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Some of you republican minded individual are ridiculus. I am an independent, but this is NOTHING like Iraq....There was 15-0 vote (including China) WHICH IS HOW DIPLOMACY WORKS.... I give OBAMA a lot of props for the way they have handled this.

I don't agree w/ OBAMA on some policy's, but he's doing a great job considering what was inherited by CHAINEY!

All warmongers report for duty! Since you're so worried about third-world countries invading us, why not volunteer to fight? It would also immediately solve our unemployment problem! Oh, but I guess hiding behind computer screens, writing trash about the government is so much easier than actually doing something for your country once! Oh, and you're still expecting tax cuts, knowing fully well how much a war would cost? Hypocrites!

Obama is just continuing Bush's foreign policies. What did Bush do for the past eight years? He coddled NK, and even gave it aid, knowing fully well what they were up to. When NK finally tested a nuclear weapon, what did Bush do? NOTHING! Obama taking the UN sanctions seriously is actually an improvement over what the previous administration did!

Japan and South Korea would be wise to build their own nuclear capabilities than accept the word of this weak US administration. Clearly they don't keep campaign promises..

And what will the doofus do to stop NK from weaponizing its nuclear power? Bend over and accept it..., just like Obama is doing with Iran!?

It is easy to sit back judge from the comfort of your cell phone or notebook. The current administration is acting with wisdom. It would be unwise to meddle with N. Koreran's affairs directly. Imposing and supporting U.N.'s sanctions to bring Korea into the understanding, their way is not profiting them in the long run, is more feasible, to serve our interests, abroad. It will bring Korea to the table with the rest of, the free world.

To Dawn in PA:

Obama doesn't speak softly, because his teleprompter won't let him.
He also doesn't carry a big stick, just apologies and big ears.

And for those of you who say "Let China handle this," 2 things. China sided with NK during the Lorean war and killed many American Soldiers during the Christmas attack at Chosin. Also, those who live in Hawaii or Alaska may have a different opinion since they live within missle distance of NK

These loathing, self-righteous, under-educated hateful right-wingers should all be rounded up and sent to Gitmo. Or better yet, send them all to fight N. Korea. Either way, they're all a bunch of pathetic whiny weaklings that shoud be deported or permanently muzzled for the betterment of society. If the right-wingers want to wage war against our President, I say we take it to them first before the likes of Limbaugh, Newt, Beck, Palin, etc can mobilize them. Love America, or leave it all you worthless Goppers. Nobody ever said you have to like the President, but to show the hate and disrespect some of you exhibit is sickening. I will never vote for any RepubliCON, for any position ever again.

The only thing that works is stopping their money.

I will say this again. While, in theory, diplomacy is and should always be the first option, there are regimes in this world controlled by dictators who are not, and never will, respond to it. The left would love for us to live in a world where we all hold hands in a circle and sing Kumbaya. If you give them a bit of what they want, they will back off, right? When will you people wake up and realize that these people don't think like we do? They don't care about diplomacy, peace or democracy. Whether we like it or not, there will always be bad people in this world, and they need to be dealt with swiftly and decisively. I am not suggesting that we go to war with North Korea or Iran, but "please stop creating and testing nukes" is laughable. THEY DON'T CARE. When will you people realize that? Those who forget and don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Remember back in 1938 when Britain said to Hitler that it was okay for them to invade Austria and "let them" take part of Czechoslovakia? Remember that "diplomacy"? What happened next? Hitler invaded Poland and the entire world went to war, the bloodiest, most deadly war in our history. These people can't, and frankly, don't want to be reasoned with. When will you people realize that?

Fatsoes like RL, and NG, ought to be banned from makin' public statements as the ones recently that are creating a lot of brouhaha about their closet-toughness. Once outside the closet, they are as vulnerable as earthworms. They yust aren't expressin' their free opinions, but a set of forceful and idiotic ideologies that can spew vitriol and venom.

Look at GHWB, 41, who completed paracutin' on his 85th b'day. He, along with Pawlenty, Romney, and a few sensible and perhaps classy GOPs must be listened to rather than those other windbags.

Hmmm...Rogue state, weapons of mass destruction, United States leading the charge to "enforce the UN resolution"

Sounds familiar...

Maybe the UN should enforce its own resolution for once. Maybe the Chinese should take some of the missiles they have aimed at Taiwan and aim them at Pyongyang. Maybe we should avoide getting involved in another major conflict until AFTER we finish up in Iraq and Afghanistan and decide what we're going to do about Pakistan.

