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Remember “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel? Well guess what. That is as far as most of us know about the current conflict in North and South Korea. Perhaps we need to understand the implications.
Remember “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel? Well guess what… That is as far as most of us know about the current conflict in North and South Korea. Perhaps we need to understand the implications. Russia has been fast becoming eerily similar to the soviet bear of olden days and even they have concerns that North Korea is on the brink of instigating a nuclear war. So shouldn’t we as Americans give some credence to the hype?
President Obama has kept his finger on the pulse of Asia as he must do in these times that are forcing us to borrow money from China. And as the saying goes, politics certainly makes strange bedfellows. To protect NATO, our economy, their economy, truly the economy of the entire globe, Pyongyang must be stopped. He has said “”Now that the South Korean puppets were so ridiculous as to join in the said racket and dare declare a war against compatriots [we] are compelled to take a decisive measure.”
The Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice that enables trade and the acceptance of twin civilized worlds, the North and South. Unlike the symbolic and somewhat peaceful destruction of the Berlin Wall, tearing down the Korean boundaries would almost certainly end in bloodshed. That is why the United States has been slowly increasing the Naval presence outside of the Korean maritime border.
However, getting back to nuclear weapons, if they decide to use one, how should the world respond? After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the global population was unsure of the after affects of a nuclear explosion. Now that we know, does that enable the rest of the world to condemn North Korea for their use? In a world that is seemingly on the brink of World War III on any given day, such an act would almost certainly polarize the earth in such a way that would cast a shadow over the lines drawn by the axis and the allies in World War II.
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I don’t see how we can start WWIII, especially not over and axis-allied line. Most axis countries don’t exist any more or have switched over, and it won’t be a commie-capital war either because communism is dead in most major countries and China, the biggest one remaining, is against NK’s actions. If the Koreans try something stupid and hit someone with a nuke, I doubt there will be much left of them.
I hope you are correct. Judging by the poise Putin and Chavez have shown through all this, it seems as though they are waiting for a cataclysmic moment where then can align themselves against us. Whether Iran using a nuke or North Korea, we are perhaps closer now then we were before the Bay of Pigs.