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North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons
steelvadi writes "North Korea has now admitted to possessing nuclear weapons. Government officials there claimed that they are needed as defense from an increasingly hostile attitude from Washington. It was also stated that N. Korea will not be reentering negotiations on disarmament for the foreseeable future. "
Israeli has nuclear weapons since long time ago, so why other nation like north korea can't have its nuclear weapon?
oh yeah~ because poor north korea never able to own any mass media or entertainment company in american...
sigh... poverty is really a sin.
...is that he's pimp and a gangsta. Look at them glasses he dons. Look at his demeanor. "Bitch, if you don't step down, I'm gonna have to backhand slap you with some nukes. Fuck the peace talks! Y'all ain't representing the hood right"
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Maybe if Bush builds up some goodwill and trust then the North would be willing to resume negotiations. You don't negotiate with someone you think is lying to you.
This seems staggerly out of touch; are you aware that the nuclear weapons in question were built from technology the Clinton administration donated in exchange for not developing nuclear weapons? You really think the North Korean government is a paragon of trustworthiness and the USA with its donations of foodstuffs to the starving NK population is at fault?
I'm sure you all would have voted for the invasion on North Korea ... before you voted against it.
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Exactly. At the time, the Clinton Administration waved the "Peace in Our Time" treaty like a bunch of Neville Chamberlains...Now what do we get? Instead of a war on our terms, against a non-nuclear enemy, we'll get a war on their terms, against a nuclear-and-willing-to-use-it enemy. To quote from the Wiki on Chamberlain... "The theory was that dictatorships arose where peoples had grievances, and that by removing the source of these grievances, the dictatorship would become less aggressive." We all know that worked great with Hitler, and it worked so wonderful with NK too. So now what do we do? Stand back and wait for the next "Great Patriotic War" when they get a huge stockpile built, or cut our losses and fight now?
" Yeah, good thing we raided big bad Iraq, while sweet lil' N. Korea was doing all of this."
Somehow I doubt that if we had proposed raiding sweet lil' N. Korea with military force, you'd have supported it. Somehow, I get the feeling you would have said "We're attacking an innocent sovereign nation for no good reason!"
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Can anyone tell me why it's ok for the US to increase funding for bunker busting nuclear weapons but it isn't ok for other countries to research similar technologies.
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That's what I'm waiting for.
Before any liberals are tempted to mod up one of my comments, a word of warning: I'm actually making fun of you.
Why is this story on Slashdot? Because this is big news in USA? Outside USA this is not as big as The South-east Asian Tsunami or the USA World Trade Center crashes.
*blink* I beg your pardon. Evidently you're such a war-hawk that you feel it's self-evident why everyone should be?
Please. I believe you're suffering from testosterone poisoning if you honestly feel that war is a rational (or admirable) activity. Kindly take some Androcur; I hear it's quite nice at drastically reducing one's testosterone levels.
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Heck no North Korea isn't going to attack the United States...They'll attack SOUTH Korea and then get our pinko leftists to scream "It's a civil war!!!" to keep us out of it. The tenuous stability of the region will be thrown into chaos. Any agression by us, even defensive posturing, will be denounced by China in order to "justify" them getting involved. Why? China is nearly broke. A good financial "push" and their house of cards falls down. Communism runs counter to nature...when there is no reward for excellence, there is no reason to strive for it. If everyone "gets according to thier need" no one will truly strive to "give according to thier ability."
To answer a post above this one...sure the North Koreans got MOST of thier technology from China and the old USSR, but without the computers Clinton and Albright lifted the ban on, they were severely limited in thier ability to hit the targets. Heck even the Chinese weren't crazy enough to give that pyschopath Kim Jung Il the ability to really accurately use 'nukes.
But they continued working on their nuclear weapons program in secret. So basically Clinton was paying for nothing.
I don't think that Bush's policy is all that great either, it's a situation that doesn't have a good solution.
But I definitely don't believe that paying off a madman to pretend not to develop nuclear weapons is a successful policy.
Yeah.. the peace loving N. Korean govt. If they want, we can show them just how hostile we can be (toward unstable, immoral, communist countries)
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Congratulations, ass, you just did exactly what we all expected. Instead of addressing the issue, you clouded it with the same anti-US crap we've heard over and over.
I asked you politely not to do that, so why would you make it your entire post? Are you illiterate? Stupid? There has to be a logical reason.