Is it coincidence that the North Korean regime chose Canadian Thanksgiving to play the nuclear card and perhaps move the international goal posts? I think not.
North Korea faced a barrage of condemnation and calls for retaliation Monday after it announced that it had set off a small atomic weapon underground, a test that thrust the secretive state into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations. The United States, Japan, China and Britain led a chorus of criticism and urged action by the United Nations Security Council in response to the reported test, which fell one day after the anniversary of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's accession to power nine years ago.Even in the Canadian media there is not a word from the Great White North, soaked as it is in cranberry sauce and also stuffed and sleepy from too much turkey, square-eyed from the one turkey-related holiday on which football, baseball and hockey are all on the TV.
Dastards.
Comments
gorthos - October 9, 2006 2:05 PM
In my fondest fantasy, My family and I move into a post apocalyptic bunker, where I sneak out twice a fortnight to use my Katana and my 12 guage to fight off zombies and mutants as I search for food and water.
In saying so, I fully support the right of North Korea to thumb their nose at the US warhawks and posess nukes.
Go Kim Go!
WCG - October 10, 2006 12:46 AM
Yah, I love how everybody's rushing to condemn the test, as if there's anybody - even the majority of North Koreans - who think "Yah, it's cool." Wow, way to be proactive, world community, by stating the totally obvious. So... what are they actually going to <i>do</i>? The US is invading all willy-nilly those countries that don't have nuclear weapons just in case they might try to develop them, and there's N.Korea and, oh yeah, Iran, and the US is all "Hmm... a considered response is required" even though they actually avoided talks with N.Korea when this could have been averted, and what was that about Iran again? I'm too young to remember the Cold War, and I think that the free world has become a bit to blasé about this whole situation.