>>>>Those North Koreans are sneaky. :)
>>>>Their goal is to a unified Korea. The method? Well, need I say more? And they've been known to sell nuke material to other "hostile" groups as well.
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>>>Agreed that they are sneaky. And I have the impression, possibly mistaken, that a unified Korea is a goal of both north and south.
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>>Unfortunately I don't see a peaceful way to unite the two as long as current N. Korean gov't is in place.
>>As a Korean-American, I have not a single grain of trust in the N. Korean gov't.
>>The younger S. Koreans are nieve and foolish. The sooner N. Korea disappears, the better the world will be.
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>>>By the way, something I wouldn't have said 5 years ago is that 'those Americans are sneaky', since the Iraq war justification.
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>>I guess we'll always have O'Bush to bash to end our post. :)
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>From my limited point-of-view I can see no other option than the north be 'absorbed' by the south and never the other way around.
>If the younger South Koreans have other possible visions then I'd have to say that naive is polite and foolish minimally correct.
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>As regards bashing President Bush I still feel that the real problem is that he trusts his advisors too much and, worse, sticks by them even in the face of overwhelming evidence of gross mis-advising. The president, and thus the country, naturally get tarred with those mis-advisings.
>I continue to believe that a huge majority of U.S. residents are upset by the overall de-generation of government there and the image of the U.S. seen now by other countries.

Jim;

It is a wise man who admits his mistakes and gets on with life. Our President does not admit mistakes but perpetuates them by rationalizing and giving new reasons for his motivation.

Tom