North Korea would spend most of their GDP to set off a series of firecrackers.
There are a couple of trolls on this thread so I will post my email response to those trolls that think Clinton is clean in this NK fiasco.
Clinton by giving Il the light water reactors and therefore the capability to make fissle material all on Il's word that he wouldn't do it is part of the great misunderstanding that liberals have of the world. Can we agree that Il is a madman. Ok, by arming a madman Clinton delayed the inevitable and Bush who obviously is not a liberal and therefore not as tolerant as Clinton, is the one that has to clean up the mess. Following liberal logic after 911 we were supposed to continue to allow Saddam Hussein to game the UN with the Oil For Food scandal and continue to work towards development of WMD which he then would have smuggled into the U.S. or Israel through a terrorist group. Take your pick Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezzbollah, Islamic Jihad, Taliban, etc.. Obviously Saddam wanted to strike at America and he wanted to do it with WMD. So I ask if we can agree that if given the opportunity to strike at the U.S. Saddam would have done so. I think we can all agree that he would, so the bottom line is that the U.S. is safer and the world is better without Saddam in power. If you want to hold Bush accountable for the prosecution of Iraq and for intel failures that is a totally different issue than saying we should never have went in. You cannot have it both ways either Saddam is in power or he isn't. I prefer the world without him controlling Iraq. Insurgency, civil war, who knew. Anyway that is what we are dealing with now and our military is doing a mighty fine job dealing with it and the plan of putting Iraqi forces in place is working albeit slow for liberals. Now back to NK. Bush being diplomatic on NK and seeking China's help via the 6 party talks is the only real threat to Il and therefore the only real solution to the problem. Please study the entire situation, also if you happen to be a real looney liberal and subscribe to the PNAC conspiracy 911 theories etc.. well ask yourself this simple question. How can Bush be so smart to pull off a vast conspiracy involving so many people to create the illusion that terrorists attacked us on 911 took down the WTC and hit the Pentagon and yet he couldn't plant and find WMD in and empty Iraqi desert with a small detail of specially trained and planted cadre of insiders? He would have quelled all the Liberal no WMD claims and been raised to hero status. Anyway as you See it doesn't fit, right, so don't believe all the hype that the looney left has spewed forth in their hatred of Bush and America. Do some homework and lets truly find out what the best way forward for this country is at this time in out history.
lil' kim is giving his chess master (china) more reason to be proud of lil' kim (the pawn). Give it up china, America sees through your game...... and past your lil' (pawn) kim.
Sounds very series!
It's time for GWB to tell the Chicoms that if they don't get their "Dog" back on the porch not one container of their junk will be offloaded in Long Beach or anywhere else!
How do you say blockade in NK & embargo in Chinese?
China isn't going to do anything to help.
Thank A Clinton....
You know a few things, that a single Nuke test will not make the Russians or the Chinese play hardball with NK. You also know the NKs probably have a limited number of nukes. So what do you do? You egg them on. You tell them that either A) the test wasn't really Nuclear, or B) it was a teensy weensy wittle nukie, bwah ha ha, you have a little p*nis..
This makes NK want to blow up more nukes to save face. So they do. What have you accomplished? 1) You make NK raise the stakes so that Russia and China (the UN in general) really have to look at going hardline on NK, and 2), you reduce the number of possible Nukes that NK can sell to potential terrorists.
Mission accomplished..
Their are two ways this will go:
1) Kim is in the best position he will ever be in. He will get massive concessions from Asia and the West to non-proliferate his technology, IF the USA can swallow our pride and engage in one on one dialogue which carries it's own pro's and con's. Since it took so much of his countries resources for nuke R&D he could likely shift resources and build an economy to engage Asia at this point and become a real power that is less threatening to it's neighbors. Kim may appear crazy but he is VERY shrewd.
2) The USA does not engage in one on one dialogue and we and other allies blockade North Korea to enforce non-proliferation. It is my strong opinion if this happens North Korea will use it's conventional forces to invade the South and will use it's nuclear deterrent to prevent us from using nukes to stop him from over-running the South.
Both these options are not very good but swallowing our pride and engaging in one on one talks may be the only way to avoid a massive military conflict.
There will be as many done as Iran is willing to pay for!