Posted on 09/01/2016 10:49:34 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister
You’re the one who made the comment about exports.
The real deterrent to attacking NK is Seoul SK. Long before NK had nukes they’ve had enough artillery and missiles in place just across the border to reduce Seoul to rubble in about an hour. The nukes just upped the ante.
In 1904, a kidnapping of a Greek-American by a Moroccan Berber bandit, caused Teddy Roosevelt to issue this warning to the ruler of Morocco; “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!” While the story was fictionalized into the movie “The Wind and the Lion”, it still remains one of the dreams that haunt Presidents, powerful but powerless!
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) / North Korea, has committed National crimes so numerous as to boggle the mind! They kill, maim and starve their citizens without qualm, they counterfeit US $100 that are almost perfect, they bomb and assassinate their opponents throughout Asia and they play the kidnap game like no one else. Oh and they also build atomic bombs and ICBMs!
The fact is that they would have been smeared like a stain if they didn’t share borders with Russia, China and South Korea (RoK). The first 2 protect them and the latter’s capital is within artillery range of more guns than in a nightmare. They play ‘CRAZY’ better than the best actor in Hollywood because no one can rely that they aren’t really CRAZY! After all, reputedly, the current weirdo, scion of a family of weirdos, recently fed a live relative to pigs, while having an ousted government official used as the aiming point in a mortar live fire.
So, while we know that the right thing to do is say “Sneddon alive and returned or else!”, even Reagan would have a problem with this conundrum!
Go back and read the comment again.
Long before NK had nukes they’ve had enough artillery and missiles in place just across the border to reduce Seoul to rubble in about an hour.
So do a number of nations around Israel. Israel put in a missile defense system.
Once again, not an excuse.
Either we admit that we do nothing when a pirate haven comes on our land and kidnaps our citizens because we are gutless or we begin to treat the pirates as pirates and wipe their haven off the map.
“Perdicaris Alive or Raisuli Dead!”, or so much for the Big Stick.
I don’t need to read the comment again. You brought up exports.
There is no such thing as an artillery defense system for tens of thousands of guns 35 miles away.
It is likely that the US Embassy in Beijing since the day he was abducted.
The route goes both ways. Many have sneaked across into NK and were surprised when they ended up kidnapped or in prison.
The minute Krazy Jong Un got wind of the leak, he was likely fed to the dogs.
The longer we wait to draw the line, the costlier it becomes; if we had made the move before they acquired nukes, that threat could have been neutralized by destroying their gun positions. Now, the price of removing this threat seems unthinkable to any responsible person.
To the best of my knowledge no one has artillery pointed at Israel, they wouldn’t let them. I think you’re confusing the rockets the PA has which can be shot down.
Maybe President Trump can trade a couple of pallets of rice to get him back. My heart genuinely aches for this kid and his family.
Has Kim been heard announcing in public: “I have three testicles”?
Kim Jong Un does this all the time same as his father ,if they need an actress or a director ,tutor etc
“Israel put in a missile defense system.”
Missile defense systems don’t stop howitzers, and NK has probably 100 times the amount of artillery surrounding Seoul as all of Israel’s neighbors combined, in hardened positions that can’t easily be bombed.
Not buying it. It’s either not true, or the kid went willingly. I guess a third possibility is he got lost hiking and crossed into NK never to be heard from again.
The Norks could have advertised for a tutor and found plenty of Idealistic idiots to come tutor for next to nothing and legal.
All it takes for him to make his move is SHRILLARY! in the WH.
All of Americas enemies will be on the march knowing full well no one in our armed forces but the faggots Obama put in charge are going to be interested in fighting for a country that would elect an arch criminal as its leader, much less fighting to keep South Korea free.
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