War in Korea?
More Inane Banter from Kim Jong Il
By D.W.

North Korea, under the divine leadership of the dear leader Kim Jong Il, has recently threatened South Korea and the United States with a preemptive invasion in response to routine military exercises held on the Korean peninsula. Jon Herskovitz of the Reuters news wire reported that, “North Korea said it had the right to launch a pre-emptive attack to counter a U.S.-South Korean joint military training drill”.

This regime feels that these annual and well publicized training events are aggressive provocations even though they are defensive rehearsals for a Northern attack.

So what! More of the usual blaaah blaaah blaah childish talk from our erstwhile enemies in the northern Korean peninsula. But why does the public and the media take these repetitive and meaningless warnings seriously?

The North Korean regime has been spewing out this nonsense for fifty years, making childish threats they will never actually carry out. This probably makes them to feel important and powerful; oh the West is quaking in their boots, just look at their newspapers. In essence, they behave like little unruly children threatening to break something if their parents don’t give them what they want. And sadly, the press is feeding this narcissism by consistently publishing these bogus warnings that they make on a tried and true regular basis.

I am not saying that we should not take North Korea’s nuclear program or support for terrorism seriously, because we must. But the likelihood of a communist invasion of South Korea is extremely doubtful since that it is not the real danger.

South Korea has a very strong and well trained military which could probably defeat the North by itself. They have fifty divisions and modern military equipment and they are defended in well prepared positions while they continuously execute well rehearsed battle drills.

The North can cause severe damage to the South but it cannot destroy it. An invasion of the South would only guarantee that North Korea would ultimately be destroyed.
 

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And even the use of chemical weapons by the North would open up the very likely possibility of a U.S. Nuclear attack, which would annihilate the country.

The dear leader may be a Looney Toon but I don’t believe he is suicidal. I am sure that in the deep recesses of his mind as well as the minds of his generals he knows that they would be destroyed by the South and by the United States. I could be wrong here as Saddam Hussein actually believed he would survive a U.S. invasion as he bought all the stupidity that his advisors told him. Kim Jong Il might fall into the same trap of believing in his own invincibility because everyone in the North tells him exactly what he wants to hear.

Regardless of these developments, our military probably ignores these foolish threats from the North because there are many other more legitimate warning signs that are reliable indicators of an attack. Thus, we still should not entertain the North’s intimidation and bullying.

We do need to be worried about the things North Korea is not talking about like their WMD’s and links to other undesirable nations and terror groups. This is where they pose a real threat to us.

If North Korea can attack us through a proxy groups like Iran attacking Israel, then that is the optimal course of action.

Our so called friends in China and Russia are not immune to this threat either. It is not a far stretch from having a nuke sold to Al-Qaeda ending up in Chechen hands. There is no honor among homicidal terror groups. One day they can be your allies and then stab you in the back on the next day if it serves their purpose.

Luckily it is easy for us to further isolate this regime from the rest of the world if that becomes necessary. North Korea only borders two countries; the South and China. The only other way of accessing the country is by air and sea, both of which can be blockaded with international support. The wild card here is China which probably has numerous reasons for both containing North Korea and as well as for enabling their capacity for causing problems.

Consequently, the North Korean dilemma is more diplomatic than it is militarily especially since a military solution could only result in total war.

And most importantly, North Korea is far from autonomous; they can’t even feed their own population. This creates severe vulnerabilities that can be exploited to our advantage by further isolating the regime. An effective blockade would largely eliminate the threat of physically transferring weapons to terror groups but it would not eliminate a transfer of knowledge.

So if the media is going to sensationalize the North Korean problem they should focus on threats that actually exist and stop entertaining North Korean propaganda.

Kim Jong Il, as well as other world leaders, is reportedly is a frequent viewer of our media sources, where he probably is satiated by all the news reports of his public threats that scare Western nations. No doubt that it is these news reports that are responsible for allowing him to feel important thus encouraging him to continue this undesirable behavior. Perhaps he hopes that these threats of invasion will detract the West from the real threat that he poses with his nuclear program.

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