<p>Not a good thing.</p>
<p>There was probably no way to stop them - short of war. Hopefully, they have not and will not export the technology. Of course, this would be a sane assessment…and may not apply.</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>As usual, Western Nations talk tough about how “we don’t take this” and “we wont’ take that” but continue to send humanitarian aid because we don’t want the North Koreans to starve. If you wish to win a confrontation or war, you won’t feed your enemy. America should cut all economic and humanitarian ties with North Korea. Having North Koreans starving may be the only way to overthrow that horrible person running North Korea. Fewer North Koreans will die from starvation than from the bombing we will have to do to eliminate the threat.</p>
<p>Korea has every right to test nuclear weapons, just like US, China, Russia, and other countries have done.</p>
<p>Well, ktoto, if that is true then perhaps we should allow Japan and South Korea to develop nuclear weapons? Maybe we should just sell them some? Japan could easily handle North Korea, China and maybe even the U.S. if she had nukes and decided the militaristic path was again for her. Japan gives China nightmares…as well as (N)Korea. Remember that Japan’s Emperor decided to surrender, thus ending WWII. If invaded, most Japanese would likely have fought to the death. And the U.S. would have suffered maybe 1 million casualties in invading Japan - even with nukes. No telling how many deaths the Russians would have suffered.</p>
<p>This is not a fair world. We should not allow terrorist-sponsoring nations any access to such weapons at all. Too bad if they don’t have them. There are too many in the world now. Nations don’t have civil rights - the people of the nations have individual rights; but not to weapons of mass destruction.</p>
<p>Iran should never be allowed access to such weapons.</p>
<p>Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” </p>
<p>Romans 12:19-20</p>
<p>Agreed, mini.</p>
<p>One of the causes of WWII was the humilation of Germany after WWI. The Marshal Plan worked wonders in allowing a peaceful Germany to rebuild.</p>
<p>Oops. That should be ‘Marshall Plan’.</p>
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Actually, the cause of WWII was letting an insane person take over country after country to develop the ability to continue to wage war. If someone had stopped him before he was able to amass a military machine capable of extreme destruction, possibliy millions of people would not have died in WWII. The North Korean leader is closer to Hitler than just about any other leader today. He has unlimited power. His people believe he is a descendent of god. And he is in possession of nuclear weapons and missiles capable of hitting the U.S.</p>
<p>Well, by analogy, since the Bush Administration sat by for six years and did nothing about Korea’s military machine, and has weakened the U.S. military so greatly that a military option is out of the question, I guess we have to presume that Bush is directly responsible for a military machine (and leader) as dangerous as Hitler.</p>
<p>Hardly a recommendation for the “leader of the free world”.</p>
<p>No way North Korea is going to give up their nukes now (and I haven’t seen a convincing case as to why they should.) Don’t think the U.S. is going to give up its nukes either.</p>
<p>The nukes that really worry me are Pakistan’s and Israel’s.</p>
<p>Your analogy makes little sense. Bush has done nothing in Russia, India and many other countries. Using your logic, Bush is responsible for the decline of freedom of press in Russia and is responsible for India getting nuclear weapons. </p>
<p>The solution to the North Korea problem is to begin treating North Korea like an enemy. Stop sending them aid of any form and punish those to provide aid to North Korea. Unfortunately the Bush administration and western nations are too spinless to do so.</p>
<p>It was your analogy, not mine.</p>
<p>According to you, the Bush Administration is spineless, and has allowed a dictator as bad as Hitler to come into possession of nuclear weapons and the means to use them.</p>
<p>Hardly a recommendation for Republicans.</p>
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Actually, if you write the phrase “by analogy”, the analogy is yours. I made no analogy prior to your analogy.</p>
<p>To quote your analogy:</p>
<p>“North Korean leader is closer to Hitler than just about any other leader today.”</p>
<p>And then the subtext of your analogy:</p>
<p>“Actually, the cause of WWII was letting an insane person take over country after country to develop the ability to continue to wage war. If someone had stopped him before he was able to amass a military machine capable of extreme destruction, possibliy millions of people would not have died in WWII.”</p>
<p>And then the specifics of your analogy:</p>
<p>“He has unlimited power. His people believe he is a descendent of god.”</p>
<p>Actually, I intended a comparison between Kim Jong Il and Hitler, but since an analogy is a form of comparison, I suppose your characterization is in fact correct. Your argument, however, is not. My “analogy” was that it would have been better to stop a powerful dictator in one country -Germany- from expanding his power to several countries. Right now, Il is powerful only in his country, but with nuclear weapons he can easily destroy other nations either directly or by surrogates. It is far better to take aggressive action against North Korea now rather than let a monster be created as was the case with Hitler in WWII.</p>
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<p>The monster may already out of the cage. </p>
<p>But the land of where the cage lies, is near China and Japan. He is their problem to deal with although any threat to them will have reprocussions to the US, not necessarily from the US.</p>