Obama Gets Stern With North Korea

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U.S. to Confront, Not Board, North Korean Ships

(AP)DAVID E. SANGER
Published: June 16, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will order the Navy to hail and request permission to inspect North Korean ships at sea suspected of carrying arms or nuclear technology, but will not board them by force, senior administration officials said Monday.

The new effort to intercept North Korean ships, and track them to their next port, where Washington will press for the inspections they refused at sea, is part of what the officials described as “vigorous enforcement” of the United Nations Security Council resolution approved Friday.

The planned American action stops just short of the forced inspections that North Korea has said that it would regard as an act of war. Still, the administration’s plans, if fully executed, would amount to the most confrontational approach taken by the United States in dealing with North Korea in years, and carries a risk of escalating tensions at a time when North Korea has been carrying out missile and nuclear tests.

In discussing President Obama’s strategy on Monday, administration officials said that the United States would report any ship that refused inspection to the Security Council. While the Navy and American intelligence agencies continued to track the ship, the administration would mount a vigorous diplomatic effort to insist that the inspections be carried out by any country that allowed the vessel into port.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/wo...er=rss&emc=rss

Yep, that opuzzy's a regular John Wayne when dealing with the bad guys . . .

If he really wants to scare chit out of them he should tell 'em that when he goes over there to kiss their asses........I mean.......meet with them, that he won't bow to Kim Jung Maniac.....that will put them in their place pronto.

It's like we're living in the movie "Demolition Man" when the politically correct chief of police told the inept police officer to "speak with authority and tell the citizen to HALT!" What a joke.

In record time this "guy" has established himself to be the biggest and most inept moron to EVER set foot in the white house. He's a coward plain and simple and it's easy to see - he's a laughing-stock to the middle east world and makes us lose all credibility on the world stage. Either that or he's deliberately bringing about disaster regardless of cost/consequence to amplify his Big Government religion. It's obvious he's intenionally destroying the US economy to further his power and that of the Communist Left that are his Puppeteers. It's Treasonous.