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To: jttmab who wrote (187046)	5/22/2006 9:23:14 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

They weren't "caught"; they announced it. The technical question is when did they actually start and when did they think that the US had renigged on it's half of the bargain. But that's only important if you're a bean counter. No.. the "technical question" is WHY they were violating the NPT in the first place??!!!! The N. Korean government is one of the most intransigent regimes on the face of the earth.. They permit famine to kill hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of their own people, and Kim Jong Il and their military leaders CONSTANTLY threaten their neighbors with invasion and war... They foreign policy revolves around the belief that if they "bluster" aggressively enough, they can "extort" concessions from other nation/states. And permitting this belief to be confirmed by catering to their aggressive and bullying bluster only encourages even more of it. Do NOT be a moron jttmab and treat Kim Jong Il like some kind of responsible government leader. He is not. Kim is a megalo-maniac who knows the only way he can stay in power is to continue to bully and bluff. He proliferates WMD technology, treats his government as an organized criminal operation (counterfeiting US dollars and transiting drugs), and constantly threatens to invade the south again. Let's face some facts here.. Kim has to make a decision, just as Qaddafi made a decision. He can stop the heated rhetoric and threats against his neighboring states, and commence the path of peaceful reconciliation, or continue his current course of internal economic devastation while all of his neighboring states economically progress. The US, S. Korea, and Japan have CONSTANTLY offered him a "lifeline" in order to commence this rehabilitation of N. Korea and he's refused to consider it. Thus, the onus is on HIM, not the rest of the nations in the region, to take the next step towards peaceful resolution of these disputes. And to treat him any differently is to make a VERY DANGEROUS miscalculation about his mindset which could lead him to make some serious miscalculation that leads the region into war. Hawk