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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (65213)	1/10/2003 3:17:05 AM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

Actually, I'm too sarcastic but things don't work there like most places. They can't because of the isolation and nature of the leadership. It's not possible to work the usual stuff which is predicated on the leadership being conventionally reasonable. There's no point in assuming that the regime is going to behave like the Chinese or Japanese or S Koreans, or Iranians, even. However they're not stupid, exactly. The timing of the whole matter is not accidental. If they do have nukes, they've got a market. The only country they can actually lean on in their area is S Korea which is a US ally and big economic partner. And they're dead, stony broke and have no real economy and have no clue how to get one. They're paranoid, also, as far as I can make out. If I've got that much right (but I could be wrong, they might just be theatrical - the S Koreans surely can be), then they have to feel they're in control so either way, it's an opportunity to get in close. They want treaties and diplomatic recognition therfore lay on an embassy twice as big with twice the staff there is in Seoul. Keep them occupied while the country falls down around their ears. What's happened is that N Korea demonstrates the dictum of, I think, Georg Simmel, with regard to men and women which is something like this: "The relation of men to women is the same as master and slave - the weaker party has to pay a lot more attention to the nature of the relationship." Some where in the bowels of Foggy Bottom there is an exhaustive study of N Korea which no one has read until a week ago. So the US won't be up to speed for a while. There's going to be one at the CIA as well, which no doubt is starting to look dog eared. Take a look at this: kcna.co.jp Bet these guys are getting lots of business these days: ifes.kyungnam.ac.kr