Conservative Warrior

According to CNN, Ban Ki-Moon was officially designated the successor to corrupt kleptocrat Kofi Annan. The report goes on to point out this was ironically hours after North Korea announced a nuclear test.

It’ll be interesting to see how Ban Ki-Moon will operate the place, certainly there could be no one worse than Kofi Annan (who accepted bribes from Saddam Hussein), so this definitely will be an improvement.

It also may play out interestingly on giving South Korea a more authoritative say on the North Korean conflict. South Korea just had a new conservative victory in elections with conservative seizing most governorships, but their executive branch leadership is still the left-of-center Uri Party. So you never know, he’s supposed to be a pure diplomat, which is a much preferred administrator than a conniving, corrupt politician like Kofi Annan.

Hopefully they will show some strong leadership on North Korea, and Iran. Or the UN’s gotta go. I am certainly glad the new right-wing Shinzo Abe is threatening withdrawing funding, among other things. So pressure is on. We need to do the same. It’s ironic that as SKorea was moving to regain wartime control, and essentially lessen their US alliance, Japan steps forward and says they want to strengthen it.

There’s some interesting diplomacy going on in Asia right now. It’s worth watching. For now, in my opinion, all eyes should be on China. They called North Korea’s actions brazen, but they haven’t yet taken action. Are they merely fooling us, and buying time to prepare their armies to take Taiwan and other regions. Or has their new fascist-capitalism pacified them?

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