re <<Germany>>
cyber pen-pal visited baden-baden and reported
"Just went to the exhibition of Sigmar Polke works in a gorgeous Richard Meier building in Baden-Baden and found pictures of gold nuggets (attached). We always knew it to be the real art, the real thing ;-)"
w/r <<The NK leadership has to go>>
... unsure of the mechanism.
re <<there is nothing China can do to preclude them from further developing ICBMs.>>
... bingo
re <<the NK leadership would rather starve its people than stop its nuclear programs.>>
... believe that may be the case.
re <<China is unable to control NK.>>
... correct, and true even at the beginning of the day.
re <<China knows that NK is a US-Japanese-S. Korean problem, not truly theirs.>>
... believe that to be the case, because China cannot guarantee NK security, and therefore which ever nations threatens NK or is viewed to threaten NK is a NK issue, and therefore an issue for the nations that are perceived to threaten NK.
re <<Finally, China's motivation is tinged with many competing interests because, in its view, anything that weakens S Korea, Japan and the US is not altogether a bad thing.>>
... logic holds water.
Now, the beautiful, primordial, elemental, eternal, born of the stars ...
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