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Guest Post: Will Globalists Use North Korea To Trigger Catastrophe?
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market blog,
Whenever discussion over North Korea arises in Western circles, it always seems to be accompanied by a strange mixture of sensationalism and indifference. The mainstream media consistently presents the communist nation as an immediate threat to U.S. national security, conjuring an endless number of hypothetical scenarios as to how they could join forces with Al-Qaeda and attack with a terroristic strategy. At the same time, the chest puffing of the late Kim Jong-iL and the standard fare of hyper-militant rhetoric on the part of the North Korean government in general seem to have lulled the American public into a trance of non-concern.
In the midst of the latest tensions with the North Koreans, I have found that most people are barely tracking developments and that, when confronted by the idea of war, they shrug it off as if it is a laughable concept. “Surely” they claim, “The North is just posturing as they always have.”
The high-focus propaganda attacking North Korea on our side and the puffer fish methodology on their side have created a social and political atmosphere surrounding our relations with the Asian nation that I believe places both sides of the Pacific in great danger. North Korea has the potential to become a trigger point for multiple economic catastrophes, and there are people in this world who would be happy to use such crises to serve their own interests.
The mainstream view being espoused by globalist-minded politicians and corporate oligarchs with an agenda is that North Korea is a nuclear armed monstrosity ready to use any subversive means necessary to strike the United States. The idea that the North is working closely with Al-Qaeda has been suggested in everything from White House briefings to cable news to movies and television. The concept of pan-global terrorist collusion and the cartoon-land “axis of evil” has been prominent in our culture since the Administration of George W. Bush. It has even been making a resurgence lately in the MSM, which presented countries like Iran, Syria And North Korea as the primary culprits interfering with the success of the U.N. Small Arms Treaty.
Of course, what remains less talked about in the mainstream is the fact that these nations refuse to adhere to the treaty because carefully placed loopholes still allow major powers like the United States to feed arms into engineered insurgencies. Why would Syria or any other targeted nation sign a treaty that restricts its own sovereign ability to trade while giving teeth to internal enemies trained and funded by foreign intelligence agencies?
The establishment brushes aside such facts and consistently admonishes these countries as the last holdouts standing in the way of a new world order, a worldwide socioeconomic cooperative and pseudo-Utopia. The path to this wonderful global village is always presented as a battle against stubborn isolationists, non-progressives who lack vision and cling desperately to the archaic past. The values of personal and national sovereignty are painted as outdated, decrepit and even threatening to the newly born world structure. The image of North Korea is used by globalists as a kind of straw man argument against sovereignty. North Koreans’ vices and imbalances as a culture are many; but this is due in far larger part to their communist insanity, rather than any values of national independence. It is their domestic hive-mind collectivism we should disdain, not their wish to maintain a comfortable distance as a society from the global game.
As far as being an imminent physical threat to the United States, it really depends on the scenario. The North Koreans have almost no logistical capability to support an invasion of any kind. The nation has been suffering from epidemic famine for well more than a decade.
To initiate a war outright has never been in the best interests of the North Koreans, simply because their domestic infrastructure would not be able to handle the strain. However, there is indeed a scenario in which North Korea could be influenced to use military force despite apprehension.
With the ever looming threat of famine comes the ever looming threat of citizen revolution. When any government is faced with the possibility of being supplanted, it will almost always lash out viciously in order to maintain power and control, no matter the cost. Sanctions like those being implemented by the West against North Korea today, at the very edge of national famine, could destabilize the country entirely. I believe the North would do anything to avoid an internal insurgency scenario, including attacking South Korea to acquire food stores and energy reserves, as well as other tangible modes of wealth.
North Korea’s standing army, obtained through mandatory two year conscription, is estimated at about 1.1 million active personnel; very close to the numbers active in the U.S. armed forces. But North Korean reserves are estimated at more than 8 million, compared to only 800,000 in the United States. If made desperate by economic sanctions, the North Koreans could field a massive army that would wreak havoc in the South and be very difficult to root out on their home turf. Asian cultures have centuries of experience using asymmetric warfare (the kryptonite of the U.S. military), and I do not believe it is wise to take such a possible conflict lightly, as many Americans seem to do. It is easy to forget that the last Korean War did not work out so well for us. At best, we would be mired in on-ground operations for years (just like Iraq and Afghanistan) or perhaps even decades. Like North Korea, we also do not have the logistical economic means to enter into another such war.
