Even though the FBI’s allegations that North Korea was behind the hacking of Sony Pictures have long since been discredited, with cybersecurity experts pointing the finger at a group of hackers centered around a disgruntled former employee, President Obama today announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea explicitly in retaliation for this.
White House officials termed the sanctions the “first aspect” of the president’s promised “proportional” retaliation against North Korea for cancelling the release of Sony movie The Interview, a movie which was released at any rate.
The timing of the sanctions suggests there’s more than just a botched FBI investigation behind them, however, as the sanctions were announced just one day after both North and South Korea began talking up a summit designed to improve ties between the two.
Whenever North Korea has suggested any sort of rapprochement with the US, it has been dismissed by President Obama out of hand, and this move may be designed to sabotage any South Korean talks, or to at least send the signal that no matter what the Park government decides, the US will remains hostile to North Korea.
By all means, let's impose sanctions against a mentally unbalanced man with nuclear weapons over something he didn't do. Makes perfect sense to me.
Honestly, I'm beginning to think Obama has gone 'round the bend. Is there no one in his administration that can rein him in? The guy is deranged, and his acts have and will continue to result in the unnecessary deaths and suffering of innocent people.
Well, there's no doubt that you've bought the propaganda bill of goods Steve. All country leaders that the US decides to oppose for some reason become mentally ill. Oh, and I see that you think Obama is deranged too! So let's guess then: Putin? Ghaddafi? Saddam? All mentally ill Steve? How about Bush2 for what he did to Iraq where he murdered a million people on false pretences?
Don, you're under the mistaken impression that I participate in the Red Team/Blue Team debate. Frankly, it's getting pretty damn old.
George W. should be in jail for war crimes. Then again, so should Obama, Cheney, Bush 1, Clinton, and Reagan. They were/are all mass murderers and psychopaths.
And I don't much care about Putin, Ghaddafi, Saddam or any other foreign dictator. While they may have been guilty of crimes against their own people, they never taxed, waged war, tortured, or spied on me for my own good.
You didn't get it Steve. My comment was about the US demonizing leaders of foreign countries by calling them mentally ill. That's the bait you took. Please stop doing that here on antiwar.com as we know that it's nothing but a propaganda technique. Nothing to do with red/blue sides at all, other than you incorrectly term Obama as mentally ill/ round the bend too. There are successful psychopaths and unsuccessful ones Steve. Bush2 could rightfully be called a successful one. If N. Korea's leaders are psychopaths and Iraq's or Syria's or Iran's or Vietnam's or (on and on) then they would have to be unsuccessful ones.
Obama "gone round the bend"? Or off the rails, perhaps? Question is; was he ever "on the rails". Just a simple little man with no back bone, who answers only to those psychopathic women "advisers" around him. When they say; JUMP; he says WHERE? He truly thinks this is nothing more than an issue before the Harvard debating society, which will be settled conclusively by all those "smaat" people over there.
Perhaps Obama was helping clear the last of Rahm Emanue's files out of the White House attic and found this sticky note.
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste."
Perceptively written report.
So, with such an out in the open and for all the world to see type regime change, were going to force North Korea to get rid of it’s President? Not hardly.
My thought is, our government keeps on acting so nuts, crazy and insane so that we keep on thinking we have a real government run by nuts, crazy and insane politicians. When in fact, our Empire is one gigantic corporation and managed to perfection by a power combine of the richest multinational corporations on earth.
FAKE TERROR – THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP
It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need. In 70 BC, an ambitious minor politician and extremely wealthy man, Marcus Licinius Crassus, wanted to rule Rome. Just to give you an idea of what sort of man Crassus really was, he is credited with invention of the fire brigade
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ARTICLE…
This story was headline front page news at the Star tribune our local corporate internet paper just before the national news. A few hours later the entire story is gone. Even a search of the story brings up zero results.
These people thrive on lies and get off on looking like liars and fools in front the whole world.
The issue has disappeared from any mention in our local corporate paper the Minneapolis Star Tribune? It appeared very briefly today and is now not even in the search mode section.
So Obama wants to sanction North Korea for allegedly hacking a Japanese company that produced a B-grade American comedy that no one went to see.
Makes perfect sense!
The sanctions wasn't about the hack. Kim got sanctioned for calling Obama a 'monkey.'
OBAMA II: He's BACK and he really wanted to SEE THAT MOVIE! THIS MEANS WAR! AGAINST ANYTHING!!
Soon in theaters worldwide.
Jan 1, 2015 Inside the Sony Hack Inside Job: Now They're Airdropping 'The Interview' over North Korea
Jan 1, 2015 First we hear our very way of life is being threatened by North Korea, then we hear that the FBI is going to stand by their story that North Korea hacked Sony even as private IT firms come out with evidence it was an inside job, then we find out the head of Sony is a CFR member who sits on the board of the Rand Corporation who just so happened to hire yet *another* Rand guy as a consultant on the film who openly talked about its potential to help overthrow the Kim family… and now they're using a human rights group to airdrop copies of *The Interview* over North Korea?
Obama think, he is God.But an hysteric one.
Us people should reinvent their political system and seriouly find a solution how to control crazy politicians.
With the irrational- and arguably unbalanced- actions of Obama in mind, I offer the words attributed to King Henry ll when speaking of ArchbishopThomas Becket, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
There is only a thin cover over these actions now. The mob seems to approve. My dinner guests proclaimed they had "done their patriotic duty" and gone out to see the movie, which they pronounced inferior to most others. When I mentioned that experts considered the hack to have been an inside job, I was greeted with some scorn for knowing too much about the case.
Whoever did the hack, and it was most likely not NK, it sure served a purpose.
A similar thing can be said about the alleged massacre in a Pakistan school where a Sandy Hook child met his doom for the second time. It gave Pakistan cover to start executing hundreds of prisoners for being Taliban involved in these murders. And one by one the photos displayed of the victims turn out to be pictures of either living Pakistanis or … Americans.
That all-important cover to follow through on policies – Ultimo Ratio Regum – in this increasingly autocratic and in-your-face kind of world. Whether it is Pakistan or Obama – what does it matter?
The article is ON THE MONEY. Remember the fury that was Bush II, when South Korea declared "Sunshine Policy", the path to reunification. The railroad across DMZ zone was connected to Trans-Korean railroad before US got that scuttled. So, now that both are not listening — here come sanctions. We need to rename this into blackmail . This is a message to South Korea — if you even think of normalizing relations without our control your economy will be hurt. South Korea has many commercial interests, thus vulnerable. Then why this new impetus for normalizing relations? Over last few years its exports and imports with China have increased dramatically. South Korea, in agreement with Russia, is interested in land transit of goods to Europe via Eurasian Economic Union transit infrastructure, and access to Russian gas. In both cases, North Korea needs to become a partner not an adversary. The pipeline that Russia and China are building to Far East, has the potential to connect to Koreas and eventually Japan. Trans-Korean and Siberian Railroads are already connected. The aggressive US posture in Asia and Europe, convinced even the most conservative in China and Russia that it is time to expand alliances.