Monday, April 06, 2009

Tempest...


In A Crackpot, so to speak. "North Korean Missile Launch a Failure" - Say The Experts. Just The Facts, man.
First, the twilight-zone nation of No. Korea got lots and lots of front-page ink (Look where the NY Times put the writeup).
Second, lots of other people got pretty-good mileage (politically speaking) from the event.
Third, anyone who gives it more than a cursory thought will know that it's quite impossible for No. Korea to actually attack anywhere outside its own territory.
Any foreign adventure that goes beyond barking loudly will surely cause the destruction of the country.
Sure, they can kill lots of "Enemies", but they wouldn't survive the exercise. The only reason to fear that they might actually make the attempt is the fact that the government of that sad little nation is not known at all for its rational behavior.
Oddly, I take some comfort in their sortie, back in 1968, when they successfully attacked and siezed USNS Puebly, which was spying on them. All other considerations aside, such as that attacking a ship on the high seas should have attracted a massive military response (They got an apology instead), it showed that there's at least one Machiavellian Political Genius in the country that understands How Things Work in the international world quite well. Let's hope that that operative is still umm... operating. Him/Her, or a well-taught successor.

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