The skeptics argue that we will never get to this point, though, because North Korea has brandished and blustered many times before, all resulting in nothing. I see recent events being far different and more urgent than in the past, and here’s why:
1) The West needs to realize that North Korea is under new leadership. The blowhard days of Kim Jung Il are over, and little is known about his son, Kim Jong Un. So far, the young dictator has followed through on everything he said he would do, including the multiple nuclear tests that the West is using as an excuse to exert sanctions. To assume that the son will be exactly like the father is folly.
2) Many people claimed that North Korean threats to abandon the Armistice in place since 1953 were empty, yet they dropped it exactly as they said they would at the beginning of March.
3) The North has begun cutting off direct communication channels to the South, including a cross-border hotline meant to help alleviate tensions through diplomatic means.
4) The North has officially declared a state of war against the South. This has been called mere “tough talk” by the U.S. government, but the speed at which these multiple developments have occurred should be taken into consideration.
5) North Korea has just announced the reopening of a shuttered nuclear reactor used to render weapons grade materials.
6) The DPRK has suddenly locked down the Kaesong Industrial Zone; a region which holds manufacturing centers for both North and South Korea. Southern manufacturers operating there employ nearly 50,000 Northern workers. Nearly 1000 Southerners also work there. The arrangement generates approximately $2 billion a year for the North. The joint industrial zone has existed since 2000, and the North has never locked down access until this past week. The fact that the DPRK is willing to restrict this area and possibly lose a sizable income signals that the situation is not as “mild” as some would like to believe.
7) At the beginning of this year, silver purchases by the North from China surged. For the entire year of 2012, the government purchased $77,000 worth of precious metals. In the first few months of 2013, North Korea has already purchased $600,000 in silver. The exact size of the North’s precious metals stockpile is unknown. Though seemingly small in comparison to many purported metal holdings by major powers, this sudden investment expansion would indicate a government move to protect internal finances from an exceedingly frail economic environment. Metals are also historically accumulated at a high rate by nations preparing for war or invasion in the near term.
Again, all that is needed to instigate an event on the Korean Peninsula are tightened sanctions. The establishment knows this, though another Gulf of Tonkin incident (an openly admitted false flag event) may be on the menu as well.
Given that the chances of a shooting war are high if sanctions continue, it might be wise to consider the consequences of conflagration in Korea.
Dealing with a large army steeped in asymmetric and mountain warfare will be difficult enough. In fact, an invasion of North Korea would be far more deadly than Afghanistan, if only because of the sheer number of maneuver elements (guerilla-style units) on the ground. But let’s set aside North Korea for a moment and consider the greatest threat of all: dollar collapse.
As I have discussed in numerous articles, China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, has positioned itself to decouple from the American consumer and the dollar. This is no longer a theoretical process as it was in 2008, but a very real and nearly completed one. Mainstream analysts often claim China would never break from the dollar because it would damage their export markets and their investment holdings. The problem is, China is already dumping the dollar using bilateral trade agreements with numerous developing nations, Australia being the latest to abandon the greenback.
China isn’t just talking about it; China is doing it.
The development of a decoupled China is part of a larger push by international banks to remove the dollar as the world reserve currency and replace it with a new global currency. This currency already exists. The International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR) is a mechanism backed by a basket of currencies as well as gold. The introduction of the SDR on a wide scale is dependent on only two things:
- First, China has been designated the replacement consumer engine in the wake of a U.S. collapse. They have already surpassed the United States as the No. 1 trading power in the world. However, they must spread their own currency, the Yuan, throughout global markets in order to aid the IMF in removing the dollar. China has recently announced a program to sell more than $6 trillion in Yuan denominated bonds to foreign investors, easily fulfilling this need.
- Second, China and the IMF need a scapegoat event, a rationale for dumping the dollar that the masses would accept as logical. A U.S. invasion of North Korea could easily offer that rationale.
While China has been playing the good Samaritan in relations with the United States in dealing with North Korea and has supported (at least on paper) certain measures including sanctions, China will never be in support of Western combat actions in the Pacific so close to their territory. The kind of U.S. or NATO presence a war with North Korea would generate would be entirely unacceptable to the Chinese, who do not need to respond using arms. Rather, all they have to do to get rid of us would be to fully dump the dollar and threaten to cut off trade relations with any other country that won’t do the same. The domino effect would be devastating, causing U.S. costs to skyrocket and forcing us to pull troops out of the region. At the same time, the dollar would be labeled a “casualty of war” rather than a casualty of conspiratorial global banking designs, and the financial elites would be removed from blame.
