U.S. Preparing War Against Korea
Obama Lies About and Threatens North Korea
"Blast by N. Korea tests US policy; Overtures brought no nuclear pause; Obama promises strong response" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | May 26, 2009
WASHINGTON - North Korea's nuclear test yesterday morning, its most defiant move since President Obama took office, presents a direct challenge to the new US administration's more conciliatory approach to ending North Korea's nuclear program, according to current and former US officials and arms control specialists.
The underground explosion, which appeared to be more powerful than the test North Korea conducted in 2006, prompted a sharp condemnation by the United Nations Security Council, while Obama pledged to redouble efforts to pressure the Communist regime to give up its nuclear program.
"North Korea's actions endanger the people of Northeast Asia, they are a blatant violation of international law, and they contradict North Korea's own prior commitments," Obama told reporters at the White House before delivering Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery. "Now, the United States and the international community must take action in response."
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Obama did not specify what actions he is considering. A range of specialists suggested that moves could include banning even nonmilitary sales of goods to North Korea, and pushing China and Russia, which are North Korea's main trading partners, to increase pressure on reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. The specialists also said the test indicated that Obama's entreaties for North Korea to return to international disarmament talks - including dangling the prospect of one-on-one talks with the United States - have failed....
Michael J. Green, former senior Asia adviser to President George W. Bush. ".... [North Korea's leaders] mean it when they say they want to establish themselves as a nuclear weapons state."
Yeah, so the U.S. WON'T ATTACK THEM like it did NON-NUCLEAR IRAQ!
Btw, how did Israel get the nuclear bomb?
The United States conducted secret underground nuclear tests during the Cold War....
Yeah, but, you know....
The global condemnation of the actions was quick and resolute. France said it would push for tougher sanctions at the United Nations, while Russia called it a "serious blow" to arms control efforts. Meanwhile, China, a traditional North Korea ally that has joined in trying to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program, said it was "resolutely opposed" to its neighbor's actions.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John F. Kerry was traveling in China and said in a statement that "North Korea's reckless, stubborn, and persistent steps to attract international attention will never buy it the security, legitimacy, and respect it seeks."
That could also be applied to Israel, Johnnie!
And WTF was he doing in China, Globe (they never told me)?
Some specialists called for quick punitive measures, including returning North Korea to the US State Department's list of countries that sponsor terrorism, which would bar it from certain aid. North Korea was removed from that list last year as an incentive to curtail its nuclear program.
Henry Sokolski, a member of the bipartisan US Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism: ".... This should be a wakeup call. Trying to keep them from being a nuclear power is not going to happen."
But Sokolski and others acknowledge there are few alternatives to pressing ahead with diplomatic incentives in exchange for North Korea's agreement to dismantle its nuclear program - including a possible guarantee not to attack the country, which is believed to be obsessed with the prospect of an American invasion.
I can't imagine why they would think that. It's not like we invade peo.... oh, right.
Using military force against North Korea would likely set off a major conflict drawing in South Korea and possibly other Asian countries, while prompting an enormous humanitarian crisis, officials said. North Korea has at least one million troops just miles from South Korea's capital of Seoul. Harsh sanctions by themselves could backfire, forcing a regime controlled by hardliners to act out even more aggressively.
Hey, when you want or need a war, who cares?
Kim "is gradually being succeeded by a coterie of hard-line loyalists and members of the Kim family," warned Victor D. Cha, former director of Asian affairs at the National Security Council under President George W. Bush....
The "liberal" Globe can't find any other sources than the former administration?
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