The simple reason why we will go to war with Iraq and not with NK is that NK has bigger friends than Iraq does.
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If it makes you feel any better, I got it. Of course I, possibly much like you, watch way too much TV.:)</hijack>
Anyway, some time ago on this very board (sorry, I refuse to tax the hamsters with this) that North Korea scared them a whole lot more than Iraq. That struck a chord with me at the time, and here we are…
DPRK(North Korea)'s admitting of having nuclear weapons actually comes at a right time, i think.
-Bush is too far into the Iraqi invasion thing, on top of the anti-terror war; he cannot possibly back out now. He also has lots of domestic problems to solve, although he doesn’t seem to be doing so. DPRK’s revelation only serves to add trouble to Bush, so most likely he will solve it using diplomatic means, which doesnt require a tremendous effort as toppling Saddam.
-DPRK’s revelation will put DPRK on an equal footing with the US on the round table. the nukes are more of a political apparatus to make the US agree to certain DPRK demands, perhaps recognising DPRK as an equal to RoK (South Korea), or to give aid.
-DPRK’s improvement of relations recently with Rok and Japan has come a long way, so revealing at such a time will discourage the US from creating a major fuss with DPRK and sour things up with RoK and Japan as a result.
so it’s doubtful DPRK will fire any nukes soon unless relations really sour big time. also RoK’s media like blowing things out of proportion to a certain extent when it comes to reports on DPRK.
No it has to be now. August 2004 is when Bush will figure out that France has nukes.
The simple reason why we will not go to war with North Korea is that Seoul, South Korea, home to over 10 million people, is within artillery range of the DMZ, and the Pentagon (over several administrations) believes that there is no realistic way that Seoul could be defended - the U.S. could not get enough troops over there fast enough to prevent its capture. And that capture, given both the normal horrors of war and the fact that North Korea can’t feed itself, much less a massive captive population, would mean millions of civilian casualties.
Whether or not North Korea has nukes (and IIRC, the Clinton Administration believed they had one or two) is irrelevant. It already has all the deterrent it needs.
Sua