Get them hackles up, DOTY!
Get 'em UP!
Why should the US be "scared" of anyone you infantile idiot? We have the biggest economy, the most advanced technology, the most natural resources, and the best military. Only pussies like Obama can fuck things up. Which he did. This NoKo thing will pass. The fat guy imports 30 million in booze, Kobe beef from Japan and the best hookers that money can buy. He doesn't want to die.I'm not scared of NK! Trump is doing this to divert ...
Cooler heads will prevail. Now eat a cookie and go to bed. Originally Posted by bambino
WDF has said on multiple occasions that we should let terrorists hit the US mainland. Originally Posted by gnadflyAnd we've seen SEVERAL times where North Korea has bombarded islands with SOUTH koreans and others living on it.. Torpedoing a South korean ship, and many other things...
Name another author who pretends to relate the *true history* of WWII's Pacific War who doesn't mention Japan's imperialistic expansion into China, SE Asia, the Rape of Nanking and the unprovoked Japanese attack on Pearl harbor and the Philippines, but goes overboard declaiming the U.S. use of the atomic bombs as nothing more than naked American imperialism. Originally Posted by I B HankeringTime, please, on your request. In the meanwhile:
Albright wants to judge how serious Kim Jong Il really is about leading his country out of its long isolation and improving relations with Washington and U.S. allies in East Asia, the official told reporters during the long flight from Washington.
European and Asian leaders gave a boost to reconciliation between the two Koreas on Saturday when, winding up a summit in Seoul on regional cooperation, they lent support to South Korean President Kim Dae-jung’s policy of reconciliation with the North.
A Tense Peninsula
The United States wants to reduce tension on the Korean peninsula, where U.S. and South Korean troops fought North Korea and Chinese forces in the Korean War, and persuade North Korea to abandon the long-range missile program that has been the driving force behind expensive U.S. missile defense plans.
U.S. officials believe North Korea, after years of food shortages and economic decline, sees cooperation with the outside world as the best way to bring prosperity without giving up power like the communists of eastern Europe.
Albright is particularly interested in learning more about Kim Jong Il’s offer to abandon North Korea’s long-range missile program in exchange for foreign help with missile launches.
The idea, put to Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year, is gaining ground after some initial skepticism.
Albright and Kim talked in a large luxurious room, across a large table, in a building in the Paekhawon guesthouse complex where the U.S. visitor is staying.
Albright sat with four aides on one side, including North Korea policy coordinator Wendy Sherman and negotiator Charles Kartman. Kim and three aides faced her.
The 14-member U.S. delegation posed with Kim for a group photo in front of a stormy seascape mural.
Dances With Children
As they walked to the meeting room, Kim asked Albright if she was having a pleasant stay.
“I danced with the children and I’m very satisfied,” Albright replied, referring to a visit to the Rangnang Kindergarten, one of tens of thousands of places where the World Food Program (WFP) distributes food to needy children.
She stood on the kindergarten steps, kicking her heels and waving her arms, following the lead of a North Korean teacher, under a sign reading, “Thanks To The Respected Generalissimo Kim Il Sung,” Kim Jong Il’s father and North Korea’s founder.
Albright’s first engagement in Pyongyang this morning was a visit to the Kim Il Sung memorial palace to pay respects at the mausoleum of Kim Jong Il’s father, who died in 1994.
On the eve of Albright’s arrival, the Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, Chi Haotian, and a military delegation traveled to North Korea for ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the first clash between Chinese and U.S.-led United Nations forces.
Why are "we" dredging up historical news articles and documents?+1
A waste of fucking time and energy and does no good. Originally Posted by LexusLover
+1Since we're speculating ... four launches destroyed within 500 feet of the launch sites would cause some pause ... also.
The game is completely different, now.
He could have framed it much better and given himself some wriggle room.
If NK was the only consideration, we would run a train on that country like a $2 hooker. We must consider China.
It sucks but we do.
On a funnier note, NK's guidance and re-entry capabilities are big question marks. Any bets the thing goes up and back down into China?
Whoops! Originally Posted by grean
And we've seen SEVERAL times where North Korea has bombarded islands with SOUTH koreans and others living on it.. Torpedoing a South korean ship, and many other things...I think YOU should be Secretary of State.
So how long will we LET HIM provoke us before actually striking back?
OR are we to, as WTF and others want, just keep on caving INTO this bully, and 'negotiate (mean give him shit)"?? Originally Posted by garhkal