North Korea Tests A Nuke

Well it looks like those wacky North Koreans are at it again. The concluded a successful nuclear test earlier this morning. What I find odd is the complete lack of compassion from Kim Jong II for his countrymen. The place is practically starving to death and yet, he seems to think that a nuclear weapon is the way to go. I would think that a decent leader would make sure that everyone has food and clean water first before he thinks about other things. Perhaps ole' Kim hasn't seen Maslow's hierarchy of needs. That's ok. I'll leave that link up in case Kim decides to pay my site a visit. You're welcome buddy. :)

Many people immediately looked at us to resolve the issue. What I find odd is, many people seem to be up in arms when we play "world cop", but then run to us when the shit hits the fan. Anyone remember Liberia? Everyone wanted us to stay of Iraq, but then when Liberia was having problems with rebels, they looked at us for help. Of course we helped because it's in the nature of Americans to help when help is needed.

Back to North Korea. I think the difference between North Korea and Iran is that we seem to have better allies with us for North Korea than Iran. Why? Iran is sitting on an ocean of oil. There's many financial reasons for China and other countries in the area to take a "let's wait and see" approach to Iran. China is emerging to become a world superpower and needs all the help they can get to get there. But North Korea? There's nothing there. They are struggling to meet even basic needs of their citizens. People are crossing over into China and South Korea en mass. Now, when you have an unstable region like that with nuclear weapons, it will make you rightfully concerned. Radiated material could be picked up by the winds and carried deep into China and Japan. This brings about the needless suffering of people who come into contact with it. Japan is rightfully pissed as well. North Korea has already fired missiles over Japanese land. I don't know about you, but if a missile flew over my country, there'd be hell to pay.

I say let the Chinese and Japanese folks deal with the problem in the mean time. North Korea wants to "talk" desperately because we have halted shipments of aid to them and they know they aren't doing so well. There was an original deal for us to supply aid and they would in turn not have a nuclear program. Period. Now, they've reneged on the deal and want to come back? No way. Appeasement didn't work for the Clinton administration. There's no way it'll work now. Fool me once, shame on you.... Why should be believe that they are sincere now? They've given no reason for us to believe that they want to be friendly, so if that's the case, why should we send aid? We already have our hands full and aren't getting help we need from China and Russia for their own economic reasons. I think this may come to bite them in the ass when Iran and North Korea are no longer allies of theirs.

North Korea has made their bed, now they must lie in it. What Kim Jong II doesn't realize, is that when you have people who are desperate, such as starving to death, they do desperate things. Such a situation could be very dangerous for Kim Jong II and his regime.


Travis