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

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

Consider the source.  Buchanan.

Out on this limb, I'll bet the US will never attack DPRK.


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Is the US criminal justice system a weapon of mass destruction?

Money for reparations, not for war!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Burford" <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: [A-List] US Imperialism: North Korea Next?


> 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.
>
>
>
>