<The United States has said it is not prepared to give into "blackmail" over North Korea's nuclear programme.

Which means no dialogue, no negotiations, no nothing.

Now, if I were North Korea, I’d start cranking out nukes as fast as I could, because I have a little undeveloped oil. They don’t “pre-empt” folks who have nukes.

And I’ll bet there’s a market for nukes in the global marketplace. They ever call it "globalization". Bet I could make a fast buck, which is what it’s all about, huh?

What a government. It sure looks to me as if they force the worst outcome, make it inevitable.

(Now, North Korea had the two nukes BEFORE the Clinton agreement, and their reactors have been continuously monitored since ’94. This is Bush dropping the ball, over the last couple of years. Bush is President. Not Clinton. Not since January, 2001. Long time.)

Arf