Mad-man?

This is coolbert:

I am watching U.S. Ambassador John Bolton address the U.N. on the North Korean situation this afternoon.

Suggestions have been made as to what can be done to bring the North Koreans to heel. NOT a lot of good ideas are forthcoming. For good reason. NOT a whole lot can be done, period.

Some sort of embargo is in the works.

For imported military hardware and luxury consumer goods.

That will do almost NO GOOD at all.

NO, will not DO ANY GOOD at all.

North Korea is an exporter of military hardware. They have a pretty good indigenous military research, design, and manufacturing capacity. They may not have any need to import ANY military hardware at all.

And as for LUXURY goods for the consumer market. That is just poppycock. There IS NO consumer market. The average North Korean is living on the edge of existence already. They cannot even afford luxury items, even if they were available, which they are not. The elites, what there are of them, probably do indulge themselves, but that is such a small number of persons to begin with. They have what they need already stockpiled against such an eventuality as an embargo. All the imported cognac, Russian horses, spare parts for the Mercedes, etc.

And the thinking is now that the North Korean test may have been a DUD. A fizzled nuclear test is what it is being referred to now. But no one is certain. A WC-135 reconnaissance aircraft has been "sampling" the air over the Sea of Japan, trying to pick up radioactive particles perhaps blown aloft by the test. But if the test was far underground, there may BE NO particles to pick up at all. Results from seismic stations the world over are being scanned. But the data is INCONCLUSIVE!!

This situation with North Korea is one big mess. But that is what the mad-man of Pyongyang wants. If the nuclear test was a failure, well, even that is NOT much of a problem for Kim Jong Il. Let the world GUESS!!

[read what the mad-man of Pyongyang wants. Very interesting interview!]

coolbert.