Ultimately, we should take the North Korean situation seriously not because of the wild-eyed propaganda of the mainstream media and not because they are “doing business with terrorists” or because they are a “violent and barbaric relic of nationalism,” but because a war in North Korea serves the more malicious interests of globalization. No matter what happens in the near future, it is important for Americans to always question the true motives behind any event and ask ourselves who, in the end, truly benefited.
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The Afghans use 40 year old Ak's, and they seem to be doing fine. Also, yes, NK has nukes. They test them all the friggin time, dumbass. How can they test them if they don't have them.
pushing a button and watching the rocket lift 20ft in the air then blow up isnt really a 'rocket'....then photoshopping 15 rockets lifting off at the same time so that idiots like moi can claim they have nukes.
the pres knocks up an ex porn star and the baby is a girl so they have to hide it til they can drown it in the river...great country there for sure.
You don't seem to understand the difference between a rocket test and a nuke test. NK has had three successful nuke tests in the past year alone. It is pure stupidity on your part to assume that they do not have the means to deliver these weapons. Don't sit at the adult table if you can't compose an intelligent point.
a nuke on the ground doesnt do shit here in the usa. they need a delivery system you stupid fuck and that they dont have.....
Short answer, heck yes!
People better be weary of a babylonian govt that threatens to attack the USA. They are puppets performing the world domination and population reduction games.
But wait, what is happening in the ME today? And in Europe as the euro is crashing? We need a huge false flag event to cause the cover up of the falling world economy that the banksters profit from either way in peace, or war. They profit as the innocents of countries die.
This is just sickening, especially considering the head puppet sotero is in Denver now. A convenient place to be in case of an attack. He is there giving the democrat local govt their pay-offs for passing the draconian gun laws there. Pretty darn screwie-louie when the city people tell the country cowboys what they can and can not have as far as ranch guns are concerned. One is sure better off with thirty rounds of big bore, compared to a small amount when confronting the bears that run around in some small town streets at night. The socialist/commie puppets are taking over the mountain cowboy country. Go figure.
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http://12160.info/page/federal-framework-being-set-up-to-arrest-sheriffs
I think Tyler has written a great, well thought out piece here, with one exception. When it comes to actual warfare, the troops from the North could not sustain it for very long. They have had their share if rations cut back since Kim Jong Un took over, and the army is very near starvation. Sure, they have 8 million pieces of cannon fodder as Tyler points out, and they would all fight to the death, but I really think their ability to wage a ground war is very, very limited,
We could eliminate North Korea with one surgical strike on Pyongyang, the entire government is concentrated there, and it would be simple to decapitate.
China would indeed destroy the North if it got to be too much trouble, but they would never allow a build up of enemy forces in the region, they would lose too much face in the process. Not to mention the refugee problem they would have on the border with all of the starving North Korean people streaming into the country, already a huge problem ( China shoots refugees on site in the mountainous border regions).
We all need to hope that is gets pulled back, this is he last thing anyone needs now.
Might want to dig a little into your history there before you start worrying.
Red Mercury.
Neutron Bomb.
Zhao Qizheng.
Rep. Christopher Cox.
Chinagate.
((All horribly over-blown, of course)).
Bush greenlit continued investment in this program in 2004/5, I thought this was common knowledge? (It's certainly in the LoC budget reports / appropriation committee reports if you look close enough). The days where the threat of Red / Yellow hordes was a serious tactical consideration are long gone. Or, Depleted Uranium & your A10s, which seem to work wonders out in the field for a more PR sensitive solution.
Edit ~ Ah, I re-read your statement.
Yes, the main consideration is food, sanitation and mass cultural shock for a transition at this point. Nothing more. [Hint: Google will set you free]
This Time Is Different?
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=north%20korea
"While China has been playing the good Samaritan in relations with the United States in dealing with North Korea and has supported (at least on paper) certain measures including sanctions, China will never be in support of Western combat actions in the Pacific so close to their territory."
I'm not so sure. N. Korea is a giant inconvenience to China. If the US had to attack, it could first negotiate a partition between S. Korea and China and a narrow DMZ between. Hit the Nork's millitary and government assets and then let the neighbors move in and reset order. We need to make occupation the very last option.
