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NKorea criticizes US missile defense for Hawaii
North Korea criticized the U.S. on Monday for positioning missile defense systems around Hawaii, calling the deployment part of a plot to attack the regime and saying it would bolster its nuclear arsenal in retaliation.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he ordered the deployment of a ground-based, mobile missile intercept system and radar system to Hawaii amid concerns the North may fire a long-range missile toward the islands, about 4,500 miles away.
“Through the U.S. forces’ clamorous movements, it has been brought to light that the U.S. attempt to launch a pre-emptive strike on our republic has become a brutal fact,” the North’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary.
What’s the Korean word for “chutzpah”?
Um..I’m guessing something along the lines of Chutzpoosayo?
KJI is such a silly little troll. Doesn’t sound like they remember we had actual nukes on the Korean penninsula, facing the DPRK, until 1991. We took out all nukes in south Korea in exchange for the North to agree not to produce, test, receive, deploy or possess nuclear weapon fuel or weapons, or the means to make them. Worked out well it seems.
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but this is closer
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The Sowetskis used to call our defensive measures provocative. Kim is simply operating in that same vein.
When my father was stationed in Germany, my younger brother and I used to listen to Radio Peking and Hanoi. The claims they would make on the number of “Imperialist Pilots” they shot down over North Vietnam was really funny. If they were the truth, the USAF, and Naval Aviation would have ceased to exist. Kim is acting in the same vein – like a clown. Unfortunately, this clown has a country’s resources to call on to back up his paranoic schizophrenia. I am, I think, being charitable and attributing it to mental illness. I would hate to think he is actually serious.
Just remember, Poland started WW2 by resisting the Germans and Soviets.
I think the term chutzpah in Korean is the same as “moron”.
I read this as an indicator that the NK command echelon believes that the current US government is weak. That the US will not defend sovereign US territory. And that NK will gain status, and lose nothing, by insulting the US.
Good thing we all sing “We are the World” now. I’m so glad we live in the calm, peaceful 21st Century.
In the past, this type of miscalculation could lead to a punitive action, or an unwanted conflict.
SecDef Gates felt the need to reply to that nonsense? Maybe he even Twittered it, too? Ho Hum.
Lesson: Don’t feed the bears and you get fewer bears.
Fifty years of “The Emperor Has No Clothes” and inbreeding.
KJI has done this in the past many many times. For the most part it can be ignored as the ravings of an idiot.
But now he is the idiot with his finger on the button.
Another alarming situation is that KJI has announced that his son will be his sucessor.
Dictators DO NOT make a habit of announcing who will succeed them (even family) Unless they are already on their deathbed for fear the successor will want to “speed the process along”
So here you have KJI, possibly on his deathbed
Decidedly clinically insane
with all those toys he has been building up since the 50′s
and now with nukes.
Yes they have spoken a lot of crap before, but not in such ABSOLUTES as they have lately.
Does anyone else think that Kim Jong Il just might want to actually play with his toys before he kicks off?
no repercussions because he isn’t long for the world anyway.
Go out in a bang of glory and all that?
Scary?
Yeah, Me too.
I think the North Koreans have decided there is no downside to their behavior. If we decide to take them seriously, their standing improves. If we don’t, they can go on raising the stakes until we do. Recent history shows that we are not going to attack with conventional forces, we’re busy. We’re not going to use our nukes, so they are essentially useless. If a shooting war does break out in Korea, the troops we have deployed there would hardly be a speedbump on the road to Seoul.
The most the North Koreans have to fear from us is being bored at some high level discussions where we promise them aid and food in return for empty promises to give up their nukes and tone down their rhetoric.