Don't they understand anything

This morning the AP is reporting that North Korea has threatened all out war if the south Koreans retaliate in any way for the sinking of the south Korean naval vessel by the North Koreans (which they, of course, deny). In true AP fashion, the report says that South Korea cannot retaliate because of the truce entered into in 1953. sound pretty dumb to me. The reporters actually believe that a truce agreement with North Korea will prevent the south from any retailiation. I guess they think that the agreement allowed open season by the North on the South and barred retaliation. This is a dumb position even for the AP. Then they came up with this howler: North Korea's "large but decrepit military would be no match for U.S. and Korean forces." Are they idiots? The North Koreans have nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver these weapons at least upon Seoul whose metro area has tens of millions of residents. One strike there would be a calamity of unimaginable proportions. Even if the North did not use nuclear weapons (or their chmical stocks either), North Korean artillery is already easily in range of Seoul and could essentiall level the South Korean capital in a day of shelling. Without the use of nuclear weapons by the North Koreans, only tens or hundreds of thousands would die. In addition, nearly 30,000 US troops arestationed along the border and they would be sitting ducks for the initial NK attack.

The North Koreans are sufficiently wacko that an attack like this is possible. It is not likely, but it is certainly possible. Indeed, the NK's might come to the conclusion that president Obama would not want to fight in another war and would sue for peace were they to attack. I doubt that would be his reaction, but given his conduct in other areas of the world, the NK crazies might decide the other way. there is a reason for a foreign policy of strength rather than apology. Hopefully, the North Koreans will not give us a lesson in that reason right now.