[Just mythoughts]

You make good points.


Stalin controlled N. Korea at the end of WWII, US controlled the S.

Both sides were to leave, then Stalin sent the North down to attack the South. Stalin made an agreement with China and the Chinese soon followed the N. Koreans.

The Korean War was a UN war and Stalin was not ask because he was boycotting UN, however the North Korean War was Stalin's war agains US. The Soviet Union/ Russia today, have never stopped controlling N. Korea.

Whatever North Korea does and says is on behalf of what Russian government wants done.

China does not want collapse of N. Korean government because they China would have an influx of N. Koreans into China.

Money got real tight in Russia in the 90's so who better than Bill Clinton and his gang provided the funds for N. Korea to build nuclear.

This is not complicated, the whole thing is about the LEFT trying to unseat President Bush.

[L,TOWM]

I'm not too sure as to how much of catspaw the DPRK is for anyone at this point. I know that Cuba and other nations have become pretty much "free agents" over the last few years, after the Soviet Aid Train stopped delivering.

Had RFR been keeping up on food, resource, and ruble aid in the last few years, I would agree with you wholeheartedly, and be pointing the finger at Bush to have a heart to heart with Putin. With the kind of stuff we are talking about here, any hint of Russian involvement in the DPRK's nuclear program would probably be much for the Russians, considering the potential payoff.

No, I think that there is something else at work here. Of course, I don't know everything. This just seems a little too close to another situation of an Asian country's leaders getting themselves into a situation where an unwinnable war look's like the "best" choice available at the moment.