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horses4courses
12-19-2010, 08:30 PM
No matter how you look at it, things are not good on the Korean peninsula.

North Korea issuing threats over planned military exercises by the South.

Take your pick of latest reports:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/12/19/north.korea.tensions/index.html?hpt=T1



http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/19/security-council-tries-diffuse-korea-tensions-760293019/
boxcar
12-19-2010, 08:42 PM
No matter how you look at it, things are not good on the Korean peninsula.

North Korea issuing threats over planned military exercises by the South.

Just be sure to let us know when Obama goes over to NK and curtsies to Kim Jong il. I wouldn't want to miss those photos.

Boxcar
horses4courses
12-19-2010, 08:54 PM
Joking aside, this situation seems to be out of the hands of the major powers.

North Korea seems ambivalent to all outside opinion, and the South is not going to back-off because China, or Russia, wants it to.

The US stance is that South Korea has a right to defend itself.
boxcar
12-20-2010, 05:05 PM
Joking aside, this situation seems to be out of the hands of the major powers.

North Korea seems ambivalent to all outside opinion, and the South is not going to back-off because China, or Russia, wants it to.

The US stance is that South Korea has a right to defend itself.

Yo, horses...I think I heard on the radio that tensions have eased. But I haven't researched it yet.

It's not likely, though, that NK is going to spoil anyone's Christmas.

Boxcar
horses4courses
12-20-2010, 10:33 PM
Yo, horses...I think I heard on the radio that tensions have eased. But I haven't researched it yet.

It's not likely, though, that NK is going to spoil anyone's Christmas.

Boxcar

Yeah, I was glad to hear it.
Still a tricky situation, and the North Koreans are a loose cannon.

Regardless of anyone's politics in the US, though, praise has to go to out-going New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. He took on a diplomatic mission to N.Korea as a private citizen, and the situation could not have been more critical.
Seems he did have some influence, at least in the short term.


http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/20/blitzer-korean-tensions-eased-significantly/
skate
12-21-2010, 06:27 PM
Yes, ever since FishbelliesBill, gave the N. Koreans, Nuke Equipment, the Dems have been on good terms with N. K.


:mad:
Native Texan III
12-21-2010, 08:14 PM
Sarah Palin's on board too:

""But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies. We're bound to by treaty," Palin said in her "analysis" "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/24/sarah-palin-north-korea_n_788107.html
PaceAdvantage
12-21-2010, 08:24 PM
Sarah Palin's on board too:

""But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies. We're bound to by treaty," Palin said in her "analysis" "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/24/sarah-palin-north-korea_n_788107.htmlRight up there with 57 states and whatever Dem Congressperson (whom I can't remember at the moment) recently talked about North and South Vietnam, as if they still existed.
skate
12-21-2010, 08:33 PM
Sarah Palin's on board too:

""But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies. We're bound to by treaty," Palin said in her "analysis" "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/24/sarah-palin-north-korea_n_788107.html


So where you hanging, with the slip of tonguer or with the sale of equipment, that sorty kicks off the propblem and cant be corrected?