Kim Jong Il, supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, died on December 17. I can find no better way to eulogize him than this:
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Memorial to Kim Jong Il
Posted by daddybear71 on December 20, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/12/20/memorial-to-kim-jong-il/
Pardon My Skepticism
North Korea is pledging to stop enriching uranium, and the United States is pledging to supply the communist paradise with 240,000 tons of food over the next year. One smart thing the U.S. is doing is not giving the North Koreans rice, which could be easily diverted to feed the military.
I see a few reasons why North Korea is making this deal
- They have no plans whatsoever to follow through on this pledge. Maybe they’ll shut down their enrichment program for a few months so they can get some food out of the Americans. Maybe they’ve opened up new facilities we don’t know about and won’t even shut down at all.
- They have enough enriched uranium to fulfill their weapons needs for a while, and are taking advantage of that by suckering the U.S. out of a quarter of a million tons of food.
- They have another source of enriched uranium, such as Pakistan. No, that couldn’t happen. There’s no way that Pakistan would provide help to North Korea when it comes to nuclear weapons. It’s not like there’s a large country between them that’s friendly to both of them and could allow a railcar full of uranium to travel to Pyongyang without being on a plane or boat that could be intercepted or something.
- I don’t know. Maybe Kim Jong Il gets religion and starts being a smart statesman instead of a bugnuts crazy dictator. Maybe in this season of peace he’s truly starting down the road to nuclear disarmament and international cooperation.
Guess which one I don’t think is likely.
The other three I’d say are a toss-up. I’m not sure how easy it would be for them to create a new enrichment program without us finding out about it, but it could be done. I think it’s a good bet that the North Koreans have a big pile of weapons grade uranium buried deep and quiet, or that the Pakistanis are continuing their stellar non-proliferation work by keeping them supplied in U-235.
I see exactly one reason the U.S. is making this deal:
- We’re a bunch of suckers and President Obama and his crew need something to point at during the campaign to say they have an achievement in getting North Korea to stop making nuclear weapons. I shouldn’t give the president too much crap for this, though. The last three presidents have been just as moronic when dealing with North Korea.
Remember, they’re halting enrichment, not dismantling anything. Either when we piss them off or they have a need for more home-grown uranium goodness, they’ll crank it up. I’ll give them style points if they use a little waste heat from the centrifuges to heat up some food with “A gift from the American people” printed on the box.
Update – Fox News is reporting that Kim Jong Il has died. No details yet, but my guess is that right about now every swinging Richard in I Corps is putting on his battle rattle and doing a quick PMCS of his vehicle and weapons. As for what this means, if true, for this deal is anyone’s call.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 19, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/12/19/pardon-my-skepticism/
The Grinch Who Stole Kimchi
The Who’s down in Seoul-ville
Liked Christmas a lot
But the Leader up in Pyongyang
Certainly did not
He stood there in his gray suit
With his hair a foot high
He was a short, roundish thing
A really foul tempered guy
He stood there grinching, sipping his brandy
And snacking on caviar
His lackies kept handy.
“They’re hanging their lights”
He grinched in Hongul
“It makes my people think
That I’m a big fool”
“Why for decades now
I’ve put up with their crap
My dad tried to stop them
But he got a pimp slap.
I’ve torpedoed their ships
and shelled their bases.
I’d love to take those Christmasy smiles
From their faces!”
Then the Leader got an idea
An awful idea
The Leader got an evil, awful idea
“I know just what I’ll do”
Said the Leader with a smirk
“I’ll rattle my saber and act like a jerk”
So he woke up his mouthpiece,
Who was shivering with cold
And the mouthpiece got on the horn
And did as he was told.
“The running dogs of the South must stop their fun
Or we will make them stop with the barrel of a gun.
Their food, their light, their warmth, their freedom
We’ll blow that all up if they don’t cease ’em.”
His saber well rattled, his ego well stroked
The Leader was feeling really quite stoked.
So he retired to his castle, far from the Who’s.
He just settled in for his winterly snooze.
The Who’s, you ask?
What did they do?
Well, in Seoul-ville that day,
So the old people say,
They launched another video game to play.
So no-one heard the Leader grumping
And didn’t hear the empty war drum he was thumping.
So in his hermit kingdom he will continue to rot
And the Who’s will think of him not!
Posted by daddybear71 on December 11, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/12/11/the-grinch-who-stole-kimchi/
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