Today's news from Korea is that the United States sent a fifty year old B-52 bomber to fly low over South Korea accompanied by both US and South Korean fighters. This "show of force" is said to be the American response to the recent nuclear test explosion by the North Koreans which they say was a hydrogen bomb. No doubt the North Korean leaders are shaking in their boots. They explode an H-bomb and we fly an old plane over their neighbor. What a comeback!
It's worth noting that in 2013 after a prior North Korean nuclear test, the USA also did the same thing. That flyover was so successful that the NK's ignored it and went on with the nuclear program. What's next? Will John Kerry appear to tell the world that our response to the NK nukes is that we agreed to a meaningless framework to combat global warming? Maybe president Obama will tell the NK leaders that they are on the wrong side of history. That would teach them.
The reality is that there is little we can do directly that would stop the NK nuclear program. There are things, however, that can be done indirectly. For example, Charles Krauthammer suggested on the air the other day that the US tell both North Korea and China that because of the NK nukes, the USA would support the development of nuclear weapons by Japan and South Korea. That would be very troubling to China and might motivate it to force the NK's to stop this madness. China, after all, is the only country with influence in North Korea. The Chinese supply all manner of food and other necessities to the North Koreans who live in a country with an economy that could at best be called a basket case. There are other things also of this nature that could be done. Obama and the Obamacrats, of course, do none of them.
There is a rumor, however, making the round in Washington that if the flyover by the B-52 doesn't work, the White House staff is going to come up with a new hashtag: #StopNorthKoreanNukes. That'll teach 'em!
It's worth noting that in 2013 after a prior North Korean nuclear test, the USA also did the same thing. That flyover was so successful that the NK's ignored it and went on with the nuclear program. What's next? Will John Kerry appear to tell the world that our response to the NK nukes is that we agreed to a meaningless framework to combat global warming? Maybe president Obama will tell the NK leaders that they are on the wrong side of history. That would teach them.
The reality is that there is little we can do directly that would stop the NK nuclear program. There are things, however, that can be done indirectly. For example, Charles Krauthammer suggested on the air the other day that the US tell both North Korea and China that because of the NK nukes, the USA would support the development of nuclear weapons by Japan and South Korea. That would be very troubling to China and might motivate it to force the NK's to stop this madness. China, after all, is the only country with influence in North Korea. The Chinese supply all manner of food and other necessities to the North Koreans who live in a country with an economy that could at best be called a basket case. There are other things also of this nature that could be done. Obama and the Obamacrats, of course, do none of them.
There is a rumor, however, making the round in Washington that if the flyover by the B-52 doesn't work, the White House staff is going to come up with a new hashtag: #StopNorthKoreanNukes. That'll teach 'em!
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