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Nemesis wrote:
> "Tiny Human Ferret" <ixnayamspay_klaatu@earthops.net> wrote in message
> news:3E21A066.6070706@earthops.net...
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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
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>>>North Korea without ending all life on this planet.
>>
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>>Oh, NK is easily fixed. Wait until NK makes an unprovoked nuclear attack
> 
> on
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>>SK, wait until SK says "we don't care if they are our fellow Korean
> 
> people,
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>>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
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>>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
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> pressure
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>>for a while.
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>     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. 

I don't think the prevailing winds blow that way for most of the year. They 
can just wait until sandstorm season when the winds definitely blow out to 
sea. Of course, that would not please the Japanese.

 > In fact, if the U.S, did it, they might get really peevish about it.
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> 
>>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.
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> 
>     So is the DPRK interested in passing them out. Along with missiles.
> Recall they sold a bunch to Yemen recently?

Yup. One presumes that this is just a part of their strategy to blackmail 
the US for more handouts.


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


Probably this is a very good idea. And when NK catches and executes the 
Chinese agents, the PR China will be even less of kind disposition to the 
DPR Korea.


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