Finally, I speak of NK Nukes

I am back. The world is an absurd place. That is all that I can say. Have you heard the North Korean response to the UN Security Council (security? This group could not work adequate security for a grade school presentation) sanctions in response to the NK's test of a nuclear bomb? They consider it, get this, a "declaration of war".

How fucking absurd is this? They go against world opinion and dire warnings from most of the world and test their nuclear device. In doing so, they make their one benefactor in the world, China, look feeble and ignorant. They embarrass the Chinese and in essence flip the world the finger. They do all this and then consider the repercussions a "declaration of war". I guess this is as opposed to starving their people, maintaining the worlds fourth largest army (which, by the way, has not seen ANY combat in over 50 years) and building and testing nukes contrary to the wishes of the world and their largest benefactor, but the Security Council's response is a "declaration of war"? Well, fuck it, let the fucking war begin.

If they want a war, then it seems to be that the present is the time to do it. Even with a million man army, they have no food. They may have 50 years of arms built up but then again they are old. If their missile test is anything to look at, their technology is rudimentary at best and very unreliable. They do run the risk of blowing themselves up as much as hitting their targets. There is no evidence that they can arm those missiles with nuclear warheads at this time, as well. I am thinking that the best worst case scenario is to go to war with them now.

I realize it is very easy for me to say from the safety of my home in North America. I may have a different opinion if I were living in China (would I know this whole thing was going on if I did?) or South Korea, and maybe Japan and Taiwan. Those first two would bear the brunt of a land war with refugees streaming in both directions. It is not "good" but can you let Kim Jong-il get stronger and more proficient with their nukes and missile technology?

The dude is like Dr. Strangelove or Blofeldt from SPECTRE (the good Bond films of the 60s). He cannot shoot straight and has a crude means of extortion, but it has worked until now. I am just thinking that with their "declaration of war" response, poetic justice may be a Tomahawk missile strike right up his ass. I think that would solve things in the short term. You would still have to "destroy" those high up underneath him as well. Then you have the issue of feeding his starving people. It is not a simple situation, there are too many moving parts.

Just look at the dude, though. That hair, those glasses. Would you buy a used nuclear warhear, er car, from this dude? Dig the suit and the look of being an egg on stilts. You have to love the chicken legs that "Great Leader" has. Look to the top of the post as I cannot figure out how to load the fucking picture where I want it. (I get what I pay for, obviously, but then again, I have a voice here, disembodied, but a voice nonetheless)



He has, along with his dead father, Kim Il Sung, have so isolated his country from the rest of the world, except China. They have nothing they can trade, save for rocks, and finished nukes. We can all thank that Pakistani "hero" A. Q. Khan for all this, as he sold the technology to the North Koreans (Iranians and Libyans, too). He is one great humanitarian, like the Muslim Oppenheimer, without the same sense of angst about the consequences. Knowledge without conscience is a dangerous thing. I will say they have done a better job as a father-son despot thing than the Duvaliers in Haiti, but of course, Haiti is an economic and political basket case and has been since the beginning of time.

The country does resemble what I imagined life would be like in Oceania in Orwell's "1984". I loved that book, having first read it in 1978 at the age of 14. That is why the whole thing strikes me as absurd. Dear Leader Kim Jong-il has studied Western movies. He has now taken on the character of the mad antagonist in a James Bond film, but better, he is fucking modern day Dr. Strangelove, without Peter Sellers charm. Fucking world we live! Then again, it beats the Black Death (good old plague days of the dark and middle ages, but of course, that is a rat story for another day).

I think this was a disjointed post and I hope the picture of Dear Leader appears. If it does not, then only one conclusion can be drawn, the North Koreans' have inflitrated my computer and none of us are safe, then again, none of us are truly safe. Warming and drying thought for this wet and rainy Tuesday. Ciao!