Op-ed:
Hostile, Dangerous, and Oh-So Foolish
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
"Talks with North Korea have
not worked....we've kicked the can down the road long enough...enough
is enough."
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley
At noon (NKT) on Sunday, September 3rd,
the U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude-6.3 seismic event in
the northwestern quadrant of North Korea...an event so powerful that
it was reported to have rattled buildings in both China and
Russia...an event that both South Korean and Japanese officials said
was suspected to be the result of an underground atomic
explosion...an 'artificial earthquake' as the South Korean military
called it.
And this now confirmed explosion was
indeed a nuclear test...a nuclear test whose yield was several times
larger than the previous test last September which yielded a seismic
reading akin to a 5.3 magnitude earthquake...a successful nuclear
test officially announced by North Korea’s state news agency
KCNA...a test ordered by Kim Jong-un himself...and the sixth nuclear
test that we know of within this particular region. But more
importantly is that North Korea is claiming that this test was no
mere atomic test but was a test of a more sophisticated and more
powerful hydrogen bomb...a two-stage thermonuclear weapon
specifically designed to be placed atop their newly developed
long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).
Translation: the time for talk is now
over folks...the time for actions has arrived not just because a
hydrogen bomb produces a five-times
more powerful blast than even the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, but because Kim Jong-un claims his missiles can now
reach our allies and even more importantly... can now reach almost
anywhere in the U.S. mainland.
And while President Trump initially
tweeted that "the United States is considering, in addition
to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business
with North Korea"...meaning
China...which would allow a dangerous situation to become even more
so as China has long been North Korea's patron and ally but who at
the same time is a country whose exports to the U.S. alone make up a
full one third of its total exports... something they cannot
economically afford to lose...it is the "other
options" that are of prime importance to us because we all know
that except in certain circumstances sanctions...which is really what
stopping trade is...simply do not work. And sanctions especially do
not work against North Korea as sanctions to cut then off from the
global economy have been in place for decades and have accomplished
nothing in regards to first putting a stop to the rogue nation's
nuclear ambitions and now to their existing nuclear capabilities.
Remember, time has shown that when
dealing with Kim Jong-un...a mad man-child hell-bent on not just
unifying the two Korea's under his rule but hell-bent on ruling the
world...or it least making sure that both he and North Korea are
taken seriously as a key nuclear power on the world stage...any and
all sanctions that have been placed on North Korea actually have
spurred him on into becoming even more belligerent and hostile with each passing
day.
And with the world's condemnation
pouring in...including from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
who said that North Korea's newest action is “profoundly
destabilizing for regional security,” and with the U.N.
Security Council holding an emergency meeting yesterday...an
emergency meeting called at the request of the U.S., Japan, South
Korea, France, and Great Britain...it can be seen that while some
voices do realize and understand the tangible threat we and the world
face, other voices clearly do not no matter that logic dictates that
any nation doing business with North Korea is actually giving aid to
help strengthen their nuclear capabilities.

And while some do understand the danger
posed, they still at the same time do nothing of substance to rein in
the rogue nation. And these folks happen to include NATO General Secretary
Jens Stoltenberg who said he
"strongly condemned"
the nuclear test...words that Kim Jong-un most assuredly is laughing at...while
Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, called this newest test
"an extremely regrettable
act" and that it was in
"complete disregard of the
repeated demands of the international community."
Strong
talk but we all know that talk without actions is but empty words
spoken.
And
sadly, while Great Britain's Theresa
May outwardly condemned this newest test as being “reckless,”
she
still said that it
is "more pressing than ever to look at increasing the
pace of implementing sanctions on the regime"...refusing
to understand that North Korea has grown even stronger militarily
while already being under harsh decades long sanctions. And
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull echoed May's sentiments
believing that China should be the one to pressure the North Koreans
to come to the negotiating table, saying that while China is
frustrated by North Korea’s conduct, they still have the greatest
leverage and that with the greatest leverage comes the greatest
responsibility. And they too are so forgetting that the mad man-child
who rules North Korea has an itchy trigger finger ready to push the
nuclear button at the time of his choosing.
And as
expected China...who has so much to lose if indeed we stop trading with
them...has of course now chimed in condemning this newest test in a statement
posted on their official foreign ministry website. Saying, "China will
work with the international community to comprehensively and
completely implement the relevant resolutions of U.N. Security
Council, firmly push forward the denuclearization of the peninsula,
and maintain the peace and stability of the peninsula,"
even these strong words have China doing little of real substance to call
off their ever misbehaving stepchild.
