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To: D. Long who wrote (63338)	12/29/2002 6:31:30 AM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

the N. Koreans are so paranoid that they get even LOONIER when you give them what they want. Someone posted an article awhile ago that brought that up. Yes. Their irrational side is denial of the basic unimportance and failure of their country - that is, the leadership. They're obsessive about maintaining the denial so you take advantage of that. Here's a just about randomly chosen story from their press agency: KCNA blasts U.S. warmongers' outbursts Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. bellicose forces have become more undisguised in their moves to mount a preemptive attack upon the DPRK in a bid to contain it by force of arms under the pretext of its "nuclear issue." U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld asserted on Dec. 23 that even the use of force against the DPRK would not be ruled out, blustering "The U.S. is perfectly capable of taking military action against Iraq and North Korea at the same time." Meanwhile, Richard Perl, chairman of the U.S. Committee for Defense Policy, on Dec 17 said that the Bush administration should not rule out even a military option to settle the nuclear issue of North Korea. This whole string of bellicose remarks made by U.S. warmongers betrays their black-hearted design to threaten the DPRK militarily and, at the same time, topple its system at any cost through preemptive attack. It is by no means fortuitous that the Dec. 25 issue of the newspaper Asahi Shimbun described such remarks as ones revealing that the hard-line logic aimed at toppling North Korea's system is deeply rooted in the U.S. Government. The U.S. much publicized assertion that North Korea should scrap its nuclear program first is nothing but a pipe-dream as it calls for disarming the DPRK under the absurd pretext of its "nuclear program" and then launching a surprise attack on it to overthrow its political system. The DPRK has consistently maintained the stand to settle the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula through the DPRK-U.S. dialogue and especially through the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty between them. But the U.S. is turning away from the DPRK's proposal for concluding a non-aggression treaty, the most realistic proposal to prevent the present crisis from inching close to the brink of a war. It is rushing headlong into extremely dangerous confrontation with the DPRK, saying that it would neither have dialogue with the DPRK nor rule out a war against it. Ceaseless war outcries are heard in the wake of the recent U.S.-South Korea annual security consultative meeting held in Washington which decided to take a measure of military sanctions, little short of a declaration of a war against the DPRK, under the pretext of its "nuclear issue." This situation compels the DPRK to cope with it with highest revolutionary vigilance. The DPRK neither wants nor avoids a war. The Korean People's Army is fully combat-ready and closely following the U.S. moves to start a nuclear war. It is the DPRK's stand to meet force with force. If the U.S. bellicose forces, ignorant of its rival, recklessly ignite a war, the people's army and people of the DPRK will resolutely turn out to mete out a decisive and merciless punishment to them. kcna.co.jp I wasn't clear enough. They say they want a treaty. So, I say, "Lets talk about it." The most important country in the world comes to talk and takes up the leadership's attention. Completely. It comes like Queen Elizabeth I visiting some luckless nobility. That sort of attention is very consuming. You talk and you talk. Did I say anything about signing something? That's their stated goal but it's not what the leadership wants - it wants to feel important. If you sign something, you'll go away and they'll have to do something else to feel important and get you to come back. That's where the loony stuff comes in. And if you do sign something you have to have something else up your sleeve they'll want to talk about. You have to control the agenda. Otherwise they'll be creative and you don't want that. They may be nutters but they're of at least average intelligence and so their creativity can be dangerous. The object is to get in close and stay there.