North Korea to Launch Missile Today - America Watches Passively

[jordan179]

Right now the world waits for North Korea to launch its latest missile.  North Korea has formally abrogated the truce with South Korea and the United States, which means that, technically-speaking, a state of active war now exists between America and the Democratic People's Republic of Tyranny Korea.  This cuts both ways:  if North Korea attacks,

Comments

[actonrf]

Let's see Obama went along with the sequester cuts even though he tried to go back on social spending cuts while gutting defence. Now North Korea is threatening attack. History repeat itself when aggressor nations sense American defense weakness, just like japan post WWI.

The real card is Chian again, some say China may make to first move a la Vietnam against cambodia to install a saner Chinese style Communist. China doesn't want Kinn or a reunified Korea.

[luagha]

China also wants the US to spend the maximum amount of time and money dealing with Kim.

[xolo]

This. We'd do well to avoid the trap.

[jordan179]

A quick disarming strike would not only "avoid the trap," but also make the next Third World despot think twice about declaring a war that he doesn't mean to fight. Extra points if we sprayed fissionables from the targets all over the landscape, leaving the North Koreans a really nasty mess.

[marycatelli]

Obama proposed the sequester cuts. Then he tried to weasel out of them.

[jordan179]

Indeed. This is happening in part both because of the material and the moral weakness of America under Obama's leadership. Because the Democrats have done everything possible to block missile defense, we can't be confident in our ability to shoot down the North Korean missiles, and because Obama is such a proven wussy, the North Koreans are little-concerned about the possibility of a US pre-emptive strike to take them out on the ground.