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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (198230)8/24/2004 5:08:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1586232
 
CJ, there are many cultural differences between the North Korean regime and the Muslim extremists that you are unaware of. Trust me, what you see in North Korea isn't a movement of fanatical ideals like Al Qaeda is. What you see is a crumbling regime left over from the Cold War. They're much more concerned about survival than anything else, and it's very hard for me to believe that they're willing to go down in a blaze of glory and become martyrs like the Muslim extremists are.

The brinkmanship you see is only being employed because it works, and it has been working ever since 1994, shortly after the end of the Cold War. My belief is that North Korea really won't follow through on any of their threats, but the trouble is that no one is willing to call their bluff.

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