Speaking today on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said he believed South Korea will probably launch some attacks against North Korea in the near future, but that it doesn’t necessarily mean a major war will start.
Noting popular support for more military strikes (indeed there have been several pro-war rallies in South Korea recently) Blair added “a South Korean government who does not react would not be able to survive there.”
President Obama has already suggested that the United States is willing to participate in whatever moves South Korean President Lee Myung-bak decides are appropriate, including apparently the prospective military attacks.
Blair insisted that the tensions would only die down once South Korea annexes North Korea, which may point to several recent comments by President Lee calling for China to “prepare” North Korea for reunification.
"Blair insisted that the tensions would only die down once South Korea annexes North Korea, which may point to several recent comments by President Lee calling for China to “prepare” North Korea for reunification."
Methinks it is more likely that the North Koreans will "prepare" Seoul for nuclear annihilation.
What if the North Korean re-unify the place in the opposite direction? It took a massive world effort to stop them the last time. In retrospect, would that peninsula have been a happier place to-day? A center of international trade and able to feed itself? And turn out some excellent musical, academic and other talent? One has to wonder.
Well modern Vietnam is certainly not the worst example of a similar unification.
Had Korea become united in the 1950's it likely would have followed the same path as China.
America should have stayed out of Korea in 1950. And we should stay out of it now.
As for comments made by various US and South Korean "officials", why don't they "volunteer" to fight a small private war by themselves without forcing Millions of other people to suffer the consequences?
North Korea responded militarily to shelling of its claimed territorial waters(a provocative act that was mostly not harmful to North Korea). It is unlikely that they will simply sit still while South Korean and likely American Military Forces are attacking them. So in my opinion, ANY direct attack against North Korea can only trigger a full scale war on the Korean peninsula, considering its size it won't really matter who has more high tech missiles, the North Koreans would be able to shell Seoul with antique WW2 period Mortars. For some reason I doubt Blair will be anywhere near the Korean peninsula if this happens.
Mao Zedong, certainly a military genius if ever there was one, feared that the US Empire would use the peninsulas of Korea and Indochina as daggers and staging areas aimed at China. This seems to be true to this day.
And our "Liberals" and Neocons, two sides of the same coin, are preparing us for a war on China either through the two peninsulas or through India.
It is time for one and all to read the English edition of China Daily and to go to China to see for yourselves that China is a very different kettle of fish from the image portrayed by the China bashing US media.
Go, look and decide for yourself. Time is running out.
John V.Walsh