[MNJohnnie]

Gee could the usual suspects get the facts straight ONE time? The people who have been blocking military action are the South Koreans. Seoul. South Korea's Capital, which is their equivalent of New York City and Washington DC for us, is inside North Korean artillery range. Just how hung ho do you suppose the South Koreans are going to be to take action when they know their major city is going to be the primary retaliatory strike point?

Contrary to the provincial American notion that no one can do anything without the US holding their hands, the SK Military could of taken action any time to stop this. They choose not too. Do you REALLY think we should take action that our major allies in the region are asking us NOT to?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

There is that.

Now the SKs have to decide how they want to deal with this new development before we can make hard policy decisions.

[Steel Wolf]

Do you REALLY think we should take action that our major allies in the region are asking us NOT to?

Sure. Once North Korea goes nuclear, they're no long just a South Korean problem.

It's not 1950. Global communism isn't poised to take over the world, and we have no interest in defending South Korea vital to the United States. While South Korea may be happy to bow down and accept the North's leadership, we are not. What South Korea wants is no longer the primary consideration, when dealing with North Korea.

The dark secret of WMDs is that once the know how and technology passes between enough hands, there's no way we'll be able to track it back to Pyongyang. If Libya got the bomb from Pakistan and used it on Algeria, would Pakistan be on the hook? How about China, who gave Pakistan the bomb? Of course not. Politics don't work like that. Weapons sold are just that. Weapons sold. The only people who are held accountable are those who use them.

Same goes for whoever the DPRK sells weapons technology to. WMD proliferation will destabilize the entire world, so it's in our interest to combat it, whether or not the locals support us.

[rhombus]

Contrary to the provincial American notion that no one can do anything without the US holding their hands, the SK Military could of taken action any time to stop this. They choose not too.

I hope they're enjoying their sunshine policy under a nuclear cloud.