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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (108)	8/5/2003 11:50:42 AM
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Catching Kim with his pants down By Li Yongyan ... Korea Catching Kim with his pants down By Li Yongyan If Saddam Hussein really had a cache of biological and chemical weapons, would he have unleashed them on the marching allied forces? Most people would agree that he would, judging by his massacre of the Kurdish people in northern Iraq. But would he have detonated an atomic bomb if he had one? The world never found out, fortunately. But the question, hypothetical as it may be, has serious, realistic implications on the peace and security of some 1.6 billion people in the Far East, because like Saddam, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is also a dictator and therefore a danger to the region. But unlike Saddam, he is enthusiastically pursuing a nuclear program and wants the whole world to know it, posing a clear and potential danger to the well-being of the people on the Korean Peninsula and far beyond. As North Korea, the United States and four other nations prepare for a new round of multilateral negotiations on the nuclear crises, their pursuit of a reliable and viable solution should begin with an understanding of how the issue has come about. The first question is: Why is Kim going about acquiring nuclear capabilities? The consensus has him using the nuclear issue as leverage for international blackmail. If we take a look at history, it will be apparent that Kim Junior is actually seeking peace and recognition. Communists are not known for their imagination, with good reason: they suppress freedom of thought. So what do they do when they wish to achieve something desirable? Mao Zedong summed up his own experience: "The power of examples is indefinite." Indefinite indeed. When the Chinese communists swept into power in 1949, Kim Il-sung was full of admiration and inspiration. Within a year, he launched a "unification" war on the Republic of Korea across the United Nations-established border. In early 1960s, when a rift with Moscow left Beijing isolated and unloved, Mao's resolve was hardened by shame: "Go ahead and let them blockade us, for 10 years, for 20 years. By that time we will have everything." In the words of one general, "We will have to make one atomic bomb even if it means pawning our pants." So one bomb was exploded in 1964. The shockwave was sweet: the Nationalists in Taiwan gave up for good their hopes of a comeback to the mainland, and seven years later, a US president asked to be invited to Beijing for normalization talks. ... atimes.com