The risk of war with North Korea is very high.... ...but the risk of war breaking out at any time is also of grave concern and it is growing by the day.
Why is the current situation any different from the past 50 years??
Incorrect. The United States is a direct threat to North Korea. Bush upped the ante by threatening North Korea in the axis of evil speech.
How so? The US has only 37,000 troops on the Korean peninsula, while Kim Il Jong has 1 million men in his army, and over 10,000 artillery pieces entrenched just across the DMZ, mainly awaiting their chance to pulverize Seoul.
What makes you think the S. Korean people would permit the US to launch an attack upon the north?
Bush is trying to bring 5 different regional partners into any discussions related to N. Korea's nuclear weapons program. Why are you so against such multi-lateralism, when you plainly disapprove of Bush's unilateralism with regard to Saddam??
Are you suggesting that the US should bear the primary responsibility for containing and detering S. Korea, absolving every other nation in the region of any equal responsibility?
North Korea wants nukes to deter the US and to use in the event of war -- an event that is growing far more likely under the Bush Administration
So what? The question I want to know is whether you believe Kim Il Jong would launch a first strike against any nation in the region. And would such a threat require the US to permit/assist S. Korea and Japan to build a nuclear deterrence for themselves?
Bush threatened North Korea with invasion and the North now wants talks to get promises that the US will not invade
He did?? Please document.
According to my research, the first time Bush threaten Kim Il Jong with military action was in February of this year, such as the potential bombing of their nuclear facility. But he DID NOT threaten invasion.
Apparently, Hawk shoots from the hip and assumes that the US cannot lose in a military showdown with anybody -- this is dangerous and ignorant bluster. North Korea has little to lose,
I don't believe we would lose any showdown with N. Korea. But that depends on how you define "lose". We're certainly not going to be invaded by them. I don't fear any nuclear attack by them. The only ones who have something to fear is S. Korea.
But why would Kim Il Jong invade S. Korea? They haven't threatened him. His army is bigger than theirs by several hundred thousand men. And they have far more to lose economically than he does should they ever attempt to forcibly overthrow him with military force at the behest of the US.
Please explain any response with logical arguments. Kim Il Jong, megalo-maniac that he may be, is not illogical. He's a poker player and he's playing for high stakes with a very weak hand.
And he's betting that the democratic economies of the west, being generally non-confrontational, will bow to his threats.
And history has shown that when you appease tyrants and bullies, they only come back later on with even bigger demands.
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