Kim is an old man with a dream to a goal to fulfill. If one has been reading the North Korean newspapers they have been filled with self-righteosness.
I absolutely believed there would be a missile launch this morning, but, I have expected it to be a nuclear strike of some kind into South Korea, possibly targeting the USA military base.
I profoundly believe Kim and North Korean leadership will carry out an atrocity while the world watches. This cannot continue. There is every indication that the AGGRESSIVE stance North Korea is taking is to intimidate and it will use the 'astonished mindset' in the world to its advantage.
Russia, China and the USA have to RESOLVE to destroy any capacity North Korea has to launch a nuclear holocaust into South Korea, possibly Japan. There needs to be an immediate 'presence' of naval vessels from the three super powers as a blockade to any supplies or warnings of any troop movements to the South.
Kim will launch and I believe he will be immune to retaliation of any nuclear capacity. His armies will be ready to fight any war, as he already stated in March. For the reason of protecting the region further, I am confident he believes there will be no nuclear strike back into North Korea for the sake not furthering the holocaust. Russia and China are not immune and are not necessarily safe.
At this point, the leader of North Korea is a crazy old man with nothing in his life worthwhile except securing his country the way he sees it before he dies. After all who wants to be a pip-squeak in the history books. In looking back over the past decades, the world has set North Korea on this path thinking it could control the outcome. He'll launch. There HAS to be an eminent presence of military strength in the seas around North Korea. The three superpowers have to contend with the disaster they have 'set up' over the last fifty years.
The launch of short range missiles is a direct act of aggression and the rhetoric from earlier this year is proof nothing will stop the inevitable. He called the testing in March peaceful. It was nothing but lies. Russia, China and the USA must confront the reality that North Korea is more ambitious than it should be or is prudent to be and is completely unpredictable. The more North Korea 'plays' the more acceptable it will become and they'll use that tolerance to their goals. This is a far more unstable circumstance than anyone wants to admit !
If I were Kim, I'd launch at the USA military base in believing it has been the problem the entire time and give opportunity to unite the North and South based on the removal of a USA component that has kept them apart the entire time. Don't under estimate that assessment !
N Korea holds nuclear test (click here)
May 25, 2009
North Korea said it successfully conducted an underground nuclear test, calling the move part of measures to bolster self-defence.
--Reuters
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
SKorea military forms crisis team after nuke test report Troops were put on heightened alert and are closely monitoring movement of NKorea troops. (click here)
Mon, May 25, 2009AFP
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's military on Monday formed a "crisis management" team of general-level officers after North Korea announced it had carried out a nuclear test, the defence ministry said.
"Top military officials led by the defence minister are holding an emergency meeting after forming a crisis management team," a ministry spokesman said.
A spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff said troops were put on heightened alert "and are closely monitoring movement of North Korean troops."...
If it were me, I'd get out of town, too.
...The minister was to leave for Beijing Tuesday before flying to Singapore to attend a regional security forum there and to hold talks with US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, he said.
"The minister will also cancel his trip to Singapore if cross-border tension rises," the spokesman said.
North Korea Fires Short-Range Missiles, Yonhap Says (Update2) (click here)
By Heejin Koo and Viola Gienger
Last Updated: May 26, 2009 03:48 EDT
....The Obama administration is seeking a unified international response to North Korea’s actions, and South Korea agreed today to join a U.S.-led program to prevent weapons shipments. Japan’s lower house of parliament today unanimously adopted a resolution condemning what it called a “reckless act” and urging the government to impose tougher sanctions on the communist regime....
March 8th, 2009 Posted By Pat Dollard (click here)
PYONGYANG/BEIJING, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)—North Korea warned Monday that any move to intercept what it calls a satellite launch and what other countries suspect may be a missile test-firing would result in a counterstrike against the countries trying to stop it.
“We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means,” the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army as saying.
If countries such as the United States, Japan or South Korea try to intercept the launch, the North Korean military will carry out “a just retaliatory strike operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but against the strongholds” of the countries, it said.
“Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war,” it added....
