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Tue 7 Jan, 2003 01:04 pm
What do you think the UN and the US will do concerning this 'threat?'
c.i.
Negotiate. I do not believe any of the parties despite rhetoric to the contrary is willing to risk a nuclear war.
well sanctions have certainly worked against Cuba?????
This was the same threat NK used in 1993.
NK has learned very quickly from Iraq. All bluster. c.i.
NK has a little more to bluster about - they have nukes already. I think they all learn from the "Big Daddy"!
One or two at most? When and where are they going to use them? c.i.
They already have used them. The best use for a nuke doesn't involve an explosion.
Craven, When and where? c.i.
They are using them for barganing chips in negotiations with us.
I don't think they will use them in any attack.
Using a nuke is an exercise in country suicide. The reprisal would be nuclear as well, and there are harldy any(probably none at all) countries that can match the US in nuclear power. NK is playing a dangerous game here. I hope they realize this too, but I sort of doubt it.
I don't believe any government in the world is so naive they don't know what they are doing. That is a dangerous position to enter the negotiation table.
Furthermore, I wouldn't doubt NK resilience. They and the US seem to like a little bluster. Both can definitely back each other into a corner which is hard to be extracted from!
Here is your answer.
U.S. agrees to talk with N. Korea
In a key shift in policy, the United States agreed Tuesday to talk with North Korea about ending its nuclear program but said it wouldn't compromise with the Communist country, according to a statement from trilateral talks in Washington.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/07/korea.talks/index.html
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The only problem with Iraq and North Korea's bluster is that they don't have too much to back it up.
c.i.
au1929 wrote:Here is your answer.
U.S. agrees to talk with N. Korea
In a key shift in policy, the United States agreed Tuesday to talk with North Korea about ending its nuclear program but said it wouldn't compromise with the Communist country, according to a statement from trilateral talks in Washington.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/07/korea.talks/index.html
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What's the point of agreeing to talk with NK if the US has already said it won't negotiate?
Little
What they say and what they do are seldom the same thing. They will negotiate without a doubt. Nobody not even that group in Washington is stupid enough to want to engage in a nuclear war. Victory will come at too great a cost.
Bush with his axis of evil and bluster has managed exacerbate the problem. As you see he is already backtracking.
It's a compromise for the US to even go to the table - geez criminy!
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