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Thursday, January 16, 2003
posted by gbarto at 2:00 AM:
N. Korea Rejects U.S. OfferPyongyang declares it won't accept dialogue with conditions attached
Maybe, then, we shouldn't bother talking to it. Kim may get nukes, but if he can't feed his people or heat their homes that may be irrelevant. What's he gonna say when the regime can no longer afford to buy the people off to keep its power: Let them eat nukes?
North Korea had best be careful. It's making a great deal of fuss over the US. But what happens when it threatens China's title as superpower of the region? China has supported North Korea for years because it p----ed of the US. But when it ticks off China it will be completely isolated and whatever arsenal it has amassed will be good for little more than the closing fireworks after a poorly played show.
I hope the damage done as North Korea heads for the ash bin of history won't be too great. But there is where it is headed, which is why the country is acting so ridiculously to prove it's still worthy of speaking of. Like the Taliban regime, it can create nothing, build nothing; it cannot grow. It can only destroy. And so it will perish, one way or another.
Question: With Iraq and North Korea acting as they are, will we soon have a phrase, "national suicide by US/UN action"?
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