North Korea must choose either to have a future or to have nuclear weapons

[acmejack]

-US negotiator Christopher Hill

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The US will not accept a North Korea armed with nuclear weapons, a top US envoy has said, a day after Pyongyang announced plans for a nuclear test.

North Korea must choose either to have a future or to have nuclear weapons "but it cannot have them both", top US negotiator Christopher Hill said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5408246.stm

[razors edge]

1. not even funny.

after showing the world what the US neocons do to those who can't defend themselves, they threaten someone who can with absolutely nothing left in the bag to back up the threat. (except nukes)

a million men in uniform and trained to fight the us for fifty years, I think they have the advantage in covering the preliminaries. they know the limitations of our aegis systems and will overwhelm them day one. while bush is licking his wounds, again, they will move on japan and all hell breaks loose. a little more than the bill kristol boys planned on I bet.

[Greeby]

2. It's all bluster

China is going to get on the phone and tell Shrub to "sit down and shut up". They're not gonna let him stir up trouble, especially not as they'll get the fallout

[nealmhughes]

3. Good chance of fallout headed to Japan and Russia and Manchuria...

Vladivostok is right by the Korean border....