who is more of a threat to the safety of the world, osama bin laden or kim jong il?

Question

and make some attempt to give an educated answer

Answer 1

i think kim jong il is a scarier threat because he has no fear of any repercussions. for example, he is allegedly preparing for another nuclear testing in front of the whole world. he does not hide in caves or under cover. although osama has incurred more damage to the U.S. he is somewhat fearful of his actions because he goes into hiding.

Answer 2

You are only looking at the symptoms of the problem. Both Osama and Kim are symptoms of a bigger problem: The US Foreign Policy.

Think about it! Osama got all the training and money and weapons from the US to learn and fight a guerrilla war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Guerrilla warfare is basically terrorism. Up until Feburary of 2002, we were printing, in the US, children's school books for Afghanistan and bordering regions of Pakistan. These books glorified killing the Soviet army and waging a war against the occupiers (the Soviets of course). They showed pictures of decapitated worriors being treated as heroes. These books were used in schools for little kids who grew up to join the "holy war". We just stopped producing these books since 2002. There was an article in the Washington Post called the "ABCs of Jihad from the US" or something like that, which talked in detail about what we did to promote this warrior culture over there when it fit our purpose.

Look at the crazy guy in North Korea, Kim Jong Il. True, he is a dictator, and his people are starving. But his country has been under sanctions since the 50's, hence the starvation. Who put these sanctions? The world of course and that includes the US in a big way, and we all know that. Our war-mongering, threats of more sanctions, threats of attacks, and unwillingness to have a dialog with North Korea (that's DPRK), is causing them to feel very isolated and anxious. Therefore, naturally, when they see what we did to Iraq that did not even have any weapons and what we are planning to do to Iran, that also says has no weapons, Kim Jong, as crazy as he is, will certainly go forward and stockpile weapons to defend his land. We'd do the same...!

So, its the policy, it always is. So, our foreign policy is the bigger threat to the world than all these lunatics, and yes they are lunatics, but so are Bush and his Neocon cronies, and they are the ones sitting on the biggest stockpile of weapons in the world. And they are proving it over and over again (Iraq, Lebanon, maybe Iran, Syria), that they are willing to use their weapons on people everywhere.

Answer 3

Neither are as big a threat as George Bush. Here's why: Kim Jong IL is merely a little yellow puppet who is sabre-rattling with the threat of testing nukes in order to get us to listen to him. It worked back in the '90's with Clinton so he is trying again. The nuke he tested was one-tenth the size of the one we dropped on Japan to end WWII. The Koreans have nothing to worry us.
Bin Laden is still at-large because our government wants it that way. We could have caught him three years ago but by keeping him alive we have justification for our war machine and for Cheney's Haliburton contracts.
Bush has created more terrorists than there were before 9-11. Just like with our federal surplus that we had before he took office: he took a psitive and turned it into a negative, a deficit of trillions. He has gone backwards with the economy and terrorism.

Answer 4

Currently, Kim Jong Il is much more of a threat, in my opinion. Bin Laden might not even be alive, and if he is, he is most likely not in an environment where he can effectively control terrorist activities. Kim Jong Il, however, is in a position of power, therefore making him more of a threat. That's putting things very simply, but it sums up my general opinion.

Answer 5

Are you kidding me. Kim Jong IL is more of a threat. He is clearly
more up front about his intentions with nuclear arms. At a push of a button we could be gone. His reasons are to sustain political power.Pure arrogance. As for Osama Bin Laden he uses religion to gather innocent young people to sacrifice their lives for the "Cause".Which is cowardly. It"s all political to me .The question should be "How did we get here?"And "what Can we do now?"

Answer 6

N. Korea make a LOT of money selling weapons to other nations. They already sell small arms and missle systems. If Kim Jong Il finishes the designs of his nukes, he WILL begin marketing them.

Of this, I have no doubt. He certainly does not fear someone will use these against him. When he does start selling them, he will have no compunctions about selling to those who are likely to use the nukes.

When that happens, Kim Jong Ill will make Osama seem like a schoolyard bully.

Answer 7

What Judy Girl says
Osama is an evil feck & all religous fundamentalist are a threat, but I don't really think North Korea is that much of a real threat. The country is in ruins: yes they could cause harm in the local area, and by that potentially unstabalise much more powerfull neighbours, but I think that is unlikely...
At least I hope so :|

Edit: but at the end of the day, US & British foriegn policy has played into the hands of islamic terrorists.

Answer 8

No contest, Osama is since he is Muslim. It is the Islamic fundamentalists that generate the threat to humanity. They have no value in life and serve a pagan god allah. They are recruiting more slaves to serve their cause each day. Islam babies in Europe are increasing on a 3 to 1 ratio to non muslim. Time to hang up the political correctness crap and start taking decisive action to save the West.

Answer 9

George Bush and do you mean kim jong ll

Answer 10

The Current President, My reason for this comment is we should not be fighting someones personal war. Our men and woman who have died and continue to fight this senseless war is a tragedy.