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To: Dayuhan who wrote (106786)	7/20/2003 11:12:23 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The concern, though, is not that Korea will nuke somebody, but that they will sell a weapon to somebody outside the region. Always a possibility. But were such a device to be used against the US, or any other nation, the radioactive signature of the uranium used in the device would be the "smoking gun" as to its origin. That would then create the conditions where N. Korea would have essentially declared war upon the US, with the requisite consequences. I'm far more worried about militant Islam, where I don't feel nearly as confident that its leaders act in a rational, if belligerent manner. Kim Jong Il knows what would happen to him, and that's not in his interest. But a miitant muslim, seeking to collect his 72 virgins from Allah, is a completely different and irrational (by our standards) opponent. Kim Jong Il is trying to protect what he has accumulated here in this existence. He cares nothing about any existence beyond his death... Unfortunately, religious militants are just the opposite... and thus, that much more deadly. Which is why I believe Saudi Arabia is the nation that has to be dealt with, if they are unable/unwilling to repress and/or reform their Wahhabist clerics. And Iraq is the key to diminishing Saudi Arabia's power. Hawk