Conservative Rumblings

Once again, foreign policy amateur hour is in full session. Barack Obama, in His Infinite Wisdom, has convinced South Korean president Lee Myung-bak that instead of being “mean” to North Korea and isolating them from the world, we should capitulate and offer them a ransom to give up their nuclear weapons program.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s president says he and President Barack Obama have agreed to offer North Korea a “grand bargain” aimed at ending the North’s nuclear program.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Obama, President Lee Myung-bak said the deal would be similar to his proposal for a package of political and economic incentives in exchange for the one-step, irreversible dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear program.

Lee’s grand bargain proposal stems from concerns that North Korea would continue to backtrack on promises after winning concessions in negotiations.

Obama said his envoy on North Korea, Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, will travel to the country early next month for the first bilateral talks with the communist regime since he took office.

North Korea has been pushing for bilateral talks with Washington to discuss the standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. The U.S. has agreed to the talks but has stressed they must lead to the resumption of six-nation disarmament negotiations.

North Korea conducted a nuclear test and test-fired a series of missiles earlier this year.

I hope people realize that this is exactly what North Korea wanted. They held out until someone offered to give them what they were demanding. This is essentially negotiating with terrorists. Naive and dangerous, which is pretty much the hallmark of his apocalypticly stupid administration.

Ok, I exaggerate a little bit…it’s actually the USS John McCain and it’s been sent to possibly intercept a North Korean ship suspected of carrying weapons. We all know it won’t ACTUALLY board the ship, of course. Obama wouldn’t want to offend Kim Jong-Il.

The U.S. military is preparing for a possible intercept of a North Korean flagged ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.

The USS John McCain, a Navy destroyer, is positioning itself in case it gets orders to intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official. The order to inderdict has not been given yet, but the ship is moving into the area.

“Permission has not been requested. Nor is it clear it will be,” a military source told FOX News. “This is a very delicate situation and no one is interested in precipitating a confrontation.”

The ship left a port in North Korea Wednesday and appears to be heading toward Singapore, according to a senior U.S. military source. The vessel, which the military has been tracking since its departure, could be carrying weaponry, missile parts or nuclear materials, a violation of U.N. Resolution 1874, which put sanctions in place against Pyongyang.

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea vowed on Saturday to embark on a uranium enrichment program and “weaponize” all the plutonium in its possession as it rejected the new U.N. sanctions meant to punish the communist nation for its recent nuclear test.

North Korea also said it would not abandon its nuclear programs, saying it was an inevitable decision to defend itself from what it says is a hostile U.S. policy and its nuclear threat against the North.

The North will take “resolute military action” if the United States or its allies try to impose any “blockade” on it, the ministry said in a statement carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.

North Korea continues to march quickly toward nuclear weapons, while Obama continues to throw rose petals on the path. Any day now the “open hand” foreign policy BHO advocated in his inaugural address will kick in, North Korea will turn the reactors off and decide to just peacefully co-exist…any day now. Any…day…

Meanwhile, those of us still existing in reality can see the truth: Obama’s weak foreign policy, combined with his repeated “Apology Tours” and willingness to kowtow to foreign despots have emboldened Pyongyang to push forward, because they know our New Age Socialist government won’t do a damn thing to stop them.

I’m wondering if Kim Jong-Il and I’m A Dinner Jacket made some sort of bet as to who could start WWIII first, North Korea or Iran. Right now, I have to give the edge to North Korea, who is on the verge of launching another round of ICBMs.

North Korea is assembling a missile that could hit U.S. soil and may test-launch it as early as this month, a newspaper reported, as a U.S. envoy on Wednesday urged Pyongyang to cease provocations and return to disarmament talks.

The hermit state’s nuclear test last week, putting it closer to having a working atomic weapon, has already prompted the U.S. and South Korean forces to raise their military alert for the divided peninsula.

North Korea, which began ratcheting up regional tensions when it fired a long-ranged rocket over Japan in April, also test-fired a barrage of short-range missiles last week and threatened to attack the South.

“The ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) is covered up so it’s tough to be absolutely clear but it looks similar to the Taepodong-2 fired in April but longer,” the JoongAng Ilbo quoted a South Korean government source as saying.