So
what of our allies South Korea and Japan...the two nations most
easily reached by North Korean missiles...Japan's Foreign
Minister Taro Kono said that "by way of the embassy in
Beijing, we made it clear in the strongest words, that if this was a
nuclear test, this is unforgivable, and a violation of the U.N.
Security Council resolution."...like
this means anything to China let alone to North Korea.
And South Korea's President Moon Jae asked both his country's foreign
and defense ministries to
"to seek all diplomatic ways to
make North Korea abandon its nuclear and missile development through
complete, verifiable and irrevocable ways," forgetting
that South Korea's own appeasement of the mad man-child has
contributed to Kim Jong-un seeing diplomacy as person non-grata if you will. However, Moon Jae did add that "our military must
thoroughly prepare aggressive response" adding that South
Korea's government will never allow North Korea to make further
advancement in the nuclear and missile development.
But no matter others words said it was former U.N.
Ambassador
John Bolton who said it best when he put the entire scenario into
perspective with one simple but very powerful sentence,
"How
do you feel about dead Americans?"...for
just like with the actions of radical islamic terrorists Bolton knows
well that it is either them or us...and obviously better it be them
than us.
So
much better them than us...and better for both the stability and safety of
all the world's nations in fact, for it must be known that this
latest test was not some of Kim Jong-un's past empty or baiting
threats for within hours of the test being confirmed a senior U.S.
official stated that "our experts"
were reviewing the data but that "we are highly
confident this was a test of an advanced nuclear device and what
we've seen so far is not inconsistent with North Korea's claims."
Remember those past
claims...claims that have proven to be truth...remember that this
past July, North Korea conducted two intercontinental ballistic
missile tests, which experts said indicated the missiles could indeed
reach parts of the U.S. mainland. And just last month, the United
Nations placed additional sanctions on North Korea... sanctions that
included a ban on coal and other needed exports totaling over one
billion dollars...sanctions put in place because of the July ICBM tests.
"Because we
are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North
Korea, but I said we have many options to do." -
Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis
So where do we go
from here, especially when just yesterday North Korea announced that they
will soon be testing an ICBM that not only will capable of reaching
the continental U.S. but will also be capable of carrying a hydrogen
bomb. Simply, we go to
war and end this decades long madness once and for all.
We go to war courtesy of a so-rightful preemptive strike to protect
not only our own homeland but to protect our trusted allies as well. A
preemptive strike to protect against "any threat to any U.S.
territory or our allies"...a preemptive strike that
"will be met with
a massive military
response
that
will be overwhelming,"
so said Gen Mattis after Sunday's White House meeting with President
Trump...a 'red line' now being set up that North Korea would be oh-so foolish to cross.
And
that sentiment was strongly echoed at yesterday's emergency meeting of the
U.N. Security Council when Ambassador Nikki Haley told the U.N. that
their
usual "incremental approach" in
getting North Korea to stop its nuclear capabilities has failed and
that North Korea has slapped every security council member in the
face with their actions. Saying that, "North
Korea is begging for war...the stakes could not be higher...war is
not something the U.S. wants...but our country's patience is not
unlimited," Haley added that, "when
a rogue nation points an ICBM at you, you don't take steps to lower
your guard."
This surely puts the world on notice as to where this is going for even while she
called for the strongest sanctions to be placed on the rogue nation,
Haley made it clear to the Security Council that "enough
is enough"...mixed
messages are no longer being sent...the time for action...military
action...is very close at hand.
Very
close at hand no matter that China's ambassador to the U.N.,
Liu Jieyi, immediately countered Haley's words with words to the affect that
"China
will never allow chaos and war"
on the Korean peninsular as he urged for even more, up to this point
useless, dialogue. Remember, it would be China who gets millions of
refugees fleeing into their country if war does indeed break
out...millions of refugees taxing China's economy to a virtual
breaking point...millions of refugees they do not want.
So
what happens now that what was once a stalemate has truly come to a
head...will China finally take definitive actions to rein in North
Korea knowing it would serve their own best interests well to do
so...or will we indeed have to go to war...to preemptively strike a
country whose people are already suffering under a brutal regime. I
believe the answer will be forthcoming within the next few days, but
no matter which way this current situation plays out know that if we do not put an end to Kim Jong-un and his threats now the same situation will come back to haunt us again, and next time it might be to late to stop the mad man-child from sending a little nuclear package our way.
Copyright @ 2017 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved
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