Most Japanese are scared and angry. A volatile composition.
US and Japan will draw real close now. ROK will not go along with us, and continue to appease (it seems). However, their military might get impatient. If I were Roh I'd watch my back. China can be the big screw up here if they give the DPRK the usual pass--we will know more tomorrow at the UN but it does not look good. I think eventually we go it alone with Japan, unilaterally and without the world community. There could be real fireworks. KJI is trying to run the clock out. He really hopes CLINTON will be elected in two years....and of course if she is, he gets Richardson, Albright, Berger, Cohen, Sherman, all of them in a bucket deal. If he can stick out the next 24 months, he figures, he will be scott free as the sticks will be dropped and the carrots will roll in. I am surprised he lasted 6 years during the Bush Administration, but they had numerous holes in the economic sanctions that Chinese, S. Korean, Russian and Japanese business interests, through Macao and elsewhere, went around.