Push back

ARTICLE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060800089.html, By Blaine Harden, Washington Post, June 9, 2009

ARTICLE: By Peter Finn, Washington Post, June 8, 2009

The DPRK is going out its way to pick any and all fights.

Time for the full-court press, in my opinion.

Comments

[Critt Jarvis]

Thirty years ago I spent a year living on a mountain top at the DMZ, '79/'80, as NCOIC of Det L, Korea. As now, Kim Jong Il was certifiably nuts. Dangerously so. The data exists.

Kim's not playing with a full deck, just a ghastly disruptive wild card. He wants to pull the trigger before dies.

Mr. President: Decision time, all in. No regrets.

I mean, really, How much of a sample does it take for an American Commander-in-Chief to do the right thing?

[David Emery]

>Thirty years ago I spent a year living on a mountain top at the DMZ, '79/'80, as NCOIC of Det L, Korea.

Well, I passed on an opportunity to spend time in 2nd ID and the DMZ in an artillery assignment about the same time...

It's really hard for me to get massively bent out of shape about these two reporters, who seemed to think that their press cards would provide immunity. What the (bleep) were they doing in NK in the first place???

All-in-all, I'm hoping for a peaceful collapse if Dear Leader fades away, as looks likely...

[large]

Regarding the "Reporters" in DPRK . . The American Press and thus the American Citizens look at these incidents as "Unconstitutional" . . which, if it were happening in the USA, it certainly might be . . But these women weren't in the USA, so they "Broke" North Korea's laws, and were tried under their system . . Those are the chances you take when you travel to other countries with other rules.

Years back, we heard the same from those who traveled to Turkey and bought Drugs, then got busted by the locals . . Those people whined and had their families marching in the streets over Turkey's unjust system and it's bad prisons . .

Same Difference . .

I might add . . There's a real problem with the DPRK that needs to be addressed and worrying about two errant women shouldn't become part of the big picture . .

[stuart abrams]

Isn't this really just hostage-taking? And just as Reagan was correctly criticized for trading arms for hostages, it seems to me that there should be no negotiation for the release of these hostages, unless we want to have an ongoing parade of these stunts.