N. Korea IS Chinas narrow partition between itself and SK.
Anything narrower than that is too close for comfort. China hopes NK can give them a week or two to mobilize if a conventional conflict breaks out.
let me guess how this plays out...
b52 flies into dprk air space.
dprk shoots it down.
....
US marines find a disheveled K-Jo hiding in a cellar under a farm house near pyongyang
...
profit
Let me fill in the dots for you.
....S.Kor and US go toe-to-toe in another mountainous Asian land war. Thousands of kids under 25 die and tens of thousands are wounded on "our" (the good guys) side. On the opposing side tens of thousands are torn apart in the meleé and upwards of 100K are wounded in the first week. Aproximately the same number of civilians will die as well....
....South Korea has a hell of a time stabilizing a country of famished refugees and factions of fight-to-the-death militiamen fighting geurrila wars against UN supply lines and troops for months and years. Refugee centers and other "safe havens" will be targeded. Iraq will look easy; Vietnam will be a better comparisson. US stays for years to come while MIC contractors make....
The real question is, do the North Korean artillery shells still work?
No need to advance, worry about supply lines; it is all about holding the DMZ line. No refugees or guerillas; just hold the line. Plant a few hundred million more landmines if you need to. Set up listening posts to monitor for tunnelers.
Taking out the possibility of a nuke launch and the manufacture of addition nukes is the first priority.
If the thousands of artillery pieces in range of Seoul have working ammo, odds are thousands of rounds per hour fall into the city. I don't know why they havent put any effort into relocating the capital or building up an Iron Dome defense capable of downing 100,000+ rounds per hour.
Alternative: China Annexes North Korea, good portion of DPRK military sieze the leadership at the first signal, few or no shots fired.
"Alternative: China Annexes North Korea"
Haven't heard that one before. Interesting.
Will the South Koreans tolerate "their" peninsula being occupied like that? It has happened historically, but I don't think they will. Will the N. Koreans tolerate it? The starving might, but the Generals will not since they will get nothing in the way of state goodies from the Chinese.
Well, the second tier of command could depose the current military heads. I'm sure they would have more resources, better pay, under China then what they have now.
China benefits from access to lots of ores. North Koreans get food. South Korea has a big reduction in the fear of their capital city getting shelled into rubble. I don't know what the South Koreans could really do about it if they decided not to tolerate China being there?
A less likely solution is a coup in North Korea by a pro-unification faction, but I don't know if South Korea has the resources to handle that? I mean, North Korea is no where near East Germany on any useful statistics, other than maybe education.
China has been deploying their army on the border.
Either this is a message to NKorea or a message to the US.
Well, the last time...
+1
Yeah, The last time
http://www.zzwave.com/cmfweb/history/krwarcost.html
China is also deploying across from Japan/Taiwan. There are now three tense US v. China situations on China's borders. I think that they have had enough and intend to call our bluff since US forces are stretched across the planet.
Guest Post: Will Globalists Use / Engineer North Korea To Trigger Catastrophe?
Sorry Tyler but the SDR is not backed by anything;the value pf the SDR is based on a weighted average of several currencies, but gold has nothing to do with it.
I bet more in China invading NK to stablize the situation than going head to head with US. NK can be irrational, Chine is not, as the last 5 decades shows in terms of China and NK evolution.
China doesn't need to go "head to head" with the U.S. They can hurt us far more economically than they can militarily.
If N Korea is China's proxy, then what is China up to?
If N Korea is off the chain, then what is N Korea up to?
If the North Koreans are hungry enough Kim Jong Un will have a choice to allow internal discontent and anger or transfer it to an external boogeyman.
That's why they have postured in the past and threatened, because it always got them money and food; and bought time for them to trade weapons and technology with Iran and the like.
Kim Jong the Younger is either full of testosterone and vinegar and wants a fight; or is just stirring up the masses to build loyalty while milking the West for some food and money.
Who will blink first?
Us is my bet.
"because it always got them money and food"
Certainly has been the pattern for a while. Maybe the new guy wants some of the same goodies those other guys got.
NK is like a small-time organized criminal gang, shaking everyone down for spare change.
North Korea must be kept propped up just in case some one needs to paint over the headlines. Gub'mint is perceived as useless without a big baaad wolf out there.
China, South Korea, Japan, and the USSA all need a good villain when it's time to wag the dog.
