Solutions for North Korean problem?

[mahina]

I lost my star a while ago, can't donate at the present so I can't post a real poll. But I sure would like to know what solutions my fellow DU'ers can think up for the problem w North Korea.

I have great faith in the combined intelligence and wisdom of this particular group of people and will be checking back in later to hopefully read your thoughts on this matter. Aloha.

[Oregone]

1. Leave em the fuck alone

Why?

Who cares anymore.

Maybe itll be a nuke from afar. Maybe itll be oil from our shores.

We are all going to die

Why keep trying to control it anymore?

[Electric Monk]

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[RandomThoughts]

3. I think that is wrong, it is using some thing like death

to create apathy.

Why worry about it, and why think it is true, because someone on TV said it?

Now that is crazy.

[Oregone]

4. Yeah, and Im past caring about your concern

Embrace apathy. Youll never be more content

[bluestateguy]

5. I wish the South Koreans the best of luck in the war

I'll be rooting for them, right here on my couch.

On the other hand, if North Korea attacks our troops, then it does become our problem.

[napi21]

6. I ay let them ight their own war. Pull the US troops out from SK

and let them do what ever they will. I'm really tired of playing in other people's back yards and trying to always solve THEIR PROBLEMS! We keep talking about all the diffrent countries that have nukes. Let one of THEM handle it this time! The US has lost enough lives, & spent enough money on thi crap. Many of those nulear cpuntries are a hell of a lot closer to NK and in a lot more danger than the US is. IT's time for one of them to step up to the plate.

I'm sure my Pubbie buddies will call me a coward or whateve else they can come up with, but I don't care. It's not apathy, it's total disgust with wars, fighting, killing, and crying for our dead soldiers.

[Codeine]

7. Treaty obligations

mean we don't have that luxury.

[napi21]

8. We spent at least 8 IGHT lobg years ignoring treaties, and

all those pesky things like waterboarding that we AGREED to never do! NOW you're worried about some old treaty with SK? Sorry. I just can't get too excited about breaking a treaty aand entering ANOTHER WAR! Yea, I know. Dems aren't suppose to think like that, but I'm wat do they call it....war weary? I simply can't and won'/t support entering another one!

[cali]

10. so because busc bushco ignored international law and treaties

that makes it OK to do it in perpetuity? That's sloppy and bad thinking. In any case if in the unlikely event that NK starts shelling across the border, our troops are in harms way. I hate it, but there's no way the U.S. won't be involved should the NK attack the south.

[Mrdie]

9. South Korea is doing needless things

Going to the UN and requesting it punish the DPRK for allegedly sinking a ship? That's fine. It should continue and this would be a rational course of action.

Suddenly blasting propaganda broadcasts from the South Korean Army into the North and having the South Korean equivalent of Tea Partiers violating the DMZ? Not good.

(See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/7732937/South-Korea-launches-propaganda-balloons-against-Kim-Jong-il.html specifically the so-called "activists" who are in fact pro-government conservatives: "South Korean activists have launched a 'propaganda balloon' campaign against North Korea, sending in taunting slogans against the regime of Kim Jong-il... The 40ft-tall helium balloons... are being floated across the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that separates North and South..."

Redesignating the North as the "archenemy" of the South? Not good.

(See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/world/asia/26korea.html?partner=rss&emc=rss)

And guess what? In South Korea, local elections are coming up in which, at least up until this point, the ruling party was expected to endure losses.

But this seems like a good way to get those polls up. "The North sunk a ship? The North told us not to have propaganda blasting from the DMZ? CLEARLY THIS MEANS THEY WANT WAAAAAAR! Vote for our party, 'cause we're the party of national defense and such."