>>The "nuclear club" just got bigger - when most of us have hopes to shut that club down entirely some day. Declaring countries members of the "Axis of Evil" seems to goad them towards nuclear weapons. Maybe there's a lesson in there somewhere.
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>It's driven by the CASH starved N. Korean govts' desire for money. Kim Jun-Il duped Clinton, Albright and Jimmy Carter out of billions and he's trying to do it again. The little tantrum about being included in the "Axis of Evil" was just an act.

I just don't get this whole N Korean thing. I understand that hostilities twixt them and the US still haven't officially ceased, there never having been a ceasfire signed, yet the US has propped up the basket-case regime for years, essentially her enemy, And doesn't the US help feed these people, as their own crops fail miserably. Yet NK always seems to "bite the hand that feeds it". I know there's talk of sanctions and all but, wouldn't just witholding food and aid bring them to their knees?

This is without googling BTW.