re: #98 pat

I have written about this several times on my old blog. The NorKors have attempted to reach out to the Americans for the last 9 months. Both Bush and Obama have been deaf to the overtures, some of which have been extraordinarily peaceful. It is hard to understand the unwillingness of the USA to take up the NorKors on their previous offer to sell all refined Uranium to either the USA or South Korea. Now we have angered the mad man. I believe that after the last failed nuclear test , the USA felt Kim was on the ropes. Clearly this is untrue. He has perfected the triggers that bedeviled him last time (and that is suspicious in and of itself, these are not easy to manufacture) and has significantly improved his multistage missiles.
This is no longer a joke.

Even if I agreed, now is not the time to make nice under the threat of a bully, or he’ll just repeat the cycle as he’s done for decades.