Re: [A-List] US Imperialism: North Korea Next?

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Considering its weak hand, North Korea has been flexible and aggressive in
its diplomacy in the last year.

Presumably it is taking advantage of timing to highlight that not even the
USA can fight two major wars at the same time. North Korea is presumably
trying to extract concessions, and better terms under which Russia and
China will sponsor its interests, without dominating it too much.

My guess is that it calculates it will have to give up its nuclear weapons,
and so will other states that have of course secretly tried to manufacture
them, over the next ten years, but it is bargaining for a more multi-polar
world than one totally dominated by US imperialism.

Chris Burford

London


At 23/12/02 01:02 -0500, you wrote:

> townhall.com
>
> Pat Buchanan
>
> December 23, 2002
>
> 2003: a year of wars?



> But it is North Korea where the situation appears truly ominous. Caught in
> flagrante by U.S. intelligence, Pyongyang brazenly confessed that it is
> constructing two secret plants to produce weapons grade uranium in violation
> of the 1994 Agreed Framework, under which North Korea closed a plutonium
> production plant in return for food and fuel aid.