Insane!

North Korea has announced that it will test a nuclear device but has not given a time frame. That the "Dear Leader" thinks this kind of threat would get nations to drop sanctions says everything about his irrationality. Let me bomb or I’ll bomb! It’s blackmail and nothing less.

What is even more appalling is the reaction at the BBC News comments pages. (No wonder Melanie Phillips [read everything she’s written here] is in such despair, just as was Prophetess Oriana Fallaci) Here’s what the communist- and terrorist-sympathyzing news agency had to say about the events leading up to the present crisis:

• Sept 2005: Hailed as an historic breakthrough, North Korea agrees to give up nuclear activities
• Next day, N Korea says it will not scrap its activities unless it gets a civilian nuclear reactor
• US imposes financial sanctions on N Korea businesses
• July 2006: N Korea test-fires seven missiles
• UN Security Council votes to impose sanctions over the tests
• Oct 2006: N Korea threatens nuclear test

There's hardly a single word here that isn't an outright lie. But OK, believe the BBC, whose very lifeblood has been the lie: it all started in 2005. Well, as usual, in the penultimate paragraph, they mention that the Psychotic Leader kicked out IAEA inspectors in 2002. They didn’t bother explaining how they already had the "civilian nuclear program." No need to go back before devil Bush, right? Well, it was Jimmy Carter who let them have their reactor on a promise. The Dear Saint remembers the quandary in which he found himself: I paraphrase from memory:

I had to believe him. Not believing him would be like calling the man a liahh.

But this has to be read to be believed! The reaction of Britons and others on BBC’s comments on this story is absolutely mind-boggling! I posted but doubt they will publish it. Here’s an example of the utter nonsense: I haven’t cherrypicked: I’ve chosen messages in order of publication to give you the picture:

Added: Wednesday, 4 October, 2006, 14:58 GMT 15:58 UK
Let´s remember which country actially USED a nuclear weapon - only a country that feels it should RULE THE WORLD and everyone else should bow down to them would have done so.Everyone NEEDS weapons because the biggest bully of all USA has them AND WILL USE THEM as they have in the past!!!
Carol Moss, TORREMOLINOS, MALAGA, Spain
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Added: Wednesday, 4 October, 2006, 14:58 GMT 15:58 UK
If a country such as Pakistan, Taliban and AL Qaeda's chief supporter, has the right to nuclear arms then why not North Korea? Hamed Etebar, Virginia, United States Hamed, not that long ago, about the time when Pakistan developed its nuclear weapons, America was also a major backer of the Taliban. Now that USSR does not exist Americans have found other priorities and other enemies to keep running their Ammunations industry. I think N Korea, like Pakistan has a right to nuclear weapons.
rizwan k, ohio, United States
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Added: Wednesday, 4 October, 2006, 14:57 GMT 15:57 UK
Yeah, sure! Many other countries have nukes and everyone has the right...Why should some countries have the right but not others? Why should the US police the whole world?
Ray Amaya, Little Rock, United States
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Added: Wednesday, 4 October, 2006, 14:56 GMT 15:56 UK
I think all countries, including the US and Russia should put a stop to their nuclear weapons programs and destroy those weapons. It isn't exactly fair to tell others they don't have a right to something that you have in abundance and hold over the entire world. The fact is that the US is the only country to ever use nuclear weapons against another nation and on its own people for testing purposes.These weapons are just too dangerous to exist.
[AndreeaNYC], New York City, United States
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Added: Wednesday, 4 October, 2006, 14:51 GMT 15:51 UK
If a country such as Pakistan, Taliban and AL Qaeda's chief supporter, has the right to nuclear arms then why not North Korea? The international community feels threatened at the prospect of North Korea having nuclear capabilities yet remain completely inactive towards Pakistan's already manufactured nuclear arsenal. It is not if but when Pakistan's nuclear weapons fall in the hands of Taliban and/or AL Qaeda it will be end of humanity as we know it.
Hamed Etebar, Virginia, United States
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Well, at least the last part of Hamed's piece is rational. "the right to nuclear arms"?

Update: Kaaaboomb!