Spoiling For A Fight
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Wednesday May 27, 2009
It seems that North Korean President Kim Jong Il may finally be granted his death wish following his country’s idiotic and provocative behavior over this past weekend.
Following a test launch of a long range missile last month over Japanese airspace — one that analysts believe could reach the Hawaiian Islands — the PRK further upped the ante over the past week by conducting six short range missile test launches. Then, when things seemed like they couldn’t get any nuttier, North Korea went all in on Monday by conducting its second nuclear weapon test in an underground bunker in northern part of that country.
And as the United Nations Security Council scrambled to author yet another condemnation of the PRK’s actions, Kim Jong Il’s government took matters further on Wednesday by announcing to the world that it no longer considered itself bound by the 1953 cease fire agreement that ended the Korean War and sent Hawkeye, Klinger, Col. Potter and Maj. Houlihan back home stateside.
The KCNA, North Korea’s official government mouthpiece, has attributed the actions of the PRK as merely a response to the decision by its estranged neighbors to the south to join the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) – a “US-led campaign to search ships carrying suspicious cargoes to prevent trafficking of weapons of mass destruction.”
But as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other diplomats around the globe roll out the same old platitudes about Kim Jong Il’s despondent temper tantrums, this Leftwing Nutjob is downright concerned that while the Dr. Phil’s of the world are busy psychoanalyzing this wackjob, he drops a few half-baked nukes on downtown Tokyo and Honolulu and rendering a few billions dollars in real estate uninhabitable for the next one thousand years.
The time has come to remove this canker from the world’s ass once and for all. Nuke Pyongyang from orbit — it’s the only way to be sure.
Sources
Clinton gives North Korea warning
Brave New World
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Sunday October 15, 2006
As the sun was rising this past Monday over the Eastern seaboard of the US, the world was just coming to grips with the harsh reality of a nuclear-armed North Korea. And as the White House and its minions tried to get a jump on the blame game by pointing the finger at Bill Clinton, no amount of spinning by Karl Rove will help the Bush Administration get out from under the fact that this was a massive foreign policy failure that happened on their watch.
In the six years since taking office, the Smirking POTUS and his foreign policy team have seemed content to ignore the musings of Kim Jong-il, an increasingly anxious despot who has shown his cards more than once as having a desire to destabilize the world while profiting from his overseas arms sales.
Indeed, Iran’s president Ahmadinejad recently took possession of a shipment of North Korea’s Nodong missiles— a weapon that some intelligence experts warn could be fitted with a nuclear warhead. And in light of recent events concerning Tehran, one would think that the big brains at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue might be a little more concerned about this development.
So why the hands-off policy regarding Kim Jong-il’s regime? The obvious answer could be that they’ve been too preoccupied with overthrowing Saddam and fighting an increasingly violent insurgency, the effects of which relegated Pyongyang to the foreign policy ‘back-burner.’
But giving the administration the benefit of the doubt, and assuming that they can actually walk and chew gum at the same time, a prudent nutjob would have to come to the conclusion that this eventuality was something that they were truly not prepared for nor had anticipated; a conclusion that appears to be borne out by the Smirking POTUS’ reaction to the news.
In a statement shortly following North Korea’s announcement, President Bush warned Kim Jong-il that his country would now be facing strong “sanctions,” to imposed by the world via the UN. And even though John Bolton, the United States “by default” UN ambassador, had to overcome some serious objects from both China and Russia in order to secure the unanimous vote in New York on Saturday, it remains to be seen as to whether or not the UN’s “trade, travel and other sanctions” to be levied against Pyongyang will have any effect at all—something that the aforementioned Bolton was found of criticizing prior to assuming his post.
And even if the punitive actions serve to escalate the tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world, the irony of the situation is not lost on this Leftwing Nutjob; namely that the Bush Administration is being forced to turn more and more to the United Nations for help after they’ve seen their own diplomatic clout amongst the world community wither away to almost nothing following the Iraq debacle.
So for now it remains to be seen whether or not North Korea has the weapon that they claim. And with radiation tests still being inconclusive, many questions remain about the reclusive dictator and his secret country—questions that will, for the time being, go unanswered, as President Bush continues his “my way or the highway” diplomatic policy, refusing to meet with anyone who doesn’t bend to US demands first.
It will be interesting to see whether or not a mushroom cloud on the horizon is enough to change our stubborn president’s mind.
Source:
U.N. slaps trade, travel sanctions on North Korea—CNN.com
Iran receives North Korean ‘missile shipment’—LATEST IRAN NEWS & IRANIAN CULTURE JOURNAL
North Korea: US pressure would mean war—Guardian Unlimited
McCain: Clinton’s North Korea policy ‘a failure’—CNN.com
Kim Jong-il Wikipedia
North Korea Missile Milestones – 1969-2005 Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
Latest Test May Confirm N. Korea Has Nukes—CBSNews.com
Missile Command
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Wednesday July 5, 2006
North Korea, providing some 4th of July fireworks of its own, made good on its promise Wednesday to conduct an intercontinental missile test when it launched some seven separate missiles over a 14-hour period.
Kim Jong-Il’s communist regime, apparently unconcerned with any possible international reprisals for its actions, declared in an announcement to its people that it was prepared to respond against any threats to its nation from the United States. In addition, North Korea declared that its “strong war deterrent” was what was keeping their country at peace with the rest of the world.
Analysts believe that Pyongyang fired a total of seven separate missiles—one long-range and five shorter-range missiles—during the early morning hours on Wednesday beginning at 3:30AM, local Korean time. The last to be fired, North Korea’s fabled Taopongdong 2, failed just 40 minutes into its flight and crashed into the Sea of Japan.
The launches, while in and of themselves not entirely unexpected, produced world-wide condemnation and prompted as emergency session of the United Nations Security Counsel to convene in New York City.
Japan’s draft resolution, demanding “shift, strong” reaction from the U.N. as well as demanding that “countries cut off any money or materials that could be used for North Korea’s missile program,” was debated by the five permeant members Wednesday afternoon. Japan later in the day imposed limited economic sanctions of it’s own on Kim Jong-Il’s regime.
U.N. Ambassador John Bolton emerged from the meeting later to declare that “No member defended what the North Koreans had done,” and was joined by Japan’s ambassador, Kenzo Oshima, who stated that “We hope the response from the council will be swift, strong and resolute.”
Just last week, Pyongyang threatened the West with nuclear war if it was attacked, accusing both the United States and Japan of plotting a preemptive strike against the DPRK.
However, some analysts predict that Wednesday’s move may be designed to provide an avenue for the North Koreans to rejoin the six party talks—something that they abruptly abandoned last month—without losing face. And with that provision a key component of Japan’s proposal to the U.N. Security Council, it’s a safe bet that we’ll be seeing representatives from Pyongyang back at the bargaining table very soon.
It’s either that or a mushroom cloud for Mr. Kim Jong-Il.
Sources:
N. Korea vows nuke response to U.S. attack – AP via Yahoo News
U.S.: World united against N. Korean missile threat
– CNN.com
North Korea Test-Fires Seventh Missile – Washington Post
Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!