Maybe

I heard Newt (The SEAL) Gingrich say we should blow up the No. Korean missles. That's typical Republican tough TALK.

He is another rich OLD, draft dodging man (like Cheney, Bush [chose the "cushier" Air National Guard] , Limbaugh) advocating that young men (poorer whites, latinos & blacks) go fight and die to protect their way of life.

These guys have ZERO credibility. Now, Colin Powell I'll listen to.

Scary idea... war wth NK. Within 30 minutes of our attack, Seoul will become rubble. It's like two secret agents with guns pointed at each other, each screaming for the other to drop their weapons. Bill Clinton had the right prescription.... but time ran out on his Administraton. He worked tirelessly to decrease tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Even sent Madeline Albright to Pyongyang in a show of diplomacy. Obama would do well to send Hillary there with an offer of diplomatic relations... that is the only sensible resolution... a peace treaty offer.

I'm sure this post will have its share of Republican-themed posters somehow trying to use this to say Democrats are "soft" and weak on defense ... too bad they can't get behind the country's leadership on this and show some red, white & blue.

Besides, we've had 16 years of ineffectivity in dealing with North Korea through the Clinton and Bush Administrations so to lay this at the feet of President Obama is dis-ingenuous ... but the Republicans have shown a lack of intellectual honesty.

Our ability to respond militarily in N. Korea is degraded due to the prior administration's "War on Terror" in Iraq ... which we all know was misguided and had no planning ... they never had an exit strategy defined. We have consumed some of our readiness to go to war where it really matters.

Only if North Korea is stupid enough to take an offensive action against the West will America be justified in unleashing it's full military might against them. I don't think they will be that stupid.

We need to get the Chinese to clamp down on N. Korea and only diplomacy will get that done. They've got the influence ... they share a border with North Korea ... we don't.

We are giving the President his chance...but I still don't see any changes on our economy. Housing is still a mess, banks are still taking advantage of people, gas is up again, and unemployment is still rising and that's not even counting the people that left with severance pay and will soon be collecting unemployment when that runs out.

If they could just fix housing, everything else would fix itself...the domino effect.

Neutralizer June 14th, 2009 11:03 am ET

UN is USELESS. If Bill Clinton during his time did NOT give NOKOR a go signal to build their nuclear plant with UN monitoring it, this would not have happened.

UN monitor it alright, even put their camera, what NOKOR did? Kicked out all UN inspectors and removed their camera. How come Bill Clinton and the rest of the Democraps especially YOU Joe Biden admitted to the FACT it was people like you in the Senate that enabled NOKOR? Now you're acting innocent?

Obama is doing the same thing with Iran what Bill Clinton had done for NOKOR.

One thing I can say, DEMOCRAPS are just plain STUPID, a bunch of IDIOTS and the American people has SHORT MEMORY.
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I'm willing to bet your parents are brother and sister, your a complete Moron.

You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

The naval fleet of a country will attempt to stop a North Korean ship for arms inspection and North Korea will nuke South Korea claiming that the South was behind it and the resulting force brought against North Korea will cause China to put it's troops down into North Korea to protect North Korea and the nuclear war of all wars will be on.

So when will the US gov't enforce UN Resolutions on other countries? (You know, Israel.)

I must admit, under the Bush administration I never felt 100% safe, just 99% safe. Under the Obama administration I feel 0% safe.

The United States taxpayer is forced to spend 5 billion a year to the UN. We should have pulled out years ago. What once was a good idea has become a waste of time and money to this country.

North Korea, should be wiped off the map. How long will the rest of the world be held hostage by this little Idiot.

Haven't you all noticed that our President doesn't telegraph everything he is doing. He doesn't have to show he is engaged he just engages.

Just like everything else, if Clinton didn't get it done in eight years and Bush didn't get it done in eight years why do some of you think President Obama can get it done in five months? Give the man a chance before the constant critisim.

Dawn in PA, don't have cats, but do have a cute little doggie .Small but carries a big bark.

The U.S. is being bullied by N Korea and if someone doesn't stop them now then it will be too late. We have thousands of our military men/women in S Korea and they need our protection. We can't always be nice and some people just want a fight. Everyone saw what happened in 9/11, can you imagine a real war right here on our U.S. soil... People don't want a war, but sometimes that the only solution for evil people that want to control the world.