The April launch triggered tightened U.N. Security Council sanctions that Pyongyang called unacceptable, threatening to launch an ICBM unless the world body apologised [sic].

Oh, we remember those U.N. Security Council sanctions…they just seem to work SO well. When are these smarmy idiots going to get it through their heads that “condemning” NoKo does NOTHING. They don’t care what we think of them! They don’t care about their reputation; they want to start a war, and it’s up to us to stop them before millions of people lose their lives just because some lunatic dictator wants to show the world he has…guts.

Pyongyang knows who we have in the Oval Office. They know he doesn’t have the fortitude to carry out any sort of attack (hell, he doesn’t even have the backbone to DEFEND the U.S., much less fight someone offensively), and they know he’s going to weakly look to the U.N. for guidance (which is sort of like asking the Bubble Boy for help with a playground bully).

As long as our foreign policy revolves around looking to the U.N. and “extending an open hand,” North Korea will continue to push toward their Final Solution: nuclear weapons that can strike U.S. soil.

It’ll be alright though, we can just shoot them down with our missile shiel—-oh, that’s right; Obama cut funding for it.

I guess this is just an example of how Obama’s foreign policy of “extending an open hand to a closed fist” has worked out so well. North Korea is shaking in their boots, BHO. Good job with taking a hard line on these guys; they wouldn’t even THINK to do something crazy like, oh, I don’t know, restart their nuclear production.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has restarted its nuclear facilities to harvest weapons-grade plutonium, an official said Saturday, just hours after the U.N. imposed new sanctions on the communist state for its recent rocket launch.

The move is a key step away from a 2007 disarmament deal — signed after a 2006 nuclear test — that called for North Korea to disable its nuclear facilities in exchange for much-needed energy aid and other concessions.

“The reprocessing of spent fuel rods from the pilot atomic power plant has begun,” the North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said in comments carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

Harvesting weapons-grade plutonium “will contribute to bolstering the nuclear deterrence for self-defense in every way to cope with the increasing military threats from the hostile forces,” he said.

So we let them fire off missiles with nary a consequence (well, I guess we shook our finger at them and told them they were very bad). Now, they are restarting weapons-grade plutonium production.

Weapons-grade nuclear material AND missiles. Come on, Obama. I know you’re an idiot but that’s easy math right there! Since our response to the missile launch was an impotent finger-shaking, I can only guess the statement coming out of D.C. regarding the nuclear production:

“Let me be clear. This action makes me sad. I am ever-so-disappointed with North Korea. Please don’t make me sad. Let’s just be nice to each other! Please don’t build nukes, Kim Jong-Il! Let’s have a group hug!”

I hereby issue a preemptive apology to all our allies that get nuked by North Korea. The sissy in the Oval Office is not representative of our population; he just had more money and an entire media industry in the tank for him. Please forgive the grave error our country has made.

It took them this long just to vote to “condemn” North Korea? I condemned them within 10 minutes…it takes these idiots a week to do it?

But wait a minute…they just “condemned” North Korea? What kind of deterrent is that? Are we hoping Kim Jong-Il gets his feelings hurt? That’s the WORST we can do to a country trying to start WWIII?

This underscores the sheer uselessness of the U.N. as an organization. They can’t do ANYTHING. Does anyone honestly thinks that a bunch of U.N. lackeys shaking their collective fingers at Pyongyang is going to have any effect whatsoever?

And Obama feels that we need to CEDE AUTHORITY to this useless body? Yeah, OK. That sounds like a great national security decision.

UNITED NATIONS — Key Security Council nations reached agreement Saturday on a statement that would condemn North Korea’s rocket launch and toughen U.N. sanctions against the reclusive communist nation.

The five permanent veto-wielding members — the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France — and Japan reached agreement after Tokyo backed down from a demand that the Security Council adopt a new resolution, the strongest response the U.N.’s most powerful body can give.

They distributed the text of the proposed presidential statement to the nine other council members, who must now consult their capitals. Libya’s deputy U.N. ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi said he expects the council to meet again Monday.

A presidential statement is considered a weaker reaction by the council, and while the U.S. insists it is legally binding, others do not.

