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North Korea	chekhovToo	10/30/03
Do you think that North Korea a threat to stability?
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 11/04/03 10:08 am: Do you think reunification of the two Korea's would alter the inherent instability? that would depend on who's leadership a unified Korea falls under . If it is unified under the South Korean system all would be well . Under Kim Jong-il it would be worse . Now he would have at his disposal the wealth of the South .
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tomder55		10/30/03
I don't think there is any doubt that N.Korea is a threat to it's neighbors ,and to American and global stability . In 2002 alone North Korea sold $60 million worth of Scud missiles and missile parts to Iraq, Iran, Syria and Yemen . It is estimated that they have sold 400 ballistic missles to the Middle East since the mid 80s .Does anyone doubt that when they finish developing a nuclear capability that they would shy away from selling it to the highest bidder ? Kim Jong-il cannot be trusted His nuclear weapons program exists for one purpose: to threaten the international community and blackmail it into providing aid.Aid that never manages to make it to the N.Korean people btw.He operates a system of slave labour camps that can be compared only with the worst nightmares of Stalin's Gulag .Aid in the past has been used to further bolster his military capability . Negotiations will only go so far . Eventually ,they will fail ,and he will have to be dealt with .

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