[TigerLikesRooster]

N. Korea is up to its trick again. Another step of escalation. This is what we call a "game of chicken." Stakes are growing exponentially.

[Tempestuous]

NK would make a good glass parking lot.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[rodguy911]

Is their any reason all for them not to reprocess more uranium, who will stop them? As long as China let's them they will keep being the bad boys on the block in a bad neighborhood.

[trek]

"N. Korea is up to its trick again."

Time to kill the pot-bellied pig and put an end to the trickery.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"KUWAIT (AFP) - Iraq has halted operations at a nuclear power reactor at the center of an international row, a move that could let Baghdad reprocess spent fuel to retract plutonium and boost its nuclear arsenal, a press report said. Washington has verified that operations at the five-megawatt reactor in Samawah were suspended in April, the influential daily said in a report from Washington quoting sources including US government officials. The US administration reached the conclusion by analysing satellite pictures and estimating temperatures on the walls of nuclear facilities and amounts of steam coming from boilers at Samawah, south of Baghdad, the report said. Baghdad could double its nuclear arsenal if it reprocesses 8,000 spent nuclear rods from the Samawah reactor as it has claimed to have done before."

2002: What would have been our response? Further, useless, "Six Party Talks" with the Germans, French, Kuwaitis, Israelis, Egyptians and ourselves?

[StarCMC]

bump and ping

[NonValueAdded]

Clinton legacy bump.

[OahuBreeze]

Yes, more of the same from the sick little dictator.

Lots going on. Nice common rallying point going on in Asia for all those concerned with propping the dictator up -- the anti-Japanese rallies. Not that the Japanese don't need some censure for past deeds and present failures to own up for them (distortion of history in school books, etc). But the timing is interesting. Also interesting is Seoul's failure to likewise condemn the killing off of one tenth of the North Korean population over the past twelve years by little Kim. Or the kidnapping of hundreds, if not thousands, or South Koreans by the North over the past few decades. At least the Japanese finally had the guts and human decency to recently demand accountability from Pyongyang. Seoul doesn't give a damn. Probably why ROK polls in 03 showed over half the population desiring to emigrate. What a great job Roh is doing.

Check this link - http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200504/200504170034.html - for current news on "People Power 21"'s (one of Roh's brown shirt organizations) efforts to get ROK ambassador to the US recalled over alleged real estate illegalities. Don't fail to take note of paragraph four: "The group People Power 21 issued a statement titled, 'Don’t Test the People' which read, 'As Ambassador Hong was the chairman of a media company tasked with monitoring and criticizing the government' at the time of his illegal transaction, "his actions must be condemned even more.” Hong was the chairman of the JoongAng Ilbo [conservative ROK newspaper -- Hong's appointment in Feb was somewhat of a surprise -- undoubtedly the Roh administration wanted to capitalize on his strong ties to the US]". Don't really no anything about Hong's real estate deals. If he is pulled though, it will be interesting to see who Roh appoints in his place.

[MaxMax]

When the heck is NK going to prove that their not bluffing?
Lets see a nuke Test!! Hmmmmmm>?

[thoughtomator]

They don't even know for sure if their nukes actually work or not, do they?

[Finalapproach29er]

The dwarf with the Travolta haircut is calling our bluff.

They know we aren't going to fight them.

[ConservativeMind]

Doubling zero is still nothing.