conflict with China proxy NorKs would almost totally distract attention from the Jihad, the domestic advancers of which would be certain to portray themselves as "good Americans" ready to stand up against the NorK menace.
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ReplyDeletethe domestic advancers of which would be certain to portray themselves as "good Americans" ready to stand up against the NorK menac
Yep.
I hadn't thought of that exactly, but I agree.
AND...
BHO could forge alliances with Islamic nations at the same time.
AND...
ReplyDeleteBHO would get re-elected in 2012.
America doesn't change Presidents during wartime.
Forget the WOT. The very term is stupid.
Here is my theory:
ReplyDeleteI think China is sending us a message, both through that 'missile', their dropping the dollar (which our MSM has made nary a peep), and I would not be surprised if the Chinese ORDERED the Norks to do what they are doing.
Obama and his appointees are militarily and economically weak and the Chicoms know it; they are making a power play.
Yes, I think it is likely the Chinese asked North Korea to move ahead with this agitation.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I think the other speculation here about how this could distract us from the Jihad, in a way that Obama would consider advantageous, is a very interesting scenario I had not considered. It makes sense.
My opinion, the whole time, has been that the Jihad is, in large part, proxy warfare, against the US, on the part of China.
So, if we have a President who is dumb enough to refuse to recognize the reality of what Bush called the Axis of Evil, well, that would play right into China's hands wouldn't it?
This is only the beginning. We have a weak, callow president who's not even qualified to be a Chicago ward heeler and we are on the brink of bankruptcy.
ReplyDeletePrepare for more tests.
Brooke's comment is spot-on.
ReplyDeleteSo is that of Pastorius.
"BHO could forge alliances with Islamic nations at the same time."
ReplyDeleteisn't it what americans and the russians have been doing?
Kim is a stupid midget.. and squats to pee...
ReplyDeletein the winter they dont pay or feed the military.. so they have to go to the vilages and abduct children to eat.. it is said they prefer 14 year old girls.. i guess their mothers didnt tell them not to play with their food..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/1432366/Famine-struck-N-Koreans-eating-children.html