North Korea doesn't blink

[markvid]

CNN reports South Korean media reporting North Korea has conducted a nuclear test.

 

[DyePack]

Now China and Japan can act tough while doing nothing.

 

[markvid]

Now China and Japan can act tough while doing nothing.

Bingo. Talk a big game, let everyone alse fix the problem for them.

 

[kingcreole]

This is sick. My sister-in-law is Japanese and her family is a group of awesome people. I pray for them every time I hear about this **** going on with North Korea.

 

[Songbird]

So, no more talk about Foley, huh?

 

[Football_Bat]

Guess Kim Jong Il's not so "ronery" anymore.

2mcm, keep the fallout shelter well-stocked.

 

[DyePack]

So, no more talk about Foley, huh?

That's just during the Hour of Anger. Then it's back to war against Eurasia.

 

[Freelance Hack]

It'll lead to more talk about the need for national security, and how you can't trust Democrats on the issue.

Yet, the conservative pundits will fail to mention this has happened under a Republican president and a GOP legislature.

 

[HejiraHenry]

It'll lead to more talk about the need for national security, and how you can't trust Democrats on the issue.

Yet, the conservative pundits will fail to mention this has happened under a Republican president and a GOP legislature.

... who are supposed to do what, exactly? Invade?

All I know, every bit of file footage on Maximum Leader being shown tonight seems to have some when he was meeting with Madelyn Albright. I guess we'll have to wait for the made-for-TV movie to get to the bottom of their little lovefest.

 

[Bubbler]

I'm curious to see China and Russia's reaction. Might be time (for the Chinese in particular) to pull the choke chain ... hard.

 

[JayFarrar]

Yippee it's the end of the world ... and I feel fine.
MSNBC was just reporting that it might be a hoax, that was the feeling Jim Myzoplyz was getting from reading the mind of a White House press release and one the experts they had on the phone said that a hoax of this magnitude was almost impossible.
Especially considering North Korea said they were going to do it last week and it was confirmed through the various back channels that they had enough enriched material to pull it off.
Maybe this all plays into Rove's October surprise, Gotta figure it is going to be a draft to get the troops that America would need to fight a war with North Korea. We're commited to supporting our allies in the region. At least that's what another White House press release said.
In the immortal words of Team America, but sung the sad way, "America, **** Yeah."
And for the lone three of us who like "Jericho" on CBS, do you think Wednesday's episode will be shown or do you think they are scrambling for rewrite?

 

[Bubbler]

Let's not over-react now.

 

[Columbo]

Let's not over-react now.

Bubbler....

What's Davey Johnson doing in that pic?

 

[ChickWriter1975]

And yet the weapons of mass destruction are in Iraq

 

[beefncheddar]

Not a damn thing Republicans OR Democrats could have done to stop this. We'll now see what everyone does about it.

 

[kingcreole]

And yet the weapons of mass destruction are in Iraq

And I've been trying to tell people here that Kim Jong-Il is 10 times the loon that Saddam is. Saddam was a ruthless, evil man. Kim Jong-Il is ruthless, evil and what's worst, ****ing insane.

 

[Pastor]

Several thoughts on this:

1) You need major corroboration on this. It is very likely to be a hoax.

2) Why do people think Japan and China are "teaming" up to do anything on this? Those nations hate each other and China has documents signed stating that they would back N.Korea in any and all conflicts.

3) Kim Jung Il doesn't have much going on. The guy needs something for which to get some support. The guy is clearly not all that bright and probably, as a dictator, is quite paranoid. So, he pulls this ****.


For whatever reason Fredo thinks that China is going to put pressure on N.Korea to stop. That will NEVER happen. To the Chinese government this is all a big laugh.

This needs to be handled one on one. Make a deal so as to keep them quiet and "happy" for a while so that you can concentrate greater efforts on terrorist front.

 

[Stretch15]

My younger brother lives next to an Apache pilot and he was talking to him a while back about some recent training exercises his unit had completed.

My brother figured it would be some sort of Iraqi, Afghan or even Iranian simulation, but it wasn't - it was North Korea.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

It'll lead to more talk about the need for national security, and how you can't trust Democrats on the issue.

Yet, the conservative pundits will fail to mention this has happened under a Republican president and a GOP legislature.

... who are supposed to do what, exactly? Invade?

All I know, every bit of file footage on Maximum Leader being shown tonight seems to have some when he was meeting with Madelyn Albright. I guess we'll have to wait for the made-for-TV movie to get to the bottom of their little lovefest.

Well, the previous president managed to get this program shut down.
But this bunch, operating on the principle of Clinton=bad, played cheap tough guy until everyone, even the crazy people, knew they were bluffing, and the plants that got shut down got opened again, and now we have another ****-up in the endless list at the North Koreans have a nuke.
hecuva job.

 

[Football_Bat]

As one of the "Jericho 3," I say, let the mystery continue — for now.

I absolutely cannot see this being any type of GOP Machiavellian plot to get Foley off the front pages. If it were, it would've happened LAST Sunday, right when the media piranhas were just starting to snap away.

Having said that, who's to say North Korea just didn't set off a ****load of dynamite to make it seem like a nuke? There seems to be some conjecture about that.

But you can thank Dim Son for this. The lesson NK learned from Iraq? Don't get WMD, and they'll say you have it and invade you. Get WMD, and they'll leave you alone.

The UN is talking sanctions, but the biggest mistake of all would be for China to cut the North Koreans off. As I have always said, the minute the North Koreans have nothing more to lose is the minute they march south.