"Invincible Spirit" On Display
"The army and people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will start a retaliatory sacred war of their own style based on nuclear deterrent any time necessary in order to counter the U.S. imperialists and the South Korean puppet forces deliberately pushing the situation to the brink of a war."Situation? What situation? Oh, the warning response relating to the sinking of South Korea's Cheonan warship with the resulting loss of 46 sailors. That situation? Don't worry, be happy, that little lark undertaken to advise South Korea that the North isn't happy with its belligerence against its innocent neighbour hasn't been taken seriously. Why even, some observers and scientists and academics within South Korea have shed doubt on North Korea's complicity.
North Korea has to rest easy. No one would risk elevating its irritated response to the charges of having attacked South Korea, to the level of incendiary response by nuclear warhead. Besides, they're just kidding, right? After all, Iran keeps promising to wipe Israel off the map of the Middle East, and they haven't embarked on that little mission yet, either. Just the usual rhetorical bombast.
But it is inordinately entertaining, nonetheless. Say it again?
"All these war manoeuvres are nothing but outright provocations aimed to stifle the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by force of arms", smoothly, innocuously explains North Korea's National Defence Commission. They will unleash a "sacred war" of nuclear retaliation, for the joint U.S. South Korean naval exercise represents "as reckless an act as waking up a sleeping tiger." Grrrooowal!
Use some common sense, take a deep breath, face reality. There is nothing coercive about two allies planning manoeuvres together. It's done all the time. This one, codenamed "Invincible Spirit", is actually named in homage to North Korea, whose indomitable, invincible spirit has been well noted, and soooo widely admired.
And, in homage to the might and the capability of North Korea, the show of solidarity between the U.S. and South Korean forces represents a puny display of pseudo-machismo. Wave after wave of aircraft, F-218 Hornet fighters and Hawkeye spy aircraft, taking off and landing on the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington.
They're just showing off.
North Korea, by comparison, has its million men and women in uniform, men and women granted, whose (stunted) physiques and mental condition reflects years of starvation diets, but a million regardless. And the military equipment short of spare parts, the lack of a sufficiently forceful missile-delivery system for those little nuclear warheads?
An unfortunate, but temporary situation, soon to be suitably amended. And then, look out world!
Labels: Political Realities, Technology, Terrorism, United States, World Crises
posted by Pieface @ Monday, July 26, 2010
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