I would agree with you that this is a diplomatic effort if it meant something, if it were less than nothing. Posturing like this means absolutely nothing. Diplomacy is usually more successful in sit-down face to face talking. Even if Kim a a crazy little turd, Americanism obviously appeals to him (in his own strange little way), so lets find a time and place for our leaders to have a chat with him.
Except that these sit-downs, palavers, whatever you want to call them, have happened a whole bunch of times already, and all North Korea does in response to them is further escalate the situation.
Pretty much ... What this post actually is yet another attempt to make Americans look stupid. Its not like these folks actually wish the sanctions against North Korea would be more effective. Some of them probably worship Kim's "admirable attempt to defeat capitalism" (cue Rage against the Machine tune here).
And if this post sounds snarky ... Well, sure ... It IS snarky. A lot of people on here think that the best way to combat bad American politics is to embrace another version of bad politics, one that happens to be on the other end of the political spectrum. It gets hard to read after awhile.
That's a giant leap in logic there. I think some of us here, many of us here are humored by the bungling political "efforts" that we see, not, as you say, taking the side of the opposite political spectrum. Hell, if there were a true opposite spectrum, maybe it wouldn't be so ineffectual.
Except that these sit-downs, palavers, whatever you want to call them, have happened a whole bunch of times already, and all North Korea does in response to them is further escalate the situation.
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I have seen the arguement of North Korea being dark at night... a sharp contrast to the brightly lit capitalist South Korean side of the border. The basic arguement is that they are a poor, back country agrarian society with no electricity.
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How does this back woods, poverty stricken agrarian society get missiles? Do they build them in barns? Grow them in rice paddies? Where do they come from?
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Maybe we should have a sit down, talk to palaver with the source of their technology... CHINA. You know, tell them to quit selling that shit to them.
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Except that these sit-downs, palavers, whatever you want to call them, have happened a whole bunch of times already, and all North Korea does in response to them is further escalate the situation.
That's a giant leap in logic there. I think some of us here, many of us here are humored by the bungling political "efforts" that we see, not, as you say, taking the side of the opposite political spectrum. Hell, if there were a true opposite spectrum, maybe it wouldn't be so ineffectual.
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I have seen the arguement of North Korea being dark at night... a sharp contrast to the brightly lit capitalist South Korean side of the border. The basic arguement is that they are a poor, back country agrarian society with no electricity.
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How does this back woods, poverty stricken agrarian society get missiles? Do they build them in barns? Grow them in rice paddies? Where do they come from?
...
Maybe we should have a sit down, talk to palaver with the source of their technology... CHINA. You know, tell them to quit selling that shit to them.
Hail, Hail!!!