I think Kim is seeking to bring war between The West and North Korea. His brinkmanship is a few notches higher than his father. But, North Korea has become a very aggressive nation. That is the greatest lesson to all this. It is at the brink of war.
The fever pitch in the media is amazing and this title in the NYTimes illustrates clearly how ballsy the tone has become. Does anyone ask what right The West has to Pre-emption in these circumstances?
I think the media needs to stop feeding the ego of a dictator seeking war over peace. Kim has moved his missiles to the coast. That isn't brilliant? He doesn't have to move anything to the coast to launch. Why not put the missiles in the center of Pyongyang? These are mobile missiles. He could launch from the palace roof if he wanted to.
Pyongyang wants war. They want to invade South Korea. They have a strategy and it begins with The West destroying their missiles on the coast. Once that occurs the ground war begins without end. There won't be any negotiations if war breaks out. I doubt there will be negotiations at all, but, Secretary Kerry is welcome to try.
North Korea is at a chronic state of war. I don't doubt this will be the norm now. Kim is inching his way into South Korea. The West needs to decide where to draw the line. There are significant assets in the seas of South Korea and on land. Kim is taking South Korea in inches and not by unleashing war. He occupies an island he didn't before his father died. Now, he has shutdown an industrial complex shared with South Korea and no doubt will seek to occupy it as well. What next? Movement into the DMZ while talking about uniting the North and South. That is what he is seeking. He is mapping out a strategy to encourage encroachment to take back the South.
North and South Korea have a lot in common, it is called the Korean Peninsula. South Korea needs to decide how tolerant they will be as Kim encroaches further and further to uniting the North and South. It is their lives, their futures and their children's inheritance.
We are not Dick Cheney. Cheney is a mad man. He likes being a mad man, not very different than Kim. The USA has to look to it's sovereign right and interests to intervene as the one superpower left to Earth. That title of Superpower is not accurate. The USA could not wage war against every country on Earth that now aims nuclear missiles at it and survive. Every country on Earth has a limit to it's sovereign state if nuclear war broke out. But, a nuclear launch would be the beginning of war and not the end.
So, while Americans have the demands to destroy the missiles before their capacity is actually realized, they might want to ask how well "Duck and Cover" works. When Americans scream "...kill, kill, kill..." they are actually proving how spoiled their thinking actually is. Americans actually think dropping bombs outside the boundaries of the USA is THEIR RIGHT, not their burden. Americans are Chicken Little believing that if they yell "...the sky is falling..." they can actually stop it. It is that fever pitch that provided an illegal invasion into Iraq. How did that turn out for you?
Bomb North Korea, Before It’s Too Late (click here)
By JEREMI SURI
Published: April 12, 2013
...Earlier this week, North Korea closed the Kaesong Industrial Complex, the only facility where citizens from North and South Korea work together. And now the North is openly threatening (and visibly preparing) to fire a mobile-launcher-based Musudan missile with a range that could reach many of the places Mr. Kim has menaced in his public statements. American intelligence agencies believe that North Korea is working to prepare even longer-range delivery systems to carry the nuclear warheads already in its arsenal....
The Korean crisis has now become a strategic threat to America’s core national interests. The best option is to destroy the North Korean missile on the ground before it is launched. The United States should use a precise airstrike to render the missile and its mobile launcher inoperable....
