Is Obama's Administration Screw Up With North Korea

So let me get this straight: You are upset that the POTUS would not negotiate with a crazy communist midget, who can't feed his people, and tries to bully the world into feeding people so he can then kill or imprison them? Didn't we go to war with someone for less? I am proud of our president for standing up (figuratively of course, seeing how EVERYONE stands up this little man) against a tyrant who needs to learn that threats will not make people respect you. His father was an idiot, and apparently that is the only trait that he learned from his father (well that and his low center of gravity genetics). Personally, I think that we should pull an Israel and send a few bombers over there and knock out his mobile missile units, and his nuclear program. Then what will he do to feed his people? Midget mud wrestling sells very well over here in the US. Sounds like a plan to me!!

That's because these sanctions are just stupid. They don't accomplish ANYTHING. Instead of trading with other countries, North Korea just b1tches and moans until they get free crap. Sure their little dictator is an evil scumbag, but so is nearly every ruler in the middle east and most of Africa yet we don't have sanctions against all of them. As it is, I don't blame Obama for having a military response prepared. You need that when some jacka$$ with short man's syndrome is threatening to attack his neighbor and us. I DO blame Obama for continuing and expanding sanctions against countries like North Korea and Iran. They DO NOT WORK.

if they would let theworkers come back to the one factory they stopped the south people from going across the border dumb. and us feeding them is the pits with people over here staving losing work and homes

I agree with the food thing, but the US provides food for them all year round. It is not just about food this time. It is partly the Napoleon concept...This little man in his pathetic country is rattling the bars of the "cage" around his country. No one passes through the bars of this cage except a few S. Korean workers. They do not even cross over to N. Korea now as the North has stopped this just yesterday. It is going to be difficult for N. Korea to save face this time without actually doing something very aggressive. We do know that he does not have the capability to make nuclear warheads small enough to fit on the rockets that he has...BUT, he has "friends" that do. The last that I read about the obamderthal's reaction to this whole thing was that he is going to basically just ignore it. Yes, there are ships etc. in the area, but they have been there for a long time. He is of the mind that this will just go away.

I wasn't aware of this until a couple of days ago when I heard K.T. MacFarland point it out. What a whacked way to get aid! So I wonder why our ambassadors aren't over there following the annual procedure, whatever the U.S. does to remedy this thing? And why don't they educate Kim as to a more civil way to get aid? Oh, wait, yeah, it gets the people on each side all worked up and advances political policies... Maybe our "leaders" think their careers and their buddies' coffers need advancement. If a war will further these two things, I'm sure there will be one.

I think you may have over simplified this problem. North Korea has had years of issues building. Kim Yong Un's father spent years on years on years indoctrinating that it was all South Korea's fault for their problems. It is entirely possible that Kim Yong may have bought into this idea completely, and actually believes they most do something about this situation. It is also possible that Kim Yong doesn't have nearly the political clout his father had, and has to distract, defuse attempts to topple him, through an external threat. This is a very common practice throughout human history. The successor doesn't have the authority and force of personality to hold power, and so invents an external threat to unify the government under their authority. I highly doubt that the current growing issue, is merely of the yearly food shortage. In fact, this issue has caused the food shortage if anything. Prior to this, South and North Korea had a mutual pact on exchanging large stocks of food for labor and business interests. Many South Korean businesses have been built north of the DMZ, under a pact for North Korean labor in exchange for food and supplies. Given that, I doubt that food and supplies would solve this issue. If the problem is an ideological drive, then the issue will be solved the moment we engage in conflict, and they lose. Even a small, but decisive victory will end the problem. If the problem is that Kim Yong Un needs to consolidate power or risk being removed, then it depends largely on his own will to remain in control. If he is completely sold out to his own self advancement, then like Hitler before him, he'll push this issue to his countries ruin. Time will tell.