We do live in dangerous times.
Hey folks,
OK, to the hard news. What do you think will be the topic of conversation on June 16 between South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and President Barack Obama? It had better be North Korea.
I know some of you may not know this, but way back when, in the beginning or the War being taken to Iraq, I said I think we need to be concentrated on North Korea. Instead of going after a guy with a sling shot in a desert, we should be going after the one that HAS WMDs, and said in not uncertain terms he would love to use them against us.
Remember when North Korea was heating up the first time around? June 20, 2006 I posted on this. I said this.
The United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea and other countries have urged North Korea to abandon any missile firing. North Korea fuels the missile. Plans the launch. Their reason? North Korea says it needs nuclear weapons and a delivery system to counter what it contends are U.S. intentions to invade or topple the government. Of course this is not true.
Secretary Rice said,
"It would be a very serious matter and, indeed, a provocative act should North Korea decide to launch that missile," That it "would once again show North Korea is determined to deepen its isolation, determined not to take a path that is a path of compromise and a path of peace, but rather instead to once again saber-rattle."
Now today, According to The AFP - US warns NKorea amid reports of rocket launch preparations
SEOUL (AFP) – Unfazed by international anger at its second nuclear bomb test, a defiant North Korea was said Saturday to be preparing to launch a long-range missile.
The United States stressed it would not accept the North as a nuclear-armed state and warned that more atomic tests could spark an arms race in East Asia.
"A train carrying a long-range missile has been spotted at the weapons research centre near Pyongyang," South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted an intelligence source as saying.
The source said it may be a modified version of a Taepodong-2, which the North tested in 2006 and in April and which is theoretically capable of reaching Alaska.
"It usually takes about two months to set up a launch pad, but the process could be done in as little as two weeks, which means the North could launch a long-range missile as early as mid-June," the source said.
Yonhap quoted a presidential official as saying the North may schedule a launch to coincide with a June 16 summit between South Korean President Lee Mying-Bak {Actually it's President Lee Myung-Bak} and US President Barack Obama in Washington.
Two defence officials in Washington told AFP US satellite photos had shown vehicle activity at two launch sites, one in the west and one in the east.
Diplomats at the United Nations Security Council are discussing a new resolution which could impose new sanctions to punish the North for Monday's nuclear test -- its second since 2006.
In a telephone conversation Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso agreed "that one has to seriously respond (to the tests), which represent a challenge to international security," a Kremlin statement said.
Pyongyang says it will take "additional self-defence measures" in response to any sanctions.
The North has further fuelled tensions in the past week by launching six short-range missiles, renouncing the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 and threatening possible attacks on South Korea.
Analysts believe ailing leader Kim Jong-Il is trying to bolster his authority with the test to prepare for an eventual succession.
Meetings were held in five provinces to hail the event, the country's official news agency reported.
Speakers stressed it "greatly encouraged the Korean people in their dynamic drive for effecting a new great revolutionary surge and dealt telling blows at the US imperialists and their followers keen to stifle the DPRK (North Korea)," it said.
Analysts believe the North is not interested in further disarmament negotiations unless it is accepted as a nuclear-armed state.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates insisted that will not happen.
"The policy of the United States has not changed. Our goal is complete and verifiable denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, and we will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state," he told a Singapore security conference.
"North Korea's nuclear programme and actions constitute a threat to regional peace and security," Gates said, adding they pose "the potential for some kind of an arms race here in this region."
Gates said Washington "will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia -- or on us," but stressed there was no immediate military threat to the United States.
South Korean and US forces on the peninsula are on heightened alert for any border clashes.
South Korean Defence Minister Lee Sang-Hee, who met Gates on the sidelines of the conference, said their patience with North Korea was running out.
"A strong response has been agreed on by the US and South Korea against any active military provocation," Lee said.
The North walked out of six-nation nuclear disarmament talks after the Security Council condemned its April 5 rocket launch and tightened existing sanctions.
The United States is sending two diplomats to consult the other nations who were negotiating with the North -- China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
Stephen Bosworth, the special envoy on North Korea, and Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg will head Sunday to Tokyo and later visit China, South Korea and Russia, the State Department said.
Kim Jong-Il "is determined to go out with a bang and not a whimper," US analyst Marcus Noland wrote in The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi.
"Severely weakened by a stroke last year, the emaciated Kim has been frenetically delivering 'on-the-spot guidance,' as if to reassure himself and his country that he is still in control," Noland wrote.