Nonetheless, the current draft contains stronger language and demands than many observers predicted.
The statement “condemns” North Korea’s April 5 launch, without specifying whether it was a missile or a satellite. It makes clear that the launch was a violation of a Security Council resolution, adopted after the North conducted a nuclear test in 2006, which bans any missile tests by the country.

Legally binding? Since when do rogue, terrorist states care about legalities?

Sorry, but I disagree with that assessment. North Korea has blatantly defied every stupidly and incompetently leveled “international sanction” by launching their missiles, and they have faced ZERO repercussions for it. Obama handed them a victory by forfeit.

We have the biggest wuss in the history of U.S. presidents sitting in the Oval Office fretting over his new dog and apologizing to every other country for all of the supposed ‘evil and arrogant actions’ we’ve done over the years; I highly doubt he’s going to change his mind in the next couple days and suddenly “get tough.”

Obama’s inept foreign policy of “extending a hand to those that have a clenched fist” is going to cost us American lives. He is far too naive to be dealing with rogue states on a national stage.

We should be blown that rocket up on the pad.

The failure so far of the U.N. Security Council or other international organization to respond to a weekend rocket launch by North Korea does not signal a “win” for the rogue nation, the State Department said Monday.

Spokesman Robert Wood said the international community is working closely on a coordinated response, and the severity of the violation only puts North Korea farther out on a limb by itself.

“This kind of action only further isolates the North and the fact that the Security Council is taking a shoe up demonstrates how important it is that we deal with this matter and the need for it to be dealt with and so I would reject any characterization that the North — that this is some kind of a win for the North — it’s not,” he said.

The United States has so far decided to rely on the U.N. Security Council to dole out an appropriate response to North Korea’s launching of the rocket, which crossed over Japanese airspace.

Oh, well, the international community is working on a coordinated response. I’m sure that’ll accomplish a lot. Since when has it become necessary for us to look to the “international community” before we decide on a response to a provocative terrorist state threatening to start WWIII?

The last sentence there is the scariest. We are well on our way to completely outsourcing our foreign policy decisions to an international body that is incapable of running itself, much less the whole world. And we’re going to let them dictate how WE respond? I don’t think so.

I don’t blame them; Pyongyang is trying to fire rockets out over the Pacific by firing them ACROSS another country without that country’s permission. I mean, come on; that’s just ridiculous.

Japan strongly protested North Korea’s planned rocket launch, warning Friday it could shoot it down after the North said it would fly over Japan and designated a “danger” zone off the country’s coast.

North Korea has given U.N. agencies coordinates forming two zones where parts of the multiple-stage rocket would fall, unveiling its plan to fire the projectile over Japan toward the Pacific Ocean sometime between April 4 and 8.

One of the “danger” zones where the rocket’s first stage is expected to fall is in waters less than 75 miles (120 kilometers) from Japan’s northwestern shore, according to coordinates released Thursday by the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization.

Between Iran, North Korea, Syria and the new Soviet Empire, we’re already assembling an all-star cast for WWIII.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is about a month away from launching a missile or a rocket, but U.S. officials are monitoring its coastal launch site for indications it could come more quickly, a senior U.S. intelligence official told The Associated Press.

The estimate that the launch is a month away is at odds with analysis from private imagery specialists who have scoured commercial satellite imagery of the site taken Feb. 17-18.

Pyongyang announced Tuesday that it is preparing to launch a satellite after vowing last week that it would press ahead with a missile test. The threats were made after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the North to stop its “provocative actions,” saying a missile test would “be very unhelpful.”

I love how Hillary is just “urging” them it would be “unhelpful.” Is that anything like “strenuously objecting?”

North Korea obviously wants to make up for their embarrassing performance issues during the 2006 launch that failed in spectacular fashion. Now that we have a spineless, inexperienced and naive guy in the Oval Office trying to be President, it must seem like the perfect time for them to flex their muscle and see where it gets them.

Most likely, it’ll be an invite to the White House for tea. After all, all these radicals need is a hug and an afternoon with the Messiah and they’ll be completely converted from their evil ways.

Right? I mean, Obama’s genius has worked wonders on the economy; I’m sure his same theories can be successfully employed on an international level.