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2007-09-03 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Sanctions rarely work. But they worked this time.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-03 02:31|| 2007-09-03 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 McZoid, not sure that is really the case, at least not in the sense of a magic bullet. Consider sanctions on Saddam, how long they've been in place.

Something else is going on, in NorK, internally.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-03 02:46|| 2007-09-03 02:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Kimmie the Younger has pissed off the ChiComs with his stunts, and the US banking assault has cut the whole regime off from access to their slush funds overseas. Methinks that the ChiComs are cleaning house in preparation for the Olympics, and do NOT want Kimmie or one of his generals to pull a Tet or Battle of the Bugle on the SoKors before or during the Games. That would effectively end the Olympics in Bejing and cost the Chinese major face.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-09-03 06:23|| 2007-09-03 06:23|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe Shieldwolf nails it. In the 'Middle Kingdom', FACE is everything.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2007-09-03 09:04|| 2007-09-03 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Kimmie has no oil and so may be more desperate and less able to bribe the French and the U.N. types than Saddam was. Could be the only bargaining chip he has is the nuke program. Could also be his health is failing to the point where some of the more pragmatic generals are calling the shots and willing to make a deal. Now if they'd just aim a few shots at Kimmie's head...but then he might already be dead.

Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2007-09-03 14:08|| 2007-09-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 What about the 54 year old bargaining chip?

Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2007-09-03 14:32|| 2007-09-03 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 More Stall "We MIGHT be able to get rid of nukes by (Unspecified Date)

Now what'll ya give us?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-09-03 15:52|| 2007-09-03 15:52|| Front Page Top

#8 "In return for this we will receive political and economic compensation

Yep, just stall, stall, stall.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-09-03 15:54|| 2007-09-03 15:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Without unfettered on-the-ground inspection and verification, this is so much tripe. Kimmie's little Paradise on Earth is on the ropes and he needs to be propped up in the worst way. Without verification provisions with teeth, I call Bullsh*t. The NORKS have been liars for over 50 years, so will they really change?

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-09-03 17:29|| 2007-09-03 17:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Nothing will change until all hands holding North Korea's nukes are cold and dead.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-03 22:37|| 2007-09-03 22:37|| Front Page Top

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