So how long have you worked at the Chinese Embassy... Mim Wee?
As much as you'd like to believe it, I am not Chinese ad if you look at my posting history, you will see that I am very much to the contrary.
I will take no personal offense this time because what I posted in THIS thread would make me look like I am pro-Chinese but since American forces ARE stretched, given as it is that they are deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq, the chances of an armed conforntation in Korea is remote. People whom you haven't claimed to be working for the Chinese embassy themselves have said that America will do nothing. So if America will do nothing more than talk to other countries, they might as well talk with the N. Koreans...alone and keeping the interests of AMerica and its allies in the region.