United Nations Failure: North Korea Threatens Nuclear War
North Korea’s communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new U.N. sanctions.
The North’s defiance presents a growing diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with his South Korean counterpart on the North’s missile and nuclear programs.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told security-related ministers during an unscheduled meeting Sunday to “resolutely and squarely” cope with the North’s latest threat, his office said. Lee is to leave for the U.S. on Monday morning.
A commentary Sunday in the North’s main state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, claimed the U.S. has 1,000 nuclear weapons in South Korea. Another commentary published Saturday in the state-run Tongil Sinbo weekly claimed the U.S. has been deploying a vast amount of nuclear weapons in South Korea and Japan.
Whatever happened to the “PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan?
Appeasement though negotiation = the Obama Administration’s foreign policy.
Obama and Hillary Clinton have failed.
President Obama needs to get tough now or there WILL BE a NUCLEAR WAR with hundreds of thousands of dead South Koreans and Japanese.
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grayabbott
if north korea wants to start a nuclear war with the united states,they had better think twice.they will be wiped out the
minute they fire their first missle off.
Patrick Egan
The troubles in NK offer the world a great opportunity for unity. The world community should not turn away from the starving children and tortured peoples of NK. Here is a chance for Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, and the Western powers to unite, overthrow a totalitarian regime, and reunite Korea. The justice it would bring should be reward enough. But there would be other rewards: the Western powers, including Japan and South Korea, working with Russia and China would lead to greater understanding which would lead to greater cooperation. An economic reward would eventually follow. Like with Germany, the initial unification of the two Koreas would take a toll on the economy, but after that, Korea would grow strong and benefit us all by its economic growth.
Korea is unlike other countries with despicable regimes (e.g. Iran). This is a country divided. And though no country likes foreign armies in its borders, the goal of reunification and freedom would mollify those concerns.
Future generations will judge us harshly as they study how strong we are but did nothing to end the misery of the people of North Korea.
Government Mcstoley
Ok guys i work for the government and i can say i knows whats going on here obama had team up with china russia british south korea india and more countries The United Nations is now expanded therefore north korea will be wiped off map and south korea will make north korea into there country….south korea will be much bigger after north korea is off the map ……united states + russia = unstopable russia have everything united states got good thing there on teams the reason why north korea are brave enough to face to us is becuase they have nothing to loose and the president of north korea wants to test out his military and new advanced weapons
think about it united stats can wipe out any country with 1 bomb if they wanted to but they choose not to because they dont want to kill innocent people ….obama and other country rulers told north korea president that they will indeed wipe out north korea if they continue to launch missles without approval
Sorry for typing errors and bad grammer i was rushing
Government Mcstoley
forgot to say there will be a world war 3 soon
usa lemon law
Easy now, this has all happened before (and will happen again so long as Kim Jong Il or someone from his family, like his son, is in power)
Let’s look at the formula that’s been very well established over the years.
1) North Korea is essentially contained, by and large. Their only economic trade outside of their borders is with China and whomever they can sell soviet era weaponry to. While they trade with China, even the Chinese have grown wary of relations with North Korea over the years. It’s nothing personal, it’s just that Kim Jong is completely and utterly batshit crazy, and they know this very well from putting up with him for years and years.
2) Because North Korea is largely contained, and therefore mostly forgotten on the other side of one of the most formidable lines of defense established at the 38th parralel, the only way that Kim Jong can get anyone to even notice that N Korea still exists is to do something belligerent and flashy. Like setting off a nuke underground or test-firing a missile
3) Precedent, precedent, precedent. If you’ll remember, a couple years ago (or was it one year ago?) when they set off their first underground nuke…. what was the response? We promised massive amounts of free food, oil and other commodities if they gave up their nuclear program. Now, we gave them their food and there were images on TV of a cooling tower being collapsed by the N Koreans, but it was not their main reactor, we knew that they didn’t really disassemble their program but we didn’t make much of a stink about it (keep in mind this was all during the Bush administration, dealing with a nation that he included in the so-called axis of evil) Why was there not a harder response from us?
Because it’s all a game.
Every couple of years, North Korea does something flashy to get attention, we throw a few trinkets at them and say “okay, now go back behind your wall”
The reason why this time around is particularly more flashy than normal is for a couple reasons.
1) Since Obama took office he pretty much hasn’t said or done jack about N Korea. They’re not even on the radar of this administration as Obama’s dealing with a nation in the throes of a collapse that’s been coming ever since the early 70’s when we went off the gold standard. So Kim Jong, the batshit crazy nutcase that he is, is personally enraged that the shiny new U.S president hasn’t so much as looked in his direction yet.
2) Kim Jong is getting old, and the fact that he’s batshit crazy combined with old age is making him even more unstable. Possibly more unstable in that he might order an all out attack against S Korea, but no one is seriously concerned about that. The real concern is that now that it’s clear that his time as absolute ruler is coming to a close, there are lots of generals in the army jockeying for position. One line of thought is that a group of generals will take over and run the country, either using him or his son as a kind of figurehead that will be trotted out in front of the masses from time to time. Another line of thought is that Kim Jongs son actually will take the reigns as absolute dictator, in which case various generals right now will be jockeying for position to garner favor with him, in order to secure a good spot in his future regime.
Just my two cents