Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Axis of Evil Insanity Watch: North Korea threatens war
The Norks suggest that they might use nuclear weapons first.
Rogue state North Korea last night threatened a nuclear missile attack if trade and financial sanctions are not dropped, but also offered to return to negotiations about disbanding its atomic weapons program.
The new tactical swerve came a day after Pyongyang defied the world's major powers by exploding a small nuclear bomb, and almost 12 months after it boycotted the six-party disarmament talks.
"We hope the situation will be resolved before an unfortunate incident of us firing a nuclear missile comes," an unnamed North Korean official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
If they're not careful, they will scare the United Nations Security Council into doing something.
10 Comments:
By 
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Tue Oct 10, 01:50:00 PM:
Excuse my language, but holy fucking shit they have really lost it!
If North K actually uses a nuke, I really think I would try to see if the armed forces could make use of someone with my skillset. I both hope I have the balls to follow through with that statement and hope it never comes to that at the same time.
Then again, that all might be moot if we retaliated in kind.
By , at
Tue Oct 10, 02:29:00 PM:
The probability that N Korea actually set off a nuke goes down with each day.
The UNSC will talk and talk, and there will be meaningful statements and serious looks, but in the end, they will do nothing.
GWB will probably be checkmated in the upcoming mid-term elections, and will not get any AUMF against N Korea, or even be allowed to set up a naval blockade, as the new Democratic Majority will be mostly interested in hanging his hide out to dry. The next two years will be wasted in recriminations.
So watch, as this worthless little street bully gets what he wants, and there is a faction (not the whole government) in Beijing that will be very happy about it. It will prove their point about the impotence of the West and encourage them to do something more outrageous next year. The attitudes in China may (or may not) be reminiscent of the Mejii Restoration (Japan, in the 1920's) before the ascendancy of the militarists that eventually instigated WWII in Asia.
Copy the West technologies, but retain their own Oriental pragmatic outlook, expanding their "sphere of influence" by mercantilism and militarism throughout Asia.
China holds the leash on the yappy N Korean pit bull.
-David
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Tue Oct 10, 04:35:00 PM:
"China holds the leash on the yappy N Korean pit bull."
Koreans are the Irish of Asia. They walk on nobody's leash.
The national government in Beijing doesn't even hold the leash on a large part of China. As some of my customers in the south of China often say, "We are a long way from Beijing."
China is no threat to the West (unless the U.S. does something stupid regarding Taiwan). I know, I know--Genghis Khan. Well, he was a Mongol. More than 90 percent of the folks in China are Han people. Different cultures.
By Dawnfire82, at
Tue Oct 10, 07:48:00 PM:
I think that a, "Blow it out yer ass" is in order here.
By , at
Tue Oct 10, 11:01:00 PM:
"Although TBP can be used in commercial processes, such as the production of ink, plastics, and paint, it can also be used to extract fissile material from spent nuclear fuel. In December 2002, The Washington Times had reported that Chinese companies had sold 20 tons of TBP to North Korea. Although TBP can be used in commercial processes, U.S. intelligence officials reportedly believe that North Korea will use the chemical in its plutonium-based nuclear-weapons program. At the time, China dismissed these allegations. [Bill Gertz, "China Ships North Korea Ingredient for Nuclear Arms," The Washington Times, 17 December 2002; Foreign Ministry Spokesperson's Press Conference on December 19, 2002, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China]"
In 2003, China placed TBP (tributyl-n-phosphate) on a list of "dual use" chemicals with both civilian and proliferation attributes, at the urging of non-proliferation agencies.
Cow...barndoor...hmmm.
Gee, I wonder if any of that TBP found its way into North Korea's plutonium separation program?
Anyone want to make a wild guess wager?
-David
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Wed Oct 11, 01:07:00 AM:
Re: TBP
So the Chinese sold an industrial product that has a military application.
Do you know how often American exporters do the same thing around the world? About a million times a day. And many of the buyers aren't big fans of the U.S. Welcome to the world of international trade.
The French probably sold the ballpoint pens the North Korean scientists used to write their formulas. And the Americans donated free food that the North Korean government used to feed the scientists and soliders in the nuclear project.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Wed Oct 11, 01:36:00 AM:
If you want to find some key suppliers of nuclear equipment, look at America's buddies, the Germans and the Japanese. Several Muslim entrepreneurs in Germany have been identified as suppliers to Iran's nuclear program. And several weeks ago, the Japanese arrested the Korean-born CEO of a Japanese company for selling highly specialized equipment for North Korea's nuclear program.
By Dawnfire82, at
Wed Oct 11, 07:56:00 PM:
"If you want to find some key suppliers of nuclear equipment, look at America's buddies, the Germans and the Japanese."
There's actually a book published on that topic. (short, more like a collection of essays)
http://www.amazon.com/Treachery-Americas-Friends-Secretly-Enemies/dp/1400053153/sr=1-1/qid=1160610516/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7045070-4506531?ie=UTF8&s=books
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Wed Oct 11, 08:51:00 PM:
Thanks for the link, dawnfire82.
By Greatest Nation on Earth, at
Wed Jan 17, 10:06:00 PM:
This is all so very silly! In fact it is to the point of being rediculousness! We talk of how the North Koreans have gone insane because of their threat to launch a nucclear warhead in response to the economic sanctions. Foolishness! The North Koreans are believed to be making, or currently have, up the 5 nucclear warheads, each capable of several megatons (1 megaton equals one million tons of TNT). We (The greatest nation on earth, America), have several thousand warheads that amount to up to 25 megatons. If the North were to strike at the US with the weapons, America would *have* to respons, and would proceed to put a black hole in the previous location of North Korea, the arm pit of the world.