So by isolating North Korea even more, this is somehow going to magically convince them to play nice? Where is the logic here?

One thing we can not do is push North Korea into a position where its leadership feels that they have "nothing to lose".

What does a rat do when you push him in a corner?

AND you have a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER now for President who doesn't know if he's coming or going. Obama like a typical community organizer will say what people wanted to hear. Yeah right! Iran has the right to build their nuclear power plant, the SAME line Bill Clinton use about North Korea.

I don't know, I am trying to figure out the best way to approach N. Korea. On the one hand we could always tell the chinese that Taiwan should have one of the same reactors that N.Korea has ( and eventually have it's own capability to produce plutonium) , that is unless china takes it upon itself to jerk Kim' chain (which it CAN do), or just turn N.Korea into a smoldering hole in the ground.

AndyB, North Korea IS our problem. You cannot have a nation run by a certifiable mental case and think it is not a problem; especially when that nutjob threatens both us and our allies. The North Korean government, such as it is, has willfully starved and deprived its people for a long time, while at the same time manipulating our country as well as our allies into sending tons of foreign aid. He has played us like a fiddle with his pouts and threats and its time to put a stop to it. I don't know what the answer is, but I know what we've done so far has been completely ineffective in stopping his nuclear ambitions. Now that he has that capability, he thinks he can use it to get what he wants and to destroy anyone who objects to his actions. If military action is needed to defuse the lunatics with nuclear power , then so be it. You can't reason with unreasonable people, no matter how much you want to believe it.

Well.., if there is one person, close to the President and the Secretary of State and knows 'U.S. foreign policy and issues'.., its Vice President Joe Biden. Been around for a long time in the Senate and committees. Knows his stuff on foreign policy and issues. Mike in Montana

Stop , or I will quietly say stop again ,,, Pleeeease

BO

Let Japan, South Korea, and China deal with it. We are not the world's police force. If they nuke South Korea, they will be vaporized within minutes, according to a retired navy admiral.

@catmom... (by the way love the name, I love those little fur balls too, got four.)

We cannot afford another war, two wars costing 10 billion a month and that is not going to go away. to soon, we have two journalist in prison there where it is something similar to GITMO, but 10 times worst... They need to show there muscles and yes it can get deadly...

We do not know exactly what Presiden Obama is saying behinds closed door. Unlike Bush he would go out and make it Known, speak softly and may carry a big stick...Teddy Roosevelt had said that, and you can take it anyway you want...

That first sentence is disturbing... I will repeat it here.

he United States will enforce the latest U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea, which calls for stopping arms shipments if necessary, Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday.

YOU MEAN... All this time we have been selling NK weapons... We have a bunch of morons in office (both Rep and Dem)... No wonder NK is as dangerous as it is, WE have made them that way.

The U.S. should just butt out. North Korea isn't our problem anymore than Iraq or Afghanistan was when idiot chickenhawk Bush entangled us there. Let the U.N handle it.

catmom – What do you think we are doing now? We have been working on a diplomatic solutions for years now with NK. News flash...It's not working. I don't think any of us "want a war", but no nation (US included) should posses nukes. Nobody should allow Iran or NK to create nukes. We need to try all diplomatic options but if they don't work, there is no other option.

UN is USELESS. If Bill Clinton during his time did NOT give NOKOR a go signal to build their nuclear plant with UN monitoring it, this would not have happened.

UN monitor it alright, even put their camera, what NOKOR did? Kicked out all UN inspectors and removed their camera. How come Bill Clinton and the rest of the Democraps especially YOU Joe Biden admitted to the FACT it was people like you in the Senate that enabled NOKOR? Now you're acting innocent?

Obama is doing the same thing with Iran what Bill Clinton had done for NOKOR.

One thing I can say, DEMOCRAPS are just plain STUPID, a bunch of IDIOTS and the American people has SHORT MEMORY.

I have heard a lot of Republicans/Conservatives complain about how President Obama is handling North Korea and I wonder, what is their solution? Would you all attack North Korea? With what? Aren't you already complaining about how much money President Obama is spending? How much do you think it will cost to attack North Korea? Who will be there to fight the war that some people seem to think should happen? Will you support a draft? Think about it. Give real diplomacy a chance. We have seen what cowboy diplomacy has gotten us.