But not by me. Check out Daniel Starr’s post on the topic here.
If all else fails:
1. Blockade North Korean waters
2. Mine one North Korean harbor
3. Cut North Korea’s oil pipeline
4. Drop one bomb on a North Korean railway junction;
4. Enforce a no-fly zone over a small rural sector of North Korea
5. Fly in an “inspection team” to examine or destroy a single site somewhere in North Korea.
Hmmmmmmm……………
Also, it appears that some South Koreans have been reading my musings on this issue and are pissed, as can clearly be seen by this picture of a recent protest:
(Y’know how I just promised not to post until I got to Japan? Well I lied! It’s called wireless at the airport. God I love the 21st century.)
Comments to this entry
Dan
May 12, 2005
1:11 pm
And yes, Good Sir, \/\/1+31355 +0x5!!!111 wot wot!
IJ
May 12, 2005
4:16 pm
It isn't clear exactly who should adjudicate the 'threat'.
Whatever the final decision anyway, the penalty of economic sanctions is unlikely. It was reported this week that 'Chinese rule out sanctions on North Korea': >China's Foreign Ministry spokesman. . . rejected suggestions that China should reduce oil or food shipments to North Korea, calling those part of its "normal trade" with its Communist neighbor that should be separated from the nuclear problem. . . "We oppose trying to address the problem through strong-arm tactics."
reelcobra
May 12, 2005
5:57 pm
Without China propping it up, NK topples in a month max.
We need to work China hard.
Dan
May 12, 2005
7:34 pm
The Norks (the Kim regime, at least) are quite willing to watch their people suffer and starve while the regime survives.
Without the Chinese not assassination the Kim dynasty, NK topples in a month max.
IJ
May 12, 2005
8:25 pm
Multilateral diplomacy with North Korea, led by the UN, is always another option.
reelcobra
May 13, 2005
1:38 am
I'm saying that we need to use true American leverage, in the form of economic and public relations.
We should have Condi talking about this in press conferences: North Korea's autonomy is a fiction.
We need China to work on this. Since my earlier post today, China had the ba*ls to call on us to reopen talks.
I don't think so.
Joe
May 13, 2005
2:28 am
Simon World
May 13, 2005
3:53 am
Japanese Bases, North Korean Scariness, Cars Everywhere, Taiwan on Pandas and Analogies, the New Asian Cleveland, Terrorists all over the place, and more, all on today's Daily Linklets
tdaxp
February 14, 2006
12:31 am
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