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"Tiny Human Ferret" <ixnayamspay_klaatu@earthops.net> wrote in message
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> >     The current conflict with Iraq is preventing creation of yet another
> > lunatic with nukes. The trick here is to neutralize the nuclear threat
from
> > North Korea without ending all life on this planet.

> Oh, NK is easily fixed. Wait until NK makes an unprovoked nuclear attack
on
> SK, wait until SK says "we don't care if they are our fellow Korean
people,
> they're _violently insane_ people, please help us assure that they won't
> nuke us again" and at that point approximately one megaton per square mile
> will put NK out of our misery. China's closer, so they ought to be the
ones
> to do it. If clean thermonukes are used, after the dust settles, it also
> doubles the land area of SK so they won't be feeling any population
pressure
> for a while.

    Since the fallout would likely irradiate vast parts of China, I doubt
they would be eager to either do it themselves or have the United States do
it. In fact, if the U.S, did it, they might get really peevish about it.

> The problem we've got with Saddam Hussein is that he's not just interested
> in obtaining WMD, he's evidently interested in passing them out like candy
> to the most radical elements he can find, so long as they're more
interested
> in attacking the US than in attacking Iraq.

    So is the DPRK interested in passing them out. Along with missiles.
Recall they sold a bunch to Yemen recently?

> BTW -- the one situation where I see it reasonable for the US to
> unilaterally pre-emptively nuke NK would be if there is the slightest
> credible evidence of them exporting WMD.

    I think the best answer is for Chinese secret agents to sneak in and
disarm North Korea in the middle of the night.