Drudge Headline: Nuclear War Unavoidable

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April 14, 2013: And now SecState Lurch is willing to negotiate with the North Koreans. My hunch is North Korea is coming out of one of its worst winters ever, and has run out of food, and coming close to running out of fuel. If SecState Lurch agrees to trade real food and real fuel for fake promises, that's fine, and the right thing to do. We give a lot more to the Palestinians ($500 million when we close the White House to tours) than we give the people of North Korea. 

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One has to wonder what Japan did to deserve all this? First, the US drops not one, but two, nuclear bombs on Japan. Then, the nuclear power plant disaster following the earthquake/tsunami. Now, a very real nuclear threat across the strait. The (London) Express is reporting:

North Korea has warned Japan that Tokyo would be the first target in the event of a war on the Korean Peninsula, as it increased threats of an attack.

In a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communist country lashed out at Tokyo's standing orders to destroy any missile heading toward Japan, threatening such actions will result in a nuclear attack against the island nation.

If Japan executes its threat to shoot down any North Korean missile, such a “provocative” intervention would see Tokyo — an enormous conurbation of 30 million people — “consumed in nuclear flames”, KCNA warned.

“Japan is always in the cross-hairs of our revolutionary army and if Japan makes a slightest move, the spark of war will touch Japan first,” the report added. 

I don't think anyone knows whether the US missile defense will work, but one wonders what was going on in the senator's head when he worked so hard to defeat the president's goal for a credible missile defense system. It is simply mind-boggling. He must have been thinking about his ketchup empire. And now the former senator is in the Far East trying to calm things down.

I assume the plan is to keep the senator in South Korea or Japan until this thing blows over. The president probably thinks no country would be so crazy as to risk killing a US SecState. Ambassadors, yes, but not secretaries of state.