I agree with that.
Russia and China must feel like they are under the gun, to be as silent on this as they have been. They don’t want to become North Korea’s first target.
They both are under an extreme threat, if NK become fully nuclear weapons proficient.
I wish the U.S. would meet with South Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian representatives, and develop an agreement that would see North Korea awoken by one massive surprise attack some early morning.
It has to be neutered, before friend or foe are attacked with nukes.
Surpassingly strange when the Russian press begins to make a lot more sense than the American press. We live in odd times.
What about Iran ? That is your son of a b.
When one’s enemies are more alert, awake, knowledgeable, perceptive, accurate, sane, ‘patriotic,’ realistic . . .
than one’s leader . . .
the depth of the poo has reached Everest proportions.
. . . or Marianas Trench proportions . . . or both.
...North Korea is a totalitarian state led by a man who makes Josef Stalin and former Chinese leader Mao Zedong look like Cub Scouts... Kim Jong Il is a son of a bitch... Does Gunvor, the top trader of Russian oil and gas that had $70 billion in revenues in 2008, benefit from North Korea? Yes. Gunvor -- like any oil and gas trader -- benefits when North Korea tests nuclear bombs, pulls out of the armistice treaty with South Korea, threatens to invade its neighbors and destabilizes global affairs because the end result is a spike in oil prices. Russian history had its share of both crazy and noble tsars, but it has never had a leader who tailored his foreign policy to benefit oil traders.Thanks TigerLikesRooster!
Last week, it detonated a nuclear bomb less than 300 kilometers from Vladivostok, but it didn't warn Russia ahead of time.
200 miles. Seems a bit rude, actually, thought of that way. North Korea is, first and foremost, a Soviet experiment, and Kim is the son of the guy the Soves put in office. His own son is now waiting in the wings, a third generation fruitcake with his hand on a nuclear button. Not, one would suspect, exactly what good ol' Uncle Joe Stalin had in mind.
But there it is for all the world to see: the perfect end to the militarist, socialist police state experiment: an insane monarchy, overdeveloped military, starving people, and a country turned into a hell worthy of Dante. Cleaning up this mess will mean killing a lot of earnest, brainwashed worker ants who probably deserved better in life. In that sense it's a tragedy, but then social experiments of this type usually end up that way.