Apparently the North Koreans didn’t expect this:
Mr Smith issued this blunt message to Pyongyang: “They deserve and get nothing other than our absolute condemnation and that condemnation should be echoed around our region and the globe.”
Unconfirmed reports from North Korea indicate that Kim Jong-Il has been surprised and hurt by the Australian response to his nuclear test and is planning to telephone the foreign minister to apologise.
“We’re terribly embarrassed”, the newly-reinstated North Korean ambassador told reporters. “We had no idea you would take it this way.”
“We promise not to do it again.”
Damn north korean crazies…stop defending yourself so we can bomb you!
And just to prove how contrite we are, we are going to continue to nuke ourselves.
Oh c’mon…..how does a Stalinist dictatorship with long range missles and nukes garner any support here? Pity the N.K. citizens. Do you want to live there? The only westerners I am aware of who want to live there are the old apartied era South African and Eastern Bloc ‘security’ specialists who have no problems with selling out morality for cash to support the regime.
Whats the point of your post Jeremy? (with respect…this is your blog site after all). Do you suggest that they are not dangerous and can conduct missile launches and nuclear detonations free from international criticism?
North Korean’s DPRK could use a good skirmish to reinforce the severity of the punishment of nuclear proliferation. They don’t deserve a full blown Vietnam, but I can see a lesser-scale multi-national effort and then a humanitarian/peace-keeping campaign.
No-onAppeasement
Don’t worry the great prophet Obama will shortly bring change to North Korea. Soon the people of North Korea will be liberated, holding hands and singing Kumbya.
<blockquoteDamn north korean crazies…stop defending yourself so we can bomb you!
What trite garbage. Some people will say anything to defend a murderous leftist regime.
“Whats the point of your post Jeremy? (with respect…this is your blog site after all). Do you suggest that they are not dangerous and can conduct missile launches and nuclear detonations free from international criticism?”
With respect, the point of the post appears to be beyond you.
Whenever I see Kim Jong-Il I remeber the Team America piss take:
“Fuck you Hans Brix!”
That was a very funny line from the movie. They did it well.
In reality of course, the citizens of NK are suffering terribly:
http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/dvd/
Simply fleeing is worthy of a death sentence.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/BBC-shows-footage-of-executions-in-N-Korea/2005/04/05/1112489466134.html
Cemil, I don’t think Jeremy’s post had any measure of sympathy for the tryants ruling NK. In fact, it seemed to be a shot at the pithy international response, if I’m not mistaken.