It's time to invade North Korea - Democratic Underground

Politics_Guy25

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Sun Jun-14-09 11:13 PM
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It's time to invade North Korea

This may be controversial but consider the following:
1. North Korea is now ruled by a 21-year-old boy man desperate to prove to the military that he is a "real man" and is struggling to ensure that the power his father granted him is not taken away by the military. All of the North's insane actions are done by an insecure kid trying to make sure that his big brothers in the military don't take his prize away from him. It's the equivalent of a urinating contest right now over there with each faction trying to pove that it's tougher than the other IMO.
2. North Korea is in violation of MULTIPLE UN resolutions and of the entire international community. What is its response? One of their envoys in Tokyo said several weeks ago "we could care less what the US or international community says or does." It's time to punish the North for violating international law.
3. For YEARS, North Korea has kidnapped Japanese citizens and has enslaved them. Another violation of international law.
4. The detention of the two American journalists in NK, indeed the capture (Ms. Ling and her compatriot were on the southern side of the border) is a brutal act. Sentencing them to 12 years in a gulag certain to cause death is outrageous and a sign of their tyranny. They have kidnapped two American citizens and are in effect torturing them. Americans are being tortured!
5. A Nuclear North Korea is entirely unacceptable and is destablizing to the entire world. You and I and eveyone knows that Mr. Il will be selling nuclear weapons to Al Qaeda and anyone else at his earliest opportunity. When a North-Korean made nuclear bomb is detonated in NYC, Washington or Los Angeles by AQ, do you have any idea what the consequences will be?
6. Look at satelite images, South Korea is vibrant, strong, full of life. North Korea is in darkness with almost no electricity.
7. North Korea brutally supresses any and all freedom of expression, democratic rule, music. The way of life forced upon the people by their regime is outrageous.
8. Millions of North Koreans have been killed by their regime due to a massive famine, as it sends all of the food to it's military and ignores the plight of its people.
9. The Il family has been known to hire prostitutes, to be rapists, and to have delusions of grandeur. They are not fit to rule a nuclear state.
10. Above all else, they are the most dangerous threat that this world has known in the post world war II era absent the Soviet Union. Do you have any relatives in Washington, NYC or Los Angeles? Just keep in mind that an Il made nuclear weapon may one day kill them. Also, keep in mind, that we have the most progressive, most decent, most willing to listen US president in the past 50 years in office. President Obama makes overtures of peace and good will towards North Korea along with Secretary Clinton. They stab him and her in the back.

I'm sick of these thugs. Here's what we do:
1. We withdraw some troops from Iraq to transfer to the DMZ. We mobilize the national guard. We use the forces that we are always told are prepared to fight a 2 front war. This force would consist of roughly 300,000.
2. Through an intensive international campaign utilizing the good will that President Obama has built up in Europe, we get the Europeans to commit 200,000 trooops to a NATO led force.
3. We mass our 500,000 NATO troops (basically Kosovo on steroids) on the border of NK and demand the immediate release of our citizens and the complete and total demilitarization of the North or else we invade.

Considering that the North is starving, has no electricity, and that it's military is not likely to be fiercely commited to the cause, I think that this would be relatively easy. The North will collapse in on itself much like Saddam's Iraq did pre the Bush bungling beyond all repair of course.

As for any thoughts that this isn't a very democratic thing to do, President Truman fought in Korea, President Kennedy invaded Cuba, President Clinton fought Iraq, Haiti and Yugoslavia. Democrats have just as strong if not a better record of defending the American people than Shrub and the rest of the GOP clowns did.

Each day, these thugs issue threats about total nuclear war or a premptive nuclear strike. They are out of control. I don't want to see the world that is envisaged for us by the despots of Pyongyang. Move now. Take them out. The North Koreans will welcome the demilitiarization, famine relief and democracy that we will bring. It's either that or a mushroom cloud over our dearest cities.

Iraq was a threat to no one. Saddam a petty dictator. Not worthy of a US invasion.

North Korea, on the other hand, is the real deal and we'd be in a FAR stronger position if Bush hadn't committed hundreds of thousands to Iraq in an illegal war based on false pretenses. Nonetheless, the North Korean threat remains and grows by the day and must be dealt with now before it's too late.