Who is selling these guys the parts and tech needed to even build one of these bombs? How is it that a backwards isolationist country like North Korea, which can barely keep the lights on with electricity... somehow managed to develop and deploy a missile and possibly a nuclear device when far more capable countries like Iran are easily thwarted with a great deal of vigor?
We bombed and physically sabotaged Iran at the drop of a hat to keep them from the bomb... yet, we pander to North Korea's repeated demonstrations of open defiance and rhetoric.
War should be decisive and brought to a conclusion as quickly as possible for the sake of everyone involved. Military and Civilian. It is never a good idea to let war or the threat of it linger and persist or it ultimately impoverishes the nations caught in it. In WW2 America fought all out, two first-rate military powers in total war for only 3 years to bring it to an end. WW2 was only 5 years and look at the toll in lives and material it cost everyone involved. But it ended and ultimately today the world is a better place from its aftermath. Germany and Japan are allies and we all prosper together. No one wants too or would even consider firing at each other in anger today.
Some feel that there shouldn't have been a WW2 had we finished the job in WW1. We didn't have the resolve to see it through to the end. We were worn out, and tired of 4 years of fighting and a million dead. So we signed an armistice with Germany... then, 20 years later we had to go back and finish the job at even greater cost. I know there is more to it than that, but that's basically what happened. We didn't finish the job some say and we chose a soft solution and grew complacent.
The same goes with the war in Korea. We wiped North Korea off the board. Then China put them back on the board and we fought China to a stand still. At which point we had lost the resolve to finish the war and decided an armistice was needed. Maybe we couldn't afford total war with China. Apparently China agreed that this was not going to end soon enough. So there we've been ever since. The war on pause... for 50 years. Has the situation improved any? Are we any closer to ending the war? Do we really think this can go on for another 50 years?
In Japan a swordsman is taught to hone and practice his skill to make quick and precise cuts that are as clean as possible. Finish an opponent quickly, a poor cut is regarded as inhumane. It causes needless pain and suffering. In hunting, you aim to bring down an animal quickly. You don't let them bleed out in stressful agony. It's not ethical. The situation in Korea has been left bleeding for over 50 years and it isn't going away the longer we just ignore it with talk and more talk of sanctions.
Sooner or later, "Rocket Man" might actually get his hands on a bomb that ends up in someones backyard. Then the discussion will be why we let it get to this point and pass the ammunition.
