Situation in North Korea

[IntegraBoy2003]

DO you think that, the Bush will give in to North Koreas demands, in order to scrap their Nuclear facilities?

the North Korean officils wants bush to take them off the list of susspected terrorists and also resume Susspended oil deliveries



Easier said then done....

[taranaki]

Time will tell.If the war on terrorism can continue to be successfully used to bolster the President's popularity,anything is possible.As long as there are votes in killing foreigners, there seems to beno ethical dilemma about continuing.

[DGB454]

I hope he doesn't give in to their demands. They are just as big of threat now if not more than Iraq ever was.
As for the ethical dilemma about killing foreigners goes; there doesn't seem to be any ethical dilemma when it comes to foreigners killing Americans.

[Cavallino]

I think we're going about this the wrong way. I don't see how we can act as global police and tell everyone else they can't have nukes while we have more nukes then you can shake a stick at. Destroying more then a few would set a good example and we'd still have almost double any other countriy's stockpiles. Also, I fail to see why this wasn't resolved earlier when all North Korea wanted was us to sign a non agression treaty. How hard would that have been? All it would really do is take away our ability to attack them. (and why would we attack North Korea? They don't have any resources for us to leech off of and 'daddy' didn't fail to out their dictator when he was president)
So instead, North Korea just keeps asking for more and more. At the rate it's going I don't see Bush giving in and by the time someone with mroe then half a brain is in office North Korea's demands are going to be so lucrative that no sane perosn would give in. I think this is only going to get worse. At least this time the UN agrees with us.

[YogsVR4]

The only thing that has occurred so far is NK broke the 1994 agreement and the US and China (along with other nations) stopped shipping crude and stopped the construction of a light water nuclear reactor. It was the North Koreans who broke the treaty; they should be the ones to step up to make amends. However, that is not their style. Whenever they feel they can gain a negotiating advantage by rattling sabers, that is what they do.

There is a simple solution to scaring China into getting NK to stop all weapons production. Let Japan develop nuclear weapons. China would do just about anything – especially getting their erstwhile neighbor to stop their production – to keep nuclear weapons out of Japanese hands. The Chinese have a long memory and do not forget or forgive slights easily. They are still fuming over what the Japanese did in WWII (as well as every other Japanese invasion into China). If NK has verifiable weapons, the Japanese will probably change their constitution to build their own. China will get spooked because we’ll have a India/Pakistan itchy trigger finger nuclear standoff between North Korean and Japan.

[2strokebloke]

Well we could lead by example and get rid of our own nukes... I mean since we hate them so much we shouldn't care about getting rid of all of ours.
Hopefully they'll claim they want to blow up the U.S. and we can finally get rid of them by using them. (hey, that's our tax money wasting away in those bombs, might as well put them to good use)

[YogsVR4]

Originally Posted by 2strokebloke

Hopefully they'll claim they want to blow up the U.S. and we can finally get rid of them by using them. (hey, that's our tax money wasting away in those bombs, might as well put them to good use)

But we wouldn't have any left over to blow up the asteroids hurtling towars us

[2strokebloke]

Originally Posted by YogsVR4

But we wouldn't have any left over to blow up the asteroids hurtling towars us

No, you don't use nukes on asteroids, you use triangular space ships that shoot lasers. Haven't you learned anything from video games?