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2009-06-01 China-Japan-Koreas

Gates Looks to Tougher Approach on North Korea

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Everyone, Please read the science fiction book "Tuff Voyaging, the answer is easily handled, and relatively painless a well, READ THE BOOK.

Posted by Gentleman Jim 2009-06-01 00:37|| 2009-06-01 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey Mr. Gates, I wouldn' t want you to strain yourself but today's my birthday and I'm too busy to be Defense Secretary, so Im going to need you to be ~~chief cook and bottle washer tonight.~~ and grow a set, too, against the Norks since you wuz already given the job title DEFENSE SECRETARY.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-06-01 05:46|| 2009-06-01 05:46|| Front Page Top

#3 No more troops in SKor. Assassins and a good missile defense is what we need.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-06-01 08:31|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-06-01 08:31|| Front Page Top

#4 That's right put out a hit on kimbo. And yes missile defense.

Posted by Girlthursday 2009-06-01 10:21|| 2009-06-01 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Tuf Voyaging was an SF valentine to eugenicists and party-of-death fanatics. I don't see what lesson you'd pull from it, but maybe I missed something in all the snooty lessons about the wonders of birth control and the evils of overbreeding.

As for the North Korean problem, it seems to me that all gambits which involve threatening China's political position will just drive the Chinese to turtle up and embrace the current NK regime. Perhaps Naismithian tactics which aim at dividing and alienating the Chinese from the Kim dynasty might be a more elegant & fruitful line of approach?

It's a shame we couldn't fake up a false-flag purchase of nuclear materials by an Uighur terrorist faction from the NKors. That'd probably slam the Yalu door shut on the poofy-haired bastard.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-06-01 12:07|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-06-01 12:07|| Front Page Top

#6 How about we stop paying them and instead just sink all their shipping?

Posted by mojo 2009-06-01 12:27|| 2009-06-01 12:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Who's responsibility is it to track Kimmie's financing of all this? CIA, State, Treasury? Who has jurisdiction over international banking when it is shuttled around to secret accounts? Besides stopping any attacks from his own turf, what about exports to other locales to those willing to use them? Acccording to the CIA Handbook, NK has ships registered in such innocuous places as the BVI--their 'Navy' consists of a glorified dinghy to rescue tourists. Putting missiles into the hands of Latin American Hezbollah cells, Cuba, or Venezuela should be considered part of the threat. Looks like there are lots of alternatives that should have been done long ago but adding troops won't do a thing to stop the export of terror.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-06-01 13:36|| 2009-06-01 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 "Tougher Approach on North Korea?"

1965, Two North Korean MiG jet fighters attacked and damaged a U.S.
RB-47 reconnaissance plane over the Sea of Japan, about 50 miles east of the nearest North Korean coast - Tougher Approach missed opportunity.

1968 - AGER-2 USS Pueblo - Tougher Approach missed opportunity.

1969 North Korean MiG jet fighters shot down an unarmed U.S. EC-121 recce plane over the Sea of Japan, about 90 miles off the North Korean coast, resulting in the loss of 31 lives - Tougher Approach missed opportunity.

1976 - DMZ Axe Murder Incident of two United States Army officers by NORKS - Tougher Approach missed opportunity.

Dozens more HERE. Barry and Gates will do nothing, just like everyone before them. The South Koreans are screwed.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-06-01 13:52|| 2009-06-01 13:52|| Front Page Top

#9 ION JPOST > ISRAELI INTEL CHIEF has informed the KNESSET that IRAN MAY HAVE ENOUGH NUCMATS TO PRODUCE A LOW-YIELD URANIUM BOMB BY END OF THIS SUMMER???

ALso claims that IRAN is deliber following the "JAPAN MODEL" of "dual-use", quasi-Nucl in trying to AVOID UNO = INTERNAT SANCTIONS WHILE BEING COVERTLY CAPABLE OF RAPID NUCWEAPONIZATION.
IRAN INTENDS TO PERFECT THE NUC CYCLE INCLUD NUCWEAPONIZATION WHILE NOT ACTUALLY PRODUC ANY BOMBS OR WARHEADS, at least for the next several years in the absence of any major national contingency [read, no War agz Israel, US].

* DITTO FOR NORTH KOREA [2009-2012/2015]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-06-01 20:29|| 2009-06-01 20:29|| Front Page Top

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