Apropros, my earlier post on declawing the PDRK. What is the right solution?
We are militarily limited by our peace-activists and generally everyone in the world who thinks that Bush is a shoot first, ask questions later kind of guy (in spite of evidence to the contrary).
Diplomacy doesn't seem to be working, either. What's left? Do we dare go through the motions of UN inspectors, then Security Council, then coalition building, followed by war?
Would the US be riven forever after that between two groups, both irredeemably hostile towards one another and skeptical of the other's intentions (i.e. the doves and hawks) [ed. note: please come up with new names for these groups].
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The New York Times > Washington > Diplomacy Fails to Slow Advance of Nuclear Arms
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Firstly, supposedly the PDRK is awaiting a ne'er-to-come Kerry victory in order to negotiate in bilateral talks with the US rather than multilateral talks. Why? B/c Kerry has said this is what he'd do.
What bilateral talks would solve other than telling the North Korean diplomats that we bombed the hell out of their nuke plants 10 minutes prior, I don't know!
I think that we have to think creatively regarding Korea. First, let's look at who's holding up their regime: I'm willing to bet that it's a motley crew, including the PRC, Russia, and probably some Iranian and Pakistani ties (note the nuclear ties to Khan of Pakistan, the father of the Pakistani nuke, who sold the plans to Iran, PDRK and Libya. Then from the backside lets apply coordinated pressure on their sources of income.
Meanwhile I think that we have to be frank and tell them. You should be scared. If you don't give up the nuclear game then we're going to decimate your nuclear factories so as not to allow another nuclear power on the Asian continent (who coincidentally may have ICBMs that can reach the US west coast, or South Korea and Japan at the least).
With the other hand we have to stroke China to let them know that they really don't have a choice, that it's in their best interest. Despite nukes in their back pocket, even in a knock-down-drag-out fight I don't see what China could or would do to hold up the North Korean regime when forced on the issue. Or the Russians for that matter.
This regime is the last holdout of old-school Communism in the Eastern Hemisphere. Why are we tip-toeing around a regime that has zero life left in it? It's like the wake that won't end.
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