Written by: Goemagog

North Korea blows a bunch of hot air before negotiations.

"Now that the U.S. has clearly revealed its true intention, the DPRK can no longer pin any hope on the six-party talks and there is a question as to whether there is any need for it to negotiate with the U.S. any more," KCNA said.

They might be on to something. What exactly are we negotiating for? A return of the Daffy Duck collection?

Supposedly, we're trying to talk them out of acquiring nuclear weapons, which would be akin to talking Sauron out of wanting the one ring back, or talking Beck out of free online porn. It's just not going to happen, they'll just stall us for time while trying to get their respective 'precious'. The really stupid part is that we believe North Korea already has nuclear weapons, maybe a few dozen of them. So we're trying to talk North Korea into not making something it already has. We've been offering them other stuff to try to distract them ("Look at the way Daffy's eyes bug out!") and they've accepted this. Then they told us that they were lying and that they will nuke us if we don't keep giving them money, oil, and food. So we ask for more negotiations so we can talk them out of trying to get nukes.

We haven't anything to discuss with North Korea. They are a miserable little shithole with nuclear weapons and we're a wealthy superpower with nuclear weapons and abundant online porn. A conversation with them could be polite but North Korea has made it clear that they will continue to arm themselves with nuclear weapons. This means that any discussion, polite or not, will be meaningless to our stated goals.

The obvious conclusion would be that we're wasting our time. I believe that the stated goals are not the actual goals of our current administration. We've begun offering them the same things we were giving them when they were deceiving us. It would seem that North Korea is using it's nuclear arsenal to extort money, oil, and food. Mutually-assured destruction won't deter anybody while our president is afraid that our enemies might get hurt.

Barring mushroom clouds or Chinese intervention, it's likely that North Korea's offensive capability will continue to outgrow out defensive capability. The Chinese will do nothing to hinder North Korea so long as North Korea remains obedient. A "rogue" nuclear state threatening the U.S. and several allies will be a useful thing to have when China invades Taiwan.

Goe, thinks the future doesn't bode well for the free-world.