- 19 Mar 2003 01:53
#197311
North Korea is not a real threat. Here's why:
In 1999 (I think) Clinton signed a deal with N. Korea stating that the United States would provide food and money to the North Koreans, in return N.K. would desist all attempts at develloping a nuclear programme. When Bush came into office, his administration did not approve and renegged on the deal. In return, North Korea ALSO renegged on their end of the bargain.
In effect, their current nuclear program is only a bargaining tool. North Korea's on the brink, they don't have enough money to mount any attack against anyone. In addition to which, North Korea has a powerful ally: China. China is rapidly turning into one of the biggest players on the world stage, and a war with them would be devasting for the US as well as the rest of the world. There's no way that the US could feasably attack; It's all being blown horribly out of proportion because N.Korea was in the axis of evil.
Even that's a fluke. Think about it. Iraq is a threat, but not so much, the US just wants their oil... Iran: more of a threat than the Iraq, they have money, dislike the US, and have a developed (albeit "civilian only") nuclear programme... N.Korea: barely has a weapons program, is not a real threat, communism has not been a problem since the fall of the Berlin Wall.. then why put them on the axis of evil... think about it, any number of other countries are bigger threats to the US, most notably any of the rich Arab states with populations who aren't too supportive of the US in their area... but if they had another arab state on the list they'd just look like a) they were picking on the Arabs, (yes, I know Iranians are persians) or b) that they just had purely oil-related interests... so they needed another country.. so they just picked the next most likely (but in truth, unlikely country) a country which was causing problems for them by reneggin on their end of the nuclear deal, and a communist country (which everybody still hates), and a country that nobody actually knows what's going on inside: that country Korea.
Korea's not a threat, if the US would just give them their food and money, then they'd once again cease to be an entity on the world stage.
Cheers,
S./
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Comrade Smith wrote:the real threat N. Korea.
North Korea is not a real threat. Here's why:
In 1999 (I think) Clinton signed a deal with N. Korea stating that the United States would provide food and money to the North Koreans, in return N.K. would desist all attempts at develloping a nuclear programme. When Bush came into office, his administration did not approve and renegged on the deal. In return, North Korea ALSO renegged on their end of the bargain.
In effect, their current nuclear program is only a bargaining tool. North Korea's on the brink, they don't have enough money to mount any attack against anyone. In addition to which, North Korea has a powerful ally: China. China is rapidly turning into one of the biggest players on the world stage, and a war with them would be devasting for the US as well as the rest of the world. There's no way that the US could feasably attack; It's all being blown horribly out of proportion because N.Korea was in the axis of evil.
Even that's a fluke. Think about it. Iraq is a threat, but not so much, the US just wants their oil... Iran: more of a threat than the Iraq, they have money, dislike the US, and have a developed (albeit "civilian only") nuclear programme... N.Korea: barely has a weapons program, is not a real threat, communism has not been a problem since the fall of the Berlin Wall.. then why put them on the axis of evil... think about it, any number of other countries are bigger threats to the US, most notably any of the rich Arab states with populations who aren't too supportive of the US in their area... but if they had another arab state on the list they'd just look like a) they were picking on the Arabs, (yes, I know Iranians are persians) or b) that they just had purely oil-related interests... so they needed another country.. so they just picked the next most likely (but in truth, unlikely country) a country which was causing problems for them by reneggin on their end of the nuclear deal, and a communist country (which everybody still hates), and a country that nobody actually knows what's going on inside: that country Korea.
Korea's not a threat, if the US would just give them their food and money, then they'd once again cease to be an entity on the world stage.
Cheers,
S./
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