Obama Warns North Korea – War Looms Near

by Jack

After years of teaching North Korea that it can shell villages, cross the border and kill guards and sink or capture warships on the high seas with total impunity, they (NKPR) became bold enough to actually threaten a nuclear strike on South Korea and/or the USA.

I guess that threat (nuking Washington) finally got the president’s attention.  Obama declared in his most stern warning to date, that if North Korea commits one act of aggression it will be met with force and presumably the hot war which has been on hold for the last 60 years will resume.

Many in the world think Kim Jong-un’s isn’t really serious about making good on its bellicose threats of war — that this propaganda-happy nation wouldn’t even fire a potential first shot in any conflict.   So why is the U.S. continuing its own show of force by moving a big ol destroyer and a mobile-radar station in the direction of North Korea? Because we are really not so sure!  ”We take these threats seriously and remain in close contact with our South Korean allies,” National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement. “But, we would also note that North Korea has a long history of bellicose rhetoric and threats and today’s announcement follows that familiar pattern.”

As Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday, Hayden said, “we remain fully prepared and capable of defending and protecting the United States and our allies.”

“The U.S. Navy is moving at least one warship closer to the North Korean coastline and more may be on the way,” CNN’s Barbara Starr reported Monday afternoon, adding: “The SBX-1 radar, a sea-based platform with a radar on top, is also on the move.” That warship appears to be the USS Fitzgerald, which is being moved to the waters beyond the Korean peninsula. “The USS Fitzgerald is capable of intercepting and destroying a missile, should North Korea decide to fire one off,” reports NBC News, which adds that it is “unclear if the Fitzgerald was also part of the ongoing military drills.”

The SBX-1 seems like another defensive safety precaution. Here’s a quick description of from Naval-Technology.com:

The platform was developed by Boeing, as part of the ground-based midcourse defence (GMD) component of the US Ballistic Missile Defence System (BMDS). The GMD intercepts incoming warheads.

Yes, that’s the word “warhead” in that description. (And, no, this has nothing to do with the sequester.) The mobilization of warships doesn’t exactly seem to jibe what we’ve been told of late — that North Korea is puffing its chest up and is largely bluffing about its threats. But the mobilization of warships does match up with the passive-aggressive show of force from the U.S. military, which flew nuclear-capable stealth B-2 bombers over South Korea for the first time in history on Friday to send a message, then flew two F-22 Raptors over South Korea as part of a military exercise on Sunday.

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6 Responses to Obama Warns North Korea – War Looms Near

  1. Princess says:

    Haven’t we learned anything from Afghanistan and Iraq? We already put two wars on a credit card, why add a third?

    All war with North Korea will bring America is more dead American soldiers. And more debt for our kids to pay. And more billions for defense contractors.

  2. Toby says:

    Obama is weak and the world knows it, North Korea has nothing to fear from him. This is just a distraction, one piece of $hit dictator doing another piece of $hit dictator a favor.

  3. Princess says:

    I am not Obama’s biggest fan, but I think it is ridiculous to compare the democratically elected President of the United States of America to the dictator of North Korea. Our country is nothing like theirs. And allowing a puffed-up idiot to bait us into war with photoshopped pictures he is using to show his people how tough he is doesn’t make a lot of sense for America who is struggling with the debts of wars we lost in other countries.

  4. john kaitano says:

    world must know that First World War started
    by small country in Europe because of networks
    of allies developed within Europe.
    History repeats itself,60 years down the line now,this war noise of America against n korea is thing most dreadfull to the whole world.

  5. Tina says:

    Thanks for expressing your opinion john, but what war noise are you talking about?

    I see, amazingly given the administrations early stance against defensive missile systems, a warning to North Korea…don’t launch your missiles. This is an act in support of peace.

    North Koreans without food because of the inflated egos of its leaders is “a thing most dreadful to the world.

  6. Tina says:

    Never mind, it seems our spineless bored leader has changed his mind about a show of force. Let’s see what do they call that…paper tiger, perhaps?

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