Simple Question of International Import

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

What are the odds that this gets a LOT worse by the traditional spring time offensive season when a young general's fancy turns to invasion?

Brief timeline:

North Korea is accused of torpedoing a South Korean warship.

South Korea fires at North Korean fishing boats crossing the maritime border North Korea refuses to recognize.

North Korea is revealed to have highly modern facilities for nuclear material enrichment.

Not to mention, North Korea is facing the challenge of passing along the regime to a third generation of the Kim family.

North Korea is known for rattling its sabre and demanding to have attention paid to it when it is being ignored, but this is looking like a very different than recent years -- South Korea really has to retaliate...and half of South Korea's population lives in the Seoul metropolitan area within artillery range of the DMZ.

So a question -- is North Korea suicidal or are they betting that this behavior can get them some more winter grain shipments?

Comments

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

"Yes. If it's YOUR ocean."

Poppycock. The two simply are not the same. Firing shells into the ocean is not the same as firing shells into buildings where people are killed. Quite obviously, one kills people, and the other does not.

Add to that the fact that it's not as simple as it being "their ocean". They SAY that it is their ocean, of course, but the area is disputed.

If Cuba fired some artillery shells into the Atlantic Ocean, into an area claimed by both them and the U.S., and if the U.S. responded to that 'provocation' by shelling Cuban buildings and killing Cuban people, we all know who would be held accountable, and who would be considered in the wrong.


Because firing on water is a fundamentally different act than firing on people. Plain and simple.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

If Cuba fired some artillery shells into the Atlantic Ocean, into an area claimed by both them and the U.S., and if the U.S. responded to that 'provocation' by shelling Cuban buildings and killing Cuban people, we all know who would be held accountable, and who would be considered in the wrong.

Michael Moore would be!