What will China and japan do.....

[Drachen]

Technically, yes. Would a situation ever warrant a pre-emptive nuke strike? NO!

Why not? An Iraq that was doing nothing to us warrented a conventional attack. It would seem to follow that a country that IS doing something to us (making threats, proving before the world that they have the ability to carry them out) would warrent a nuke attack.

[clambake]

Time to add us into that group of countries that can't be trusted.

[xrayzebra]

"We must talk to NK."

nah, Democrats try diplomacy and multi-national co-operation. The Repugs spurn diplomacy, go it alone, and bomb the out of everybody, but above all do only that which provides Repug partisan advantage and some kind of gotcha/litmus test to attack the Dems, NatSec be damned.

Did you watch the Condi interview today on
FOX. She explained why the U.S. wont talk to
them directly. Really simple.

The would not abide by any agreement with the
U.S. and feel justified in doing so. BUT

If they do not abide by any agreement made to
all the nations in the talks, China and Russia and
Japan especially then they would have problems
with those countries since they must live with
them on a daily basis and get most of their
aid from them.

Now do you understand why we wont and cant
have one on one talks? I doubt it.

[Ozzman]

I feel it is really up to China to end this. They have the most leverage against NK. They cannot cut off the food supply since so many have already died due to starvation but they can cut off their energy supply and put some real pressure against NK.

We must talk to NK.

Agreed. THis is dealing with Nukes, and china is the one to handle this.

Think about this....IIFF China were to invade, they could assemble a million man army in a flash! Their population is what, 1.7 Billion? and roughly .25 to .375 of that is Males able to fight. that equals out to roughly 636,000,000 people, minus the unable to fight, etc. And since they are communists, they can have any of them in their army, and remember this is ROUGH calculations!! I doubt that they would do that, but think about the fact that is over twice OUR population.

But I do agree that this situation require special handling, Bush not qualified to do so. I also think it would do some good for Bush to add a negotiating assistant, etc, that might be able to coordinate him better on this subject.