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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Rascal who wrote (62936)12/23/2002 4:58:32 PM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Didn't we try this with Japan and oil?


The parallel between Japan pre WW2 and Korea is not a good one. Japan was an expansionary imperial power with means of projecting power and a relatively big economy.

N Korea is not. Its a miserable little place owned by the family of the regime. They don't have a clue how to run a viable country. The nukes are a means of getting some attention and payoffs from the South and the US, or possibly takover of the South through nuclear blackmail.

In the end the only use the nukes would have is generators of foreign exchange either through blackmail or sale. Either way , the returns are pitiable and of a one-off nature. (They'll get the money and it will wasted on non-investments).

It's sales of the weapons which should concern the US and likely quite a few other countries, as well.

Rhetoric from the N Korean government shows little connection to reality - 'the country is threatened by foreign enemies'. Absurd, isn't it? Nobody wants the place because the regime has made it a zero value place. No, make that a negative value place - it contains nothing but problems and has no strategic position except with respect to S Korea.

I suggested, flippantly, the US should buy the weapons and let the place continue to sink. Cheap, simple and eventually the place would turn into such a sinkhole and irritant to the Chinese they'd be compelled to do something about it.
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