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To: NickSE who wrote (63605)	12/30/2002 1:21:12 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

Chilling! But if he is guaranteed that US will not seek to depose him, he could still enter into a deal. Actually we have no choice but to try imo but we any deal should preclude the sale of missiles or wmd. There arent any pleasant alternatives in Korea at present so we have to seek the least dangerous course for the world. But your post opens up the possibility of having to incent him otherwise. What role does communist ideology play in all this? That may turn out to be a key question because if he is ideolgically committed to destruction of capitalism then we have a problem even if we buy him off. mike

To: NickSE who wrote (63605)	12/30/2002 3:11:54 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I knew North Korea had a food problem but hadn't read of two million deaths from starvation. What a monster! I noted one thing in one of the otherwise good articles that I suspect is hogwash: Noting that Kim Jong Il's father, Kim Il Sung, became leader of North Korea in 1948, he said, "A monarchical absolute tradition of five centuries will not disappear in 50 years." If this were true, South Korea would not be a democracy.