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In reply to the discussion: US cancels food aid to North Korea: That'll teach Koreans who's the boss! [View all]DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)-I think....no, I know that North Korea is a world pariah.
-I know that North Korea has a system of gulags that sends approximately 150-200K people into this system, with no trial, no adjudication.
-They never come out of the gulag. They work, they starve, they die (unless they're shot first).
-North Korea has hundreds of thousands of mortars aimed directly at Seoul.
-Those mortars can be delivered to this giant population center within a matter of minutes, and there's not a thing we can do to stop them if they start firing.
-I think the launch pad for this rocket is twice as large as it needs to be. Guess what that means.
-I think that the leaders of North Korea have amply demonstrated that they'll slaughter their own in huge numbers for their own personal gain.
-I think that North Korea is going to be belligerent about this failed launch no matter what we do. Young'Un is under extreme pressure to prove he's a worthy leader, and no amount of food aid on our part, or threatening on our part, or 5-country talks is going to keep NK from being belligerent.
-I think that North Korea will be conducting an underground nuclear test within a matter of weeks.
-I think that North Korea reneged on their agreement not to test launches.
-I think North Korea is about to renege on their agreement not to conduct nuclear tests.
-I think North Korea is capable of becoming the largest security threat in the world within a matter of minutes, when they so choose.
-I think that EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN of North Korea who isn't part of top leadership is living a miserable, miserable existence.
-I DO NOT think this is propaganda, and I don't think I was born yesterday.
-I think that the danger of killing a million South Koreans within a matter of minutes is, for the present, the greatest danger that North Korea poses.
-I also think that they'll pose a much greater danger when they have long-range ballistic missile systems and more nuclear-tipped warheads, and that their menace will spread far beyond the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
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Here's what else I think:
-I think that the US should tell Israel that aid will be curtailed or cut off if they don't become better players on the world stage, most especially in relation to their policies toward and treatment of Palestinians.
-I think that Israel should be required to admit the existence of their nuclear arsenal.
-I think that the US should not have a kill vote in the permanent UN Security Council when matters of Israel are concerned (and I feel the same way about Russia and China, and their client states--yeah, I said client states).