NK Goes Nuclear

Billy the Great Khan

Billy the Great Khan

Uwaa OmO
I know you proles are too busy proling it up in proleville, but this is serious business.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/world/asia/north-korea-seismic-disturbance/index.html

Hong Kong (CNN) -- North Korea's nuclear test prompted united condemnation and a vow of tough action from the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.
The council issued a statement slamming an underground nuclear test that jolted the already fragile security situation in Northeast Asia.
South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, repeating a statement to reporters outside council chambers, said the test violated council resolutions, and "there continues to exist a clear threat to international peace and security."
Kim said that council members will start work "on appropriate measures in a Security Council resolution" and that "North Korea will be held responsible for any consequences of this provocative act." The council is chaired this month by South Korea.
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More at link, and a bunch more news elsewhere. Apparently China and Russia aren't fans of these moves either.
 
Did anyone actually think that the Nuclear Status Quo was going to last forever. The Germans actually had a lead on us during WW2 in constructing the 1st hydrogen bomb. They couldnt bring themselves to continue saying that the bomb was so destructive it was inhumane. They stopped their program.
At the end of WW2 100s of black bags were loaded aboard airplanes in Montana headed to Russia as part of the lend lease program. IN those bags were the blueprints and engineering plans for our 1st hydrogen bomb. Treason has been apart of our history for a long time. The Russians never had the money to make a Hydrogen bomb. It took so much money for us to build our 1st it put a dent in our Gross National Product.
 
When Obama Promised to 'Eliminate North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Programs'?
In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised that he would “eliminate North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.” His campaign manifesto, Change We Can Believe In...

Obama’s pledge to use “tough diplomacy” to “end the threat of North Korea” followed his infamous pledge during a Democratic presidential primary debate in 2007 that he would meet the leaders of rogue regimes like North Korea “without preconditions.”

That thinking matches the pseudo-realist view expressed repeatedly by Obama’s new nominee for Secretary of Defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)--that the danger of regimes such as Iran and North Korea is amplified by, or even caused by, U.S. failure to “engage.” Obama’s extreme self-confidence emboldened his campaign promise not just to contain North Korea, but to convince it to abandon nuclear weapons entirely.

Obama did not just leave such talk on the campaign trail. In his 2010 State of the Union address, Obama boasted of the success of his policy on North Korea:
Now, these diplomatic efforts have also strengthened our hand in dealing with those nations that insist on violating international agreements in pursuit of nuclear weapons. That's why North Korea now faces increased isolation, and stronger sanctions--sanctions that are being vigorously enforced.

He repeated the North Korea boast in his 2011 State of the Union address:
Because of a diplomatic effort to insist that Iran meet its obligations, the Iranian government now faces tougher sanctions, tighter sanctions than ever before. And on the Korean Peninsula, we stand with our ally South Korea, and insist that North Korea keeps its commitment to abandon nuclear weapons. (Applause.)

Yet today, on the day he is to give the first State of the Union address of his second term, North Korea has tested a nuclear bomb. Not only has Obama failed to “eliminate” the North Korean nuclear weapons program; he has also failed to discourage or deter it.
 
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