What should Obama do about North Korea?

Kindly remember we are not the world's policeman.

Are you familar with the phrase, "tell them what they want to hear, and then do what you want to do?" This is an example. N. Korea, so far, doesn't really pose that much of a threat militarily. What threat they do pose is regional, not world wide. Their main threat is forcing others, namely Japan & possibly S. Korea, to keep up with them in order to maintain parity. We've seen one of those too, during the cold war.

Let the diplomats handle it. On occasion the lace panty crew can pull a rabbit out of the hat. Focus instead on getting China to help. China doesn't want to be perceived as being too far into the US camp. A the same time they have ever expanding ties with the west, and a desire to protect it. Not to mention they're in the best position to project influence. Without China on their side, N. Korea pales to a mouthy small with a big gun.

If we're so anxious to project ourselves, again, into the affairs of others, then let it be Burma. There, at least, the people would be for it. Those happy time jokers have kept a nobel peace prize winner, who incidently was elected leader of that country by popular election, under house arrest rather than turning over power. For what? 15 years? Longer? Elections, at least that's what they're calling them, are coming up again. And guess what? She's on trial again. surprise. surprise.

What should Obama do about North Korea
Obama should do the same thing he is doing with the Mideast.
State that Korea has a right to nuclear power plants. As he did with Iran.
Quote what ever Holy book the North Koreans use. As he did in Egypt
Bow down and kiss Kims ass as he did with Saudi Arabia
State that America is the fifth largest Korean country in the world.
State that Koreans have been a part of American history for 300 years.
Make it clear that we are not North Koreas enemy and will make nice from here on.
Apologize about 200 times for the Korean war.

Sometimes I think 1984 was and still is about north korea.

It's like living in communist Russia

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Why can't some secret force just go sneak in there, find kim jong il, and then "take him out"? ... Seriously!

For once Highr0ller, I agree with you...go figure...

Obama should look at the nation's debts and realize America cannot afford to start new wars, and he needs to extract America from the present wars.

Iran and Korea....added to Iraq and Afghanistan .oops.

First of all, none of L'il Kim's high flying fireworks has made it further than the ocean right outside Korea. Even at that, it brought all the heat of my neighbor's kid setting off M-80s four and five at a time daily in the trash cans in the alley from the 30th of May until Labor Day every summer. In short, it's more an annoyance and a danger to L'il Kim than a problem for the rest of world.

L'il Kim is only acting out to insure his son Kim Jr inherits his dictatorship when he croaks, which looks to be about to happen pretty darn soon. The little pest is in horrible physical shape and obviously knows he isn't long for this mortal coil. Still, the people of Korea are a little leary of what all this holds for them once Dear Leader is gone and the little Prince inherits the wrath of the world his dad has spent a lifetime incurring against them. Sanctions are one thing, but the hatred and dread of an irritated world is a beast of a more dangerous variety, a fact that has not escaped a people for whom a coup d'etat is not a foreign notion. Knowing that, if I were the President, I'd just bide my time until L'il Kim departs this life, and Kim Jr is deposed in the coming coup.

Maybe obamessiah can deliver a personal fluffy bunny speech to little kimmie, promise him hope & change, and then apologize for America being America. Liberals seem to think it's working everywhere else.

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Yeah queenofhearts, that will do it. . . Ahahahahaha

Obama should invite Kim for dinner at the White House. They should have a good home cooked southern meal. And then go out on the back porch and drink whiskey and smoke cigs. Then convince the North Korean Dick that America will NOT stand for this rude behavior ! And if he says one sly remark...Obama should sock him in the nose !!!!!

It's really not an easy situation.

Pretty much bottom line is that we need to go to war with them. But we're really not in any position to be doing that, and who knows how the region would actually react to that. South Koreans haven't exactly been very grateful for our presence or our military aid, they hold rallies against us all the time. Plenty of shopkeepers in Seoul hang signs in their shops that say "no Americans allowed."

But Obama is right, a policy where intimidation is continuously pandered to cannot last forever, especially when the result is just slowing down the inevitable.

Man, if Bush was going to start any bullshit illegal war, he should have started one there.

Didn't we fought in the Korean War and made it into two countries one communist and the other non-communist. I do know in fact that this happened during the Cold War.
And if North Korea are not using outdated military weapons then were are the new ones? Where did they get support?

He should follow the Constitution! LOL! We all know that isn't going to happen!

I am pretty sure Obama will do nothing about N. Korea. He would be to worried about the far left peace lovers slapping him around. Besides if there are only two things Obama is good at...spending money and apologizing....He is such a good liberal.

Maybe we should kiss, and make up with Russia. I'm sure they could help us out with No. Korea.

Nothing--which is what will happen.

Hate to say it but I think we do have to at least try to work along side China on this one because China is the only country that kim jong il has any real relations with. Hopefully they can talk him down off the ledge. If they cannot, and military action becomes the only alternative, then the UN has to be in the lead. Not the US.

@DonaldJude......Did you learn anything from Iraq or do you actually believe that just because GWB landed on an aircraft carrier that the war is actually over. It might only take four days to take out their military but these people are brainwashed. We would be tied up in the quagmire for a decade or more. Do you honestly think the US is financially, militarily, and psychologically in a position to commit to something like that.

I don't know how to do this job.

How long would it take the US military to effectively destroy the NKorean military? It took 4 days to destroy Iraq's, which was larger. Blowing apart every palace and military command post should only take a few hours. Why not just do it? We would be doing the NKorean people a favor.

Kim Jong Il is a egotistical dictator that keeps the people of his country in poverty while he orders culinary chefs from Japan to be his personal sushi preparers. Our president cannot do anything when the leader of N. Korea is insane. Plain and simple--America gave them nuclear information and known it's biting us in the butt. We have no power in Asia except in Japan (which we bombed mercilessly in WWII).

Something.

Nothing.

N Korea is China's big Stick to keep US in place, till we deal with the Ball we dropped in Tienanmen Sq. 20 years ago that buggy man will keep getting stronger in our minds!

Freeleeling.

it really is a difficult situation to handle...
if we are agressive towards North Korea then it could start a nuclear war.
If we do nothing then it can start an arms race for the world and we look like pushovers.
there's a hard decision that's going to be made but one thing is we can't reward north korea by going easy on them when they clearly don't deserve it.

This makes me so sad, I feel helpless... I want to go in there Rambo-style and take care of a few things, but I know we can't. What to do without starting a war?