Korean Skirmish -- Not Korean War

[Darth Rotor]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33815768/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

SEOUL, South Korea - A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said.
Playing tag on the high seas gets deadly now and again.
He also said the North was sending a message to Obama that it wants to replace the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953 with a permanent peace treaty while keeping its nuclear weapons.
That would be a nice step forward. Only been 56 years in the works.

DR

[Garrette]

And we get there with gunfire. Sometimes the original Star Trek was pretty smart...

Promising steps are still steps, and steps on a new (or long untraveled) road are frightening. One hopes the Obama/Clinton team are savvy enough to make some quick behind-the-scenes calls.

[leftysergeant]

Any bets on how long it is going to take the right wing blathermeisters to carpet the AM band with hysterical calls for carpet-bombing of Pyong Yang?

[theprestige]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33815768/ns/world_news-asiapacific/That would be a nice step forward. Only been 56 years in the works.
I think that North Korea should behave at least as peacefully towards its own people and its neighbors as Iran does, before we consider letting them have nuclear weapons and a peace treaty...

[leftysergeant]

I think that North Korea should behave at least as peacefully towards its own people and its neighbors as Iran does, before we consider letting them have nuclear weapons and a peace treaty...

So what are you proposing we do about the sad situation there?

[Darth Rotor]

And we get there with gunfire. Sometimes the original Star Trek was pretty smart...

Promising steps are still steps, and steps on a new (or long untraveled) road are frightening. One hopes the Obama/Clinton team are savvy enough to make some quick behind-the-scenes calls.

My take on this is "let 'em play" since it lets Kim feel important.

[Darth Rotor]

So what are you proposing we do about the sad situation there?
Keep crawling along as we have for the past 56 years. The situation does not lend itself to any fast solution.

The ox is slow, the earth is patient.

[Garrette]

My take on this is "let 'em play" since it lets Kim feel important.I don't disagree, but let 'em play at Montessori and not at Public Kindergarten #39.