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To: Taikun who wrote (56508)	11/26/2004 12:53:23 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The certainly evil Kim might similarly missaim and hit Guatemala or South Africa or etc. But I don't see what Bush is or can do that will make any difference to that. I think if the US were absent and there were only five nation discussions, i.e. China,Japan,Russia and the two Koreas maybe things would get on just as well or even better. Are you proposing that Canada somehow has benefitted from the discussions which have taken place or will benefit from the discussions which will take place? Seems unlikely. If there were a benefit should we pay for the air fare of the US negotiators? What burden is Canada refusing to shoulder? My private guess is that the government of China does not tolerate nuclear weapons so close to the centers of population of China and not under its control. They may have no objection to North Korea's nuclear blackmail of Japan, South Korea and the US but I'm guessing that they will prevent North Korea from actually making nuclear weapons and have so warned them. A larger issue: government ownership of everything is a large scale failure. North Korea is an egregious such failure. The first "Hong Kong" i.e.capitalist factories are being built now just north of the border with South Korean knowhow and capital. Such a system will grow and grow and the North Korean government will find that their spectacularly cheap labour is a more reliable source of income than shouting atomic bomb threats around. In a couple of generations the North Korea problem will go away. Anyway the Bush administration aggravates every problem to which it turns attention. The exception to that statement seems to be Afghanistan but we haven't seen the last of that situation.