If we had dealt with this before we went into Iraq? Who knows. But now we have what we have. At the same time we have Little Hitler {President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad} telling everyone that Iran has boosted its capacity to enrich uranium.
Ahmadinejad said last month that Iran had 7,000 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility in Natanz in central Iran.
"Now we have more than 7,000 centrifuges and the West dare not threaten us," IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying on a small radio station late Wednesday.
Senator Lieberman wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. He said this.
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that it is imperative that the world prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. She pledged that the Obama administration's engagement with Iran to achieve that end would be carried out "with eyes wide open and under no illusions."
Mrs. Clinton is right. Iran's illicit nuclear activities represent a uniquely dangerous and transformational threat to the United States and the rest of the world -- a threat that demands a response of open-eyed realism.
A realistic response requires that we first recognize that the danger posed by the Islamic Republic's nuclear activities cannot be divorced from its broader foreign policy ambitions and patterns of behavior -- in particular, its longstanding use of terrorist proxies to destabilize and weaken its Arab neighbors and Israel, to carve out spheres of Iranian influence in the Mideast, and to tilt the region toward extremism.
The Iranians have supported Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Palestinian territories, and Shiite militias in Iraq. They have sponsored terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds of American soldiers and thousands of innocent Muslims throughout the region. They have also exploited the plight of the Palestinians in a cynical attempt to put a wedge between moderate Arab governments and their people."
Obama has been so busy trying to "fundamentally change" this country, turning it into the new USSA, that he doesn't seem to have a clue as to what to do with all this. They all KNOW it too. Little Hitler does not fear Obama. Kim Jong-Il does not fear Obama. The Islamic Terrorists, do not fear Obama. the more Obama becomes like them, and the more Obama spends our way into bankruptcy, the less time and money he has to do anything about THEM.
I guess that apology tour didn't do the trick. Huh? I guess Obama being elected did not make the world "love us again." Huh? Wave your hand Obama, wave your hand. SMILE Obama SMILE! Take the lead of one of your advisers, quote Winnie the Pooh. Do something. Make them "Love us." We truly do live in dangerous times.
Peter
Sources
AFP - US warns NKorea amid reports of rocket launch preparations
Iran Focus / Wall Street Journal - There's no room for partisanship on Iran
Hey folks,
OK, to the hard news. What do you think will be the topic of conversation on June 16 between South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and President Barack Obama? It had better be North Korea.I know some of you may not know this, but way back when, in the beginning or the War being taken to Iraq, I said I think we need to be concentrated on North Korea. Instead of going after a guy with a sling shot in a desert, we should be going after the one that HAS WMDs, and said in not uncertain terms he would love to use them against us.
Remember when North Korea was heating up the first time around? June 20, 2006 I posted on this. I said this.
The United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea and other countries have urged North Korea to abandon any missile firing. North Korea fuels the missile. Plans the launch. Their reason? North Korea says it needs nuclear weapons and a delivery system to counter what it contends are U.S. intentions to invade or topple the government. Of course this is not true.
Secretary Rice said,
"It would be a very serious matter and, indeed, a provocative act should North Korea decide to launch that missile," That it "would once again show North Korea is determined to deepen its isolation, determined not to take a path that is a path of compromise and a path of peace, but rather instead to once again saber-rattle."
Now today, According to The AFP - US warns NKorea amid reports of rocket launch preparations
SEOUL (AFP) – Unfazed by international anger at its second nuclear bomb test, a defiant North Korea was said Saturday to be preparing to launch a long-range missile.The United States stressed it would not accept the North as a nuclear-armed state and warned that more atomic tests could spark an arms race in East Asia.
"A train carrying a long-range missile has been spotted at the weapons research centre near Pyongyang," South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted an intelligence source as saying.
The source said it may be a modified version of a Taepodong-2, which the North tested in 2006 and in April and which is theoretically capable of reaching Alaska.
"It usually takes about two months to set up a launch pad, but the process could be done in as little as two weeks, which means the North could launch a long-range missile as early as mid-June," the source said.
Yonhap quoted a presidential official as saying the North may schedule a launch to coincide with a June 16 summit between South Korean President Lee Mying-Bak {Actually it's President Lee Myung-Bak} and US President Barack Obama in Washington.
Two defence officials in Washington told AFP US satellite photos had shown vehicle activity at two launch sites, one in the west and one in the east.
Diplomats at the United Nations Security Council are discussing a new resolution which could impose new sanctions to punish the North for Monday's nuclear test -- its second since 2006.
