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2003-02-18 Korea

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Posted by Steve White 2003-02-18 08:59 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 China may not have any strings it can pull with Daffy Kim, but they do have a nice length of rope, in the form of roughly modernized 600,000 troops deployed near the border.
Even the younger engineers I deal with in China dislike the Japanese. I can't imagine they'd be happy about pushing South Korea into the (nuclear) arms of Japan.

Posted by Dishman 2003-02-18 01:17:00|| 2003-02-18 01:17:00|| Front Page Top

#2 In Japan, where memories of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still strong, the government has long been a strong advocate of nuclear non-proliferation. But in recent years senior politicians have warned that this position is not written in stone. Last April Ichiro Ozawa, one of the most influential Japanese politicians of recent years, boasted that his country had the technology and the plutonium to build several thousand nuclear warheads.

What people seem to always forget is that a nation with memories of being on the receiving end of the most effective strategic bombing campaign in history might be willing to do anything to avoid something like that again.

Congratulations, North Korea, you've woken up the Japanese after their fifty year slumber.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-02-18 05:37:02|| 2003-02-18 05:37:02|| Front Page Top

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