Sadly the wonderous and independant nation of Iran is targeted by the Nazi'onist powers. I learned very early on in my adult years that all the countries/people we're told are the bad guys aren't really the bad guys.
N.Korea sucks, no doubt, but Iran? Russia? Syria? Libya? No, their leaders are/were just nationalists looking out for their own interests who refused to toe-the-elitist-line.
They are all good "bad guys", but are they small, poor, easy to bully and next to China?
Location, location, location - can't get on the "axis of ebul" if you are down near New Zealand.
Awww SNAP son!!! Now I know why the Globa-Na-Zi-Onists sent Ambassador Rodman.
After the truths have been revealed about attacking Iraq (it was to keep oil off the market to keep the price high -- Greg Palast has the documentation from the state dept.), and now listening to the utter nonsense spewed from the US media day and night related to Iran who has not attacked any country in 200 years, I wonder about this current N Korea situation.
Admittedly N Korea uses its nuclear prowess to fend off aggressors. It is another matter to speculate that N Korea plans an attack on the US. Good Grief. What possibly could be the purpose of that? A death wish?
I think not. There is something going on behind the scenes that is keeping N Korea noisy. If I were a betting guy I would say that the US Asia pivot and the ever intensifying "War games" are keeping N Korea on edge.
And maybe a distraction is required for the west so as not to notice oncoming financial collapses.
Those war games in Korea have been going on since the 1950s - now they're pissed? - find another reason.
The North Koreans were told to act this way so that they can divert attention from the real issues here in the west.
With the ever looming threat of famine BANKRUPTCY comes the ever looming threat of citizen revolution.
The Norks won't start it, the Demoblicans will, either that or face bankruptcy and the well armed US Citizen militia.
Nuke Norks or bust!
I do think that Brandon Smith underestimates the technological advantage the United States and South Korea have over the North in the event of a war. In the event of a invasion of the South the military of North Korea would be forced to fight in the open to carry out the invasion. Northern forces would expose themselves in open fighting at their own risk. Our air and naval capabilities would devestate them. I just don't know if Kim Jong-Un understands how disadvantaged his armed forces would be in open fighting agains the United States and South Korea.
But Smith is right about China being the wild card. The question is how successful has China been in decoupling thier economy from the United States. If they have decoupled than the Untied States would have a problem if China wants to dump our bonds. But if China hasn't decoupled than they would suffer even more pain than we would feel. Given China's real estate bubble and dubious economic statistics, I have my doubts on China's cabilities.
"underestimates the technological advantage the United States"
Is that the same advantage we have in Afghanistan 10 fucking years later?
Touche! Unfortunately true, regardless of our technological prowess, the douchbags that run our gov't and call the shots always make our military fight with one hand firmly around it's balls.
Exactly - if Truman would have allowed MacArthur to do his "THANG" this problem would have been solved in 1952 - then no Vietnam and everyone in the west would have been way better off.
You guys that think North Korea and it's troll dictator are just blowing hot air will crap yourself if they actually start lobbing ARTY shells into Seoul.
And you actually believe that North Korea's dictator actually gives a rat's ass how disadvantaged his forces would be or how many soldiers he loses? Think again.
Further, NK has always been China's pit-bull and still is. The Chicoms will sit back and laugh their asses off as we fumble around looking like a gaggle of geese trying to fuck a football in the snow in our feeble efforts to play patty-cakes with North Korea....
And make no mistake, Obama and his gang of beta-male leftists goons DO NOT have the balls to prosecute a war with North Korea, which is one reason China is allowing North Korea to go down this road to begin with.
Problem is weak OBAMA - that is why this is happening now. Betcha Obama blinks first.
jpc,
Not too sure Brandon underestimates the work of Sun Tsu though. We wouldn't suppose PRC and CIS would come to the rescue here? Providing one or both aren't already choreographing this? And they have formidable "assets."
In the Nam the NVA didn't even have air superiority, but they had the "Full Faith and Credit" of the Chinese and the Soviets.
This shit is Chess, not Checkers.
64 blown up a few weeks back in Iraq by IED/Car bombs. So much for technical prowess.And don't bet against the US ending up evacuating Afghanistan as well. Handing over power to the Afghan military, mind you. To save face. Same way they let the ARVN take down that "other" one.
This has got to be expensive for the banksters. They can't easily collect funds easily any longer. Maybe the war machine will run out of gas.
This post is total crap. NK isn't going to nuke the US because they know full well that the US would nuke them right back.
