NO NUKE BLACKMAIL

New York Post ^ | 4/26/03

[kattracks]

April 26, 2003 -- President Bush was right to label North Korea's claim that it now possesses a nuclear arsenal little more than an attempt at "blackmail."

More important, the president made it clear "to the North Koreans and the world [that] we're not going to be threatened."

[RobFromGa]

But if Kim Jong Il believes he can win concessions from George W. Bush at the point of a gun - albeit a nuclear one - he has fundamentally misread this president.

There's a whole cottage industry that has grown up around misunderestimating President Bush. Take a number, SpookyBoy.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There's a whole cottage industry that has grown up around misunderestimating President Bush. Take a number, SpookyBoy.

Graveyards are full of people who have misunderestimated this president.

[MNnice]

"The White House said yesterday it is headed back to the United Nations, where it will pursue measures that could include tough economic sanctions - and where support will surely be more forthcoming than it was in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom"

Don't count on it. NK has said that any UN sanctions will be a declaration of war and so the hand-wringers at the UN will be very reluctant to impose sanctions.

[freebilly]

Don't count on it. NK has said that any UN sanctions will be a declaration of war and so the hand-wringers at the UN will be very reluctant to impose sanctions.

Heck, the UN will want to put NK in charge of finding WMDs in Iraq....

[jerseygirl]

"NK has said that any UN sanctions will be a declaration of war"...yes, but didn't we also say that reprocessing fuel rods will be considered by us to be "unacceptable"?