I do not know if this does much more than just piss him off. The US has for the first time ever decided to use trade sanctions against North Korea. It is directed right at Kim Jong II. The US will not be selling I-Pods (among other various things Jong likes) to North Korea.
Seeing as how the man was able to ascertain the stuff needed to build a nuke, he can probably get as many i-pods as he wants elsewhere.
It's like playing keep-away with the little underdeveloped kid in elementary school when the school yard is filled with the exact same kind of ball. Eventually the little kid will realize that those other kids are just punks, he goes to get one of the other balls, and he proceeds to concoct a plan of revenge on them involving bottle rockets and brown bags filled with poo.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
I guess he could get Creative.
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Scary to think that Kim Jong Il's version of bottle rockets and brown bags filled with poo involve ICBMs and nuclear explosions.
I'm curious to know how many iPods, plasma televisions, etc. North Korea actually got from the US. I'd assume he's got easy access to all these Chinese-made goods, legally or illegally, considering he's relatively close to the factories that make them.
Well, not ICBMs - they don't yet have Intercontinental range. The Ro-dong 1 can reach South Korea and parts of Japan rather reliably. When I was in Inchon ten years ago (yes, it has been that long) they were testing the Ro-dong 2, which was reported to be able to reach all of Japan and parts of Alaska and Hawaii. I've not heard if the Ro-dong 2 has become a reliable weapon.
But yeah, he's a bit more of a threat than the school yard slow kid. Not so much because of his weapons development, but because his sheltered and pampered life has caused him to develop a messed up sense of reality. That, and the cult of personality developed by his late father, Kim Il Sun, has transfered perfectly onto him.
So, unlike Sadam Hussein, who I still assert wouldn't attack the U.S. or provide weapons to those who would (because he wanted to retain his power), Kim Jong Il is NUTTY enough to do so. If we had to go to war with North Korea, it would be a fracking mess. No rolling in over the flat desert with our armored columns, blowing up old Russian T-80's with our Abrams before they even knew we were around. No mass surrenders by the enemy. North Korea is almost all mountainous, the army is very-well brainwashed, and they've been spending upwards of 80% of their budget on their millitary for the past fifty years. (While their general populace has been starving to death for the last ten).
We would have had a difficult time fighting Pukan (North Korea) before we were spread thin in Afghanistan and Iraq. It would be undoable now.
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