OT: North Korea Missile Tests

[Renegade 13]

You know TC, I think you're right. Guess I don't have sufficient knowledge of the detailed situation in the region!

[Artaud]

Well, as someone who does know a great deal about that region of the world and North Korea in particular, I say that a sovereign nation has the right to test whatever it wants to test.

It's almost funny that Japan, considering its long and rich history of "involvement" on the Korean peninsula, would now huff and puff about potential "threats" from North Korea.

And it is hysterically funny that the USA, which has more soldiers stationed beyond its borders than any other country, has expressed its desire to eliminate several governments that it does not like, has invaded and occupied (and will continue to occupy indefinitely) one country for no reason at all, and is engaged in the biggest military buildup in human history, has the nerve to express dismay when other countries test weapons (North Korea), buy weapons (Venezuela) and modernize their military forces (China).

The US does not have the right to give orders to other countries and dominate the air, land, and sea of planet Earth. It does not have the right to dominate space. The Bush regime has repeatedly said that that level of domination is its goal.

No wonder the world is afraid.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The tension is rather like a guy in a bar showing off his gun.

And then someone else says 'Hey, I got one too!'.

[frightlever]

Axis of Evil - Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Iran has nuclear power stations and is probably working on a bomb. North Korea has Nuclear power and already has the bomb. Iraq had neither but was thought to be working on the bomb so they drew the short straw.

China is the biggest dictatorship in the world and is solely responsible for something like 75% of all capital punishment worldwide. They have the bomb and are a preferred trading partner of the US and a member of the WTO. Nice.

Pakistan historically was a base of operations for the Taleban and other radical Islamic groups. They have the bomb and have become a "friend of America" in the war against terrorism. Or specifically their dictator leader has become a friend of America and the majority of the rest of the population aren't so sure, which is not to say they're actively anti-American.

The US is probably incapable of actually conducting a war against an enemy which is even remotely as capable as them because casualties on the scale of Iraqi losses would be totally unacceptable to the American public (and rightly, IMO.) which is what you would get if they clashed with even a semi-modern large army like Korea's or China's or even France's... ;-)