It seems strange to me, for any country to openly say that they have or are developing WMD and now they want to start negotiations. It sounds to me like they are trying to tempt fate, but on the other hand, it does seem to be the safest way to keep the US from bulling them. Especially since, Bush is acting like a big bully. But don't all bullies fall at one way or another? I mean, it's terrible the way Bush is handling some of these countries that don't have WMD and the way he handles the countries that do have them. In my opinion, it appears to me that Bush thinks to just declare war on that country that claims to not have WMD. I also believe Bush probably believes that if he beats the crap out of them, they'll give up their WMD or maybe he'll get lucky and find them. But the countries that do have the WMD are treated with kid-gloves. But if Bush was to be crazy enough to try and strong arm North Korea, I am afraid that the outcome will be a pretty bad for everyone.
How long is this going to go on for?
NORTH KOREA TO MAKE N-ARMS
North Korean officials told the Bush administration last week that they had
finished producing enough plutonium to create a half-dozen nuclear devices and
that they intended to move ahead quickly to turn the material into weapons,
senior American officials said on Monday.
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This thread has been 'quiet' for a long time, but it is funny that the US has a worst scenario here and yet still have done nothing like Iraq.
WHOLE NORTH KOREA ARSENAL WORRIES U.S.
The United States wants to talk to North Korea not only about nuclear bombs but
the communist nation's entire arsenal: suspected stockpiles of chemical and
biological weapons, missiles that can reach all of South Korea and Japan and
massive conventional forces massed near the border.
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Talk, talk, talk, let's see if they will put their money where their mouth is... do you think they will really make the test?
NORTH KOREA SAYS N-TEST IS PLANNED
Rejecting U.S. disarmament demands, North Korea said Thursday it will prove to
the world that it possesses nuclear weapons by carrying out a nuclear test, a
U.S. government official said.
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You know what is 'funny' about this? What does it matter if they have 1 nuclear bomb or 10? One is enought to do considerable damage! The other thing, like I said before is here you have a country that is telling all the world that they have nuclear bombs! Not just chemical, not just jets - nuclear bombs, but where is the invasion? Where is the strike from the US bombers? Well it seems to be one of either two things to me:
1. The US has spread itself thin or
2. The US knows North Korea is no 'walk over'.
U.S. FEARS NORTH KOREA MAY HAVE 36 NUCLEAR ARMS
Some American intelligence analysts are becoming increasingly concerned that
North Korea may have three, four or even six nuclear weapons instead of the one
or two the CIA now estimates.
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Well, watching CNN North Korea says that is building more nuclear weapons, and will create 3 more atomic bombs like consequence, they said, of the constant harrasment of the USA. Now, we know North Korea has these weapons and the USA is not moving even a little bit about it (hmmm afraid maybe that the Orientals are going indeed to throw these bombs?) by the other hand they go and bomb Iraq because they thought Saddam had weapons and no weapons were found : geezzzzzzzz....:
Now they want more American Money to use for all these stuff....I know Americans will say no for more money, the last surveys have shown that.
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I can hardly even speculate what will happen with N. Korea. Saddam was/is a monster, but nothing at all like the North Koreans. Take a look at this article from the Wall Street Journal
https://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/c...t/?id=110004200
Perhaps some of what you see as contradiction in this case comes from the following:
1. Iraq, in the 1980's and early 1990's publicly said that they had WMDs.
2. The UN passed 17 resolutions demanding that Iraq account for those weapons
3. Iraq consistently said that they had destroyed them, but refused to provide any evidence
4. Iraq used some of those weapons on their own people and on Iranians
5. North Korea has now publicly proclaimed that they have nuclear weapons
6. So far, the UN hasn't done or said much of anything about it
7. The US, which is tied up with active terrorists and terrorist supporting states, hasn't yet addressed North Korea
8. If the US does address North Korea, aren't you all going to start criticizing us again for acting unilaterally?
Who will North Korea use their nuclear weapons on if we do go in there? Most likely South Korea or Japan.
What regional change would we expect to see if we did go into North Korea? Would it make any difference to China? Probably not.
So, perhaps the comparison between US actions towards Iraq and North Korea aren't as cut and dried as they appear. I am sure that one of the policy objectives involved with our entry into Iraq is to impress the other regional governments to seriously rethink their support for terrorism. Entry into North Korea would not likely do anything like that.
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