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To: Brumar89 who wrote (107243)	7/22/2003 10:25:38 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<I see from your own earlier post we began construction on the two reactors last fall. > The Agreement was in 1994. By 2002, the U.S. had already labelled NK as "axis of evil", and the Administration was making weekly threats of Regime Change, sanctions, blockades, etc. Starting work on the reactors 8 years after the Agreement, was way too late. By then, the Agreement was already dead. The increased trade and investment, the normalizing of economic and diplomatic relations, it never happened. A token effort, at the end of the Clinton Administration (after years of non-action), and then those token efforts were reversed as soon as the Bush Administration began. It wasn't just military items that were restricted. "Dual-use" is an elastic phrase, which can cover just about anything. Almost any hi-tech gear can be defined as "dual-use." We didn't allow vaccinations to be imported into Iraq, because they were supposedly "dual-use". Talking with NK is useless, if we don't first talk to SK and China, and agree on a common plan with those "frontline" states. Without a common plan, NK can play us off against each other. Frankly, I don't see any realistic plan, that takes NK's WMD away from them. Their WMD are the massed artillery in range of Seoul, and nukes (which they either already have, or will have soon). The best that can be done now, is containment. Sooner or later, NK will go the way of E. Germany, and for the same reasons. We need to avoid disasters, misunderstandings, miscalculations, until that happens. The current policy, which is to continuously threaten the paranoid NK leadership, isn't the best policy for achieving that.