In a telephone conversation Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso agreed "that one has to seriously respond (to the tests), which represent a challenge to international security," a Kremlin statement said.
Pyongyang says it will take "additional self-defence measures" in response to any sanctions.
The North has further fuelled tensions in the past week by launching six short-range missiles, renouncing the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 and threatening possible attacks on South Korea.
Analysts believe ailing leader Kim Jong-Il is trying to bolster his authority with the test to prepare for an eventual succession.
Meetings were held in five provinces to hail the event, the country's official news agency reported.
Speakers stressed it "greatly encouraged the Korean people in their dynamic drive for effecting a new great revolutionary surge and dealt telling blows at the US imperialists and their followers keen to stifle the DPRK (North Korea)," it said.
Analysts believe the North is not interested in further disarmament negotiations unless it is accepted as a nuclear-armed state.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates insisted that will not happen.
"The policy of the United States has not changed. Our goal is complete and verifiable denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, and we will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state," he told a Singapore security conference.
"North Korea's nuclear programme and actions constitute a threat to regional peace and security," Gates said, adding they pose "the potential for some kind of an arms race here in this region."
Gates said Washington "will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia -- or on us," but stressed there was no immediate military threat to the United States.
South Korean and US forces on the peninsula are on heightened alert for any border clashes.
South Korean Defence Minister Lee Sang-Hee, who met Gates on the sidelines of the conference, said their patience with North Korea was running out.
"A strong response has been agreed on by the US and South Korea against any active military provocation," Lee said.
The North walked out of six-nation nuclear disarmament talks after the Security Council condemned its April 5 rocket launch and tightened existing sanctions.
The United States is sending two diplomats to consult the other nations who were negotiating with the North -- China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
Stephen Bosworth, the special envoy on North Korea, and Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg will head Sunday to Tokyo and later visit China, South Korea and Russia, the State Department said.
Kim Jong-Il "is determined to go out with a bang and not a whimper," US analyst Marcus Noland wrote in The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi.
"Severely weakened by a stroke last year, the emaciated Kim has been frenetically delivering 'on-the-spot guidance,' as if to reassure himself and his country that he is still in control," Noland wrote.
If we had dealt with this before we went into Iraq? Who knows. But now we have what we have. At the same time we have Little Hitler {President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad} telling everyone that Iran has boosted its capacity to enrich uranium.
Ahmadinejad said last month that Iran had 7,000 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility in Natanz in central Iran.
"Now we have more than 7,000 centrifuges and the West dare not threaten us," IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying on a small radio station late Wednesday.
Senator Lieberman wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. He said this."Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that it is imperative that the world prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. She pledged that the Obama administration's engagement with Iran to achieve that end would be carried out "with eyes wide open and under no illusions."
Mrs. Clinton is right. Iran's illicit nuclear activities represent a uniquely dangerous and transformational threat to the United States and the rest of the world -- a threat that demands a response of open-eyed realism.
A realistic response requires that we first recognize that the danger posed by the Islamic Republic's nuclear activities cannot be divorced from its broader foreign policy ambitions and patterns of behavior -- in particular, its longstanding use of terrorist proxies to destabilize and weaken its Arab neighbors and Israel, to carve out spheres of Iranian influence in the Mideast, and to tilt the region toward extremism.
The Iranians have supported Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Palestinian territories, and Shiite militias in Iraq. They have sponsored terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds of American soldiers and thousands of innocent Muslims throughout the region. They have also exploited the plight of the Palestinians in a cynical attempt to put a wedge between moderate Arab governments and their people."
Obama has been so busy trying to "fundamentally change" this country, turning it into the new USSA, that he doesn't seem to have a clue as to what to do with all this. They all KNOW it too. Little Hitler does not fear Obama. Kim Jong-Il does not fear Obama. The Islamic Terrorists, do not fear Obama. the more Obama becomes like them, and the more Obama spends our way into bankruptcy, the less time and money he has to do anything about THEM.
I guess that apology tour didn't do the trick. Huh? I guess Obama being elected did not make the world "love us again." Huh? Wave your hand Obama, wave your hand. SMILE Obama SMILE! Take the lead of one of your advisers, quote Winnie the Pooh. Do something. Make them "Love us." We truly do live in dangerous times.
Peter
Sources
AFP - US warns NKorea amid reports of rocket launch preparations
Iran Focus / Wall Street Journal - There's no room for partisanship on Iran
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