North Korea nipping at the ankles of US and Japan.

North Korea nipping at the ankles of US and Japan.

The ink was hardly dry on my post, a few days ago, concerning cleaning out that rat’s nest in North Korea, when, lo and behold, North Korea plops a test missile into the ocean waters off Japan!

Is anybody surprised? I mean… there is a mad man in charge of that country!

It didn’t take long for Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, to fire a salvo at North Korea. She pointedly reminded the DPRK of the fact that the US has a strong presence in that part of the world. In doing so... she laid upon the table the option of using those military assets to stop the DPRK , if it comes to that, in it’s tracks.

Japan is becoming more and more restless. I expect if missiles were landing in the waters off our shores we would be upset, too. That is a given. There is a "not so pleasant" history betweem Japan and both the Koreas.

Well, maybe we ought to hasten our plans to stop “The Nut” in North Korea.

Just a few days ago, Navy Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, (he’s the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency) in speaking to a US Senate Committee explained how, and why, he believes North Korea has the capability to attach a nuclear warhead onto an existing missile, currently in their inventory, and strike the US with it… NOW! Other intelligence agencies believe the DPRK not only has nuclear capabilities, but has had that capability for a number of years now, dating back to the last decade. A number of them believe North Korea has been adding to their nuclear arsenal ever since.

You know, you’d think the world would have come to understand that this “cowboy from Texas” we call “President”, does not bluff. Even Syria understood that once he told them to get the heck out of Lebanon that was it. Either they leave... or... US forces would kick them out. Syria left!

However, in Korea, we are trying to deal with a mad man. There will be no reasoning with him.

Not many people understand that a state of war exists between North Korea and the US, even today, and extends back to the early 1950’s. That war is not over. We have only a “cease-fire” agreement with North Korea. An agreement they have broken many times. The US is closer to trashing that agreement, right now, than at any time in the past. The DPRK should know and understand that. The current US Armed Forces are not the forces of the 1950’s.

A reckoning is coming. It draws nearer every day.

The "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is playing with fire. They are about to be seriously burned.

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”