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March 29 2013 - Hagel says U.S. has to take North Korean threats seriously Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday that North Korea's provocative actions and belligerent tone had "ratcheted up the danger" on the Korean peninsula,
A linked time-line works backwards from there.
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by A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 03/31/2013 - 11:52am
Commenter Don Bacon, at the top, is an old TPM Cafe club member. He was real active there in the early years but veered off to other sites after the early 2008 Obama-mania invasion. Like you, he's always had a strong interest in the anti-war issues.
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 1:55pm
The timeline has an interesting date cut-off, for some reason omitting the parts of the story in the weeks before:
In the following, note my bold, a paragraph which summarizes the interim parts of the narrative happening between Feb. 11 and Feb. 25
Despite all that, the South's new president still tried making nicey nice on March 1:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 6:12pm
Thanks for reminding me why the name ‘Don Bacon’ seemed vaguely familiar. Your memory is much better than mine.
Regarding your extension of the time line further back;
'The timeline has an interesting date cut-off, for some reason omitting the parts of the story in the weeks before:
Well, what the heck, ya gotta start somewhere. Right? I do see your point though, the starting point of the relationship getting ugly can be cherry picked. No doubt some starting-point act by either side going years previous could be picked to flip the moral onus any way a person chooses to see it.
When it comes to my own personal feelings about U.S. foreign policy, I very often agree with the stated goal[s], while at the same time am often skeptical that what is stated is honestly the prime motive. It is the methods I usually disagree with. In the instances where a successful outcome seems most important because a failure would have the most dire consequences there seems to only one solution, threaten, or carry out, military action. Honest diplomacy with the possibility of any compromise seems always to be beneath consideration.
Any criticism of our policy in this case does not mean I support any of N.Korea’s policies of threats but some/most of those threats are so obviously beyond their ability to carry out and yet are reported as if they have credibility, while our threats, which actually have the substance of being possible to carry out, are always reported as responses. Now N.Korea is threatening something really bad. Kim Jong says he will un-hang the moon. He claims good motives but reveals himself as just one more cheese-eating prick. He wants it all. This could be a very serious threat, though, worth bombing them, IF we were to take it seriously.
http://www.theonion.com/video/kim-jong-il-announces-plan-to-bring-moon-t...
by A Guy Called LULU on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 1:14pm
Adam Entous and Julian Barnes at the Wall Street Journal have revealed the US script that has played out over the month of March. Described as the 'Playbook', they detail events in their latest Wall Street Journal article.
by A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 12:21pm