Columnist – John Sammon
Why does North Korea do this?

Because it works.

North Korea’s testing of a nuclear weapon is the same old stick and carrot approach North Korea always uses. Again and again. They get away with it. Again and again.

Each time they do, it’s like a repeat, an exact copy of the way they did it before, the last crisis they caused, just the same way. A repeat. Like another little Munich crisis, recalling when gullible European leaders attempted to reason with and appease Hitler, and in selling away the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia, brought them all another step closer to war.

Here’s how it works.

Every time.

A.    North Korea announces to the world it will test a nuclear weapon, or a delivery system for the weapon (missile).

B.    The world, four-fifths of it, protests. Nothing is done.

C.    Despite protests, North Korea tests the weapon, or missile, which works better (more improved) every time.

D.    The world, four-fifths of it, protests again, after the test.

E.    North Korea then threatens war (the stick in the stick and carrot) if economic sanctions are taken against it.

F.    China and Russia veto possible economic embargo action by the UN against their former client state (North Korea).

G.    North Korea gets away with it, and keeps building a bomb and a missile to deliver it.

H.    When things get tense to the breaking point, sometimes, North Korea makes some kind of vague statement about the desire for peace, and renewed talks, even though they have violated past agreements with the precision of a Swiss clock (that’s the carrot in the stick and carrot).

Meanwhile, the idiotic policy of the former moronic president, George Bush, to seek a winless 40-year war in the Middle East by fighting ragged insurgents who don’t have a bomb, and ignore a country that is openly building one in violation of all previous agreements, continues to suck up lives and treasure and focus.

The legacy of the moron Bush was to fixate on the wrong enemy. If we ignore the criminal immorality of his regime and look at it strategically, Bush was the worst strategist since Benito Mussolini.

It makes sense. Doesn’t it make sense? Let’s ignore the gravest threat to world peace in the world and instead waste time, money and lives trying to pry vagabonds out of mountain caves in rural Afghanistan.

North Korea advances step by step.

The trump cards are Russia and China. Just as they did during the Korean War in 1951, Russia and China give North Korea power, by vetoing any attempt at the UN to rein in the mad dog (North Korea) by using economic or embargo sanctions.

Successive presidents starting with Richard Nixon and including Bill Clinton and the Bush boys have deluded themselves that Russia and China are our friends, when they are not. They are dictatorships masquerading as democracies.

They will continue to block any opposition to North Korea in the UN. The lunatic foaming at the mouth in Pyongyang knows this.

What will Obama do? That’s going to be interesting to see.

I predict a new to-the-brink-of-Armageddon crisis over North Korea that will be much like the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis, when the world came within a hair’s breath of turning itself into fused glass. Only this time, the finger on the trigger (the North Korean finger) will be more unstable than Khrushchev was in 1962.

On that note, to readers of Politicalarticles.net, I say, happy Memorial Day.

CNN: S. Korea to join a U.S.-led effort to crack down on trafficking in WMDs, while U.N. Security Council condemns nuclear test as a “clear violation” of U.N. resolutions. Ally China urges North Korea to return to disarmament talks. United States says North Korea’s nuclear test was “grave violation” of law. [ READ MORE ]

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