This is just NK's way of begging for more food aid.
2 Hours Ago - "North Korea Army statement to state news agency says it has approval for military strikes on US, including using nuclear weapons" www.cnn.com/2013/03/28/.../north-korea-us-threats
Despite the fact that they come off as a bunch of buffoons, they are buffoons with nukes (that might even work).
Hypothetical. Let's say "Globalists", whatever/whoever the fuck they are want to start WWIII, or at least Krugman's version of a world war to restart the economy and give the radioactive cockroaches a chance to become the dominant intelligent life on earth. Every plan has contingencies so, Iran must be plan A and North Korea must be plan B.
Plan A is mired in Syria since Israel needs the air corridor neutralised and the Russians aren't budging.
Plan B is mired in uncertainty over China's reaction. But if it can just involve the US bases in Japan and South Korea, it could be the neat little conflict that we get involved in "reluctantly". If China draws a line by reiterating the 1961 Sino-N.Korean treaty, as the Russians did over Syria, then it will have to be Plan C. The Pentagon's favourite: false flag.
The recent rhetoric and BS media coverage of outrageous fictional claims of NK's capabilites mean two things to me. One, we're about to have one hell of a meltdown in the markets and consequently the collapse of the reserve currency. Two, even more draconian laws will come into effect to control capital and movement, ostensibly for our own protection from attacks by the boy scouts of America, the axis of evil, whatever. Forgive the flippancy, but the ways of TPTB are predictably depressing.
Excellent analysis.
Seems the bond market has been anticipatiing this too, although I'm not sure how the bond market stays intact if the USD loses reserve currency status.
YHC-FTSE - Your post presents me with a dichotomy as follows:
1) "Two, even more draconian laws will come into effect to control capital and movement, ostensibly for our own protection from attacks by the boy scouts of America, the axis of evil, whatever. Forgive the flippancy, but the ways of TPTB are predictably depressing."
I basically agree, but
2) "The recent rhetoric and BS media coverage of outrageous fictional claims of NK's capabilites mean two things to me."
If anything the media has been yawning over North Korea and using every retired general turned media hack they can find (from what I've see) to downplay North Korea's capability.
Why do you guys see a false-flag everytime the world's bad actors do the same things they've been doing for centuries? Why can't you see that North Korea very likely has the ability to inflict serious damage to at least South Korea if they decide it's in their best interests to start a war?
This doesn't mean that there is not a global elite working to screw all of us - it simply means that they're always positioned to take advantage of any good crisis that comes along....just like they've always done.
Enjoyed the article.
Globalist always discuss about having over-population and making vast sums of wealth by creating wars.
A good time for the globalist to provoke a war with Iran as well.
If this is the best they can do to headfake the economic collapse, they are truly desparate.
So they take out LA ... Is that really so bad in the scheme of things?
Maybe this has something to do with Fukushima.....
But let’s set aside North Korea for a moment and consider the greatest threat of all: dollar collapse.
Shorten dollar, buy euro
"The introduction of the SDR on a wide scale is dependent on only two things:
Sorry, but I have to reject this hypothesis outright. SDR is supposed to replace the dollar, but the Yuan is replacing the dollar - there is no plan for replacing the Yuan in this argument, so the whole argument is pretty fucking stupid.
@ Brandon - just enjoy the 2 minute Hate along with the rest of us or it's Room 101 for you!
Crappy article, bunch of slogans slung together. NK can't project force. "Asymetric warfare" does not mean a punching bag to bombers and missles.
Raw rifle companies haven't won wars in centuries; they have some defense, but no punch. The NK can let lose a few thousand rounds of artillery into Seoul, before counterbattery takes them out. And that would be all, folks.
Its all about grain and food. And China; how long does the PRC want that boat anchor?
Sorry but you're wrong. The article is spot on and I'm glad that someone is finally taking the North Korean threat seriously and enumerating all of the pitfalls that conflict with NK would bring.
Your post sounds thoughtful, but in reality, outside of nuclear war, lots of boots on the ground are the decisive factor in any ground war. Our bombers can do great damage to North Korean forces. BUT, they've been digging in and carving tunnels through the mountains North of the 38th parallel for 60+ years. They have lots of dug in artillery and troops. It would be the job of the ROK army to go kick their ass with the help of the U.S. Airforce. And I pray it doesn't happen because it will be very brutal fighting and 3X tougher than Iraq or Afghanistan.
