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This morning from CTV
Ok let's talk North Korea...probably just as big a problem as Afghanistan or Iraq...but they don't have oil so why would the U.S. care? Mostly because this regime is a hundred times more ruthless than poor old Saddam Hussein...
Here's why they should care (and the World):
- approx. 24 million people live in North Korea with the second worst Human Rights violation records out of any country in the world. The Government there controls every facet of a civilians life (the regime controls every aspect of Social, Economic, and Political life) - Media is controlled and owned by the Government, the leader Kim Job II is an UNELECTED leader to the Socialist country, the regime denies citizens basic human rights, and subjects tens of thousands of political prisoners to brutal conditions, and maintains a largely isolationist foreign policy. There are many other horrible things they do...
- The Government continues to test rockets (against the desire of every country in the friggin world) with potential ranges of up to 6,600 Km's. They say it's for their space discovery program, but the rest of the world isn't stupid and knows this is being done in the hopes (most likely) to continue testing long-range missile technology that could be used along with nuclear warheads...that's right...WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PEOPLE.
- The rocket was launched over the Pacific yesterday...which means it first had to pass right over Japan. A direct violation of U.N. policy...which Kim Jong II could care less about.
- The world and more specifically Japan/U.S. are pissed. Japan just this morning has called an emergency U.N. Council meeting to figure out what to do.
- Japan, the U.S. and South Korea had warships ready in local waters, while Russia had scrambled fighter jets to monitor the launch.
- Shooting rockets over another country is even more so over and above the direction the world gave N. Korea to just not test missiles in the first place.
So this is a HUGE problem people...now even China is getting involved and is ready to do anything 'constuctive' and necessary.
I guess we have to wait and see what happens in the near future...
What do you think about all of this, sitting over here in our 'safe' bubble...the True North strong and free?
