What can the US do about North Korea?

Washington’s response to the rogue nation’s nuclear test Monday is complicated by Pyongyang’s custody of two American journalists.

For the White House, the problem now could be figuring out precisely how the explosion changes the nature of the threat from North Korea's secretive regime – and what, if anything, the US can do about it. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - May. 31, 2009

One cannot know where they are, unless they know where they have been. This story ignores the history US trashing of previous agreements with North Korea (see the link), and ignores the US legitimizing previous countries who have violated non-proliferation (India and Pakistan).

Bush has largely created this disaster-in-the-making.

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Vincent Caminiti
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by Vincent Caminiti - May. 26, 2009

This was a well organized logical construct for Title. It was addressing the Obama administration's menu of options considering the present tool-kit; as opposed to a number of other articles I've read that presume facts not in play. It asks relevant questions and inspires relevant questions as opposed to the straw-man arguments that have been ubiquitous in jingoistic editorial comments that have as little relevance as propaganda from Pyongyang. The article did a very good job of fairly explaining some of the challenges and stimulating serious consideration.

This is as much a battle of sustainable strategy as it is about using the appropriate tactic and the timing thereof. It also makes the point that the UN currently has the legal authority of a Senior Citizens' watch patrol in a South Florida retirement community. Not that there isn't value, but their is great danger in the UN trying to make the enforcement case with anything else other than lip service.

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Glenn LaBauve
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by Glenn LaBauve - May. 31, 2009

Well thought evaluation of ramifications and possible motivations for the NK atomic testing. This reveals some thinks not normally addressed by the media in general or the public at large.

I do wish the media would address this atomic testing as that and not nuclear, which has come to mean thermonuclear, an atomic weapon involves fission, while a nuclear weapon involves fission-fusion-fission. Atomic weapons are the trigger for a nuclear weapon, much as a blasting cap is the trigger for TNT.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - May. 31, 2009

Further proliferation aid on the part of North Korean leaders would be worse than production of their own arsenal, said Robert Gallucci, a former US chief negotiator with ... More »

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