North Korea--Toddler Country with Nukes

I am back. After 5 nights in Winnipeg, it was great to come home. Hell, after only thinking about being in Winnipeg it would be great to be home. Anyway, Winnipeg was business and I met some pretty cool folk there. Thankfully, the weather was not bad at all. It was not freezing cold and there were no mutant mosquitoes, so it was good. Well, other than drunken, homeless native Canadians, read Indians, that populate downtown Winnipeg. That is not a good sight, but what can I do?

Anyway, the thing that caught my eye today was the headline that "North Korea threatens war if blamed and sanctioned for sinking a South Korean navy ship". Let me get this straight, the regime believes that it is being set up. They do not like the finding that a North Korean submarine sank the South Korean ship with a torpedo, killing a number of servicemen on board. If I am not mistaken, that is an act of war, so to threaten war if...seems kind of besides the point.

It seems to me that they have declared war, so there is no threat. Fuck 'em, I say. Where I thought that the next big, global war was going to come from the middle east, the fucking loony Kim Jong-Il raises the stakes and says that the next war will come in the far east. Let us see how China dodges this one.

It is in their backyard and with a regime with whom only they have real contact. Not much influence, it seems, but contact. They are just as afraid of the demented North Korean regime as the rest of the world is. It is their borders that would be overrun by freaked out NKs along with the south.

I do not think that their threats should stand in the way of doing the right thing, though. Consequences be damned, this regime needs to fall. Let them threaten war and let's see how that turns out for them. If you are going to do shitty things, remember this country has kidnapped numerous Japanese and South Korean nationals with little or no retribution, then grow some balls and take your punishment when, and if, you are caught.

The nation is like a little, fucking, lying, petulant child. It has got to stop. Call their bluff and be prepared to fuck them in the heart if need be. I really would like to see them put their thumbs into China's eye just to see how China reacts. That would be a joy to behold.

Ciao!