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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (108574)	7/28/2003 8:24:10 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

No nation has taken the step of outright selling their nuclear weapons to a willing buyer that I'm aware of.. Certainly not without the selling assuming direct responsibility for what damage is caused by it. True. But NK really has no use for them other than blackmail or sales. I think China is really at risk on this. Their dissident groups would pay.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (108574)	7/29/2003 12:07:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Xinjiang rebels?> There's a ring of fire and it's not just around the edge of the Pacific tectonic plates. It's around Islamic Jihad. As you point out, Hu Jintao and co would NOT want to have an A-Bomb, H-Bomb, Dirty Bomb, Suitcase Bomb or the dreaded Q-Bomb be sold by Korea Kim and Ko [KKK] to Osama, or Saddam, or Iran, or Syria, or Yasser, or anyone else likely to use it to persuade China to give autonomy to Islamic Jihad in western China, or otherwise create a big mess. China wants some peace and quiet; plus Taiwan when the time is right. Hu doesn't want Taiwan getting a Q-Bomb either and the bomb delivery route goes right past Taiwan, so North Korea could deliver easily enough. China would go ape if Kim started selling noocular bombs to third parties. But I can see it would make sense for China to allow North Korea to have a couple just in case the USA with their confrontational attitude gets too overbearing and start taking potshots. Especially if China has decided it's time to take over in Taiwan, or otherwise fails to toe the line set in the sand by Globocop. It's all too messy. It's time for the UN to get the makeover and reconstitution, including New Zealand's noocular free legislation. The only basis to have a noocular explosion is mass murder [or to destroy USS Enterprise and Ronald Raygun]. It's insane having MAD as a method of keeping the peace in the 21st century. That's no way to ensure harmony with neighbours and other villagers. Kim is giving everyone the creeps. Let's hope the USA gets Saddam and Kim gets the message. I suppose he has seen the James Bond movie and maybe he even relishes his part in it. Not everybody wants to be a nice guy. Saddam enjoyed seeing fear. Uday took that to extremes. Kim perhaps is really enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. Authoritarian megalomaniacs seem to have trouble realizing that they're not the good guys. [I don't include myself in that because I KNOW I'm the good guy and I'll ban anyone who disagrees - or refer them to the boss of Homeland Security for transfer to Guantanamo Bay where there'll be NO habeas corpus and no right of reply]. Condoleezza Rice should stop the talk about Hu Jintao and China being strategic competitors and start making nice. I'm starting to think she got the job because she had excellent chromosomes and melanin levels - plus she must have been a bit of a babe when Brent Scowcroft invited her to join King George I's New World Order. Can't say I blame him. We all like to have a nice working environment and staff might as well be all-rounders if they have the talent. Hu Jintao is primarily a customer, supplier and business partner. Not a "strategic competitor". Mqurice PS: You may continue to post Hawk. Please keep up the good standards.