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To: Poser
BREAKING NEWS (other than Iraq):

Seems we may be making progress on another critical front:

(Baltimore Sun)

BEIJING - For three straight days in recent weeks, something remarkable happened to the oil pipeline running through northeast China to North Korea - the oil stopped flowing, according to diplomatic sources, temporarily cutting off a vital lifeline for North Korea.

The pipeline shutdown, officially ascribed to a technical problem, followed an unusually blunt message delivered by China to its longtime ally in a high-level meeting in Beijing last month, the sources said. Stop your provocations about the possible development of nuclear weapons, China warned its neighbor, or face Chinese support for economic sanctions against the regime.

Article here

Sadly, there a lot of lefty loonies who are going to be disappointed by this.
929 posted on 03/30/2003 7:23:43 AM PST by Timeout (...an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm--GWB inaugural address)
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To: Timeout
"Sadly, there a lot of lefty loonies who are going to be disappointed by this."

Could it be that the Bush administration took a look at N. Korea and decided that it was a Chinese/Japanese/Russian problem? Could it be that they decided to let nature take its course and allow those countries to deal with it?

I'm betting that this is exactly what we expected to happen.
933 posted on 03/30/2003 7:27:11 AM PST by Poser
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