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To: GST who wrote (105597)	7/15/2003 9:03:21 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 281500

First of all, it's a mistake to claim the problem with NK was started by Bush. This is the view that only America can act independently and everyone else just reacts to us. From things I've read over the past six months or so, NK had been cheating on the 1994 agreement for 5 years and simply came out in the open and admitted it last fall. Re. food aid to NK, I'd agree with that - assuming the NK govt would accept it - strictly for humanitarian reasons. It has no impact on the crisis however because NK public opinion doesn't matter. The regime controls the people there not the other way around. As for threatening NK, I think they are the ones doing the threatening - threatening to wipe out Tokyo, Seoul, to send a nuclear missile toward America - they can probably reach Alaska. The country is isolated because its a rigid police state which has closed its society off to outside influences. It also makes next to nothing that is worth anyone buying (except perhaps nuclear warheads) and has no means to buy anything from anyone. So how could it not be isolated. We have to work with and through countries which do have some influence on NK - China, Russia, as well as SK and Japan. So we have to get more in bed somewhat with the Chinese and Russians unfortunately, I think. War is less likely if they know they have no allies. And if war comes, we need to prevent it from spreading as the Korean war did.