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That's an interesting question, thanks for asking it! Well, diplomacy has never worked with Pyongyang, any meetings have been mudane and uneventful. It is definately hard to infiltrate that country, to invade N.K. now would be disasterous, as you have said. I think I worded my last post a little harshly, what I was getting to with unleashing the ROK military, and I definately did not expand on that like I should have, was to let ROK deal with their threats the way they want to. I don't believe, from living and working with these guys, that they want a full out war either, but that maybe both countries would have a better time (although the outcome may not be what everyone would want) dealing with each other without us hovering around the conference table. I feel that the key to any sort of civil relations should start with bringing families back together, this could sew up some serious tears. I truly can't think of an absolute way of dealing with the situation that would benefit the world as a whole. Perhaps leaving the two governments to deal with each other might be the only way at this point. Of course that's treading dangerous waters also, and the UN should have a key role in watchdogging what the outcome will be. A united Korea? I don't think that would occur with one Communist and one Democratic government. Any thoughts?

Pepsionice- See Trident/Delta's post below your last. He has covered the point I was going to make to yo, which is that this is not a problem confined to the Korean Peninsula now (if it were, we could just pack up our seabags and get the hell out of there tomorrow morning!).

The DPRK is heavily involved in supplying weapons, including missiles, to enemies of America all over the world. They are also, apparently, helping countries that hate us to develop nuclear weapons (and, I am pretty sure, chemical and biological weapons as well).

This cannot go on indefinitely. Someone is going to win this war, and someone is going to lose. But all of us are going to pay the price for appeasing dictators, just as we have in the past.

I think there is very big war coming- and if America escapes without losing a major city or two, we will be very lucky.

This wishful thinking (by some on this board) that somehow China is going to ride to the rescue is nonsense- China wants us OUT of the Pacific just as much as Japan did in 1941. If that can be accomplished without China actually having to fight us, they wil jump at the chance.