>All this going on while a North Korean fighter plane violates South Korean air space, and North Korea shoots a guided missile towards Japan which lands in the Sea of Japan. Powell states: No plans to invade N. Korea.

They have nuclear weapons and a 1.2 million person army just miles away from approximately 37,000 U.S. troops. Even if we want to invade (and I am not saying we don't), how do we go about that? Without having a nuclear missile launched at S. Korea, Japan, or us?

>President Roh of South Korea suggested to Powell that the United States and North Korea sit down and talk. The United States refuses to talk to North Korea.

Actually, what the U.S. wants is MULTI-LATERAL talks with N. Korea, including China I believe. Yet, we are still promising N. Korea 100,000 tons of food aid:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79492,00.html

I know, we are still the bad guy.

>North Korea building and testing ICBM’s (1998 an ICBM missile was launched over Japan) and shorter-range missiles, resuming its nuclear program, having nuclear bombs, threading the world with war, and selling missiles to other countries are actions that are condoned by the United States. There is no need to discuss these activities, as they are acceptable.

I am not sure I understand you. You are saying the U.S. condones these activities?

>Why are we interested in destroying Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein? Well, they have weapons of mass destruction (wmd) and missiles that can fly about 120 miles without a guidance system, rather than the UN limit of 93 miles, and they are not a democratic society. The problem is that we cannot find the wmd’s so we have to go to war.

Saddam's history of developing and using wmd's is long and ongoing. I posted in another thread Hans Blix's disbelief that Saddam destoryed the chemical and biological weapons (nerve gas and antrax), but amazingly had no record of that. You really beleive him?

>In the case of North Korea, we know where everything is located so that is alright. The president of North Korea is not a problem as he has a mind like a child.

North Korea is a big problem. But like our battle with the Soviet Union, battling an army with 1.2 million people and nuclear weapons is a totally different ball game.