http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/north_korea

What do you guys think?


I think we sould jump on this and amend relations with them. Those around me in my community think the thought is treason. For wanting peace with a enemy?

So what about you guys? Nah, yah?

I am personally very skeptical of any kind of quid pro quo with the north. It seems that NK has used the nuclear issue in an attempt to strong arm the rest of the world into subsidizing Kim Jung Il's regime. KJI would be the last whacked out despot that I would trust to uphold an agreement of that magnitude.

The NPRK assertion is that the "nuclear situation" on the peninsula is due to American aggression. To quote Patton, "That's a bunch of horse dung." The nuclear situation exists because NK cannot feed its people or keep its lights on without foreign assistance. The decision to make NK a rogue state was made by Pyongyang, not Washington. DPRK signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 1994, and announced in 2002 that it was abandoning the accord.

The north needs to get back in line with the NNT before any concessions from the U.S. are made to the wee man.

That's my opinion.

Im not saying trust the guy. We do not have to have a alliance with him to have a treaty. Just why aggresive? Why are we the police of the world?

I'll definately agree with you that the US should not be the world's cop. But the problem here as I see it is that Kim Jung Il is crazy. He is the center of a personality cult who is ostensibly revered by the people who he starves and murders.

US troops have manned the DMZ for fifty years. The cry of "US aggression" by Pyongyang as an attempt to justify their nuclear weaponization is a weak smoke screen, its a ploy to extort foreign aid through threat and intimidation. I doubt that a treaty officially ending a conflict from fifty years past is going to "automatically" resolve the nuclear situation on the Korean peninsula.