Reading the newspapers and listening to the news, I hear things like U.S. pressures North Korea, South Korea issues a stern warning, Japan issues a pointed warning, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says "we are all worried", the French call for a halt to test preparations and that any North Korean missile test must draw a "firm and just" international response, China says "We hope that under the current circumstances, relevant parties can do more in the interest of regional stability and peace", the Australian foreign minister says "North Korea would be gravely mistaken if it thinks that a missile test would improve its bargaining position in the six-party talks", Blah, blah, blah.

What does all of this mean? As far as I can determin, it all means nothing. It seems that no one is actually willing do do anything about North Korea.

China, France and Russia are too busy selling technology and materials to North Korea. China and Russia are too busy attempting to maintain influence with North Korea and are too busy trying to cause problems for the United States to put a stop to North Korea's shenanigans, which, by the way, actually assist China and Russia in their undeclared war against us. South Korea is not going to do anything, after all we have always done everything for them. Why should they risk harming their economy or put their soldiers in harm's way. Japan is too weak to do much of anything militarily. Austrailia, although an ally of ours, does not have the power to do anything. As for the United States, we are so busy worrying about world opinion that all we can do is talk.

Meanwhile, North Korea is being run by a phychotic, petty dictator who wants nothing more than to destroy the evil United States and any other country that stands in it's way. The ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, doesn't care about how many people he kills. He doesn't even care about how many North Koreans die. He only cares about maintaining his power over his small domain. Right now he is trying to blackmail us into giving him what he wants and if that doesn't work he will do his best to destroy us.

The fact that we could blow him off the map doesn't enter into his considerations. He's crazy and he probably truly believes that he can defeat us. He has probably, through back channels, also been led to believe that China and Russia will support him in a war against us. After all, are not they currently helping him keep his nuclear program going. And, finally, if he has been listening to America's far left, he probably believes that Americans do not have the will to actually take him on.

Talking will not get us anywhere with North Korea. There are really only two ways to deal with North Korea. Either destroy it militarily or surrender and give them everything they want including but not limited to, billions of dollars in economic aid, billions of more dollars in military aid, controll of South Korea, a permenant seat on the U.N. Security Council and eventually we will have to kneel down before Kim Jong Il and kiss his feet.

My question to my fellow Americans is, do we go to war or do we kiss Kim Jong Il's feet.

David G. Hallstrom, Sr.
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