Isn't this a case of "Too Little - Too Late?"

by AK - Jeff 14 Replies latest social current

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  hillary_step

  Sad Emo,

  I wonder if N Korea are feeling a bit twitchy, after all, being only in an armistice, the US wouldn't need to declare war on them - they'd just resume fighting. That makes them very vulnerable in some ways because the UN couldn't really stop it happening.

  No, nothing to do with this at all.

  North Korea is hungry, in fact starving. The only person in the country not hungry is Kim, who looks as if he has eaten the rest of North Korea's rice ration.

  Kim recognizes the precarious position that his country is in and needs the help of the world. The nuclear issues, and the firing of dollar-store missiles were and are sabre rattling in order to get the same deal that Libya did from the rest of the world, that is, stand down your nuclear intent and we will pay you billions of dollars. It looks as if this will happen.

  He needs the money to attend to his countries failing social infrastructure, a danger to the security of dicatorships, and of course to buy more rice to maintain his rotund disposition..

  HS
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  tijkmo

  well i'm sure it could be quite interesting

  oh i was wrong
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  JK666

  Jeff,

  This was a war that was not a war, it was a "police action" or a "conflict." It never officially ended, they only achieved a cease fire and both sides stood down.

  A bureaucratic and symantic nightmare, and a whole lot of people died and were wounded.

  JK
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  emy the infidel
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  AK - Jeff

  The ongoing hatred I referred to was not between the North and the West - but between NK and SK.

  The war, IMHO, was a justification by a near-madman named McArther who wanted an escalation between America and China, ergo WWIII. Called a police action - it took the lives of 48,000 American GI's and many times that of Korean and Chinese lives. What a waste that still, almost 60 years later, they still are not completely done with the political wrangling over there.

  My father was a combatant in that little war - and to this day refuses to speak of the horror's he saw there. Seems as though America is only interested in fighting wars to a draw. Korea, Vietnam, now likely Iraq.

  HillaryStep might be on the correct answer though.

  Sorry folks about the original link - don't know why it did that.

  Jeff