North Korea tests Obama
May. 27th, 2009 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stusegalAbout 6 weeks ago I posted about North Korea's test firing of a missile. I expressed my concern that if allowed to do so, the North Koreans would forge ahead with their nuclear armament plan, and ended my post with "And, by the way, when they all said during the election that "the new President would be tested" - well, this is it, this is the test, and the terrorists and terror nations of the world are watching."
So from what I could see - "we" (meaning the US, led by President Obama) did nothing. Yes, I know, we went to the UN and got the UN to issue harsh words, and we continued our sanctions. Maybe our new administration hasn't noticed, but North Korea has ignored the UN for 60 years, and our sanctions have been ineffective. So my conclusion - we did nothing.
From a North Korean paper yesterday - "It is a laughable delusion for the United States to think that it can get us to kneel with sanctions," it said in an editorial. "We've been living under U.S. sanctions for decades, but have firmly safeguarded our ideology and system while moving our achievements forward. The U.S. sanctions policy toward North Korea is like striking a rock with a rotten egg."
I believe 6 weeks ago was the "test" of our new President, and terrorists everywhere observed his "retaliation" (speech). So this week North Korea actually performed an underground nuclear test, and five (yes 5) test firings of missiles.
Do you think it's just a coincidence that this is happening now? Do you think it's a coincidence that the first test firing came less than 100 days after our new President took office? Do you think it's a coincidence that one month after the first test firing North Korea moved to nuclear testing?
I'm pretty sure it's not a coincidence, and I'm also pretty sure that President Obama and Prime Minister Brown making more speeches condemning the North Koreans won't have any effect. I think something needs to be done before these people develop an atomic bomb and use it to blackmail the world (or sell it to other equally crazy terrorists or terror nations).
So from what I could see - "we" (meaning the US, led by President Obama) did nothing. Yes, I know, we went to the UN and got the UN to issue harsh words, and we continued our sanctions. Maybe our new administration hasn't noticed, but North Korea has ignored the UN for 60 years, and our sanctions have been ineffective. So my conclusion - we did nothing.
From a North Korean paper yesterday - "It is a laughable delusion for the United States to think that it can get us to kneel with sanctions," it said in an editorial. "We've been living under U.S. sanctions for decades, but have firmly safeguarded our ideology and system while moving our achievements forward. The U.S. sanctions policy toward North Korea is like striking a rock with a rotten egg."
I believe 6 weeks ago was the "test" of our new President, and terrorists everywhere observed his "retaliation" (speech). So this week North Korea actually performed an underground nuclear test, and five (yes 5) test firings of missiles.
Do you think it's just a coincidence that this is happening now? Do you think it's a coincidence that the first test firing came less than 100 days after our new President took office? Do you think it's a coincidence that one month after the first test firing North Korea moved to nuclear testing?
I'm pretty sure it's not a coincidence, and I'm also pretty sure that President Obama and Prime Minister Brown making more speeches condemning the North Koreans won't have any effect. I think something needs to be done before these people develop an atomic bomb and use it to blackmail the world (or sell it to other equally crazy terrorists or terror nations).
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-05-27 08:21 pm (UTC)I wonder what strings China is pulling and why.