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North Korea Gets Aggressive By: Amy Vedder  |
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We American’s know what is important. While we occupy ourselves with partisan attacks and argue back and forth about the Sotomeyor nomination, North Korea has been busy. Last week they test detonated a nuclear device and began setting the stage for another conflict for the US. And this time, it doesn’t look like they are just saber rattling.
The official North Korean Central News Agency has released a statement that says that North Korea will no longer be bound to the 1953 Armistice Agreement. And that any attempt to inspect North Korean vessels will be met with prompt and strong military strikes. And that’s not just chest beating, those are fighting words and they are aimed at the United States.
Any conflict with North Korea would inevitably involve the whole Korean peninsula. And that is the real fear. We know that North Korea has a huge number of artillery dug into the hills just 30 miles from the South Korean capital, a city with a population of over 12 million people.
If North Korea did launch an artillery strike on the South, even if the artillery is inaccurate, the death toll could be enormous. And with the fact that North Korea is now a nuclear power, there seems to be little doubt that any conflict with North Korea would almost certainly result in their use of a nuclear device on the South and on American troop stationed there.
So what is the US to do? Well so far, Secretary of State Clinton has voiced some very tough rhetoric aimed at North Korea, but that is about it. But really what can we do? Our military forces are already stretched so thin between Afghanistan and Iraq that if a conflict were to break out on the Korean Peninsula, we wouldn’t have the military force to respond.
So what would we do if North Korea launched a nuclear attack on the South? Would we retaliate in kind? Would we launch our own nuclear attack?
And here’s the real scary part. North Korea isn’t developing nuclear technology because they want to use it. Nope, much worse. They’re developing the technology because they want to sell it, and they have a long line of customers at their door just waiting for the store to open. Iran being just one of the possible recipients of North Korean made nuclear devices.
North Korean leader Kim Jung-il is a hard guy to take seriously, but perhaps it’s time we start, because this guy is planning to go out with a bang. Oh and North Korea also boasts the fifth largest standing army in the world.
Have a good day!
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