Nuclear blinders

[Casino67]

LATimes.com:

North Korea's newly revealed nuclear facility should surprise no one, and Washington must no longer be played for a fool. The U.S. should work with China on reunifying the Korean peninsula.

"Stunning" was how Siegfried Hecker, former head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, described North Korea's new uranium-enrichment facility. While more sophisticated and extensive than previously believed, this plant is entirely consistent with 15 years of sustained effort by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to perfect its nuclear weapons program.

Indeed, media reports about a new enrichment plant surfaced as early as February 2009. Moreover, just a week before Hecker's announcement, North Korea confirmed it was building a larger nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Pyongyang's prior effort (in Syria) to replace its existing but aged reactor was frustrated when Israel bombed it in September 2007.

Seoul's minister of defense is so concerned, he has suggested deploying U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea for the first time in two decades. The size and scope of the North's just-revealed facilities will not, however, surprise anyone except those still entranced by the myth that North Korea will voluntarily negotiate away its nuclear weapons. Though our intelligence is imperfect, Pyongang almost certainly embarked on illicit uranium enrichment even before the ink dried on the Clinton administration's prized 1994 Agreed Framework. That deal was one of several North Korean pledges to denuclearize, in exchange for tangible benefits from the outside world — every one of which Pyongyang has violated.


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Wonder what would happen if we just told China that we were taking out the nuclear facilities. Not ask, tell them. Would China risk all-out war to protect this rogue country? I don't think so. They may even appreciate our doing so.

[Casino67]

From Reuters:

 

"FLASH: China, U.S. agree to make efforts to resume six-party talks with North Korea at early date: China foreign ministry."

 

Exactly what most pundits and experts say we should not do, six-party talks. Where is Hillary on this? Talks are just a way of kicking the can down the road. Nothing will be accomplished unless we agree to give NK gifts of food, fuel, etc.

[AceRimmer]

From Reuters:

 

"FLASH: China, U.S. agree to make efforts to resume six-party talks with North Korea at early date: China foreign ministry."

 

Exactly what most pundits and experts say we should not do, six-party talks. Where is Hillary on this? Talks are just a way of kicking the can down the road. Nothing will be accomplished unless we agree to give NK gifts of food, fuel, etc.

 

Our Jellyfish-in-Chief has just caved in again...

[Argyle58]

We've been "talking" with N.Korea Clinton was in the White House, and nothing has changed, except that they've gotten more dangerous and Kim has gotten crazier. The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things over and over and expecting different results.

 

Also a good definition of stupidity.