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North Korea May Fire Missile At Hawaii On July 4
The Japanese press is reporting that North Korea is readying its Taepodong-2 ballistic missile to fire at Hawaii on July 4. The Taepodong-2 has a range of 4,000 miles, but analysts are skeptical that it would reach that far.
Secretary Gates has ordered the military’s ground based mobile missile defense system to Hawaii, which is capable of shooting down anything North Korea launches in our direction.
I have no doubt that anything North Korea shoots at us would be defeated by our missile defense systems. They have almost 0% chance of hitting us with a damn thing.
However, whether or not a missile attack would be successful is hardly the point. The issue here is that North Korea plans to launch a missile attack against the United States.
If they do launch against us and president Obama takes no military action he will go down in history as a bigger pussy than Jimmy Carter.
It’s beyond pathetic that we’ve lived with threats and belligerence from North Korea for decades. There is no country on the planet that’s weaker or more pathetic than North Korea.
It’s unbelievable that such a brokedown, cold war relic like the DPRK has been allowed to threaten the world.
The United States could cripple the North Korean military beyond repair in less than 24 hours.
Aside from their ballistic missile program and primitive nuclear bombs, their military equipment belongs in a museum rather than on a battlefield.
The modern fighter jets they have are useless because they don’t have the fuel to fly them.
They have a standing army of 1,000,000 soldiers, but they are poorly equipped and hungry.
We could fly a single B-2 Stealth Bomber over North Korea and drop JDAMS on their military bases, rocket launch pads, and any other targets of opportunity.
While we’re at it, we should drop bombs on the military barracks in the concentration camps up in the mountains.
This would give the hundreds of thousands of people enslaved in those camps a chance to escape.
The argument against military action with North Korea has always been that if we attack they’ll launch artillery and rockets into South Korea which would kill thousands of people.
They have hundreds of artillery pieces and rockets pushed right up to the DMZ ready to fire on Seoul.
However, we have the technology to simultaneously hit almost all of these installations in one strike, rendering the North nearly impotent.
After we degrade their ability to fire on the South, it would be a joke the rest of the way. Kim Jong-il is a lunatic and a mass murderer who should have been taken out by the U.S. years ago.
The bottom line is that it would be disaster of historic proportions if president Obama does not respond in kind to a missile strike on Hawaii by North Korea.
-Chris Jones
Kim Jong-Il Wins Re-Election In North Korea
I’m not even sure why this is a news event anymore, but Kim Jong-Il has been re-elected as leader of North Korea:
Turnout Sunday was 99.98 percent, with all voters backing the sole candidate running in their constituency, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.
Kim had basically a 100% turnout with every single vote going to him. That kind of turnout has to make even the most hard line dictator blush. Kim Jong-Il is the one of the cruelest men on the planet. His regime is stained with the blood of millions of North Koreans who’ve starved to death or died in a concentration camp.
There’s a special seat in hell reserved for Kim right along side Hitler and Stalin.
Mass Murder Still Continues Inside North Korea
After the decision by North Korea to declare and begin disassembling their nuclear program, the Bush Administration has agreed to lift sanctions long held against the regime in Pyongyang and remove that country from the list of state sponsors of terror.
To show their country is serious about disarming, the North Koreans are planning the televised destruction of the cooling tower at one of their major nuclear facilities at Yongbyon.
U.S. officials are quick to point out that this is only the beginning of a process that will be completed in stages. As the North Koreans fulfill each part of the agreement, the U.S. will in return make good on its promises.
The Bush Administration acknowledges that North Korea has a rich history of deception and broken promises and will of course be watched very carefully. Representatives from the U.S. and the IAEA will be allowed in to the country to monitor the progress of disarmament.
The disarmament of North Korea is of course a wonderful thing, however the world must not forget about the literal genocide that’s taking place in that country.
There is absolutely no country on the face of the earth with a worse record on human rights than North Korea. Kim Jong-IL makes Saddam Hussein look like a choir boy. North Korea is known as “the world’s largest prison camp” which is not an exaggeration by any means.
The cult-of-personality that the current Kim regime and his father before him have created in North Korea is unprecedented anywhere in the world. Most people have no idea the level to which that country is controlled. Their are only two phone lines in the entire country that reach the outside world, and you only need one guess to know who controls them.
More than 3 million North Koreans have died of starvation in recent years due to widespread famine. The Kim regime diverts what food aide it does allow in to the country to the military and party faithful.
The people of North and South Korea are genetically identical people, separated only by razor wire and a Stalinist madman.
However, North Koreans are on average 5″ shorter than South Koreans because of chronic malnutrition and starvation. South Korea is one of most technologically advanced nations in the world with a standard of living comparable to the United States, while North Koreans don’t even have anything to eat.
Human beings in North Korea have no value to the regime. The slightest infraction can result in a life sentence to one of the hundred of political prison camps scattered about the country. Prisoners live about as well as farm animals, and are worked until they die of starvation, hypothermia, sickness, suicide, or execution.
One particular human rights abuse is something right out of Nazi Germany. North Korea routinely tests chemical and biological weapons on prisoners. Sometimes gassing entire families together to study the effect of weapons.
Guards in these prisons are taught that prisoners are not humans but criminals who wish to destroy the country.
Collective punishment is the norm in North Korea. Not only is a suspected dissident arrested but also three generations of his family are imprisoned, to root out the bad blood and seed of dissent. There are children who are literally raised in prison camps if they’re fortunate enough to survive to adulthood. Their only crime is to have ancestors labeled as “criminals” by the regime.
One man who actually escaped from a camp he was born in says he had no idea about the outside world or anything. He thought it natural that he was in a prison camp because of his ancestors crimes.
“I didn’t know about America, or China or the fact that the Korean Peninsula was divided and there was a place called South Korea,” he said. “I thought it was natural that I was in the camp because of my ancestors’ crime, though I never even wondered what that crime was. I never thought it was unfair.”
The government practices total information control. North Koreans have no cell phones, no Internet access, and only limited government controlled television.
The bottom line is that while we celebrate what looks to be a nuclear disarmament of North Korea, we must also remember the horrifying cruelty that the citizens of North Korea will still be forced to endure.
Hollywood lefties love to play activist when it comes to global warming or Darfur, but the people of North Korea are suffering daily atrocities the likes of which the world has only rarely seen.
Robert Mugabe, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, or the Junta in Berma, are all amateurs when it comes to mass murder compared to “Little Kim” of North Korea.
-Chris Jones
Satellite Imagery shows cleansing of suspect Syrian site
New satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.
Two photos, taken Wednesday from space by rival companies, show the site near the Euphrates River to have been wiped clean since August, when imagery showed a tall square building there measuring about 150 feet on a side.
Israeli Air Strike on Syria Kindles Debate in the U.S.
There is an interesting article in the New York Times this morning that discusses an internal debate within the Bush Administration about how to deal with North Korea.
As of right now our agreement with the North to provide various kinds of economic aide in return for dismantlement of their nuclear program still stands.
However, Israel is arguing that in light of the recent discovery of a possible clandestine nuclear program in Syria thanks to the help provided by North Korea, we should reconsider that deal.
Israel recently launched air strikes against a facility in Syria that is alleged to be home to some type of clandestine nuclear program. The Israelis allegedly sent special forces soldiers in to Syria prior to the bombings to retrieve some type of proof that the facility was indeed a nuclear facility.
They showed the proof to President Bush and he gave the go ahead for the air strikes. Now some in his Administration are advising him that the North cannot be trusted in light of these recent events.
According to the article Bush, Rice, and Defense Secretary Gates remain committed to the deal with the North at least for the time being.
By Chris Jones
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