{"id":1230,"date":"2006-10-10T17:42:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T17:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-10-10T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T17:43:28","slug":"north_korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Joe mentioned, we were all having dinner when I got a call telling me that the Norks had set off a bomb.<\/p>\n

I bumped an Examiner piece I’d done called “What’s a Hawk To Do?” (which I’ll extend and put up here soon), and did a quick piece on my response instead<\/a>. It’s up at the Examiner site right now, go check it out and let me know what you think here.Let me take a moment and expand on my comments, which are really twofold. One is aimed at the political crowd:<\/p>\n

I’m tired of hearing whose fault it is, was, or will be. <\/p>\n

I’m tired of reading everything written by people close to the seats of power and seeing nothing but spin generated in a quest for partisan advantage. <\/p>\n

I want to see some serious effort to address the very real and deadly issues we’re facing, and I don’t care where it comes from. I threw over my party loyalty of thirty-plus years because I felt that one candidate had more to say than the other, and I’ll gladly continue to be fickle in my search for someone who has some serious thoughts about what to do about the situation we’re in.<\/p>\n

So step to the plate folks, and let’s see what you’ve got.<\/p>\n

The other comment is aimed at the core foreign policy question – which is why does it matter? So what if the Norks have nukes?<\/p>\n

Well, go back to one of my first blog posts, back in 2002<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One nice afternoon, I’m sitting here in my home office near the Palos Verdes peninsula when I notice a brilliant flash of light and some of my windows break.<\/p>\n

\nThe power goes out, the telephones, cell phones, and computers don’t work. My backup AM\/SW\/SSB radio in the garage doesn’t work, and I step onto my driveway and look toward San Pedro and see a dark mushroom cloud.<\/p>\n

\nWe’ll skip over the fact that all the electronics in the area are kaput because of EMP, and hypothesize a working TV or radio, which informs me that it appears that a small\u00e2\u20ac\u00a65KT\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6nuke has just exploded on a container ship in San Pedro harbor, along with another one in Red Hook, just across from Manhattan, and another one at the container yard in Seattle.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem is that it is very likely that there won’t be a clear return address on those nukes. A Russian or Chinese ICBM is a clear statement – their government is culpable. But a mystery nuke? One where we don’t have assays of the fissile materials that would let us point to a source?<\/p>\n

How do we respond in a world where courtroom standards are the only acceptable ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal has an Examiner piece up on North Korrans with nukes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}