North Korea is currently blaming the the U.S. and South Korea for wanting war. I doubt I have ever seen or heard anything quite so pompous. Lets recap the situation...
The Korean war technically did not end, North Korea and South Korea are still technically at war. They have been under a cease fire since the fifties. Since then the two nations have been building up their armies, planting mines in the DMZ and aggressively postulating all in an effort to intimidate the other side. Spies have been been captured and open war has been threatened numerous times. However, till now neither side has done anything quite so rash as North Korea's latest step. Just a few months ago things were even starting to look up. Kim Jong Il was rumored to be stepping down, the north and south had agreed to allow people who had family on the other side to visit their family. It was more cooperation between the two countries than has been seen in a long time.
Then one day, KA BOOM!!!!!!!! North Korea starts shelling a south Korean military base!!! not just a stray round, but 200 rounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then they have the gaulle to say that the United States and South Korea are escalating the situation by conducting military maneuvers!!!!!!!!! The sheer arrogance of it is astounding!
If there was ever any doubt that the leaders of North Korea are nuts, it is gone now. Any nation that would be so stupid as to provoke war like that deserves to be internationally condemned at the very least and removed from power at the very most.
~The Extemp Guy
I'm actually a little skeptical about the entire thing.
ReplyDeleteThings that don't seem to add up:
Military exercises the land right on top of the conflict.
North Korea's nearing nuclear capacity
Lack of motive for North Korea (besides... being crazy?)
This is just a very very sketchy hypothesis (Yes I am adding this for all of those people who will use this to try to blackmail me when I run for president), but it could be possible that this is all a set up by our government for an excuse for invasion. I haven't done my proper research on this, but I've heard people talk about old declassified documents that proposed staging Cuban attacks on America so we could invade.
Likely? Who knows! It does seem that the United States does have a lot bigger of a motive to invade North Korea than the other way around though and could make a very interesting twist to an extemp speech!
~Bronson (Peer reviewing for the fun of it)
If I got this question in extemp I would have to talk about the first Korean War when the South Korean masters of Tae Kwon Do were hired as spies and assassins in the military. Talk about awesome.
i thought about the possibility, but I don't think Obama would risk something like that LOL ;)
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ReplyDeleteI'm wary of the "war hasn't ended" logic. The modern war isn't conducted through formal declarations. The US hasn't formally declared war (via constitutionally a specific, constitutionally described mechanism) since WWII. The Afghanistan war, for instance, was kicked off with Congress' AUMF. I'm not sure how that cashes out vis a vis ending war in the Koreas, but I think the legal formalisms have been abandoned.
ReplyDeleteThis is way above Obama. THIS IS AT THE TOP OF A SUPER SECRET GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION!!!!11!!11!!. Obama is just a pawn of the NEW WORLD ORDER!!!11!! They want our SOULS!!!!! (I could totally be a conspiracy theorist, this is so much fun)
ReplyDeleteExtempore88, That is a good point. But I think from both North and south Korea's other actions that we can conclude that they still consider themselves at a state of war...
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