Quote from Condi Rice: "The North Koreans have been told by the president of the United States that the United States has no intention of attacking or invading North Korea."
So why the flat foot this time? Especially since they DO have them, compared to a certain country that DIDN'T.
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I found their reasoning extremely funny. They claim it's because Bush's state of the union address spoke of "spreading freedom" that Bush was "diabolical and would make the world burn with the fires of war".
It's possibly the only time I've heard a real person use "diabolical" in a sentence.
Mabye they'll call Tony Blair "dastardly" so he wont feel jilted.
The US (and everyone else for that matter) wont fuck with North Korea just now: not because Kim has nukes, but because he has nukes and he's fucking insane.
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Years away, compared to like, RIGHT NOW?
It does not make sense for the US to ignore the more credible threat of North Korea than to chase after Iran.
Unless Iran has oil, of course.
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Which at first glance is a "Huh? That don't make sense" until you realize that its in keeping with the trend of illogic over the last four plus years, and then you're like "Oh, well, that makes perfect sense, then."
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At least we established stable governments that can fairly and democratically rule their greatful populatons in Afghanistan and Iraq.
uh..no....that's not quite accurate...
We did manage to make America safe and maintain our constitutional rights...
er..
Well, at least Enterprise got renewed.
Oh wait..
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North Korea wants talks directly with the US, under Clinton this was ongoing and was producing results. They don't want to have just talks with the other countries because the US is the one who keeps pushing the buttons to get NK sanctioned and harrased by the rest of the world. Why Bushco decided to stop the direct talks and go to this strange arrangement where they will only talk to NK through the other countries, I'll never know. NK talks directly with every country in the little group except the US. The US is using the Kirk strategy and like Khan, NK has called them on it.
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I find the whole arena of world politics to be rather childish. And unfortunately, the parents of the children range from moderately to extremely unstable.
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Um...North Korea does NOT want direct talks to disarm. They want a bribe to discontinue their nuclear program.
They called it a "foreign aid package" but it's a bribe.
At least that was their offer a few years back. Now Kim may just be going for a place in the history books.
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quote:So why the flat foot this time? Especially since they DO have them, compared to a certain country that DIDN'T.
Simple really. Invading countries armed with nukes is rather dangerous; it's much safer to invade countries that don't have them, even if you tell everyone they do. Plus there isn't much in the way of oil in North Korea, at least not that I'm aware of. Aside from that if you attack NK, you might as well be attacking China, which is a rather silly thing to do. Not that I think picking on Iran is a genius move at this point either.
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Kim's hair is a valuable rescource of hair gel though...
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"The US is using the Kirk strategy and like Khan, NK has called them on it."
Yeah, but NK will be brought down because they think two-dimensionally.
And now I'm stuck with this image of Kim Jong-Il calling Bush to tell him he has nukes and Bush yelling into the phone "KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM!!!"
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