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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (106781)	7/20/2003 10:20:23 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Option (3) is to provide S. Korea and Japan with their own nuclear deterrent, thereby nullifying any political or military advantage Kim Jong Il believes he will gain by building nuclear weapons. M.A.D worked for the US and USSR for 50 years. It will work on the Korean peninsula. If we were worried about a North Korean attack on S. Korea or Japan, that would work. The concern, though, is not that Korea will nuke somebody, but that they will sell a weapon to somebody outside the region. Giving nukes to the S. Korean or the Japanese would have no impact at all on that possibility. And were we to have 100% confidence that Kim Jong Il was going to be in a certain location at a certain time, I'm sure the temptation would be great to kill him. I don't think we'd try. The potential penalty for failing - or even for succeeding - is too high.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (106781)	7/20/2003 10:21:34 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

What rubbish to compare North Korea to a child and the US as a parent dishing out discipline. What is this, the foreign policy thread for clowns? We made a direct threat to an extremely dangerous and unstable regime that is both a nuclear power and a sleazy arms merchant -- one that is made more dangerous by virtue of teetering on the verge of collapse. The threat was made on a whim -- unforgivable self-indulgence on the part of a President whose careless words can cost hundreds of thousands of people their lives. Now we are left with only three choices. We can meet with the North Koreans and talk about. We can watch while they build a nuclear arsenal, some of which is likely to find its way on to the open market. Or we can go to war now. I am sorry, but your silly posts are hard to take seriously.