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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave

Just a little stir of the pot but how do you KNOW that N Korea want any more than to defend themselves.

Plain answer is.....you dont.
Some even say that the 1953 War in Korea was started by Synghman Ree, from the SOUTH !

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

If y'all decide to elect me I'll throw the secret service out and hire my friends as bodyguards, then I will start to restore the country to how it should be. There will be hard times, but it would be worth it.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

All that needs to be done is to kill that Kim Jill Inge or whatever his name is.
I say let China handle this one.
We had them on the ropes back in '97. They were literally starving to death and what does Clinton do; he gives them $2Billion, fuel oil and food.

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ORIGINAL: ownedgirlie

Using Fast Reply:

In an article by Bill Gertz on 9/29/95:  The Western United States could be within range of North Korea's longest-range missile armed with nuclear, chemical or biological warheads by the year 2000, according to U.S. and foreign intelligence assessments. Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, said new information indicates North Korea's Taepo Dong-2 missile, still under development, is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of hitting U.S. cities and demonstrates the need for rapidly building a national missile defense.


In 1998 the Washington Post reported:  "U.S. intelligence analysts believe about 15,000 North Koreans are at work on a vast, secret underground nuclear facility, a development administration officials say may represent a decision by North Korea to abandon a four-year-old agreement to freeze its nuclear weapons program,"
(8/18/98)

Clinton denied knowing about this on Larry King, yet Dick Morris later said the Clinton Administration was well aware.

NewsMax.com, on 2/11/03, reported: Ex-President Bill Clinton knew that North Korea had resumed its nuclear weapons program at least two years before he left the White House - long before he now claims - according to former Clinton White House insider Dick Morris.

On 2/12/03, the Washington Post reported:  North Korea has an untested ballistic missile capable of reaching the western United States, intelligence officials said Wednesday.

and

Meanwhile, the U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties, raising the stakes in the standoff by sending the dispute to the Security Council.

In this same article, Ari Fleisher claimed that Bush believed diplomatic pressure could contain North Korea. 
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, appearing before the House International Relations Committee, said the United States is pressing China to use its leverage with North Korea to persuade it to end its nuclear program. China is the main supplier of foreign assistance and energy aid to North Korea.
"We are doing everything we can to persuade the Chinese that the problem in North Korea is not just a problem between North and the United States. It is between North Korea and the region and North Korea and the world," he said.


We have known about this for over 10 years.  It's scary stuff.

Here's an article written in January of 2003 about the discoveries in the Clinton Administration. 

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=5368

For the record, we can point fingers until we're blue in the face, but the question is - what, if anything, will we do about it now?  Personally I have little knowledge on the subject, and only did a quick search to see just how new this knews was to the U.S. 

Here is a (hopefully) unbiased site from Wikipedia which lists a chronology of events, dating back to 1989.  It's an interesting read, anyway:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_nuclear_weapons_program

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ORIGINAL: ownedgirlie

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

All that needs to be done is to kill that Kim Jill Inge or whatever his name is.
I say let China handle this one.
We had them on the ropes back in '97. They were literally starving to death and what does Clinton do; he gives them $2Billion, fuel oil and food.

You forgot about the trade secrets China picked up while visiting  Lawrence Livermore Labs....

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ORIGINAL: CrappyDom

Mark my words.

You will hear in the next week or two after the surprise announcement that we have conducted a massive aerial bombing of Iran

"North Korea has demonstrated to the world that stopping rogue states from getting nuclear weapons is of the utmost urgency for the national security of the united states.  Therefore the bombing of Iran was necessary before they obtained a nuclear capacity"

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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave

Just taking a cold logical look at what Nukes really achieve, if anything, let me ask this.....

First 50 years of 20th century, no nukes, plenty of wars between major powers.
Second 50 years, nukes, no wars between major powers.