Just A Matter Of Time, And The Time Has Come

By Semperpapa

On March 26, the South Korean Navy ship Cheonan was ripped by a mysterious explosion that caused the ship to sink. 46 SK sailors were killed in the incident. Eventually the ship was raised from the bottom of the ocean and today the conclusion has been reached in the investigation: the sinking of the Cheonan was caused by a torpedo fired at the ship by, most likely, a North Korean submarine.
That was the conclusion, also strongly concurred to by the United States authorities.

It was just a matter of time that the NK regime would provoke the rest of the world into a confrontation, and the time has come.
South Korea is now banning all NK vessels in its waters and most likely will ban all commodities imports from NK, which will further increase the economic mysery of a country that has already been depleted of the basic elements of civilized life by a regime bent on the worst kind of power grab, all in the name of a false and disastrous ideology.

North Korea, meanwhile, is threatening an all out war against the South, justifying it by the mere fact that South Korea showed the world the evidences of the unprovoked attack, which makes good sense only in the war-bent minds of the insane leadership of Pyongyang.

It will be interesting to see the reaction of the US government, who maintains to be a strong ally and supporter of the South Korean nation.
The preliminary news say that the Obama administration wants to respond strongly, but not strongly enough to provoke the north into some disastrous reaction, due to the potential possession of nuclear weapons on the part of Kim Jon Il.

This comes to show, again, that appeasement does not pay when those being appeased are complete lunatics like the leadership in Pyongyang. Just as we can bet on appeasement failing in dealing with the nutcases in Teheran.

Just my thoughts!