BY: NCViking

This seems to be a recurring story through many years and administrations – failed North Korean policy. Over and over deals are drawn up for cooperation and over and over North Korea breaks them in favor of further provocation. Whether it is Madeline Albright visiting and making nice, Bush’s failed six party talks or Obama’s open hand, the results have been the same. Isolation from the rest of the world and years of American and U.N. condemnation and sanctions have done little to loosen the grip of this very volatile regime. Indefinite containment has been the policy of choice where cowardice in the face of a crazy man and a mighty military scares the free world into ignoring the threat and condoning the continued bondage and human suffering through apathy. And now it has advanced to a point of no return – Kim’s gone nuclear, a real one this time.

Nobody has developed a viable solution to this situation and I certainly do not know what the answer is. One thing I do know is that continuing U.N. policy of 50+ years of isolation while slowly increasing North Korea’s boiler pressure is unsustainable. Nobody knows how it will finally end … but it will end someday. Each passing year of failure makes it more likely that a horrific terrorist scenario or regional war unlike one we’ve ever seen may be how it does end. Though it is often called the forgotten war, what should not be forgotten is that nearly the same amount of Americans were killed in action during the Korean War as the Vietnam War but in 1/4 of the time. Unless the Administration and U.N. can become innovative in its approach to the country’s regime and/or its people, we may be looking at the Korean War II in the future.

Let’s hope that Obama and the U.N. are up to the task. The jury is still out on our new Administration, but as for the U.N.? I’m not holding my breath.

Apologies upfront: I know it may not be everyone’s cup of joe, but in spite of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s insistence on shock language and visuals, they usually hit the nail on the head through their satire. So, here’s the obligatory video warning …

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO CONTAINS VILE AND CRUDE LANGUAGE AT ABOUT 1:18.
WATCH AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.

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Also, an interesting quote from TownHall.com:

Graham Allison, an assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration and now director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, said Monday that the international community regularly underestimates North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s willingness to do the unexpected.
“Could this guy believe he could sell a nuclear bomb to Osama bin Laden?” Allison asked in a phone interview. “Why not?”

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