According to this article, *North Korea has warned the United States that any decision to send more troops to the Korean peninsular could lead it to make a pre-emptive attack on American forces. *
Although that just sounds like chest-beating, it seems a lot more confrontational than what Iraq’s being sounding off.
Furthermore tensions on the streets of Pyongyang are tangible. Air raid drills and blackouts are becoming twice-daily rituals and huge posters calling for courage in the fight ahead cover billboards and walls. and *The North Koreans are believed to possess one or two nuclear weapons already, as well as enough spent fuel rods to make four or six more. *
North Korea is currently more dangerous than Iraq. The North Korean situation could become extremely serious.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about North Korea. 11,000 artillery tubes aimed at Seoul means that any hostilities could kill 50,000 South Koreans in five minutes. It also means that Japan could be under threat of nuclear attack.
I knew that stuff about pre-emption was not a good idea to float in a position paper on foreign policy. They’ve turned our words against us, the nerve.
Look, who did the schoolyard bully take lunch money away from? The crazy phycho mentally-imbalanced kid playing the knife-between-the-fingers game, or the skinny wuss with the pocket protector?
Th US focused on Hitler and Europe while decidedly leaving Japan to go the diplomatic route and using embargos, all the way up to the point when Japan blew up Pearl Harbor. Then the US went on a 2 front war.