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China-Japan-Koreas
SoKo Wears "Kick Me, Now" Sign For Kimmie
2006-10-10
THE prospects for tough, swift action against North Korea were scuppered yesterday when it became clear that South Korea will not abandon its policy of engagement with its totalitarian neighbour, in spite of North KoreaÂ’s claimed nuclear test.

As the US and Japan called for tough punishment for Monday’s test and experts predicted that a second may be imminent, leaders in Seoul appeared to have accepted that they will have to live with a nuclear North Korea — at least until Washington can be persuaded to engage in direct talks with the isolated Stalinist state.

“Let’s face the reality: North Korea is a nuclear power and it won’t be easy to change that,” said Moon Chung In, a professor of political science who is also an ambassador at large for the South Korean Government. “We could have prevented it, but the US would not. Now we’ve got to learn how to live with it.”

Chinese foreign officials in Beijing spoke of the “negative impact” the test had had on their relations with North Korea, an unprecedented shift. But in New York, where the diplomatic aftershocks of the test are being negotiated, profound differences among the five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council were becoming ever more apparent
Posted by:Captain America

#6  JSU, 5 years? 6 and 2 months to timewave zero (whatever that represents in Terrence McKenna's concept of novelty--I hope it did not mean that we all be living under sharia by then, that would be a type of novelty I'd rather skip entirely and won't miss for a second), then we are looking at 4 decades of really tiresome, fucked up crap, maybe more. Things would probably become more cheerfull in 60's, close, but no cigar, trying to catch up with the golden age for several centuries.
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-10-10 23:30  

#5  I am p*ssed off enough at the SKORS for their appeasment and anti-american attitude. But I am not yet ready to let them flap in the wind, especially after 50,000+ American dead and over 100,000 wounded in the Korean War.

However, the SKORS need to realize that there is no free ride after 50+ years of insuring their security. We need to be phasing out our ground troops now on a steady, rational, accelerated schedule. SKOR is plenty strong in the military to take care of Kimmie. They need the will. We cannot provide it. There is nothing like a dose of reality to help you get your sh*t together. They sink or swim, depending upon their national will. However, this does not apply to the Paleos, who, when in a hole, dig deeper. heh.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-10-10 22:59  

#4  It's going to be a long five years.
Posted by: JSU   2006-10-10 22:49  

#3  The South and the North deserve each other, truly.
Posted by: Hupolump Ebbanter6416   2006-10-10 22:24  

#2  That's some monumental fucking gall to blame America when they have constantly appeased Kim. If interfering with communist China's ambitions weren't so important, I'd say we should pull out and let them twist gently in the breeze.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-10-10 22:04  

#1  Â“We could have prevented it, but the US would not. Now weÂ’ve got to learn how to live with it.”

F-you loser. YOU prevent it, or pay him off now. I'm for pulling out and watching the hilarity when Japan puts the Rising Sun flag back on the pole.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2006-10-10 21:11  

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