| I was reading an issue of New York Times | | | | North Korean diplomats have immunity against |
| magazine and it said the North Koreans fired 6 | | | | prosecution and therefore the US cannot do |
| missiles on July 6 and caused an international furor. | | | | much about it publicly in the face of a nuclear |
| I googled it and found over a million listings that | | | | crisis.Typically US promises aid to countries like |
| developed in the last two weeks about the | | | | South Africa who abandoned their nuclear |
| incident. I also found out that India also is testing | | | | program in favor of more peaceful economic ties. |
| nuclear warheads and got me to thinking, | | | | This is not possible with North Korea who seem |
| hmm.What does this mean? Well, the unpopular | | | | isolated in the world market.On the other side of |
| war in Iraq has cost US over 300 trillion dollars in | | | | the world, US soldiers are being found guilty of |
| the last few years and Bush administration's war | | | | atrocities and are presently being prosecuted in |
| in terrorism was caught off guard over North | | | | US courts facing possible death penalties and so |
| Korea's incident. Clearly with most of US armed | | | | forth. I guess the war on terrorism has not ended |
| forces stationed at the Gulf Coast, US cannot | | | | and we see no possibilities of US backing out of |
| possibly destroy the nuclear arsenal in North | | | | an unpopular war. In the rest of the world suicide |
| Korea, although it has the capability to do so. Any | | | | bombers and terrorist tactics are not considered |
| attacks on North Korea would start off a war | | | | an important problem as compared to hunger and |
| with China or USSR and that would be too costly. | | | | famine and lack of technolgy,etc.What would you |
| Therefore the diplomatic efforts to get other | | | | do if you were in President Bush's shoes? I |
| nations to create an economic sanctions against | | | | wonder sometimes. Long time ago I vowed not |
| North Korea in an effort to tone down the | | | | to get involved in discussion about politics or |
| possiblity of a nuclear war.What is interesting | | | | religion but decided that I will make an exception |
| about this is that the North Koreans have been | | | | just this one time. I always believed that |
| counterfeiting US currency and using them in | | | | economic growth and international trade is a more |
| Europe and other places around the world. The | | | | favorable option to war. |