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2004-04-18 China-Japan-Koreas

N.Korea Says Linking It to Terrorism Is Far-Fetched

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Posted by Fred 2004-04-18 11:57|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gotta give that a 2 on the Spittle Scale^TM; You got the far-fetched / hostile policy charge, but not much else.

Posted by Raj 2004-04-18 12:20:30 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com/] 2004-04-18 12:20:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The North Korean official also repeated an earlier statement that Pyongyang would consider the imposition of economic sanctions as a declaration of war.

That's a chance we're just going to have to take. This bunch of @ssholes need to go down hard and d@mn quick, too. If Kim's plane crosses open water on his flight to China, we should blow it out of the sky. I wouldn't bet a plug nickel that the politburo is going to spank their misbehaving baby either.

China has managed to milk out an undeserved degree of prestige by mediating this tempest in a ~~crackpot~~ teapot. They have helped breed up this threat to regional stability and had better resolve the issue post haste. All of this needs to stop immediately. The entire north Asian region is experiencing economic jitters because of these loons. North Korea is the fulcrum for China's leverage and therefore should be removed as a damper to Sino influence in the region.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-18 6:45:27 PM|| 2004-04-18 6:45:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Zipster, you're really quite the hothead, aren't you?
You're Mr. Nuke-them-all-now, which is peculiar for someone from the ideological side who thinks Jimmy "Appeasement" Carter and Bill "Kumbaya World Order" Clintoon were our greatest CiCs.

Posted by Jen 2004-04-18 6:49:21 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-04-18 6:49:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Jen, Mr. Z is quite a mystery. He regularly comes out with 'lets nuke em all' statements and then whines about fences built to keep out drug dealers. Is till think he's fraud trying to build up credit points in order to push some agenda. Although, to give him his due, he has made a couple of moderately funny sheep jokes the last few days.

Posted by Phil B 2004-04-18 7:03:28 PM|| 2004-04-18 7:03:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Zenster> Not even the US can attack all the world at once, no matter how nasty said world is.

North Korea will only fall if the Chinese regime falls -- as that time seems still rather far away, it's best to keep on playing defense in that area of the world for now. The emerging Syria-Iraq-Iran axis is the real problem currently.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-04-18 7:13:09 PM|| 2004-04-18 7:13:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 That crazy Kim better read Woodward's book.

If Cheney has a bead on him now that Saddam is out of the way, Kim better get himself a copy of the songbook that Daffy Khadaffy is using, i.e., if he wants to keep importing the French Cognac.

As to China? Pyongyang Kimbo is just cheap entertainment. They are getting a dose of reality in re.; Xinjiang province in the Northwest of PRC. It they get too distraced by the Northwest, They will drop Kim like a rock.

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-18 10:53:50 PM|| 2004-04-18 10:53:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 You're Mr. Nuke-them-all-now, which is peculiar for someone from the ideological side who thinks Jimmy "Appeasement" Carter and Bill "Kumbaya World Order" Clintoon were our greatest CiCs.

Jen, your unfounded assertions reveal a remarkable lack of integrity or intelligence. I'll let you choose which.

Aris Katsaris, your points are well made. I happen to regard North Korea's negative impact on the economies of our Asian allies as one that rivals the admitted need for some major whup-@ss in the Middle East. It's why I'd like to see a multinational effort towards regime change in North Korea. I'm still rather concerned about North Korea proliferating nuclear technology or fissile material, especially to terrorists.

Phil B, I'll ask you once again; Do you advocate Los Angeles walling off Compton? How about New York walling off Harlem or Bedford-Sty? Such thinking is about as American as Stalin. Let us know when you have the courage to answer this.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-19 12:04:30 AM|| 2004-04-19 12:04:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Phil B, try and avoid descending to Jen's intellectual level, it ill becomes you. I advocate nuclear retaliation against Moslem holy sites should Islamic terrorists launch an atomic attack on Israel or the West. My efforts to outline some sort of credible deterrent to Islamist terror are a far cry from your imaginary 'lets nuke em all' horseradish.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-19 12:15:13 AM|| 2004-04-19 12:15:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Dudester, get a blog, so we can ignore you properly!
It would work out great for you--you'd never get banned, unless you banned yourself (which I wouldn't put past you, oh Beavis and Butthead rolled into one person of the cyber world!)

Posted by Jen 2004-04-19 12:22:03 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-04-19 12:22:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Let's cut to the chase with one single question:

What are your feelings about the Berlin Wall, Phil B?

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-19 12:53:31 AM|| 2004-04-19 12:53:31 AM|| Front Page Top

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