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To: TobagoJack who wrote (9951)	10/9/2006 2:11:29 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218304

I don't think all the eyes are on Bush, but rather China, as the only one having leverage. I don't think Japan or South Korea want to increase military spending or develop nuclear weapons. They are not looking fro an excuse to do so, otherwise, Japan would have done this long ago. I would expect China to put more troops on the border to try to seal it, while applying even more economic pressure on the smugglers and others who are keeping the North Korean elite alive with money and critical goods. The most we might see out of the United Nations would be a Naval Blockade. Between Japan, the US and Chinese naval units, I expect the blockade could be pretty effective. North Korea's border with Russia is very small and in the Far North. So China would then have a real stranglehold on a psychotic pit bull...