Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 27, 2009

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone

Months ago, Joe Biden warned us of an upcoming disaster, something of such horrific magnitude that we would initially react that Pres. Obama had made a poor choice, taken a poor course of action. (Considering Obama’s dismal track record on the economy and foreign relations, and Biden’s runaway mouth, that could be just about ANYTHING). And Biden had said that we would need to “gird our loins,” it would be that bad.

Is this the Biden-cautionary-loin-girding event, or is there something even more frightening in store for us than North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il attacking America?

Let’s hope that Obama doesn’t decide to go golfing today…

UPDATE SNIPPET from Hot Air: North Korea ups the ante: North Korea announced Wednesday that it is no longer bound by the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War, the latest and most profound diplomatic aftershock from the country’s latest nuclear test two days earlier.

From AP News:

NKorea threatens to attack US, SKorean warships
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
May 27, 2009

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea threatened military action Wednesday against U.S. and South Korean warships plying the waters near the Koreas’ disputed maritime border, raising the specter of a naval clash just days after the regime’s underground nuclear test.

Pyongyang, reacting angrily to Seoul’s decision to join an international program to intercept ships suspected of aiding nuclear proliferation, called the move tantamount to a declaration of war.

“Now that the South Korean puppets were so ridiculous as to join in the said racket and dare declare a war against compatriots,” North Korea is “compelled to take a decisive measure,” the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement carried by state media.

Seoul’s decision comes at a time when “the state of military confrontation is growing acute and there is constant danger of military conflict,” the statement warned.

South Korea’s military said Wednesday it was prepared to “respond sternly” to any North Korean provocation.

North Korea’s latest belligerence comes as the U.N. Security Council debates how to punish the regime for testing a nuclear bomb Monday in what President Barack Obama called a “blatant violation” of international law.

Ambassadors from the five permanent veto-wielding council members – the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France – as well as Japan and South Korea were working out the details of a new resolution.

South Korea, divided from the North by a heavily fortified border, had responded to the nuclear test by joining the Proliferation Security Initiative, a U.S.-led network of nations seeking to stop ships from transporting the materials used in nuclear bombs.

Seoul previously resisted joining the PSI in favor of seeking reconciliation with Pyongyang, but pushed those efforts aside Monday after the nuclear test in the northeast.

North Korea warned Wednesday that any attempt to stop, board or inspect its ships would constitute a “grave violation.”

From Reuters India:

“We assume that a dangerous brinkmanship, a war of nerves, is under way, but it will not grow into a hot war,” the official told Tass. “Restraint is needed.”

The Foreign Ministry often uses statements sourced to unnamed officials, released through official news agencies, to lay down its position on sensitive issues.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has condemned the North Korean tests but his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has warned the international community against hasty decisions.

Russia is a veto-wielding permanent member of the U.N. Security Council which is preparing to discuss the latest stand-off over the peninsula.

In the past, Moscow has been reluctant to support Western calls for sanctions. But Russian officials in the United Nations have said that this time the authority of the international body is at stake.

Medvedev told South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who called him on Wednesday, that Russia was prepared to work with Seoul on a new U.N. Security Council resolution and to revive international talks on the North Korean nuclear issue.

“The heads of state noted that the nuclear test conducted by North Korea on Monday is a direct violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution and impedes international law,” a Kremlin press release said.

Related reading:
Hot Air: UN Security Council issues strongly worded memo, Kim responds and Kim tests another nuke
New York Times: North Korea Claims to Conduct 2nd Nuclear Test
Michelle Malkin: The time for O’s mettle test is here: North Korea prepares for war and Fetch the comfy chair! U.N. Security Council passes new toothless resolution; Update: N. Korea fires two more short-range missiles and North Korea’s fireworks show continues: Missile launch number three and Reports: North Korea says it conducted 2nd nuke test; Obama: “Matter of grave concern”
Power Line: Test, or testing for the test?
John R. Bolton, Wall Street Journal: Get Ready for Another North Korean Nuke Test
Legal Insurrection: Playing the Nork Card and Will The Left Apologize To Bolton?
Stop the ACLU: North Korea Prepares for War
Fort Hard Knox: What The North Korean Missile Launch Means
The Daley Gator: Useless Nations scolds North Korea
threedonia.com: North Korea!
Vets On The Watch: South Park Explains It All and The Test Has Arrived
Trust, But Verify: Nuke ‘em Kimmy
Black & Right: Rice Flexes That UN Muscle
Gateway Pundit: Obama Threatens Kim Jong Il With Very Serious Protest to UN
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: North Korea successfully conducts underground nuclear test! Update: 3 more missiles launched by North Korea today, one of which goes into the Sea of Japan!
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian: Tested
Sister Toldjah: With North Korea sounding the war bells, will the media blame Bush – or Obama?
Suburban Guerrilla: North Korea Missile A Threat?
Axis of Right: Trying the Same Thing Repeatedly With North Korea Expecting Different Results
Evil Conservative Radio: North Korea Fires Another Missile- Is Iran Involved?
Shyspeak.net: North Korean Shenanigans No Surprise!
Zero Sheep: Should Japan Go Nuclear? Not Without Strong Leadership and Competent Diplomats
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: Lonewolf Diaries: Obama is North Korea’s Little Punk
American Thinker: Kim reportedly names youngest son as successor in North Korea

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