High Ground Underground

I was a Korean War baby, so the war has technically never ended for my entire life. Not to count the chickens before they've hatched, but this is heady stuff -- at least apparently the closest we've been in 68 years. It reminds me of the reunification of Germany. Of course it took some initiative by the S. Korean leader, and maybe the nuclear threats by the North to wake us all up. But surely the change from decades of pussycat diplomacy to "Fire and fury" by president Tr ump also woke up Kim. That, maybe together with the tightening sanctions, increasing defections, and Trump's saying that Kim was on a suicide mission -- I think he realized that the path he was on was just that. And the Korean Olympics was also timely. But with all their subterfuges and broken promises of the past, the standard for verification of denuclearization and peaceful intent needs to be much higher before any relaxation of sanctions, signing peace accords, demobilization,...

Among other monikers for Kim Jong Un such as “Rocket Man,” ironically, I think that the combination of the names of the  first  2  nuclear weapons we used – “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” – is most appropriate.   The latter name should require no explanation – he’s clearly the best-fed person in North Korea, unlike the many thousands or millions of his people he has starving or starved.   The former name, “Little Boy,” because he and his generals act just like giddy little boys playing with fire, when we see pictures of them at missile or nuclear tests (examples below).   And playing with fire, they are.   And as they say, he who plays with fire gets burned.  Kim & his regime also remind me of The Mouse that Roared.  A real Napoleon complex.    But after all his egregious human rights violations (kidnapping young Japanese girls, torturing and starving many thousands or millions of his own peopl...

8/8/17  North Korea Supposedly during the Obama administration N. Korea was years away from weaponizing their nukes, and ICBM’s.  Now, suddenly, according to the news, their recent ICBM test could have reached anywhere in the US, and they have 60 miniaturized, weaponized nuclear warheads to go on them.  So Obama conveniently kicked the can down the road, and basically did nothing.  Bill Clinton touted how great a deal he’d brokered thru Jimmy Carter with N. Korea, giving them billions to develop peaceful nuclear power with the assurance they wouldn’t develop weapons.  Laughable.  Just like Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, where many more billions of dollars were given, and kicked the can down the road just a bit.  But after decades of trying limited sanctions and diplomacy, putting up with N. Korea’s threats, at some point, and this is that point, the bill comes due.  It would have been easier to deal with it earlier, than now when they have nu...