Thursday, January 21, 2010

I smell trouble...

Today, in the Korean Times, Jung Sung-Ki reports the possibility of a preemptive military strike against North Korea if they suspect a nuclear attack being planned. Does this reek of disaster to anyone else? Let's go blow up nuclear facilities...because that's a great way to keep the peace (and the environment) happy. Granted, the tension between the two countries has been running very high since the missile tests last year, however, I think that the chances of North Korea actually firing their missiles at anyone is very slim. North Korea would lose the little financial and political support it has left and quickly be blasted to smithereens as the rest of the world reacts. There would be no chance of anything remotely productive coming out of a North Korean missile attack. Granted, the North Koreans did issue this statement:

In a statement carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency, its National Defense Commission warned that it would initiate a "sacred retaliatory battle" against the South, cut off all dialogue and exclude it from all negotiations related to the security of the Korean Peninsula. The commission, headed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is the highest ruling agency in the Stalinist state.

As usual, communication has broken down from it's fragile state and deteriorated into threats and melodrama. Ironically, this sort of break down in communication is strangely reminiscent of trying to deal with any work place in Korea.

No one in my office seems to be the slightest bit concerned about this latest development. Conversation revolved around the usual topics of food, work and children. The attitude reinforces my own opinion that this statement by North Korea is simply the latest in a long line of empty threats and promises.

2 comments:

Salsa Boy said...

'nucular'

Salsa Boy misses you...

good luck blowing up N. Korea.

Alex said...

Oh Bush. I had a nightmare last night and for part of it, he was somehow reelected.