What a conservative foreign policy towards North Korea would look like
“The only way to deal with the threat posed by a nuclear North Korea … is the reunification of the Korean peninsula peacefully,” former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told The Daily Caller.
“The North Koreans are never going to be talked out of their nuclear weapons,” he said. “They’ll never consent to verification that will allow us to believe with confidence that they would meet any commitment to give up nuclear weapons.”
“First you have to come out and admit and state that North Korea is in fact a nuclear weapons state, which happens to be true but would also help clarify things,” said Dan Blumenthal, director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a former commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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It would be a history of the former DPRK.
Limerick on February 14, 2013 at 10:04 PM
Not by yellow-bellied sapsuckers playing pattycake with them, they aren’t.
MelonCollie on February 14, 2013 at 10:06 PM
Since conservatives have never been in power before, like never ever since the inception of North Korea, this might be a tough call.
lester on February 14, 2013 at 10:10 PM
Hopefully it would involve nukes.
RoadRunner on February 14, 2013 at 10:12 PM
Paradrop mo-lester over their nuclear facilities and hope they all die of stupid contamination?
MelonCollie on February 14, 2013 at 10:14 PM
North Korea is an appendage of Communist China (and to a lesser extent Russia), and is their back door means to proliferate nuclear weapons to rogue state enemies of the US, including Iran. This is the only reason the US has not taken out N. Korea’s nuclear program, fear of reprisals from China and Russia. N. Korea went nuclear on the watch of G.W. Bush, and he did nothing about it, and that policy continues under Obama.
Tripwhipper on February 14, 2013 at 10:14 PM
I have not been impressed with any administration re these asses for quite some time.
How about we cease all food aid? But arnold that is so harsh. No, because right now the military gets to be strengthened while the populace continues to suffer. And I really don’t want any of them healthy if we have to fight them later.
arnold ziffel on February 14, 2013 at 10:17 PM
You can’t even define what conservatism is. Your opinion is worth exactly the value of the pot of defecation I produced earlier.
Cheers, patriot.
tom daschle concerned on February 14, 2013 at 10:18 PM
China funds NK.
Solution:
Announce that we’re building military bases in Taiwan.
When China freaks out, tell them to stop funding NK, or else we’ll go ahead & build those bases.
itsnotaboutme on February 14, 2013 at 10:29 PM
They quit buying our debt, make a call on all their bonds, organize BRICS and call in the sovereign petrostates. The world ditches the dollar, mass naked short selling destroys wall st and the banks, no bases in Taiwan are built, NK remains as it always was, and we starve.
Awesome.
tom daschle concerned on February 14, 2013 at 10:42 PM
You forgot to mention stop exporting goods to the USA. Within a week, everywhere from computer manufacturers to Wal-Mart run out of goods from A to Z, which we have neither the people to make them with nor the factories to make them in.
These and your reasons are the costs of ‘free’-trade outsourcing. Personally, I’d trade all our electronic toys to have our national sovereignty back.
MelonCollie on February 14, 2013 at 10:46 PM
Don’t you make a living selling Chinese goods in a mall?
tom daschle concerned on February 14, 2013 at 10:54 PM
Not quite…Japanese movements (the mechanics that actually keep time) are very common in inexpensive watches and we have quite a bunch of watches that come from England, Taiwan, Switzerland, and the best ones in the store are Italian.
But we do sell some. And as for the REST of the mall, I can assure you that the situation is much different. The big-box electronics store and the cell-phone kiosk we’re right next to, just for easy examples, would be in very dire straits.
MelonCollie on February 14, 2013 at 10:58 PM
A very good friend of mine who sold watches at the mall and is now arguably one of the most brilliant, forward thinking, and innovative molecular biologists said the same thing about the Japanese timepieces. He divided watches into two categories. 1. True timepieces. 2. Fashion accessories.
I can’t abide anything other than laced paracord on my wrist. Time is relative. Lunchtime doubly so.
tom daschle concerned on February 14, 2013 at 11:15 PM
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Mostly accurate. We sell both, as well as some very simple true timepieces for people who want to know the time and don’t give a flip about fashion.
MelonCollie on February 15, 2013 at 9:20 AM