Thursday, February 10, 2005
Don't look now
but North Korea has got The Bomb! (or so they say).
(ed. The recent announcement by President Bush about Iranian nucleur aspirations begs the questions of whether this will remain a blanket policy, or whether we need to adapt policy based on the presence of China in the N. Korean scenario?)
"We cannot spend another four years as we did in the past four years, and there is no need for us to repeat what we did in those years."Did this guy vote for Kerry, or just work for him? More importantly, will this compel China to rethink its position as North Korea's "last remaining major ally.":
Since 2003, the United States, the two Koreas, China, Japan and Russia have held three rounds of talks aimed at persuading the North to abandon its nuclear weapons development in return for economic and diplomatic rewards.Hmm... talks aren't working with a semi- sovereign nation, but we should have tried them in Iraq, right? (Stick that in your berret and smoke it.) Condi seems reluctant to make any sort of commital statement, but I guess that makes sense. Officially, the claims remain unverifiable, and North Korea hasn't tested a nuke yet, and how this will effect the precarious balance of power in economically booming Asia remains to be seen. Officially the US has said that we have no plans of attacking or invading North Korea, but this may change things. If they are bluffing, for how much longer? This calls for some interesting policy movement, so check back.
But no significant progress was reported in those talks, all hosted by China, North Korea's last remaining major ally.
(ed. The recent announcement by President Bush about Iranian nucleur aspirations begs the questions of whether this will remain a blanket policy, or whether we need to adapt policy based on the presence of China in the N. Korean scenario?)
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Your post got linked by the Daou report earlier today. Nice work=)
http://daoureport.salon.com/entry.aspx
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