[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.

[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.