Is North Korea messing up?

Question

Today Bush has decided to do a few (he says very little) arial bombings on N Korean nuke sites to demonstrate the world's oppostion to the proliferation of atomic bombs. Do you think we should do this or that we should allow some proliferation of atmoic bombs?

Answer 1

I have not heard that President Bush decided anything of the sort. Quite to the contrary, he publicly stated yesterday that diplomacy will remain the current course of action. Let's be honest here, N. Korea is looking for a reason to use its only real national asset, its military. The Bush administration hasn't had the greatest track record in the last couple of years with international activity, and much of that is because of the tendency to shy away from diplomacy in lieu of taking immediate action (military or otherwise). We have actually been very consistent with N. Korea under Bush. We won't talk bilateraly with them and engage in policy with Kim Jong Il without the involvement of N. Korea's immediate neighbors South Korea, Russia, Japan, and China. We do this to maintain our credibility in dealing with a nut. Clinton was able to buy Kim Jong Il off for a few years with millions of dollars in energy development money, but when you cater to loonies, you only delay the inevitable, and talking one on one with him right now would be giving him what he wants (buying him off). Clinton's track record with North Korea was a pattern of offering carrots with no sticks. We kept trying to buy good behavior, and they kept breaking the rules without any kind of real punitive action. We weren't successful in that policy or we wouldn't have nuclear (pronounced "nu-clee-err") tests going on now. All we did was delay the inevitable. We aren't going to bomb North Korea right now. There are still several diplomatic solutions to carry out, and we actually have support from China, Russia, and the UN on this one, which we aren't used to under the Bush doctrine. Plus, where are we going to get the military assets to engage the North Korean million man army right now? We are extending deployments for soldiers and marines to more than a year right now to support our operations in Iraq, and the marines have called up some of their Individual Ready Reserve personnel, which has not been done in more than 4 decades. We're not in a place to start another war right now, and everyone in the administration knows that Kim Jong Il is just looking for that kind of attention. North Korea will find itself at the business end of sanctions from the world like what the US has placed on them, plus a partial blockade, and a lot of pressure from China and Russia, who have the military power to flatten North Korea. This has a lot more life left in it before we will be pushed to drop bombs on the Korean peninsula again.

I think it's important for everyone to remember, we never signed a peace treaty with North Korea. We are still operating under a nearly 60 year old armistice from the Korean Conflict. Technically, we have been at war with North Korea for the past 50+ years.

Answer 2

NK has been messing up for decades. Actually since the 1950's but now they are getting really dangerous.

Wait--- Assuming they could launch a couple missiles and hit LAX and SFO maybe we should wait till they do. It would accomplish two things. Make CA less of a Liberal Democrat stronghold and wake a whole bunch of people up that some people just don't play well with others. And you can't just let them get away with anything and everything.

Answer 3

Of course the North messed up. Anytime anyone detonates a nuke w/o permission from the UN is goofing up. We wont bomb them, any provocation would send 1,000,000 NK troops over into the South killing millions of innocent women, children and military. So, I say we throw our hands up... Hand the chain to CHINA and RUSSIA and say. "ITS YOUR STEP CHILD DEAL WITH IT"

Answer 4

Did he really? I know that CHINA is starting to flex its muscle which, to me, means North Korea will be dealt with now that China, Russia and South Korea are firm about them NOT doing the nuke tests.

Don't you wish we waited with Iraq which was far less dangerous like we did with N.Korea and Iran?

Answer 5

HAHAHAH Funny there is no boming going to happen all is going to happen is block of naval and ports

Answer 6

no more than the US is messing up