North Korea tentatively agrees to disarm. Congrats Bush & Rice!!

I once spoke to a retired general, a former commander of the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea, who informed me of a startling statistic.

Intelligence estimates that North Korea could shower Seoul with about 600,000 artillery rounds in about six hours. If my calculations are right, that's about 27 per second for six hours.

Pretty steep, if you ask me.

KJI? Well, he's fucking crazy. Don't believe a word he says.

 

JDV, scary picture there.

 

Bush is forestalling nuking North Korea. He'll let Obama handle the fallout from that.

 

Hehehe. He said fallout.

 

tbf, you'd likely know this better than I -- in the case of the two Koreas, isn't it mutually assured destruction? Don't they both have the firepower to take out each other? Plus, aren't there several hundred thousands landmines to prevent invasion?

 

If North Korea even lifts a finger to hit the South, we'd turn Pyongyang into glass. They know that.

Don't know about the land mines, but there are hella troops along the DMZ.

 

Well across the Dematerialized Zone there is meant to be land mines. \

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone

I wish I had chance to go and see that area in my short time here but South Korea is definitely somewhere I will visit again with no business side tracks.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this essentially the same deal that the Clinton folks were trying to cut -- oil for no nukes -- and that was decried roundly from the right as being appeasement, selling out, blah, blah.

 

Well, John Bolton is on the record as saying the deal is bad. I'm guessing the real right still views it as appeasement.

 

Fast-forward to whenever the hell KJI feels like it:

"I changed my mind."

 

Having reconsidered, the Illuminated Genius Leader of the Democratic Peoples' Republic strikes a hard new bargain with the morally bankrupt Western Hegemon.

 

Great. Extortion works!