Posted on 05/02/2005 8:14:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
One would say, in Japanese (if just about to fight some street toughs in a blind alley with now way out), "kuru nara, koi!" That is just about what she has issued to the Norkies. Rather provocative. They need to hear it, though. This ain't Clintonville anymore.
I'll get worried when heavy assets from Europe and the ME are "redeployed" to the pacific.
You are correct. It was inherited. But nothing in this regime is guranteed, even when a bloodline is involved. He was not immediately made leader after his father's death in fact. It was three years later that he was made the head of the Communist Party.
Kim Il Jong was a despot in training. His father groomed him for the position but this grooming involved him being trained in the art of intimidation and the reminder that someone was always looking over their shoulder. He was paraded from millitary post to police station in his 20s and 30s and trained by his father in intimidation tactics. His ascension was more formal in nature, but the rules he grew up with are functionally the same rules of the street.
Thanks, you gotta admit,..... it fits!
heck yeah, time to up the ante!!! Put nukes on the ground and put a few of our SSBNs off their coast--they so much as flinch the 38th parallel to the Yalu river becomes a glass parking lot!!!
But after the discussion they both looked at each other.....and laughed out loud.
A missile test gives our friend the Chia Pet plenty of room to stand down. You'll notice that he didn't conduct an underground test. Of course, being the Chia Pet, it would be Li'l Kim's style to conduct an above ground test of at least 20kt.....
BTW, this is to settle the arguement that the Lil Kims are somehow related.
Anyhoo, the hammer will drop if Chia Pet conducts a nuclear test, underground or otherwise. What you will see, however, is an attempt to isolate Kim by means of submarine warfare and naval quarantine. Once he tests, we can reasonably take action against him as a threat to the rest of the nations in the theater.
Needless to say, the fates of the crews of the several diesel-electric submarines now in the DPRK Navy would be sealed early in the campaign.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
If you notice them lights in the Sea of Japan and the Pusan Strait? Where there ISN'T ANY LAND?????
Those are "fishing fleets", something rather intriguing to observe at night while on the Bridge of a U.S. Navy Destroyer..
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