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To: greenspirit who wrote (66382)	1/16/2003 9:53:29 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nemts is right about one thing regarding N Korea and Russia. The Russian Far East is under great pressure from the Chinese. Both legal and illegal Chinese immigration there is high. Chinese business development there both legal and illegal is high, also. Until recently, Russian administration there was very weak and corrupt - it may have improved, I don't know. And, for its great resources to be exploited the RFE needs a lot more people but the Russians aren't that keen on lots of Chinese so Korean contract labour would be an alternative. The railway from Korea to Europe is a very good commercial idea and has been mentioned before - anything which increases the sum total of world trade is a good idea. Gas pipeline would certainly be advantageous to Russia, Korea and China. As I posted here earlier in rather a facetious way, the US needs to get in close with N Korea and stay there. It would be neither expensive nor difficult to do so. The stand off from the North hasn't done its people any good and greater US involvement couldn't do them great harm, if any harm at all. That the Russians and Chinese might be encouraging N Korea to act as a distraction from the Iraq project shouldn't be a huge problem for the US because it's just too far away in place and time. The Iraq project is right now the N Korean problem is further in the future.