Comments on: Security Council Backs N. Korea Sanctions

U.N. Resolution Approved; North Korea Rejects 'Gangster-Like' Demands

[one_american]

What some people fail to acknowledge is that Kim Jong Il was persuing his nuclear program throughout the Clinton Administration, regardless of the agreements that he signed, or whether he was offered any incentives to dismantle his nuclear program.

Clinton's policy did not work. It cannot possibly work with a regime that does not honor its agreements with other nations.

The Bush Administration, however, has made substantial progress in resolving the issue by forming the 6-party talks, which put China as America's ally, and partner. The U.N. Agreement, which will have punative sanctions included, will definately punish the North Korean regime for thumbing its nose at the world.

After the sanctions are in place, and the NPK find themselves weakened, they will either reverse their course, or regular North Koreans will rise up and revolt against Kim Jong Il, or flee to China or South Korea, and the dirty little dictator will be powerless to stop it.

Bush and Bolton are a powerful combination in resolving the conflict, and deserve the credit for tackling the problem, instead of ***-footing around it like Bill Clinton and Madelline Albright did. There again, true to form, the Clinton Administration passed on the opportunity to resolve a looming conflict, instead making it worse and dumping the problem on the next administration.

[janemcgreeve]

Bottom line is - can we trust the Russkies and the Chinese? If they do sneak weaponry and goods across, then trade with those countries should be dramatically slashed.

The Russians are not doing well, and maybe they'd get rid of Putin over this. China might be a problem trade wise, but hey, it is about time Americans started making their own toys, tools, and clothes - just as we did before we got lazy and depended on the regime that gave the world Tianamin Square.

[janemcgreeve]

exusmcsgt,

pleeeze, you rant and rave for someone who served our country. Are you making apologies for North Korea? If so, go there, live - if you can.

This is a regime that you and PeterBaldwin...must be one of the Baldwin boys who threatened to leave America if Bush was elected - yet is still here - moddycuddle. A regime that could have been stopped in place if your blessed Clinton had the cojones to do so. Instead he gave them economic incentives so that not only the elite got fed while the poor starved, but they had extra money to put into building bombs.

Your buddies got taken - and all you can do is rant and blame Bush.

[exusmcsgt]

peterbaldwin-

Not much argument here about your comments. The really ridiculous issue about this particular diplomatic fiasco is that N. Korea has asked for assurances that the U.S. would not attack it militarily which Bubba and the boys indignantly refused to give.

Now that the U.S. HAS to utilize diplomatic means, here's the assurance. Had this been done 5 years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess.

[tomflint69]

Only 50% or less sanctions will work because we must not forget that behind the scenec, Russia and China arent U.S allies.
If not today, yesterday they will give any possible relief to North Korea for doing harm to our interests in the region.

[peterbaldwin-2009]

Cooler heads in Bejing and Moscow have prevailed and the world can breathe a little easier with the military option now off the table and nominal sanctions on the table.

Bolton and Bush have been unwittingly emasculated and their gunslinging bravado relegated to hot air.

With Bush swaggering around confidently in his own fantasy world and Karl Rove in utter desperation musing about a new war to help the Republicans stave off annihalation, the Chinese and Russia came to the rescue. The world knows that Bush is an unstable, homicidal maniac who should be put in a straight-jacket and hauled off to a sanitorium or an alcohol rehab center. America now is finally now "getting it" and "connecting the dots".

[janemcgreeve]

Those so-called South Koreans demonstrating in favor of North Korea should be deported there. Syngman Rhee would have gladly done that, but South Korea is much more of a Liberal Democracy these days that it tolerates this kind of Communist garbage.

Let them go to their North "paradise". A month or so of starving while the Pig Kim munches away on the gourmet delicacies straight from Italy or who knows where, would have them crying for home. More than likely they'd be shipped to a Gulag where their life expectancy would be measured in days. But that is exactly what these weirdos deserve.

Old people in the North who try to escape to China and are turned away commit suicide at the Yalu rather than return home to torture and starvation. These pigs in the South deserve a bit of their friend Kim's benevolence.

[janemcgreeve]

Ozilot,

Don't forget it was YOUR friends Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Miss Piggy NotBright who allowed North Korea to proceed with the nuke program.

If Clinton had the balls to either impose a blockade of North Korean ports or (risky then, even more riskier now) laser destroy the North Korean reactor, we wouldn't be talking about options, or lack of them. Or worry about what a weak, dysfunctional pro-totalitarian, pro-terrorist UN will NOT do. We should have removed that dump to Geneva decades ago.

But for a Liberal who constantly goes along with the rest of the malarky, I will at least give you credit for saying the UN is a failed organization.

And so is, by the way, the Democratic Party.