North Korea doesn't blink

Bill Richardson will be called into the fold to go talk to Lil Kim Jong.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061011/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear_test_5

U.S. and South Korean monitors said they detected no new seismic activity Wednesday in North Korea.

In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Brian Maka, said: "We have received no credible information to confirm any of that. No seismic activity has been detected on our part."

White House spokesman Blair Jones said, "We have no independent confirmation of the second test."

 

Will they dance?

 

What this situation calls for is Kevin Dillon. He knew how to deal with those dastardly Commies ...

 

Why was there a spate of movies in the 1980's -- Red Dawn, The Rescue, The Iron Eagle franchise -- about teenage Americans beating entire nations of evildoers singlehandedly?

 

How come someone doesn't look at recent history and ask Bush and the Republicans "why?"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1908571.stm

Wednesday, 3 April, 2002, 12:06 GMT 13:06 UK
US grants N Korea nuclear funds

The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.

Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.

In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.

President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security interests of the United States".

North Korea has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the agreement in recent weeks.

It has been angered by President Bush's accusation that Pyongyang was part of an "axis of evil" producing weapons of mass destruction.

This annoyance was compounded by Washington's decision to withhold this year's certification that North Korea is keeping its side of the Agreed Framework.

It has systematically refused to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors into its nuclear facility at the Yongbyon research base north of the capital.

Pyongyang has justified its refusals by pointing out that the reactors are way behind schedule.

They were originally expected to have been completed next year, but now construction is not expected to even begin until August.

Another issue is the different interpretations of the inspections' timing.

According to the Framework, North Korea should be fully compliant with IAEA safeguards when "a significant proportion" of the project is completed.

The builders say that will be around May 2005, and given the inspections will take at least three years, this means that North Korea should start admitting inspectors now.

But Pyongyang believes that they should only allow the inspections to start, rather than finish, by that date.

The head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, a critic of the Agreed Framework, has warned that even when the new reactors are completed they may not be tamper-proof.

"These reactors are like all reactors, They have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we're trying to prevent it acquiring," Henry Sokolski told the Far Eastern Economic Review.

 

WOLVERINES!!!!!!

 

OK, I'll buy one of them, but five? Six?
I'd blame Reagan, but he made better movies than those.

 

Interesting article about the myth of the nuclear "suitcase bomb"

http://politicscentral.com/2006/10/10/was_north_koreas_blast_a_suitc.php

 

Good piece and I found the comment by this one reader rather spot-on.

Steve H. If you really go to bed worried about North Korea, I'd suggest some counseling. You've fallen victim to the GOP Boogeyman Virus. Commies, or Socialists, under the bed; closet homosexuals; liberals; North Koreans, Iranians and others hiding under the bed, waiting to crawl out and slit your throats at night?
Secondly, whenever someone posts on a site like this who may be between the ages of 18 and 40, I always suggest that you close down your computer and head to the nearest military recruiting office.
I served in Vietnam, as a combat infantryman, and was seriously wounded. I saw combat from the very point of the line, literally.
Had Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Hadley, Feith, Wolfowitz, et al, and you too, if you've never served, had been in Vietnam, we'd not be in such a predicament. There wouldn't have been a testosterone driven need to invade Iraq; there would have been more than adequate forces to contain the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan; we could have maintained TWO full divisions on the Korean Peninsula, not too mention a very vigorous naval presence off the coast.
Carter, Clinton, even Bush I: they were all smart enough to talk with the North Koreans.
The Soviets had 100 megaton city busters in their nuclear arsenal, but somehow, without torturing a single KGB agent, we WON the Cold War.
The complete fiasco that Bush has unwound in Iraq will haunt us far more than Vietnam.
So, Steve, and all the rest of you who talk tough: enlist.
There's a great need for bad asses on the front lines in Afghanisan and Iraq. Don't tarry.
Get a personal experience of picking up the goo that was your best friend from an IED attack ... then come back (if you survive), and give us your opinion on how easy it is to send other people off to war.
Don't continue to expect some lower class, less educated man or woman to fight for you in those places.
If we engage either North Korea OR Iran, the Draft WILL be reinstated, and I can't help but hope you get a notice, as well all the other bad asses on the Internet.

 

David Zucker, from Police Squad, Naked Gun and Kentucky Fried Movie fame, produces the commercial that the Dems don't want you to see.

 

Remember: Don't ever comment on anything -- not any one thing -- unless you're willing to do it yourself or have done it yourself.

So unless you've played baseball professionally, you have no right to comment on professional baseball. And unless you've been a police officer, you have no right to comment on police brutality. Etc., etc., etc.