Ganked from flemco

[giza]

From here:

[For the last 10 years]
North Korea: We're crazy! We'll fucking attack every country around us if you don't give us some funds!
USA: Pfft.
NK: NO WE MEAN IT! WE'LL FUCK YOU UP WE SWAER
USA: Do you hear someone talking? Because I don't hear anything.
NK: WE HAVE NUKES AND WILL DESTROY EVERYONE! (Except China, they're cool.)
USA: Bla bla bla, whatever, you shrimp.
NK: I WANNA GET PSYCHO!
USA: No money for you.
NK: ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE EDGE AND I'M ABOUT TO BREAK!
USA: See this? This is New York, where a terrist group actually did damage. Now see you? You're a whole country that can barely afford plumbing. Feck OFF, little country. We have more important shit to deal with.
NK: [Cartman voice] GOD DAMMIT!
USA: Buh-bye now! Call us when you can play with the big dogs.
NK: BUT WE HAVE NUKES!
USA: Whatev.

[TODAY]
NK: *KAFUCKINGBOOM*
USA: Oh shit. Tell me that was a car backfire.
JAPAN: Oh shit-desu-da.
USA: It was just a loud firecracker, right?
TAIWAN: FUCK
USA: Oh... oh shit.
WORLD: Oh SHIT.

Can someone please explan to me why North Korea was jumping up and down yelling about nukes for years, only to be ignored from us, while we go hell bent on Iraq because they might have had mere chemical weapons. And we're still going fruitbat flapjacks on Iran because they /might/ have nukes.

Maybe we'll pay attention to North Korea now?

Comments

[garrwolfdog.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not really sporting if they simplly TELL you they've got nukes,.. where's the fun in that!?

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

Iraq was assumed to be the easiest target and the best place that would allow a jumping-off point for attacking Iran. It was also supposed to be the least-dangerous since the administration knew they didn't have nukes.

Axis of Evil: three countries, two with nukes. Take out the easy one first.

You're giving them too much credit.

[joanmichele.livejournal.com]

...That might be plausible if Iran/Iraq has enough of a sense of unity to team up with NK. As it is, there's unrest within each of those countries, preventing them from coming close to joining forces.

Re: You're giving them too much credit.

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

I used Bush's propaganda term because it conveniently describes the three of those countries together in modern jargon. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, the use of the term "Axis" also erroneously suggests that there's some level of collaboration between them. I did not intend to carry over that meaning, but I also did not want to break down my frivolous comment semantically.

Re: You're giving them too much credit.

[joanmichele.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, ye just have to do it. :P

But yeah, I get the point. Iraq, Iran and NK are all threats in Bush's eyes. Take out the weakest threat and use it as a stepping stone to take down the second one...

...where does North Korea come into this?

[joanmichele.livejournal.com]

Simple, Iraq has assets (oil), which NK doesn't have.

[zealianbadass.livejournal.com]

So we'll hear "Nuclear Launch Detected" out of something in Korea aside from Starcraft?

Wonders never cease.

Ohh well.

[cloudtiger.livejournal.com]

Don't fret, my children. Re-election is coming up soon. The worst has been done already.

Heh heh - North Korea has atomic weaponry now. That's awesome. Like we need more war in this crappy world.

[khakiwolf.livejournal.com]

Well actually it's more like they're trying to stop Iran from DEVELOPING nuclear weapons. Because, after all, it's wrong for anyone, except the USA and her closest military allies, to have WMD's.

[linnaeus.livejournal.com]

Well, right and wrong aside, there are pragmatic reasons why you don't want NK and Iran to have nuclear weapons. When the leader of Iran announces that Isreal shouldn't exist, you'd rather him not have the means to make that a reality. He might get ideas.

And even if Kim Jong Il isn't as crazy as he comes across sometimes, you don't want a guy running an impoverished country full of starving people to have nuclear weapons, because if money's tight enough, there's always eBay...

[khakiwolf.livejournal.com]

I thought it was amusing that Iran and Palestine (Hamas) refuse to "recognize" Isreal. Meanwhile, Isreal is bombing the fuck out of them for 36 days.

As for Iran, even if they did let him enrich the uranium to make a reactor, or they even offered to GIVE him a reactor if he really wants nuclear power (how will that help them develop their own technology?), they could still take the poor quality uranium and make a "dirty bomb".

I'm not too worried about these little guys who might have one or two nukes. I am more worried about psychos like the USA and Russia who have like... thousands of them. It's been said there's enough nuclear power to destroy the planet 5 times.

[linnaeus.livejournal.com]

It's a little like the joke about the guy who lost his contact lens in a vacant lot, but looked for it down the block, because "the light's better over here."

North Korea didn't have nukes when all this started, but they did have a million man army and enough artillery in place to turn Seoul into a smoking wreck within the first couple of hours of hostility, so we went for the easy target.

Of course, by picking on Iraq while ignoring countries that pose more legitimate threats, we've sent the message that having nukes is the best way to get us to leave a country alone, so expect more of this in the future. Nice long term thinking there.

[bassplayinwolf.livejournal.com]

well, fom reading recent updates they're saying its possible they tried to detonate a device which failed. If it was nuclear it was extremely small.

Large enough to be considered what would be needed for an actual nuclear device to go of, so possibly a test failure of an otherwise successfully put together device? Who knows.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Why, do they have oil?

heheh

[kimono-skunk.livejournal.com]

I do like the way you worded that post...

smiles

KS

[jlick.livejournal.com]

Here in Taiwan we're too busy protesting the president to notice that NK has nukes. Oh, and missiles in range. FUCK.

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

North Korea always posed a far greater threat than Iraq. We definately don't have the people, or money to fight two wars at the same time.