Posted by
Brian Peters on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:47:57 PM
Townhall has headlines scrolling across the top: "White House Downplays North Korea threats" and "Clinton Warns NKorea Against Belligerent Actions". Now,swing across the Globe and look at the Russian reaction: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is taking security measures as a precaution against the possibility tension over North Korea could escalate into nuclear war, news agencies quoted officials as saying on Wednesday.
The Russian's understand the North Korean mentality. Between their words and actions, they understand that the North Koreans are serious in their movements and plans.
Why would North Korea go to war? The number one reason it's a son's desire to please his father's wish. Kim Il-sung wanted to unite the Korea's under his communist regime. But time and health ran out. Kim Jong Il said he would complete his father's dream. But guess what...time and health are running out. Hardliners, knowing full well that time is against them, are pushing to help the Kim's complete their dream....which is a nightmare by all standards. Regardless, the hardliners in North Korea know that their time is linked to Kim Jong Il, and once he's gone, their political, power-trip livelyhood will be gone as well.
The number two reason: they 'know' that Washington D.C. is now being run by an inexperienced and inept bunch. The North Korean's, Al Qaeda, Iran, Venezuela, have all been running 'test' against the 'new Administration' for reaction. Now they know. With the following immediate reactions from the Obama Administration, they know that impetus of action is in their favor:
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned on Wednesday that North Korea faces consequences for its nuclear and missile tests and denounced its "provocative and belligerent" threats.......
"North Korea has made a choice" to violate U.N. Security Council resolutions, ignore international warnings and abrogate commitments made during six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, Clinton said.
"There are consequences to such actions," she said, referring to discussions in the United Nations meant to punish North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests.
Clinton did not provide specifics, saying only that the intent of diplomats was to "try to rein in the North Koreans" and get them to fulfill commitments made in the nuclear talks."
I bet the North Korean Generals are shaking in their boots at this: "try to rein in the North Koreans" 'TRY??!!' What is that..'try?'
And these timely responses that are not only being read here in the USA, but by Intel Officers in Pyongyang:
"The White House says North Korea's threats against South Korea will not give it the attention Pyongyang wants and will only add to its isolation.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that North Korea should live up to its promises and stop its provocations against the South.
Gibbs says North Korea has threatened to end the armistice many times in past decades but the peace has held."
This reminds B.E.V. of an old phrase and a title of a book/movie.....'That was then, this is now."
Three: the Axis of Evil, which does exist, headed back in the 1940's by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, now run by Islamo-Fascist Iran and Demogogue-Communist North Korea, knows the U.S. Military, while still a very potent opponent, is stretched horribly thin.
Four: the U.S. economy is teetering. Face it, if it was going good, GM would not be heading into bankruptcy, the State of California would not be on the verge of collaspe, etc.
Five: Russia and China have made no real overt moves to stop the North Koreans.
Six: Refer back again to number two: A disorganized and oblivious to reality Obama Administration. Again, Intel Officers in Pyongyang are reading this story as B.E.V. is:
"The nation's two intelligence chiefs are locked in a turf battle over overseas posts.....jockeying between CIA Director Leon Panetta and National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair...."
"After the wind blows down the teleprompter of Vice President Biden at the Air Force Academy graduation he joked "what am I going to tell the President when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?"
CAIRO — The official word is that nothing has been decided about where President Obama will give his speech when he visits Cairo next Thursday to address the Muslim world.
It is supposed to be a secret.
There are, of course, matters of security for the president of the United States when he comes to visit this crowded, chaotic city on the Nile filled with quite a few people who hold a good deal of animosity for the United States.
But it is not a secret.
“He is speaking in Cairo University,” said Ramadan Abdel Al, 40, who manages a small store that sells men’s shirts on the 26th of July Street. He had stepped onto the street for a cigarette break. “I read it in the paper.”
So dear reader, what do you think, the North Korean power players are thinking after reading items like this? Do you think they take Obama and the U.S. seriously enough not to go to war? I just hope and pray the Pentagon has given our troops in South Korea plenty of ammunition and has at least the U.S.S. ......never mind....I just read this on open source news:
"About 550 Puget Sound Naval Shipyard workers are in Japan for the ground-breaking first maintenance period on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in a foreign country."
"The four-month job on the USS George Washington began on Jan. 5 at Yokosuka Naval Base and is expected to be completed in May.
So that may shoot having that Carrier in the area for assistance. It's now not a wonder why the North Korean's have ramped up their war talk.....one thing you must understand.....talk only goes so far....action has to soon follow. Our USAF bases in Korea and in Japan had better be on high alert for sappers.