We're at War with a Nuclear Power

[jordan179]

The MSM has utterly missed the important development in the North Korean Crisis, namely this ...

... North Korea has declared the truce ended.

Maybe Journalism Majors don't study history or international law. When a truce which ended a war which never ended by treaty (as was the case in the Korean War, 1950-53) is ended, that means the war has

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[madwriter]

North Korea has actually declared the truce ended twice before...but, and this is the Big But, this is (obviously) the first time they've done so in juxtaposition with a nuclear test. So this is where my gaze and shortwave radio are fixed right now.

[anonymous]

As Slow Joe Biden put it, "Then look to the White House and have FAITH FAITH FAITH in The One".

And I'm sure if LA takes a nuke, The One will make a Speech about it. A Very Pretty Speech. A HOPEY-CHANGEY Speech. Read word-for-word off His teleprompter.

Just before he signs the surrender papers.

And if LA takes a nuke but Our Concerned and Compassionate MSM never report it, did it really happen?

And think of what The One and Raum "Luca Brasi" Immanuel can do with such a crisis! "You can never let a crisis go to waste."

[ken_redtail]

LA will never take a nuke because when the nuke is fired, The One will raise his hand and say "No." And the missile will stop.

Didn't you know that's how it'll work?

[kishiriadgr]

Actually, the American forces in South Korea are on high alert and the Secretary of State has called the situation "grave".

[jordan179]

Well, looks like "Defense Secretary" Gates is a bit out of the loop, then ...

[kishiriadgr]

Well, they did keep him on from the Bush years and you did say Bush didn't get het up appropriately about NK. Maybe this is his coping mechanism?

Overall, I think the quiet doesn't mean that no one's doing anything, but that they are.

[jordan179]

Well, they did keep him on from the Bush years and you did say Bush didn't get het up appropriately about NK. Maybe this is his coping mechanism?

Maybe he'll scream "No! Impossible! There is no cris ..." like the badly-characterized Naive Diplomat in a right-wing space opera, just before the flash of the first atom bomb going off vaporizes him ... ;-)

[bdunbar]

Hey, maybe if LA gets nuked, the MSM will sit up and pay attention.

I don't see this has a likely event.

Which, yes, is easy for me to say: I don't live in LA or any other large city. The nearest big city upwind is Minneapolis, and it's pretty far away ...

Consider: NK nukes LA. We then have no choice - we must eliminate NK as a country. We'll find 'em, we'll blow 'em up and if Kim whathisface is still alive after all that we'll hang him.

Nuking LA - or even Seoul - means the end of the easy life for the leadership there. They don't like us but they would like that even less.

[jordan179]

Hey, maybe if LA gets nuked, the MSM will sit up and pay attention.

I don't see this has a likely event.

I do agree with you on that, unless Kim Jong Il is considerably more crazy then even I think he is. I was mostly being facetious about the MSM obsession with Hollywood celebrities to the exclusion of fairly important developments in foreign affairs.

[polaris93]

Which leads to a thought: since the MSM is obsessed with Hollywood celebrities, and Hollywood is very close to L.A., geographically speaking, and stars are often in that area because they have to take care of business there (nowadays, they don't make many movies in Hollywood, but that area is where they sign the contracts, get photographed during celebrity events, and so on), if L.A. is nuked, you can bet the MSM will go nuts over it. Now, if it happened to, say, Sacramento, or Lawrence, Kansas, they probably wouldn't mention it at all.

[vakkotaur]

So we have a.. sitzkrieg.

As others point out, actually touching the match to the fuse means things get Very Uncomfortable Indeed for North Korean leadership. But that might not be enough to hold Kim and whoever back. They already seem irrational and thus cannot be counted upon to act rationally at all times.

The image I keep getting is of a kid that gets placated by screaming and acting out. "I make a fuss, I get goodies. I make a bigger fuss, I get more goodies." Eventually the kid gets so greedy he makes too big a fuss and this time he doesn't get more goodies, he gets what he should have gotten all along, only big-time.

Right now, nobody seems to be giving the kid the lesson he needs, which makes it more likely the problems will continue and grow. So, in a childish way, North Korea's action are rational - but not to adults. Too bad no adults seem to be running our country, either.

[seawasp]

I do not recall any instance of countries behaving as adults. All countries act like children of various ages (never actually into puberty).

[jordan179]

North Korea is behaving with rather greater immaturity than most of them.

[jordan179]

As others point out, actually touching the match to the fuse means things get Very Uncomfortable Indeed for North Korean leadership. But that might not be enough to hold Kim and whoever back. They already seem irrational and thus cannot be counted upon to act rationally at all times.

Exactly. Rationally, Kim should be deterred by our superior military might. But Kim may not realize the extent to which he is outmatched, or the degree to which China may have little appetite for losing men, material and money to rescue him from the trouble he's starting. Kim is told by everyone that he's a man-god, and after many years in power, he may believe his own propaganda.

The image I keep getting is of a kid that gets placated by screaming and acting out. "I make a fuss, I get goodies. I make a bigger fuss, I get more goodies." Eventually the kid gets so greedy he makes too big a fuss and this time he doesn't get more goodies, he gets what he should have gotten all along, only big-time.And this is why it's been such a mistake for America and