North Korea is saying that Barack Obama is plotting nuclear war with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak. The North Koreans claim that the U.S. President is escalating the nuclear threats by reassuring South Korea of U.S. support should there be a North Korean launch.
North Korea, Obama Plots Nuclear War
The North Korean nuclear threat continues to escalate on every front. As we have reported, the U.S.S. John McCain is tailing a suspicious North Korean ship that is now making its way towards Myanmar. In addition, there are reports that the George Washington Carrier Strike Group has departed its port in Japan to move closer to the Korean Peninsula. Intelligence coming out of South Korea and Japan indicates that North Korea is preparing a strike on Hawaii sometime between July 4 and July 8, 2009.
Needless to say, the prospect of a strike on Hawaii is cause for concern for Hawaiians and those who might be planning to vacation at the tropical paradise sometime this summer. Hawaii’s tourism department is reassuring people that the state has a huge military presence, so it’s safe to travel there. I don’t find that particularly reassuring considering the huge military presence that was in Hawaii on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
However, we are assured that the military is taking extraordinary precautions. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered additional protections. This week a military SBX radar system (pictured below), began making its way out to sea. The golf ball shaped missile defense system is designed to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight.
Pyongyang is accusing the U.S. President, Barack Obama of plotting nuclear war. Even though the North Koreans have been saber rattling for months now, they say that a promise by Obama to the South Korean President, Lee Myung-Bak, that the United States will support South Korea, providing a nuclear umbrella, in the event of a North Korean launch of a nuclear strike.
In a first official response to last week’s US-South Korean summit, the state-run weekly Tongil Sinbo said in its Saturday edition Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak “are trying to ignite a nuclear war”.
“The US-touted provision of ‘extended deterrence, including a nuclear umbrella’ (for South Korea) is nothing but ‘a nuclear war plan,’” Tongil Sinbo said.
It said it wasn’t a coincidence that the United States has brought “nuclear equipment into South Korea and its surroundings and staged massive war drills every day to look for a chance to invade North Korea.”
Pyongyang has created weeks of tension by conducting a second nuclear test and test-firing missiles.
At a summit with Lee in Washington Wednesday, Obama warned that North Korea is a “grave threat” and vowed to defend South Korea.
A Seoul presidential official told Yonhap news agency Lee would seek a written US commitment to provide a nuclear “umbrella” for Seoul as part of “extended deterrence” against Pyongyang.
It seems that Obama’s charm and charisma aren’t making America’s enemies like us better. I thought he was going to fix all these problems by engaging Pyongyang in talks. Talking with North Korea doesn’t seem to be working any better than his attempts to talk with the Iranians.
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June 23rd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
What a horrible article. The North Koreans are going to stirke Hawaii!?!?! Nonsense. Do a bit of research before you write. The N Koreans are taking the p**s, they will not strike Hawaii, they are testing a missle that may be capible of reaching Hawaii and may fire it in the direction of Hawaii. They are pulling out all the stops right now but they will not strike Hawaii. What do talks get with the N Koreans anyway? We give, they take, then they threaten everyone anyway, regardless of how much aid they recieve. Bush did a great job talking to them, it allowed them to have the nuclear capacity. Obama is doing just fine. We’ll see how this pans out. The North are not as suicidal as you would like to think they are.
June 24th, 2009 at 11:23 am
the japanese attacked pearl harbor on june 7, 1941? where the hell do you come up with that? and peninsular is an adjective my friend, please only use it as such.
give up war correspondence (and writing in general) and pick up something that doesn’t require as much intelligence, maybe basket weaving if that’s not too tough.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Thank you Andrew - its more about writing late at night and tired. Corrections made.