The world may finally be coming to an end. After a good run of about four and a half billion years, it won’t be AIDS, it couldn’t have been a meteor crash and it wasn’t even due to the Bush Library.
No, the end of time, sunshine and walks in the park will fall squarely on the shoulders of some little North Korean punk whose birthday seems to be just as mysterious as how he plans on feeding his people; a kid who listened a little too closely to his deranged father for a bit too long, but does have the ability to press the big red button whenever he wants.
America seems to have enough enemies across the globe as of late and throwing ourselves into another global conflict doesn’t sound like the best strategy for a country with a bit of an economic issue.
War is almost never the answer, but this country should never just allow another nation to flat out threaten its people or those of an ally with nuclear weapons.
So what to do with the nation on everyone’s list for “worst run country in the world” now that they’ve promised an attack on both South Korea and mainland America?
Simple enough: nothing different than what this country’s been doing anyway.
North Korea is simply a toddler inside of a grocery store who’s screaming for candy. America just needs to calmly walk out and tell Kim Jong-Un he won’t be getting any dessert tonight, all the while knowing that if the brat needs a spanking, the Red, White and Blue would be happy to deliver.
Threats against the United States certainly aren’t uncommon, considering while Osama Bin Laden still walked this earth it felt like America received 80 new messages of doom a day, but sometimes a nation pokes the bear a bit too hard and far too often.
If the North Korean military does deliver on its promise of some sort of attack, it will not just be the U.S. that will strike back. No one, not even North Korea’s only “friend,” China, would come to its rescue at that point.
The entire South Korean force, along with any and all American troops available, would quickly create the world’s largest parking spot right where Pyongyang used to be in a matter of days.
More than likely this is nothing more than a large amount of hot air from the North Koreans, who try this bit every few years into feebly forcing free nations into giving them aid. In this case, the true losers in all of this mess are the same who’ve been the losers for years: the people of North Korea.
The people who’ve had to deal with three generations of crazed, genocidal idiots, but are so brain-washed they line up in droves to see them like they’re rock stars.
Killing a world leader is always going to remain a touchy subject to say the least, but in instances like this, where the world may hang in the balance, it’s time to make an exception.
Costa is a junior majoring in journalism.
