Posted on 08/03/2003 9:22:57 PM PDT by BCrago66
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The White House had a shape-of-the-table announcement last week: North Korea would participate in six-sided talks with the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea and Japan. This was welcome but it changes nothing fundamental. Kim Jong Il has clearly demonstrated his capacity for falsehood in multilateral as well as bilateral forums. The bigger, and much worse, news is the overall course of events this summer.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Oh dear, and I was headed for bed. Oh well, thanks COUNT.
ping
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http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/08/NorthKoreablinks.shtml
This is an excellent blog post, and if the writer's conclusions are correct, bodes well for the US, if Bush can ignore the pack of yapping critics at his heels and stay the course. The key to solving the North Korean problem was, is and always will be the Chinese. The ChiComs intend to establish their own hegemony in Asia, and they won't allow the NKs to screw things up at this early stage. At this point in time we can use this certainty to our advantage, and buy need time on the chance that Chinas's merchantile class will eventually prevail over its expansionist military rulers. The wild card is the Japanese, who absolutely will not tolerate a nuclear NK, period. And China cannot tolerate a nuclear Japan, the old animosities still run hard and deep..... in this case, Churchill was right, better jaw jaw than war war.
I had to do a double take...to check the date on the article...
Thanks for pinging me.
Thanks you for the dose of common sense among this thread's rampant fear and trembling of the unstoppable North Korean war machine.
8000 sorties a day can solve a lot of problems. I believe in our air power.
WOW... very informative and skeery, Count... thanks!
Thanks for the ping!! I almost read the entire first page before I realized the thread was from 2003. Amazing how the opinion piece read like it could have been recently pinned.
I'm listening to an end times show on talk radio right now. It should be quite interesting considering all the rumors of wars and more wars. Strange times, indeed.
Thanks again for the ping!
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