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2009-06-27 China-Japan-Koreas

US will not use force to inspect Nork ship

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 The United States will not use force to inspect a North Korean ship

Of course not. All the Jedi are gone now.

Posted by eLarson 2009-06-27 00:06|| 2009-06-27 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 What are they supposed to use, harsh language?

Posted by OldSpook 2009-06-27 05:32|| 2009-06-27 05:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Doesn't the US have the capacity to detect radioactive isotopes from a distance? Of course, that wouldn't help with things like centrifuges or a bomb chassis or a missile.

Posted by gorb 2009-06-27 05:35|| 2009-06-27 05:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought we never planned to use force, only to shadow the ship until it reached port. At which point the port authorities would demand inspection before permitting refueling and so forth.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-06-27 08:24|| 2009-06-27 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 A lot will depend on where the ship pulls in for fuel. Singapore is pretty tough - they would insist on a thorough inspection. Vietnam and other countries, not so much.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-06-27 08:40|| 2009-06-27 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Again, can't we offer the Vietnamese more than China and the Norks can? China and Vietnam aren't exactly on the best of terms.

Posted by Steve White 2009-06-27 10:51|| 2009-06-27 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama is a ...

Posted by DMFD 2009-06-27 10:56|| 2009-06-27 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Hong Kong is the other option. The Chinese won't inhibit the ship's travel. If it's conventional weapons to Myannmar, the PRC might have even paid for the cargo in the first place.

Posted by Pappy 2009-06-27 11:43|| 2009-06-27 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 You don't extend an open hand to the clenched fist. The MMs of Iran sense weakness, now the Norks and their little experiment sense weakness, and certainly the Chicoms do, too. The Big O has made it perfectly clear that the US will not take a line-in-the-sand stand for anything.

And in doing so, he will accelerate the world into war---the very war that he thinks his ideology will prevent. God help us all.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-06-27 13:07|| 2009-06-27 13:07|| Front Page Top

#10 President Obama's foreign policy is a joke to our enemies and an embarrassment to our nation. He's a bathtub Admiral at best.

Posted by Don Vito Crolutle2068 2009-06-27 18:08|| 2009-06-27 18:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Obama - Blink

Posted by Chief 2009-06-27 21:28|| 2009-06-27 21:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Zero, like Chamberlain, is going to get a lot of good people killed.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-06-27 22:44|| 2009-06-27 22:44|| Front Page Top

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