Go study the Korean war from 1950 to 1953 and reconsider.
Yeah - you read about 1950 to 1953 - North Korean military obliterated - Chinese take over war. South will be fucked but this is such a little place with no cover. Then read about Gulf War - rinse and repeat.
Tunnels make nice graves.
Google Earth North and South Korea. Locate Yellow Sea. Locate Bejing China. Think: hillbilly's front porch with insane Rotweiler chained to termite damaged porch rail. See neighbor banging empty, dented food bowl and laughing (that's us).
We have all the food - joke is on them.
You know it's funny how this shit happens right when the bank runs are starting.
The Globalists/Jewish Elite/Central Bankers/Zionists/Military Industrial Complex/Rothschild/European Monarchies, or whoever, don't want us fighting in North Korea; they want us to bomb and invade Iran.
Lookie over there!
And... *poof*! Now yo guns are gone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/maryland-house-passes-strict-gun-control-measure-crafted-after-newtown-massacre/2013/04/03/303e1754-9c69-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html
http://nation.time.com/2013/04/03/connecticut-lawmakers-to-vote-on-gun-control-package/
Yes, interesting developments indeed. Colorado passed a similar law recently. These 'banning' laws interest me greatly. If a person owns a 'banned' gun, do they get compensated by the State? Do the guns have to be destroyed? Can sales of these 'banned' weapons still be made to out-of-state parties? Is a person just automatically a criminal for owning a 'banned' weapon? How the fuck do property rights fit into all this? Questions..
Here is a hint - they take the guns with no compensation.
Wake up people. Stop whistling past the graveyard. I hope I'm wrong, but in fact this is how most wars start. When one side, usually the good guys, miscalculate and think the bad guys are just bluffing.
Of course, I realize that many here believe that Pearl Harbor was a false flag to draw the U.S. into WWII, or something along those lines. So whatever I state will likely fall on deaf ears.
At any rate the world is so unstable and such a cesspool that it's only a matter of time before it runs off the rails.
I am really soorrry, any one that sides with PJ Boy and cronys the Chi's, is just as goofy as those two are. NOT shrewd like the Chi's just weirdly off in some psycho world. TO imagine that this current Administration has ulterior motives is goooofy. This Admin and its Klack is out to hunch.
IT is truly like the movie Dr Strangelove, but that things have devloved to madness not black comedy.
The game of "possibilities". One can dream up all sorts of "possibilities". For example...
The article worries that China sells all its US bonds. No problemo - the federal reserves presses a few keys and buys them. Nothing happens.
A more interesting "possibility" (or "wild, crazy, speculation") is that someone (GoldmanShafts or JPMoron) is accumulating craploads of call options on Apple, and arranging with the emperor to have Samsung vaporized. No need for ballistic missles to reach the USSA! Just think. What a head fake. NK nukes Samsung, which "earns" the emperor, GoldmanShafts and JPMorons a cool $755 billion on Apple call options, as their competition vanishes into a cloud of radioactive dust. The US scratches it's head, wondering how they can justify invading a country that just made their own darling corporation more competitive. Hmmmm. Besides, there's not much left to save in SK.
Anyway, I could go on and on. There's got to be at least 1000 ways to piece together recent events and concoct interesting and wacko stories. OTOH, if there is a real story here, most likely it is one of the wackos.
settle down
Even better - war with China and the US Gummit cancels all debt private and public to Chinese - whoa more money to spend on Obamacare. There everything fixed.
An excellent piece - it's good to hear a non-American Governmentised version of events.
NK are built up to be 'dangerous' - just as Saddam was - excuses for invading - however the author is 100% correct in that the real danger to the US is not the (non existent) Nuclear threat of NK - but the very real economic threat from China.
....and who can blame them? The US has a bad history of military interventions - even worse in Asia - who would want their boots trampling all over the neighbours garden.
It's a sad day when we find ourselves almost supporting NK because the American Government has chosen it's side - it chose the bankers and to protect their wealth and power over the people.
A Cuban Missile & A North Korean Missile Walk Into A Bar... http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/a-cuban-missile-a-north-korean-missile-walk-into-a-bar/
A worst case scenario for now completely dismissed in Seoul. (But the South Koreans have the same attitude towards the North as the Japanese have towards quakes: Ignore until it happens.) But less and less implausible as tension ratchet up. I share the author concerns about what the US is doing. Incompetence or malign intentions?