Bloodless Coup

I get more and more afraid with every utterance that idiot makes.

But his enablers will probably blame it on Bill Clinton.

Newsflash: "Pestering" is now an act of war?

i really want to believe this is just more posturing of a sort we've come to expect from NK, but it's creeping me out this morning. i can just see kim's advisors huddling around a smoky table, wondering how quickly the u.s. could mobilize for a serious engagement with a large military halfway around the world from where the bulk of our forces are knee deep in the shit, and wondering how much he could hope to gain in the interim and with what ultimate cost and what benefit.

dare i say that "pestering" is probably one of those things that falls through the gaps in translation, either because it was unfaithfully rendered from a more complicated concept in korean or because the translation fails to capture some deliberately belittling cadence designed to provoke an angry response?

i don't know, but seen from one possible view, the world lining up to starve a country, as the u.s. has been trying to do for a long time and as everyone else seems inclined to assist in now, simply for the crime of deciding you want to be part of the non-exclusive nuclear club could be seen as an act of war. i really don't think the "club" needs any new members, but given our bellicose posturing all over the world these days can we blame them -- or perhaps more aptly worded, can we even bother to feign surprise? i think this is all very predictable; really, iran's following much the same script, albeit with less of a tin ear for international opinion.