Keeping Perspective on North Korea

[ProudDad]

“North Korea has always felt threatened by joint military exercises of the U.S. and South Korea, and has always protested against them,” he says. “This time, North Korea stated that the exercises were taking place in North Korean territory and that if shots were fired during the exercise they would retaliate. Shots were fired (not at the North, it should be pointed out but out toward the ocean) and the North retaliated.”

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“One final ingredient for the stew pot is President Obama’s abysmal approach to the Korean situation. Whereas in his campaign he promised to deal with situations like Korea through negotiation, as president he has almost wholeheartedly embraced Bush’s policies and has pledged full support to South Korean president Lee Myung Bak’s hard-line stance.

http://progressive.org/wx112710.html