First N. Korean ship intercept.
The US Navy is setting up for its first N. Korean ship intercept since the UN Sec Council measure passed last week. The ship is suspected of being involved in banned weapons proliferation (most likely missile parts.)
In the twitchy world of N. Korea, this is going to be very dicey.
Ironically, the US vessel headed for intercept is the destroyer, the USS John McCain. (Named for McCain's admiral father.)
Later: The Guardian has a piece on this incident.
In the twitchy world of N. Korea, this is going to be very dicey.
Ironically, the US vessel headed for intercept is the destroyer, the USS John McCain. (Named for McCain's admiral father.)
Later: The Guardian has a piece on this incident.
posted by mikevotes at
2:31 PM
6 Comments:
Wow, tough bunch of commenters on that FOX site. They seem to have it all worked out.
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Anonymous, at 3:25 PM
You may laugh, but I don't read commenters on other sites.
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mikevotes, at 5:53 PM
I don't blame you. Sometimes I think I read too much.
Sure is some heavy stuff happening in the world these days.
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Anonymous, at 6:24 PM
Heavy stuff requires subtlety and finesse, not oafish blunt force. This is something that we have forgotten as a nation... In our insecurity we wrap ourselves in myths of invisible exceptionalism.
Sigh.
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-epm, at 7:16 PM
That's the feeling I got from the FOX commenters -epm. It's the 'nuke 'em and let God sort 'em out' school of thought.
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Anonymous, at 7:22 PM
Frankly, brinksmanship plays right into the N. Korean's hands as it splinters the US S. Korea and Japan from China and Russia.
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mikevotes, at 10:08 PM
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