...it's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there...
Someone new has crashed the party, although it's not like we weren't expecting them. Add North Korea to this list:
The United States
Great Britian
France
Russia
China
India
Pakistan
Israel
South Africa (quit the club in 1991)
i knew this was inevitable. South Africa's experience notwithstanding, how do you put the genie back in the bottle? Looking at things from the dictator's perspective, what incentive do they have not to lie, delay and continue jerking off the international community until they have a fully stocked arsenal? Who's going to stop them? A nuclear arsenal enables North Korea to bully their neighbors even more easily, why would anyone expect them to voluntarily negotiate away that power?
Now it looks like we're stuck in South Korea, as an already bad situation has gotten much, much worse.
I'm not quite sure how this changes anything. North Korea has always SAID a lot of things--including that it WASN'T working on nuclear weapons. And I'm pretty sure we've been planning assuming they did. If anything, this is a reason to pull our troops out of South Korea and to areas where they won't be incinerated in case of attack.
Posted by: ken on Feb. 10, 2005I'm pretty sure this only confirms what we already knew. Assuming they're not lying about this. . .
Posted by: Matt on Feb. 10, 2005Matt's right, there's nothing unexpected here, and in the twisted mind of Kim Bung Hol, it was the next logical step. He wanted bi-lateral talks with us so he could extort money from us, like he did with those no-good cocksuckers Willie and Jimmy. W wouldn't play dat game, and insisted in multi-lateral regional talks with his neighbors. Ultimately, the ChiComs will send him the message, "When we want shit out of you, we'll squeeze your head".
Besides, I still have that one in the basement that Rog gave me, and I know for a fact that his barn is FULL of them, second amendment ya know.
Posted by: Casca on Feb. 10, 2005Did i not say: "i knew this was inevitable?"
Posted by: annika on Feb. 10, 2005"Did i not say: 'i knew this was inevitable?'"
Isn't it curious that the answers "Yes, you did not" and "No, you did not" mean the same thing? Jus' sayin' is all. ;)
Posted by: Tuning Spork on Feb. 10, 2005For the record, we're not in Korea to keep the NorK's from coming South, but vice versa.
Posted by: Casca on Feb. 10, 2005Casca, huh?
Posted by: Ted on Feb. 11, 2005The logical thing to do would be to give nukes to Japan and South Korea. That would wake China up.
Posted by: Drew on Feb. 11, 2005i thought about the idea of universal proliferation, but there's a tremendous downside to that, especially with countries like Iran in control of fanatics who don't care about the MAD deterrent.
Posted by: annika on Feb. 11, 2005Japan has GOT to be working on something. Yes, I know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and we love peace bla bla bla, but they've GOT to be working on something.
Posted by: Ontario Emperor on Feb. 11, 2005