More than 24 hours after North Korea announced that the Dear Leader had exploded a nuclear bomb in the Northern half of the nation, the experts are beginning to wonder if that is really what happened in the North Korean mountains.
The North Koreans trumpeted the event with much fanfare, timed for nine years plus a day since Kim Jong Il ascended to the Dear Leaders chair. Long threatened, it appears that North Korea a dictatorship with an impoverished and starving population has joined those nations with the ability to wreak destruction on grand scale, not one of the worlds most reassuring moments!
While the Cable News networks trotted out a number of talking heads to go over every imaginable scenario, the fact that the explosion didn’t exactly rattle the Richter scale has many suggesting that the North Koreans may not have gone nuclear after all.
As the number crunchers try to come to a consensus on what the 4.2 seismic event really means, the world community was busy getting to the task of expressing their dismay at Kim Jong Il joining Club Nuke.
Besides those three front line nations with the most to lose with a nuclear North Korea, China, Japan and of course the relations in the South, the United States and the United Nations joined in the condemnation of the Dear Leaders great leap. All fifteen members of the Security Council denounced the news, concerned over the possible fallout of the underground explosion on the political and military climate of the Asian basin.
However, the comments of the world had little effect on the North Korean Ambassador to the UN, who said that the world should be congratulating the country instead of passing useless resolutions or statements.
The nuclear test, if it took place, also comes just days before the 61st Anniversary of the Korean Workers Party. It makes for a rather grandiose celebration, one which takes things well above the traditional mode of cake, fireworks and festive songs.
Long isolated and considered just a little off the world’s beaten paths (and a tad removed from the sanity intersection), North Korea suddenly rises to the top of everyone’s Trouble List. The developments of the last 24 hours should make for a situation that most likely won’t change the Nations current isolated state (in fact with sanctions, it would seem that things can only get worse now in a country that seems as bad as it can get).
The North Koreans trumpeted the event with much fanfare, timed for nine years plus a day since Kim Jong Il ascended to the Dear Leaders chair. Long threatened, it appears that North Korea a dictatorship with an impoverished and starving population has joined those nations with the ability to wreak destruction on grand scale, not one of the worlds most reassuring moments!
While the Cable News networks trotted out a number of talking heads to go over every imaginable scenario, the fact that the explosion didn’t exactly rattle the Richter scale has many suggesting that the North Koreans may not have gone nuclear after all.
As the number crunchers try to come to a consensus on what the 4.2 seismic event really means, the world community was busy getting to the task of expressing their dismay at Kim Jong Il joining Club Nuke.
Besides those three front line nations with the most to lose with a nuclear North Korea, China, Japan and of course the relations in the South, the United States and the United Nations joined in the condemnation of the Dear Leaders great leap. All fifteen members of the Security Council denounced the news, concerned over the possible fallout of the underground explosion on the political and military climate of the Asian basin.
However, the comments of the world had little effect on the North Korean Ambassador to the UN, who said that the world should be congratulating the country instead of passing useless resolutions or statements.
The nuclear test, if it took place, also comes just days before the 61st Anniversary of the Korean Workers Party. It makes for a rather grandiose celebration, one which takes things well above the traditional mode of cake, fireworks and festive songs.
Long isolated and considered just a little off the world’s beaten paths (and a tad removed from the sanity intersection), North Korea suddenly rises to the top of everyone’s Trouble List. The developments of the last 24 hours should make for a situation that most likely won’t change the Nations current isolated state (in fact with sanctions, it would seem that things can only get worse now in a country that seems as bad as it can get).
But for Kim Jong Il, akin to the tempermental teengager of the world community, it's all about getting attention. And Monday morning, for better or worse, the Dear Leader was the subject of the great debate and attention.
And with it an already nervous world, just got a little bit more nervous!
No comments:
Post a Comment